![]() ![]() (Verse 2) Did you write the book of love, One of Holly’s hits was “That’ll be the Day” the chorus contains the line “That’ll be the day that I die.” Holly, Valens, and the Big Bopper, They were singing about their death on February 3. I drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry, Them good ol’ boys were drinkin’ whiskey and rye Singing “This’ll be the day that I die, This’ll be the day that I die.”ĭriving the Chevy to the levee almost certainly refers to the three college students whose murder was the subject of the film ‘Mississippi Burning.’ The students were attempting to register as black voters, and after being killed by bigoted thugs their bodies were buried in a levee. Just a reference to the plane, “American Pie” that crashed. **Don McLean dated a Miss America candidate during a pageant and broke up with her on February 3, 1959. The same plane crash that killed Buddy Holly also tragically took the lives of Richie Valens (”La Bamba”) and The Big Bopper (”Chantilly Lace.”) Since all three were so prominent at the time, February 3, 1959, became known as “The Day The Music Died.” Holly’s recent bride was pregnant when the crash took place she had a miscarriage shortly afterward.īut something touched me deep inside, The day the music died. I can’t remember if I cried When I read about his widowed bride Its rumored that the name of the plane was: American Pie.ĭon McLean’s only job besides being a full-time singer/song writer was being a paperboy.īad news on the doorstep… I couldn’t take one more step. ![]() His dream, to play in a band at high school dances, was the dream of many young boys who wanted to make people dance to Rock and Roll.īuddy Holly died on February 3, 1959, in a plane crash in Iowa during a snowstorm. McLean also had an intense desire to entertain as a musician. McLean was a teenager in 1959 and he begins by simply commenting that the music had an appealing quality to him as well as the millions of other teens. Their shear number were the force behind most of our country’s recent major transitions. Sociologists credit teenagers with the popularity of Rock and Roll, as a part of the Baby boomer generation, they found themselves in a very influential position. And I knew if I had my chance, That I could make those people dance, And maybe they’d be happy for a while. I can still remember how That music used to make me smile. “American Pie” reached #1 in 1972, shortly after it was released. Buddy Holly, unfortunately, died in 1959 while other aspects of the song hint even further back. Little did I know then that the impression it left would be indelible, drawing me decades later to Austin, TX, the live music capital of the world, where the story of Buddy Holly’s impact on Texas music can be found in the Texas History Museum. No longer online, that domain was later replaced with a site I called RareException, an effort also relegated to history when I found myself first employed at Yahoo! As it happens, my passion for this song was imprinted on my life thanks to my young love affair with high school theater as a Junior at Portage Northern High School, the performing artists of the graduating Senior class sang this, a cappella, during their graduating performance. The republishing, here, is to retain, as an archive, the history of that publishing it was the first of a few music related articles I used in the creation of my first website The Octopus’s Garden. First published in 1996- ish, what follows is an article I wrote out of a passion I had for the tune and lyrics, for a music history class. ![]()
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