If you decide to go to Clear Lake, you can take the same route Buddy took from the Surf to the airport. Main Road. It’s old and neglected now, but you can still feel all three men’s presence. It’s eerie.

@dyamano

5 жыл бұрын

Blue Shock Wow!! That’s crazy! Thanks

@nicholaspesa696

5 жыл бұрын

What’s the route

@foggymountainmusic3468

3 жыл бұрын

I feel 4 presences when I’m on that road. I believe the 4th one may have been Roger Peterson

@qramone9909

3 жыл бұрын

@@foggymountainmusic3468 seeing as how Roger was the 4th and final "passenger", it makes sense that you could feel him there as well !! i'm sure it's definitely kinda creepy there.

@boombapdoom493

2 жыл бұрын

They’re not resting in peace. There souls still linger there

Today is February 3rd, 2020. This happened 61 years ago, today. Rest in peace. The day the music died.

@jman430

3 жыл бұрын

KeepingUp WithTheAncestors MJ fan

@markstevens1729

3 жыл бұрын

Make that 62 years ago today.

@jhrockgod

3 жыл бұрын

@@markstevens1729 😢

@ShowMeSkillz

3 жыл бұрын

2021*

@maxsaldana6241

3 жыл бұрын

So that means if Ritchie valens is still alive he would be 78 or 79

Even though Buddy Holly, Big Bopper, & Ritchie Valens are no longer with us, their music & legacy will always continue to live on. May They Rest In Peace.

@Mr.cladmaniac

3 ай бұрын

Wow, how about The helicopter driver?

the ending of this little snippet, was actually quite haunting

@iamjp1

3 жыл бұрын

trust me, there’s much more chilling crime scene photos of the crash. bodies.

@stephenfoster4178

3 жыл бұрын

Yes I’m with you on that

@Ermmmm...79

3 жыл бұрын

@@iamjp1 where

@TwiggyArmstrong

2 жыл бұрын

@@Ermmmm...79there’s a blog somewhere that shows the crash photos in color. It’s sad. While there’s a picture somewhere that shows roger Petersons leg sticking out from the plane. Its something you have to dig deep to find.

@mysticalmargaret6105

2 жыл бұрын

@@iamjp1 I don't know about 'crime' scene. Accident scene photos, more like.

It's been 63 years and it still hurts.

@JohnGisMe

2 жыл бұрын

Dion is still alive and became good friends with them before they died. He might be person that the crash had the most impact on. (With the exception of those on the plane.)

@jorgelopez-pr6dr

Жыл бұрын

Music hasn't really recovered of it.

@jfontanez1838

Жыл бұрын

It was really meant for Buddy but not Bopper or not Ritchie but Buddy yes he got the plane

@kathleenstrittmatter6895

Жыл бұрын

​@@JohnGisMe Waylon Jennings never got over it

@michaelericks

3 ай бұрын

Yes it does but their music will live on

I think it's safe to say they never knew what hit them or even that they ever felt anything...suddenly it was just....over...rest in peace forever...loved and missed ...I wasn't even born yet when this happened

@99jaa

3 жыл бұрын

@KeepingUp WithTheAncestors this guy has seen the afterlife and returned to tell us exactly what it's like. Thanks bud

@brittneyreimers7968

3 жыл бұрын

@@99jaa what? Like what you mean did you talk to him or something

@99jaa

3 жыл бұрын

I guess someone replied with an anti religious comment, but they must have deleted it

@Evita1418_

3 жыл бұрын

@@99jaa what?

@99jaa

3 жыл бұрын

@@Evita1418_ I don't know bud this guy replied to my 7 month old reply to a now deleted 7 month old reply, asking what was going on, but I don't know because the reply has since been deleted.

the way this is edited it quite chilling. the wind...the silence after hearing the music in the beginning. then the ending music fading. : ( broke my heart.

All so young, yet left such a huge gap in music. These guys will never be forgotten.

If I was alive back then to have heard this, it would've hit hard terribly after many years. And trust me, Rock N Roll will never accept and recover from this horrific event. I'm only 15, and this event was something that struck with me since I was 11

That February would make me shiver with ever paper I'd deliver.

