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The Day the Music Died

Index The Day the Music Died

On February 3, 1959, American rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson were killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, together with pilot Roger Peterson. [1]

90 relations: Air traffic control, Alta, Iowa, American Pie (song), Appleton, Wisconsin, Attitude indicator, Beaumont, Texas, Beechcraft Bonanza, Bill Graham helicopter crash, Blunt trauma, Bobby Keys, Bobby Vee, Buddy Holly, Burial, California, Carl Bunch, Ceiling (cloud), Central Time Zone, Chris Montez, Chuck Leavell, Civil Aeronautics Board, Clear Lake, Iowa, Coin flipping, Concert tour, Coroner, Death of Stevie Ray Vaughan, Delbert McClinton, Dion and the Belmonts, Dion DiMucci, Disc jockey, Don McLean, FAA Practical Test, Fargo, North Dakota, Fear of flying, Flight dynamics (fixed-wing aircraft), Frankie Sardo, Frostbite, General Amusement Corporation, Graham Nash, Granite, Green Bay, Wisconsin, Gyroscope, Hector International Airport, Influenza, Instrument flight rules, Instrument meteorological conditions, Ironwood, Michigan, James Hutchinson (musician), Joe Ely, Kenny Aronoff, KRIB, ..., La Bamba (film), Los Lobos, Los Lonely Boys, Lubbock, Texas, María Elena Holly, Mason City Municipal Airport, Mason City, Iowa, Midwestern United States, Milwaukee, Miscarriage, Moorhead, Minnesota, National Transportation Safety Board, New England, Peter and Gordon, Phonograph record, Pilot error, Psychological trauma, Ritchie Valens, Riverside Ballroom, Rock and roll, Sioux City, Iowa, Spatial disorientation, Storm Lake, Iowa, Surf Ballroom, The Big Bopper, The Buddy Holly Story, The Crickets, The Des Moines Register, Three Stars (song), Tommy Allsup, United States, Ventura, Iowa, Visual flight rules, Wanda Jackson, Waylon Jennings, William M. Bass, .22 caliber, 1963 Camden PA-24 crash, 1969 Newton Cessna 172 crash, 1977 Mississippi CV-240 crash. Expand index (40 more) »

Air traffic control

Air traffic control (ATC) is a service provided by ground-based air traffic controllers who direct aircraft on the ground and through controlled airspace, and can provide advisory services to aircraft in non-controlled airspace.

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Alta, Iowa

Alta is a city in Buena Vista County, Iowa, United States.

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American Pie (song)

"American Pie" is a song by American singer and songwriter Don McLean.

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Appleton, Wisconsin

Appleton is a city in Outagamie (mostly), Calumet, and Winnebago counties in the U.S. state of Wisconsin.

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Attitude indicator

An attitude indicator (AI), also known as gyro horizon or artificial horizon or attitude director indicator (ADI, when it has a Flight Director), is an instrument used in an aircraft to inform the pilot of the orientation of the aircraft relative to Earth's horizon.

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Beaumont, Texas

Beaumont is a city in and the county seat of Jefferson County, Texas in the United States, within the Beaumont–Port Arthur Metropolitan Statistical Area.

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Beechcraft Bonanza

The Beechcraft Bonanza is an American general aviation aircraft introduced in 1947 by Beech Aircraft Corporation of Wichita, Kansas.

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Bill Graham helicopter crash

On October 25, 1991, a Bell 206 carrying rock concert promoter Bill Graham and two other people crashed into a transmission tower west of Vallejo, California, killing everyone on board.

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Blunt trauma

Blunt trauma, blunt injury, non-penetrating trauma or blunt force trauma is physical trauma to a body part, either by impact, injury or physical attack.

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Bobby Keys

Robert Henry Keys (December 18, 1943 – December 2, 2014) was an American saxophonist who performed with other musicians as a member of several horn sections of the 1970s.

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Bobby Vee

Robert Thomas Velline (April 30, 1943 – October 24, 2016), known professionally as Bobby Vee, was an American singer, songwriter and musician who was a teen idol in the early 1960s and also appeared in films.

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Buddy Holly

Charles Hardin Holley (September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959), known as Buddy Holly, was an American musician, singer-songwriter and record producer who was a central and pioneering figure of mid-1950s rock and roll.

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Burial

Burial or interment is the ritual act of placing a dead person or animal, sometimes with objects, into the ground.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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Carl Bunch

Carl Bunch (November 24, 1939 – March 26, 2011) was an American musician.

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Ceiling (cloud)

In aviation, ceiling is a measurement of the height of the base of the lowest clouds (not to be confused with cloud base which has a specific definition) that cover more than half of the sky (more than 4 oktas) relative to the ground.

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Central Time Zone

The North American Central Time Zone (CT) is a time zone in parts of Canada, the United States, Mexico, Central America, some Caribbean Islands, and part of the Eastern Pacific Ocean.

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Chris Montez

Chris Montez (born Ezekiel Christopher Montanez on January 17, 1943) is an American guitarist and vocalist, whose stylistic approach has ranged from rock & roll to pop standards and Latin music.

