I live in Lubbock, and used to substitute teach at the junior and senior high schools he attended. He is still very much beloved in this city.

In 1969 I was 15 years-old. My girlfriend found a 45 of "Peggy Sue" at the town dump. We played it, and though we'd never heard of Buddy Holly, we LOVED his song. Months later, I learned he'd died in a plane crash ten years earlier. Somehow, his tragic death really touched my heart. I became a lifelong fan. Buddy deserves all the praise he's been given by other rock 'n' roll fans who've discovered him long after February 3, 1959. Buddy was a Music Powerhouse - and a Texas Gentleman.

My Mother attended a winter tour show in Davenport IA, just a few days before he died. She said they were still talking about the show and how much they enjoyed it when the news came about the crash.

Always loved Buddy Holly .his music is great!!!🎉

Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.

I feel bad for Maria Elena Santiago. She was going through absolute torture, not feeling well (probably due to being pregnant), and then the *_way_* she found out, on top of being so stressed at his death that she lost his baby... As usual, people would rather be busy judging her and being monsters to her, and kill her spirit instead of trying compassion and understanding. People are so cruel to each other.

Such a loss. Rest in Peace, Buddy and all.

Rip to Buddy Holly.Ritchie Valens. and the Big Bopper.

"Not Fade Away" got us up and dancing. Great great song. Rave On was also a favorite at parties.

" The brightest stars burn for the shortest time" RIP Buddy

Maria is now 91.... Wow, 65 years without Buddy.

The Day the Music died was an Avoidable event. The young inexperienced Pilot should not have been allowed to fly that night and it should have never happened. Unfortunately, it did.

LOVE his music! He's one of the best❤

One of my faves. We’re both from Texas!

The music did not die. It lives on.

The movie The Buddy Holly Story was excellent and Gary Busey did a fabulous job as BH, and i still remember the news as a child. Terrible. All three were very talented. Good video.

I went to the crash site 2 weeks ago. Its off an interstate and there are NO SIGNS to show where to go We had to use google maps to find the site. Its sad that all there is is a small monument at the site.

Buddy was awesome and his voice was a comfort to ones soul. I have missed his singing for my whole life. R.I.P. Buddy

There are, and always will be incredible musicians that blow our minds! . . . . . . . . . . . above all that is *Buddy Holly!* 🙏🏽❤️⭐️

Friends of mine named their first son “Buddy” and their first girl “Holly”! ….cool!

I never understood why radio stations would play Richie Valens songs but hardly ever played Buddy's. I've even called and asked. They always try to trip me up and ask what my favorite song is. To which I reply Not Fade Away.

I loved Buddy Holly, was devastated when he died. His music still lives in me. Blessings, Buddy...I miss you.💞

What a shame. I was crushed when it happened. Filled with disbelief. They were all so young. Richie was 17! They were all part of a great generation like Buddy Knox, Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran Chuck Berry Fats Domino.. All carving out a new sound mixing rockabilly & R & B and Latin. They faced a lot of obstacles like prejudices. Elvis was banned from performing in several cities like Seattle in 56. So I got to see him in 57 when I was 10. Jimi Hendrix saw him then too! I love em all.❤❤❤❤❤

This era of music was incredible! Buddy Holly was certainly a great part of it. I remember him like it was yesterday.....

Legends are never forgotten he definitely is at the top of the list

I dont blame her for not visiting his grave rest in peace Buddy Hollie big bopper and Richie Vallense

I bet I have listened to "Rave On" a thousand times.

I was born in 1950 in a small town close to Lubbock. Lubbock was the “big city” in the area. During that time that area was very, very conservative and not very accepting of racial differences. And it is still that way to some extent. Back then rock and roll was the devils music. Lubbock and the entire area did not like rockers and would do nothing to bring attention to the area concerning rock and roll. When I was growing up there nobody mentioned Buddy Holly. For many years after Holly’s death Lubbock would not do anything to acknowledge that he was a product of Lubbock. It has only been in the last few years that Lubbock has embraced one of their most famous sons. I owned a small business in Lubbock for 10 years. Even today the community is very non accessible. I suspect that the “good ole boys” that run the city finally realized that there was money to be made from the Holly legacy. I doubt it is because there was a change of heart. My older brother was a “greaser”. I still have and listen to his collection of old 45rpm records. Some of which are Buddy Holly and the Crickets.

