Buddy Holly: Day the Music Died, 50 years ago
Monday 28th of May 2012 09:20:08 PM
Posted by admin / Under Holly Hobby Doll
| DULUTH, Minn. The rickety old bus pulled out of the Duluth Armory late on Saturday, Jan. 31, 1959, and headed across St. Louis Bay into the frigid Wisconsin night. On board were some exhausted and stinky rock n rollers and their harried manager. The Winter Dance Party tour had just finished its ninth gig in as many days and was headed for Appleton and Green Bay, Wis., for two shows that Sunday. |
Buddy Holly, rock music genius
Monday 28th of May 2012 09:20:08 PM
Posted by admin / Under Holly Hobby Doll
| ... Buddy's music is so musical. The number of great recordings he made in his very short life places him at or beyond the level of any musical artist in almost any category. ... They are rock mountains that nobody has climbed. The diversity of Buddy's music is also profound. "Moondreams" and "True Love Ways" are musically as advanced as anything by the great popular composers. Gershwin or Berlin would have marveled at these compositions. His electric guitars were raw, but controlled like bullwhips. They jingle and jangle freely in "That'll Be the Day" and "Oh Boy," and they snake... |
50 Winters Have Passed Since the Day the Music Died (Feb 3rd, 1959)
Monday 28th of May 2012 09:20:08 PM
Posted by admin / Under Holly Hobby Doll
| It's been 50 winters since the death of Lubbock native and rock-n-roll superstar Buddy Holly. "Fifty Winters Later" is the name of a memorial event in Clear Lake, Iowa where Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and the Big Bopper died in a plane crash February 3, 1959. Just 11 months prior, Holly and the Crickets made an international impact. |
Rock fans head to Iowa to recall day music died
Monday 28th of May 2012 09:20:08 PM
Posted by admin / Under Holly Hobby Doll
| CLEAR LAKE, Iowa (AP) - It's been 50 years since a single-engine plane crashed into a snow-covered Iowa field, instantly killing three men whose names would become enshrined in the history of rock 'n' roll. The passing decades haven't diminished fascination with that night on Feb. 2, 1959, when 22-year-old Buddy Holly, 28-year-old J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson and 17-year-old Ritchie Valens performed in Clear Lake and then boarded the plane for a planned 300-mile flight that lasted only minutes. "It was really like the first rock 'n' roll landmark; the first death," said rock historian Jim Dawson, who has... |
Baby-killing case against daughter shocks dad (Left her baby to die in alley behind a bar)
Monday 28th of May 2012 09:20:08 PM
Posted by admin / Under Holly Hobby Doll
| It's been three years since Terry Ashcraft of Billings last spoke to his daughter, the 21-year-old University of Southern California student accused of leaving her newborn son to die in an alley behind a popular bar in Los Angeles. So Ashcraft was as shocked as anyone when he learned of the allegations against Holly Ashcraft - a pretty honor roll graduate of West High who reportedly attended USC on a full scholarship. If I could say something that would enlighten things, I would do that, Terry Ashcraft said outside his home Friday. All I can really say about it is... |
Moving Man in Iraq: America's Logistical Task
Monday 28th of May 2012 09:20:08 PM
Posted by admin / Under Holly Hobby Doll
| <p>BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Ex-Marine Jack Holly is a logistics man in this most logistically challenged of countries. His assignment: to make sure $18.4 billion in U.S.-funded construction work and supplies get to the right place at the right time.</p> <p>And that's in a country now suffering from a spate of armed militia and terrorist attacks and with no existing distribution system, a dysfunctional rail network, no major ports, no fully operational commercial airports, and roads already clogged with traffic.</p> |
Penna Mike Fisher Ad Rumors Spark Furor [Involves Rendell's "friend," Holly]
Monday 28th of May 2012 09:20:08 PM
Posted by admin / Under Holly Hobby Doll
| AND NOW for another Holly Kinser episode. The statuesque blonde lobbyist known for attracting the spotlight because of her friendship with Democrat Ed Rendell and her divorce from state House Democratic Leader Bill DeWeese had a little encounter of the Republican kind. It was last week in a Harrisburg hotel, then in a nightclub. It was over the governor's race. And it wasn't pretty. "It was about as confrontational a conversation as I've seen in this town in 10 years," said a witness to the nightclub scene. There were two parts to the evening. Kinser, a lobbyist for Wojdak &... |
Grim Discovery Near U.S. Air Base (Police-Missing UK girls believed found dead)
Monday 28th of May 2012 09:20:08 PM
Posted by admin / Under Holly Hobby Doll
| Police believe the two bodies found yesterday in a Suffolk field are those of missing 10 year old Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman.The find came hours after detectives arrested school caretaker Ian Huntley 28, on suspicion of abduction and murder. Huntley's girlfriend Maxine Carr, 25 was arrested on suspicion of murder.The bodies were discovered at around 1 PM (London Time) by three people out walking near the village of Mildenhall and RAF Lakenheath, which is used by the United States Air Force.The site lies close to the A1065 road to Swaffham, around 10 miles east of the girls home village... |




Share this!