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Chuck Leavell

Charles Alfred Leavell (born April 28, 1952) is an American musician.

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Civil Aeronautics Board

The Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) was an agency of the federal government of the United States that regulated aviation services, including scheduled passenger airline service, and provided air accident investigation.

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Clear Lake, Iowa

Clear Lake is a city in Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, United States.

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Coin flipping

Coin flipping, coin tossing, or heads or tails is the practice of throwing a coin in the air and checking which side is showing when it lands to choose between two alternatives, sometimes to resolve a dispute between two parties.

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Concert tour

A concert tour (or simply tour) is a series of concerts by an artist or group of artists in different cities, countries or locations.

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Coroner

A coroner is a person whose standard role is to confirm and certify the death of an individual within a jurisdiction.

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Death of Stevie Ray Vaughan

On Monday, August 27, 1990, American musician Stevie Ray Vaughan was killed in a helicopter crash in Elkhorn, Wisconsin, aged 35 years.

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Delbert McClinton

Delbert McClinton (born November 4, 1940) is an American blues rock and electric blues singer-songwriter, guitarist, harmonica player, and pianist.

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Dion and the Belmonts

Dion and the Belmonts were a leading American vocal group of the late 1950s.

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Dion DiMucci

Dion Francis DiMucci (born July 18, 1939), better known mononymously as Dion, is an American singer, songwriter whose work has incorporated elements of doo-wop, rock and R&B styles—and, most recently, straight blues.

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Disc jockey

A disc jockey, often abbreviated as DJ, is a person who plays existing recorded music for a live audience.

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Don McLean

Donald McLean III (born October 2, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter.

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FAA Practical Test

A practical test, more commonly known as a checkride, is the Federal Aviation Administration examination which one must undergo in the United States to receive an aircraft pilot's certification, or an endorsement for additional flight privileges.

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Fargo, North Dakota

Fargo is the most populous city in the state of North Dakota, accounting for nearly 16% of the state population.

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Fear of flying

Fear of flying is a fear of being on an airplane (aeroplane), or other flying vehicle, such as a helicopter, while in flight.

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Flight dynamics (fixed-wing aircraft)

Flight dynamics is the science of air vehicle orientation and control in three dimensions.

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Frankie Sardo

Frank Sardo Avianca (September 16, 1936 – February 26, 2014), who performed as Frankie Sardo, was an American rock and roll singer, actor and film producer.

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Frostbite

Frostbite occurs when exposure to low temperatures causes freezing of the skin or other tissues.

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General Amusement Corporation

General Amusement Corporation (GAC) was an international talent booking agency that was acquired by ICM Partners in 1974.

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Graham Nash

Graham William Nash, OBE (born 2 February 1942) is a British-American singer-songwriter and musician.

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Granite

Granite is a common type of felsic intrusive igneous rock that is granular and phaneritic in texture.

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Green Bay, Wisconsin

Green Bay is a city in and the county seat of Brown County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin, at the head of Green Bay, a sub-basin of Lake Michigan, at the mouth of the Fox River.

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Gyroscope

A gyroscope (from Ancient Greek γῦρος gûros, "circle" and σκοπέω skopéō, "to look") is a device used for measuring or maintaining orientation and angular velocity.

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Hector International Airport

Hector International Airport is a civil-military public airport three miles (5 km) northwest of Fargo, in Cass County, North Dakota, United States.

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Influenza

Influenza, commonly known as "the flu", is an infectious disease caused by an influenza virus.

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Instrument flight rules

Instrument flight rules (IFR) is one of two sets of regulations governing all aspects of civil aviation aircraft operations; the other is visual flight rules (VFR).

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Instrument meteorological conditions

Instrument meteorological conditions (IMC) is an aviation flight category that describes weather conditions that require pilots to fly primarily by reference to instruments, and therefore under instrument flight rules (IFR), rather than by outside visual references under visual flight rules (VFR).

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Ironwood, Michigan

Ironwood is a city in Gogebic County in the U.S. state of Michigan, about south of Lake Superior.

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James Hutchinson (musician)

James "Hutch" Hutchinson (born January 24, 1953) is an American session bassist best known for his work with Bonnie Raitt.

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Joe Ely

Joe Ely (born February 9, 1947, Amarillo, Texas, United States) is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist whose music touches on honky-tonk, Texas country, Tex-Mex and rock and roll.

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Kenny Aronoff

Kenny Aronoff (born March 7, 1953 in Albany, New York) is an American drummer who has been the sideman for many bands both live and in the studio.

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KRIB

KRIB (1490 AM) is a radio station licensed to serve Mason City, Iowa.

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La Bamba (film)

La Bamba is a 1987 American biographical film written and directed by Luis Valdez that follows the life and career of Chicano rock 'n' roll star Ritchie Valens.

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Los Lobos

Los Lobos (Spanish for "the Wolves") are an American rock band from East Los Angeles, California, United States.

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Los Lonely Boys

Los Lonely Boys are an American Chicano rock power trio from San Angelo, Texas.