I really feel sorry for such a talented person who passed away so soon.

If they are going to use movie clips of an actor playing Buddy Holly, I wish they would somehow acknowledge this. If I hadn't seen the movie, I might think Gary Busey was him.

This was well put together learned some music history I didn’t know. Buddy Holly was before my time but my mother loving all kinds of music i learned who he was.

She not only did not go to his funeral but later on when Lubbock tried to show respect to Buddy in the form of a museum,, statue, many other things she would not allow it if she was not paid an extreme amount of money $$$ to allow it to happen. Very sorry person !

Buddy Holly in a very short period created a lot of great music. We used to listen to his music over and over at our grandma's farm. How she had these records we never asked - but we had so much dancing around to his music.

I don't blame her she was sick and pregnant leave her alone

I cried when I heard on the wireless about buddy's dead. I was 9 years old at the time...

Buddy Holly was one of the best artist ever ❤️ He die way to young 😢

I heard about Buddy Holly, yet I just discovered his music. How surprising! Such a young person - road opener!

I agree 100% about her wanting to remember him as she knew him alive as opposed to her last impression of him upon her mind being his body laying in his casket. I don't do high school class reunions because I want to remember my classmates as I knew them as a classmate. Of course, there are a few that I do see because of proximity but most of them I still remember as 17 and 18 year olds and my college friends as 21 and 22 year olds...which is fine with me.

I went to Lubbock in 1957 to attend Texas Tech. To me Buddy Holly was a local boy, who was just one of those pale imitators of the real Black rockers that I loved. A year or so later, Chuck Berry put on a concert in a Lubbock honky-tonk. My buddy and I got his autograph in ballpoint on our hands.

Waylon Jennings gave up his seat for one of the singers.

They were so in love with each other, it was incredible!💜

Always go and pay respect to the people who have influenced you and your life. Because living in a life of regret is not a way to live at all

Loved Buddy and his music.

She is still alive. I hope they were happy even though they were together a short time. So sad.

Great presentation! Many interesting points were covered as well as the plane crash site and present memorial that showed more scenes than in any other video I've seen so far.👍

Buddy Holly's widow, born in Puerto Rico, is not Spanish but Hispanic. Only people born in Spain are Spanish or Spaniards.

Norman Petty robbed him blind. Stole his songwriting credits, signed him to horrible contracts, and basically stole every dollar Petty made and kept it for himself. The only reason Holly was on the plane that day was because the only way he could make ANY money to provide for his family was on these horrible barnstorming tours. And Petty didn't stop with Buddy Holly - he did the same thing to the String-A-Longs.

I think gary busey. Was the best movie i seen

Holly was a musical genius!

Not fade away was my favorite song.

Decca was a awesome company back then.

I remember Buddy.

I like some of Buddy Holly's music

The whole organization of the tour was a disaster. They were expected to get between venues during atrocious weather conditions. How they managed to perform under such stressful conditions is amazing.

I was with my dad, a broadcaster, at a BBC engineers house when I was a small boy. My dad was into classical music, so the engineer waited till he was in another room, then played me Peggy Sue, quite loud through a decent hifi. It completely blew my mind. The 1st LP I owned was Buddy's Greatest Hits. He was a great songwriter and singer, he really felt it and his versions of Bo Diddley and Brown Eyed Handsome Man at least match the originals in my opinion. I was listening to him 2 days ago, talent of his calibre lives on for sure.

Peggy Sue said the reason she was not at his grave site burial was as follows. She showed up at Buddies mother’s house while everyone was gone to his burial. She came there to unload personal items from his boyhood bedroom located inside his mothers home. She cleaned out the bedroom before his family came back home from the funeral . By the time his family returned home she and the contents were long gone.