@ytsto7494

3 жыл бұрын

Bad news on the doorstep

@somerandomperson3434

3 жыл бұрын

@@ytsto7494 i couldnt take one more step

@ytsto7494

3 жыл бұрын

​@@somerandomperson3434 I can't remember if I cried when I read about his widowed bride

@somerandomperson3434

3 жыл бұрын

@@ytsto7494 something touched me deep inside

@ytsto7494

3 жыл бұрын

@@somerandomperson3434 The day the music died.

As a Brit. I can honestly say that Buddy Holly had the biggest influence on. British and world music

This was a tragic day in music history. Buddy was truly a rising star and so was Richie. So sad they were taken away from us so soon. Buddy was a great songwriter who cared deeply for his craft. RIP

I cant imagine how different modern music would be today if they were still with us,

Buddy Holly was a Musical Genius, can you imagine what he would have achieved in his life, so sad, rest in peace Mr Holly, J.P Richardson, Richie Valens, the pilot Roger Peterson.

Imagine when their families heard the news on the radio of what happened, especially ritchie's mom how devastating and sad it must have been for her to hear about her son's death. That moment on the radio must be have been the most heart breaking news that their families ever heard and probably haunted them for years

@ytsto7494

3 жыл бұрын

I think usually they tell families and people close to them before they tell the public, so that they don't have to find out just overhearing it on the radio.

@peelarat9578

2 жыл бұрын

@@ytsto7494 no they found out by radio . In those days radios where on all the time. Interviews with people said that's how they found out..

@GodsOutlaw1964

2 жыл бұрын

I agree, it's even a surreal feeling to watch the video with the blend of music and photos of the scene.

@travisboman7531

Жыл бұрын

@@ytsto7494 If I am correct, this crash and how the family found out is what made them change the policy of not giving the news information till after they informed the family.

@ytsto7494

Жыл бұрын

@@travisboman7531 you’re correct, I learned this after saying that 2 years ago. It’s sad that’s how she had to find out.

If you go out to the site in August, and the wind blows through the cornstalks, it gives you wicked shivers.

Still the greatest writer and singer of all time. Oh how I wish we could have had you with us for much much longer. The music industry lost a diamond on the day the music died. Even the apartment tapes sound good and the added backing is a tribute to all those involved.

@ElijahRadioProphet-mb9zu

10 күн бұрын

The music industry lost a diamond on the day the music died NO,, stupid He was murdered BY Tin Pan Ally and The Industry STOLE all his Money for years-common way to make big money for Carnivores Pin Pan Alley kill artist and steal profits in Records sales,

such a tragic day

@sexobscura

4 жыл бұрын

- go write a song about it

@blackcobra7711

3 жыл бұрын

You know what maybe.....I .....will

all because the bus heater failed.

@aaronbradley3232

5 жыл бұрын

No all because the route for the tour was planned by a literal retard look at the map look at the dates not one bus broke down several bus buses continuously broke down Buddy Buddy Holly's drummer actually got frostbite and had to be hospitalized it was a God darn nightmare was the tour from hell and I think that should have been some liability with the people who planned it buses continually broke down just nearly everyone had either the flu a cold or even fucking frostbite and they would come and get rescued after being in 35 below weather on flat open Plains in the wind and picked up by repurposed school buses there's a lot that went into their desk but it's a long long chain of just plain ignorance and negligence there's a lot of people are responsible for

@66augie

4 жыл бұрын

@@aaronbradley3232 Right on.

@msandoval8027

4 жыл бұрын

po dunc , butterfly 🦋 effect?!