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Lubbock, Texas

Lubbock is a city in and the county seat of Lubbock County, Texas, United States.

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María Elena Holly

María Elena Holly (née Santiago; born December 20, 1932) was the widow of rock and roll pioneer Buddy Holly until she remarried.

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Mason City Municipal Airport

Mason City Municipal Airport is a city owned public use airport located five nautical miles (9 km) west of the central business district of Mason City, in Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, United States.

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Mason City, Iowa

Mason City is a city in and the county seat of Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, United States.

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Midwestern United States

The Midwestern United States, also referred to as the American Midwest, Middle West, or simply the Midwest, is one of four census regions of the United States Census Bureau (also known as "Region 2").

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Milwaukee

Milwaukee is the largest city in the state of Wisconsin and the fifth-largest city in the Midwestern United States.

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Miscarriage

Miscarriage, also known as spontaneous abortion and pregnancy loss, is the natural death of an embryo or fetus before it is able to survive independently.

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Moorhead, Minnesota

Moorhead is a city in Clay County, Minnesota, United States, and the largest city in northwest Minnesota.

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National Transportation Safety Board

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is an independent U.S. government investigative agency responsible for civil transportation accident investigation.

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New England

New England is a geographical region comprising six states of the northeastern United States: Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut.

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Peter and Gordon

Peter and Gordon were a British pop duo, composed of Peter Asher (b. 1944) and Gordon Waller (1945–2009), who achieved international fame in 1964 with their first single, the million-selling transatlantic No.1 smash "A World Without Love".

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Phonograph record

A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English, or record) is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove.

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Pilot error

Pilot error (sometimes called cockpit error) is a term used to describe a decision, action or inaction by a pilot or crew of an aircraft that is determined to be the cause of, or a contributing factor in, an accident or incident.

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Psychological trauma

Psychological trauma is a type of damage to the mind that occurs as a result of a severely distressing event.

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Ritchie Valens

Richard Steven Valenzuela (May 13, 1941 – February 3, 1959), known professionally as Ritchie Valens, was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

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Riverside Ballroom

The Riverside Ballroom in Green Bay, Wisconsin, is a ballroom that hosts weddings and small concerts.

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Rock and roll

Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll or rock 'n' roll) is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950sJim Dawson and Steve Propes, What Was the First Rock'n'Roll Record (1992),.

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Sioux City, Iowa

Sioux City is a city in Woodbury and Plymouth counties in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Iowa.

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Spatial disorientation

Spatial disorientation, spatial unawareness is the inability of a person to correctly determine his/her body position in space.

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Storm Lake, Iowa

Storm Lake is a city in Buena Vista County, Iowa, United States.

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Surf Ballroom

The Surf Ballroom (the Surf) is a Historic Rock and Roll Landmark at 460 North Shore Drive, Clear Lake, Iowa.

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The Big Bopper

Jiles Perry "J.

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The Buddy Holly Story

The Buddy Holly Story is a 1978 biographical film which tells the life story of rock musician Buddy Holly.

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The Crickets

The Crickets were an American rock and roll band from Lubbock, Texas, formed by singer-songwriter Buddy Holly in the 1950s.

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The Des Moines Register

The Des Moines Register is the daily morning newspaper of Des Moines, Iowa.

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Three Stars (song)

"Three Stars" is a song written by Tommy Dee in 1959, as a tribute to Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. Richardson (The Big Bopper), who died in a plane crash earlier that year.

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Tommy Allsup

Thomas Douglas Allsup (November 24, 1931 – January 11, 2017) was an American rockabilly and swing musician.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Ventura, Iowa

Ventura is a city in Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, United States.

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Visual flight rules

Visual flight rules (VFR) are a set of regulations under which a pilot operates an aircraft in weather conditions generally clear enough to allow the pilot to see where the aircraft is going.

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Wanda Jackson

Wanda Lavonne Jackson (born October 20, 1937) is an American singer, songwriter, pianist and guitarist who had success in the mid-1950s and 1960s as one of the first popular female rockabilly singers and a pioneering rock-and-roll artist.

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Waylon Jennings

Waylon Arnold Jennings (pronounced; June 15, 1937 – February 13, 2002) was an American singer, songwriter, and musician.

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William M. Bass

William Marvin Bass III (born August 30, 1928) is an American forensic anthropologist, best known for his research on human osteology and human decomposition.

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.22 caliber

The 22 caliber, or 5.6mm caliber, is a small, extremely common size of ammunition, fitted to firearms with a bore diameter of 0.22 in (5.6 mm).

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1963 Camden PA-24 crash

On March 5, 1963, country music stars Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas, and Hawkshaw Hawkins were killed in an airplane crash near Camden, Tennessee, United States, along with the pilot Randy Hughes.

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1969 Newton Cessna 172 crash

On August 31, 1969, a Cessna 172 crashed in Newton, Iowa, killing world champion boxer Rocky Marciano and two.

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1977 Mississippi CV-240 crash

On October 20, 1977, a Convair CV-240 ran out of fuel and crashed near Gillsburg, Mississippi, USA.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Music_Died

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