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DICKIE’S QUICKIES: 

 This is the anniversary of the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and J.P Richardson. It has been called, “The Day The Music Died.” It was a tragedy. But the music will never die.

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  1. Lisa says:
    February 4, 2009 at 11:17 am

    Amen, the music they gave your generation built ours and I thank them for that.

  2. Dave Mackey says:
    February 5, 2009 at 2:37 pm

    Longtime listener, first time commenter (as they say in talk radio)… I actually used to make a point of tuning you in back in the old WNBC days. I really liked that station in the mid 70’s when it was Imus, Vernon, Oogie Pringle, you and Radio City Bill. Ellie Dylan was probably also on the air at that time. And I think the Wolfman was on the night patrol.

    Anyway, I told my fourth and fifth grade music students about the tragedy of fifty years ago, tying it into the Don McLean song “American Pie” (which, I was surprised to learn, most of them knew), and saying how the deaths of those three men helped shape the music of the 60’s and beyond in an indirect way. How would Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper’s careers have continued to unfold? Would we ever have had the British Invasion? The rise of Motown? Disco? The punk movement?

    The point of this is that 50 years later, we’re still rocking. The last major movement in music prior to rock had been the Big Band era, which really only lasted 10 years or so. What’s going to replace rock 100 or so years down the road? I hope I don’t live to find out.