Hey David,
Don't forget Roy Orbison. I think he's really the foundation of which you
speak, (inspiration to many even today), but was frequently unappreciated
by the public at large (maybe still). Many interviews I've seen with past
and present music icons credit him as their inspiration.
My interpretation of "the day the music died" is similar to yours. I think
it also is "what might have been" had these early talents stayed on the
scene.
Gerard
At 4:56 PM -0400 7/31/01, DLancer7676@cs.com wrote:
>In a message dated 7/31/2001 11:02:58 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
>boxweed@thebest.net writes:
>
>
>> "?......I agree that Buddy Holly was prolific, but
>> Richie Valens was a two-hit wonder, and the Big Bopper was only a one-hit
>> wonder......hardly able to be classified as icons of music!!
>>
>
>Ya gotta know your R&R history to know what that means, Bob. Holly was, and
>became, an icon--responsible to a large extent, for the "British sound"--the
>Beatles, Rolling Stones, and lord knows how many others. And his lyrics were
>and still are wonderful, rising far above the likes of "Be Bop-a-lula", "Who
>put the Bomp", and "Ya Ain't Nuthin' But a Hound Dog." The other deaths were
>tragic that they happened to youngsters who were really in the prime of their
>short careers. Elvis was in the Army and was gone. After the crash, the
>music turned to the likes of Fabian, Dion, and the rest of the uninteresting
>carbon-copy teeny-boppers UNTIL the Beatles hit the scene.
>
>It WAS
>
>--David C.
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