@tconlon251

4 жыл бұрын

In reality, no plane crash (or really any accident) has one cause. There’s usually a series of things that leads up to it. First & foremost, they agreed to do the tour in the first place. Next was having the tour in one of the coldest parts of the country and having them zigzag along their route. Then you have the busses that kept breaking down and the guy getting frostbite. Now Buddy’s at his breaking point and wants to charter the plane. The night of the crash didn’t even have a show booked, but then the promoters got in contact with the Surf Ballroom, this put the trio in Clear Lake when Buddy wanted to fly. Being a small city, Dwyer Flying Service was probably the only game in town & Roger Peterson the only available pilot, despite not being capable of flying at night in a snowstorm. And finally, despite the nasty weather, no one warned or tried to stop Peterson from taking off. As for Ritchie & JP, add in Waylon Jennings’ courtesy and Tommy Alsup’s coin flip. Not to mention Dion not wanting to spend the $36 fare, taking him out of the running for a seat. If any of those things had gone any differently, the crash probably wouldn’t have happened

@boombapdoom493

2 жыл бұрын

@@tconlon251 yea it’s a butterfly 🦋 effect. If you think about it we choose and seal our destinies with our choices.

Buddy holly and big bopper and Ritchie Valens R .i.p you legends

RIP Roger Peterson (1937-1959) Buddy Holly (1936-1959) Ritchie Valens (1941-1959) and J.P. Richardson Jr. (1930-1959)

This crash haunted Jerry Dwyer, the plane owner and the airport manager for the rest of his life. His decision to assign the young pilot Roger Peterson, (a family friend), who was inexperienced and not qualified to fly in the atrocious weather conditions, was a completely horrendous one!

@jokkergar

Жыл бұрын

He was experienced but didn't know how to flight by instruments

I live in Iowa and a few years back my husband and I lived in Mason City. While we lived there we went to the ballroom and then to the crash site. It was a very somber experience.

Damn. I hate that this happened.

" Hey Ritchie relax man, everythings cool. Besides, the sky belongs to the stars right?"

@chaotic2554

2 жыл бұрын

😔

That plane looked on the small side.it appeared as though it crashed nose first,you can tell it didn't skid across the field. And the pictures were Erie with the frozen bodies,ones arm was sticking straight up in the air as though he was reaching out to the heavens above.RIP you guys,at least I don't believe that any of them suffered at all.

So sad. At least their bodies were intact. Patsy Cline was identified by her shoulder that was attached to her neck, from what I remembered.I really feel sorry for people who die in plane/jet crashes and what their bodies go through. People say, who cares, they're dead, but I think its terrible that families sometimes don't have a body to bury.

@cathymabry3959

6 жыл бұрын

ProudKansan08 well if you pull up the autopsy reports on the three ⭐️ Stars Ritchie Valens face had terrible damage it states half of his face was missing. So so sad 😞 even though they Died on impact they had to go through the plane falling and cartwheels over and over before the plane ✈️ hit the ground at which time they died my Prayer is that it was quick.

Still breaks my heart😥

how haunting!! I just saw the Buddy Holly Story in Ogunquit Maine. I am so sad. they were so young!! But the music did not die!!!!!

@22ferngully22 Yea, just imagine listening to their music for 50 years and knowing they died as the result of stupidity and knowing you have been deprived of the most beautiful music NEVER written; and there's not a damn thing you can do about it! So so sad... What could have been...

When you are young you think that you are invincible. I’m sure we all look back at thins we did when we were young and say “what was I thinking”

I would NEVER fly in one of those light aircrafts!

@randomman8097

3 жыл бұрын

Those demons are the reason why so many stares are dead

@spiderreed350

3 жыл бұрын

Me either, not a chance

Who knows what kind of world we could be living in if the best had not been taken so soon. These singers inspired so many in ways words can scarcely describe. R.I.P. all you guys. PIlot, too. Flying was your life just as singing was theirs.

Rest in peace 60th anniversary February 3rd shortly after 1 a.m. rest in peace the music will live on forever🙏🎸🎸🎶🎶

The day the music died 🎸🎙🎶

64 years ago today the world lost Ritchie Vallens, Buddy Holly, J.P Richardson😰😰 Rest In Peace Ritchie Vallens, Buddy Holly, J.P Richardson❤️❤️

@TheFarmerfitz From what I've read, the driver of the plane did not know how to utilize his instruments during a severe storm and had a tendency to panic under pressure. He misread the plane instruments while in air and thought he was ascending when he was actually descending, leading to the crash. Guy didn't even bother to radio in that he had lifted off, which is why they didn't know about the crash till the next morning when some locals found the wreck. :(

54 years ago today... Thank God their music did not die... R.I.P. Buddy, Ritchie and The Big Bopper!!!

they were talented and so young. God bless them and hold them in your arms. I pray for all the young that depart us too soon. God bless. JAMIE

very chilling at the end. fantastic! Thier music will last forever. Choose anything from the last 10 years and ask yourself - "will this be listened to 60 years from now?" doubt it!

