I can remember that day... but vaguely. Oddly... at the time I was more aware of The Big Bopper than either Buddy Holly or Richie Valens. Possibly because the Big Bopper's big hit was popular at the time? I don't know.
I don't remember any of the three being nearly as 'big', in popularity, as other musical stars of that day.... but I could be wrong - as I said, I was very young at the time. It always seemed to me, (again, perhaps a misperception on my part), that their fame was increased greatly by the tragedy of their deaths. But hey, for 'teens' of that era maybe they WERE on top and I was just not hip enough yet to know.
Sure seems that airplanes and musical artists are a bad mix, doesn't it? So many died in plane crashes. My heart died a little each time I'd read the news about another singer/performer/song-write being taken away far too soon... the one that I think I took the hardest was Otis Redding. - JamesJM
