In 1959, Buddy Holly hired Jennings to play bass during the “Winter Dance Party Tour.” In Clear Lake, Iowa Holly chartered a plane to fly to the next venue. Jennings gave up his airplane seat to J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson, who had the flu. (I should note that the tour bus had previously frozen over and the weather was bitterly cold.) The plane, as we all know, crashed with no survivors, thus born the phrase “the day the music died.”
BILL
PS – The cynic of course could say Waylon Jennings killed the Big Bopper.
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