Poor planning on this tour! February you play South not all Northern areas with ice,snow,bad weather!

@erictaylor1770

7 жыл бұрын

Robert Brooks Mid-west! In the middle of the winter! Not the north! Look at the venue map they took!

@robertbrooks7001

7 жыл бұрын

Yes and Miidwest is Snow and Ice! SOUTHERN venues only,not Northern States or Midwest! Again,poor planning cost them!

@erictaylor1770

7 жыл бұрын

Robert Brooks I say again look at the venue map they travled...

@robertbrooks7001

7 жыл бұрын

Bottom line Eric,North Dakota and Iowa,dead of Winter. They died in the Midwest,thats all it took.

@erictaylor1770

7 жыл бұрын

Robert Brooks No joke!

There bodies layed there in the snow ❄️ overnight until they were discovered in the morning. That’s just fucked up.

That's the horrible pain in this world.The Sting of Death.

Thank you 4 the music Richie, Buddy, Big B... R.I.P. Youre music is timeless....

Rithie you shared your passion with us thanks

i remember that night, danced at clear lake lots of times. thank you

@spiderreed350

3 жыл бұрын

I'm not doubting you,but your the 19,999th person that's said said and the venue only held about 200 people tops.

@JoshuaRyanErwin

2 ай бұрын

​@@spiderreed350you're absolutely wrong. My sister lives near there and has also performed at the Surf multiple times. The capacity is around 2k. I've been there plenty of times. In fact, I believe there were a thousand people there for the show that night if I recall correctly.

3 of rocks greatest men died that die and I still believe rock has never been the same without them. My granny told me back then, around the time they died, Elvis was in the army and the Beatles hadn't came to America yet. It was time where music had died :( People who grew up listening to them (on 45s) and rockabily fans keep their spirits alive :D RIP Ritchie, Buddy and JP :(

I like Buddy Holly

@michaelsweeney5779

6 жыл бұрын

your profile pic isn't buddy holly

@kittenopf4347

5 жыл бұрын

Michael Sweeney Gary Busey I think, he played buddy holly

@spiderreed350

3 жыл бұрын

What about the "BIG BOPPER"?

@spiderreed350

3 жыл бұрын

@@kittenopf4347 Gary had front teeth like Buddy

Carburetor icing.....guaranteed! This was reckless behavior in the extreme. Flying north in the middle of an icy cold, February Iowa night in a small 4 -seater with a 21 year old pilot? Yeah.....what could possibly go wrong? I put this down to young guys basking in public adulation and believing, with youthful bravado, that they were indestructible.

I was born ten years after this happened, but it brings me close to tears every time I see it. This was the most tragic event in Rock history. Even with deaths like Marvin Gaye, John Lennon, Elvis Presley, and Michael Jackson, at least we saw their best before they died. 2-3-1959 robbed us. And them.

@fordxbgtfalcon I'd read: Authorities study the wreckage on the morning of February 3, 1959. The plane came to rest against a barbed wire fence after rolling hundreds of feet over the frozen Iowa ground. Pilot Roger Peterson was still inside the cockpit. The passengers (Holly, Valens, and Richardson) had been thrown out. They died upon impact. (Globe Gazette) just f.y.i.... It makes me sick to think of how Ritchie hated flying (for this reason.)

@EmpyrealFlux You're right about the pilot's problems but Jerry Dwyer, the owner of the aircraft, realized shortly after take off that something was wrong. He flew out as soon as it got light the next morning and it was him that spotted the wreckage, not some "locals".

