Love Buddy Holly. This is a fave rave, out of very many of his great songs.

One of his great disciples were the Beatles, who adored him. (I think Sir Paul owns the Buddy Holly music catalog).

Rest in peace, great ones.

The flight was originally supposed to be for Holly and two of his bandmates, in part because his drummer had already suffered frostbite. One “lost” a coin flip with Ritchie Valens and thus survived. His name was Tommy Allsup. He went on to work with Bob Wills, among others. The other voluntarily gave up his seat to the Big Bopper, who already had a cold. His name was...Waylon Jennings. You never would have heard of Waylon, except for that act of kindness.

When Holly learned that his bandmates had given up their seats on the plane and had chosen to take the bus rather than fly, Holly jokingly told Jennings, "Well, I hope your ol' bus freezes up!" Jennings jokingly replied, "Well, I hope your ol' plane crashes!" That conversation would haunt Jennings for years.

Never knew any of those facts about that fateful night except Holly had a cold. Valenz did too, but to his detriment caught the coin flip.

Thanks for the information, Clash City Rocker!