From Westwood One on Klyc 1260!!
It was on at 9:00 Am and will replay tonight at 6pm and 10pm says Stella last night. It must be a free show to Klyc?

Interesting! I will try to listen tonight, but reception of KLYC after sunset can be difficult, from my location.

Yesterday a friend in Dubuque, Iowa who has been on the air there for many years did a short tribute to Buddy Holly and the others who died in the plane crash. After getting off the air he got a call from a guy who said he had a "black record" with voices of young men promoting the Clear Lake concert, and was my friend interesed in it. YES.....he sure was, and he is now the proud owner of a 16 inch 78 RPM original Radio transcription of Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens each doing a Radio promo for the last concert they ever played.

Would love to hear those promo's. There used to be an aircheck of the Big Bopper when he was at KTRM in Beaumont, TX from 57/58 floating around..I recall it being somewhat entertaining..another interesting sidenote about J.P. is that of recent years he is starting to get credit as the first artist to make music video's way before music video's even existed...oh and one more thing: What's up with the Big Bopper's son selling his Dad's casket on Ebay awhile ago?

Music died againon April 1st a few years ago when 620 changed from Super62 to Progressive yalk! more recently again when 91 played that Sepreemes record!!

I agree 62kgw. Someone else should have had the progressive format. They had a special on the plane crash on RadioBop on Feb 3rd. its an internet station.

Coast-to-coast last weekend had both Peggy Sue (the girl the song was written about) and the Boppers son on the show and he discussed the casket thing and why it was dug up and that the company offered to replace it if there was any damage/failure to it. He also explained why it was dug up and moved. I don't normally listen to that show but it was on when I happened to flip the dial that night...I think it was Friday night.

> he is now the proud owner of a 16 inch 78 RPM original Radio transcription of Buddy Holly, The
> Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens each doing a Radio promo for the last concert they ever played.

That is morbid but very cool at the same time! Unfortunately, I missed the specials that aired on KLYC and Coast-to-Coast AM.

Here's a cool article The Columbian published on Monday in regards to "the day the music died" and its connection to KISN Goodguy Roger Hart.

http://columbian.com/article/20090202/NEWS02/702029978/-1/ARCHIVES

Alex: Thanks for posting this. So much great reading I miss since I can't receive home delivery of The Columbian.

That's a terrific article in the Columbian. You couldn't make up stuff like that if you tried. So part of the moral of the story is don't accept rides from Roger Hart?

I thought the day the music died was the day the first disco song cracked the hot 100.....

That happened when the first punk song was a hit.

"The Night Chicago Died". OK, it isn't funny but someone had to say it!

Sly said: another interesting sidenote about J.P. is that of recent years he is starting to get credit as the first artist to make music video's way before music video's even existed.
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J.P. also wrote two big hits...."Running Bear" by Johnny Preston and "White Lightning" which was George Jones' first smash. J.P. was a very talented guy.

MYSTERY SOLVED: BIG BOPPER MADE FIRST EVER MUSIC VIDEO

LUBBOCK, Tex. (Wireless Flash) -- Most people only remember the Big Bopper because he was in the same plane crash that killed Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens.

But newly discovered evidence suggests the Big Bopper -- whose real name was J.P. Richardson -- is also the creator of the world's first music video.

Up until now it was assumed Ricky Nelson's 1961 "Travelin' Man" was the first music video, but the Big Bopper actually produced a music video as early as 1958.

According to Bill Griggs, editor of the "Rockin' 50s" music magazine, the Bopper not only made a video for "Chantilly Lace" in 1958 he even coined the term "music video" in a 1959 article.

Griggs says the Bopper was convinced that video was the wave of the future and, at the time of his death, he was preparing to start production on music videos for TV and a specially designed jukebox which would play videos.


J.P. made three videos in 1958 and this is one of them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prcTdOXbSt4