Like some of the other artists mentioned here, Buddy was trying to change his sound. Trying to get away from what the studio pushed him to do. His final album was a departure, and a re-working of some of his hits, to a softer, folksier style. Janis, Jimi, Lennon had made big changes to their styles and range. They died at absolutely the wrong time! (for us, the listeners. Maybe not for the labels and authors, to exploit?) And as scary as a plane going down must be, imagine at night, in a snowstorm - where you have no idea when and how you'll hit bottom! I remember the news reports when it happened. I was 9, and I cried!

@takeemout4357

5 жыл бұрын

Jon Doeringer no his final work was manipulated by his new wife and her New York contacts. Buddy never cut himself out of dabbling in any genre. My guess is he’d be back to rocking in no time and leave the Everly Brothers in the dust.

I wish a time travel existed so I can go back an save them / and see them live at Surf ballroom

Great footage. Thanks

this video is so haunting and sad especially at the end of it..

The saddest day in U.S.music.

thanks to Don Maclean and the La Bamba movie.... they led me to these timeless artists....and soo young but gone too soon

@MegaMitchel88 I'm a little confused as to what you mean about 2/2/59. I don't know as much about Clear Lake story as you do. Not sure what else to add at this time. e.

@MegaMitchel88 Thank you. That's pretty detailed information. I'm not questioning its accuracy, but how did you learn about this? Eric

This video got really eerie after the news break…so sad this happened, long live Valens, Bopper, n Buddy ❤

Even tho they are dead. Their music lives on for eternity.

Rest in peace buddy Holly 😢😢😢😢❤❤❤❤

Don't forget about pilot Roger Peterson. May all 4 continue to rest in peace.

I've often experienced in a vehical, when there's a sudden change in weather(like running into a storm front), where the window all freeze up, or fog up, and you can't see nothin'... Maybey thats' what happened...We'll never know. Only ones who could answer that were on the plane.

Sometimes I wonder if I was affiliated in another life. It hurts me so badly when I think of the crash and nobody understands how someone my age can feel this way. I also get mad at the guy who chartered the flight. He’d pose for newspaper photographers holding blown up b&w photos of the crash with those poor young men’s bodies frozen on display like it was something to be proud of to be so careless. I don’t think I could ever live with myself if I had a hand in it.

A well compiled video

After seeing that horrible site, it's a wonder there was any bodies left.

@kuhlers Were there anymore photos that didnt get shown? I mean more photos then we saw (I hope you understand)

I was born at the wrong time.....I still listen to this music my favorite are the oldies. And if I had a choice whether or not to be a freezing cold bus or take a plane in snowy weather, I'd have just gone ahead and freeze my a** off in the bus. But that's how the hand of God works, He need these three stars in heaven so He took them there to play their music for Him.

Last year a news guy died with almost all his family when getting to his own father funeral and guess what, bad weather and young inexperience pilots so i think that this is common occurrence even to these days. The pilot also has failed a piloting test on the very plane they crashed how ironic! If we were truly made to fly we would have feathers and wings period.

I learned of this plane crash from the movie "behind enemy lines " that these three guys were in the same plane !

Real, pure, and innocent Talent die on Feb. 3 1959.. RIP

At least their deaths were instantanious, the big Bopper's son had him re-autopsied when they moved his grave and he said he had probably over 200 fractures all over his body.

@keithwright9046

3 жыл бұрын

Quacks

rest in peace🙏🙏

R.I.P. you guys will always be remembered!

Dont forget the pilot he died as well

@msandoval8027

4 жыл бұрын

No one cares about that POS!! He is the reason this happened hope he rots in hell!!!

@jerrymuzak4534

4 жыл бұрын

Roger Peterson was the pilot. Rest in peace.

@mattbermo1958

4 жыл бұрын

M Sandoval show some respect man. The decision to fly was foolish however he still died, a very young man

Nothing else matters ex (Hendrix, Morrison, Moon and more) Without Buddy no one would have known these guys names!

rip ritchie and buddy holly being from lubbock its a sad thing to happen those guys made great music and it hurts to think ppl lose there lives every day at such a young age rip to all those who lost there lives so young im 21 and idk if id b rdy to drop dead its so sad :(

I wonder if the second radio newscast isn't real. The first one seems so incredibly re-created. You have to remember that most recorded radio news came out of the networks. If you're lucky a local radio station maintained a logger tape (tape running all the time due to liability issues). But logger tapes tended to face disposal.