After the crash, the plane was hidden. I don't buy this blame Roger. I grew up in the area the crash was in. They moved the plane in the dead of night. Rumor is it was scrapped out in other scrap. One thing for sure. No person has seen the wreckage since it left that field in 59.

The poor woman was grieving two losses. Then as usual people blame the widow …. Widows get a bad rap. It’s wrong.

Is Maria still living?

Oh too young all of them so sad will miss them forever rest in peace to them all ❤❤❤❤❤

God bless Maria.

It was the day the music died, we never heard any more music from three great musicians and performers and probably two of them would have gone on to be superstars

Yeah Elena, the Music that Buddy and his Cohorts sang really did DIE ON THAT SNOWY DAY IN FEBRUARY!!!!

Thank you.

Buddy was before my time so reading the post have puzzled me. What did she do that makes her so hated? According to this video she was no where near the horrid person that many posters are making her out to be. I often wonder how many people really remember the old saying about walking a mile in other peoples shoes.

Sad… so very sad! Heaven gained 3 wonderful angels… I feel bad that Buddys wife won’t visit his grace… she’s missing a lot!!

A Rock N Roll Pioneer & Rock God - RIP Buddy, 3 more Angels in heaven :(

The true King of Rock n' Roll

Still missed 😢

Buddy would been as big as Elvis😢

Buddy was a inspiration to all his widow so sad

Yes

Not fade away was in the Stephen king film adaptation Christine If only buddy Richie and big bopper jumped out of the airplane with parachutes before it crashed

RIP 🌹 🙏

Long live Buddy Holly

I had learned some about Buddy Holly and I knew his wife was expecting a child when he died. How horrific to find out that the stress of the way she found out caused a miscarriage. Just so unbelievably tragic for her to lose two people because of this.

I always say that if he lived Elvis Presley would not be the king of "Rock and Roll.

Brilliant 👍🤙☝️❤️

I grew up in the 50s. They were probably the most stable, innocent, undemanding period in the twentieth century. The sixties, on the other hand, fit your description. The Vietnam war, feminism, anti-police rhetoric, and other anti-social viewpoints came forward. Gone were the cleancut teens of the fifties. I look at all the dysfunctional aspects of today's world, and l see roots that were planted in the1960's.

I was amazed Buddy Holly didn't write a song about her too.

Very well done

Europa will never die.

It’s amazing to me that these young money-making stars were expected to ride around the freezing Midwest in a broken down bus with no heat. You’d think the planners of this would have had much better transportation for them , even if only for selfish, greedy reasons.

People His Wife Blamed Herself For Not Going With Him, That Hurt Cannot Just Be Turned Off & On Like A Light Switch , There’s The Guilt Part , She Was 2weeks Pregnant 🫄 He’s Gone Forever , Going To Funerals Had Never Taken Away That Hurt and She Fells Like She Killed Him. ❤❤❤❤❤❤

Whatever about today. It would have interesting what buddy Holly would be doing in the 60's, 70's, 80's and even 90's.

🤓🎸🎶🎶🎶🎶 LEGENDS NEVER DIE

I guess "It doesn't matter anymore".

One of the best ways

The influence he had on music in a short time, can you imagine if he lived long the influence he would have had in music maybe bigger than Elvis?

Did Elvis ever met Buddy

Such a terrible loss RIP.

I was 6 and remembered my mom crying over his plane crash

Yes they are

Who owns his songs?

Why did they keep using Gary Busey and Happy Days footage? There was plenty of actual Buddy Holly footage to use.

You think they would have put all of them up in a motel and got another bus with a heater a good 1 1 day but back then it looks ilke the producer got to go go go that a.bunch of crap i am sure they would have some where in iowa

Still missed

That is her choice. We miss them

She just makes it up as she goes. Been that way since Buddy died.

When. I am here l will continue