I think Jerry Dewyer should talk, he know's more than anyone.............

@jamiebrown8608

8 жыл бұрын

Jerry's a loser

@rotunda57

7 жыл бұрын

Too late. Jerry Dewyer passed on a year ago at age 85.

@imposterblockade1826

5 жыл бұрын

Stfu this shit was bc of schedule and a broken heater add on the weather

@honestyquality3565

5 жыл бұрын

Jerry was just protecting his own reputation for sending young inexperienced pilot to do job.

@tonnymitch4016

4 жыл бұрын

Daniel Adamczyk he already spoke on it

Crash site in the middle of no where, cold, lonely and windy with Buddy's glasses leading to the fatal site Surf Ball room sitting empty a few miles away along the Lake A must stop here if in the vicinity of Clear Lake, Iowa The day the real music died R.I.P

I am actually from mason city and I have personally seen the crash site

@user-qu1hr9qd9y

8 жыл бұрын

who cares?

@user-yq7qc8yp2y

7 жыл бұрын

doug n pauline L be nice

@christopherjones4885

7 жыл бұрын

their just jealous they haven't seen it :)

@user-yq7qc8yp2y

7 жыл бұрын

Christopher Jones yeah XD

@Claymore84517

7 жыл бұрын

I just visited the sight this past week.

I've often experienced in a vehical, when there's a sudden change in weather(like running into a storm front), where the window all freeze up, or fog up, and you can't see nothin'... Maybey thats' what happened...We'll never know. Only ones who could answer that were on the plane. Wouldn't take long to crash a plane if you were franticaly trying to scrape ice off the windshield...

That Howling Wind.....

I think Ritchie panicked in that plane....he utterly feared flying from he was a kid. I have flown many times on passenger jets, but the day I got in the back of a small plane, same size as theirs...it's two different things...I was scared..yes, it was being flown by a learner with trainer beside him and the trainer had his own controls...but it's NOT like a big plane...I had some serious getting-used-to to accomplish. A guy with Ritchie's fear may have just freaked right out and caused whatever havoc in that little plane......it's a thought that came to me.

Why didn't they just get some rest in Clear Lake then fly out after breakfast in broad daylight and in much improved weather conditions ? Youthful impetuosity it would seem.

@sixsixxsixxxx

8 жыл бұрын

+John Smith no Dick Clark's greed

@hillarymack3207

6 жыл бұрын

John Smith, no it was their manager's fault. Nothing to do with them wanting to go then. They were on a schedule.

@markfrost7986

6 жыл бұрын

I guess they were ready to go and didnt want to stick around

Music didn't die that day. Music was BORN

And as long as so many people know his music, he is not really dead either.

@xXDEMONXx314 I cried at the end. So sad how 3 young men just died! May they rest in peace

Didn't know all three died together when I saw the La Bamba movie. How sad....

I'm a lifelong Buddy Holly fan, However, I was born some 4-1/2 after he died. I couldn't imagine what this night was like for any of their fans at the time. Very, very sad.

R.I.P

I often think of how music would have been different should some of the greatest legends of rock n roll had a chance to live a little longer... Holly, Havens, Hendrix, Lennon, Joplin, Randy Rhoads, Keith Moon, Kurt Cobain, etc etc etc... So. Sad.

Guys and Dolls, this is not a video for petty squabbles and arguments. Any argumentative comments will be removed...Let's have some respect here for Buddy, Richie and J.P Thankyou!

What song is playing at the end?

@ytsto7494

3 жыл бұрын

Ritchie Valens La Bamba

Great out -pan of that stark,winter day then the sight of the crumpled,charred plane. Sad.

So terribly tragic, life is cruel, godbless you all, what a terrible loss, hart breaking, awful

i visited the site in Iowa in Clearlake, in the field. Kinda spooky.

Over 52 years and remains arguably the most monumental event in the history of Rock n Roll music.