Actually, many bands have lead singers with glasses just like that today. Being a "nerd" or even looking like a "nerd" is actually a cool thing these days. Buddy Holly made that possible.

Buddy was a genius and a very humble guy. His songs a pure dynamite. Rock on Buddy!

There were only three bodies scattered, the pilot was trapped inside.

Shortly after they were returned to his widow, Rolling Stone displayed them on a full page, inside back cover photo with his birth and death dates. It remains one of the most impactful rock photos I've ever seen - the realization that his wife recieved them in the mail 20+ years after the crash.

Buddy Holly was so cool back in his day. Today most kids would think he looks like a nerd. Such is the era in which we live.. RIP Buddy, you're still cool, and greatly loved!

buddy a lead guitarist that nite was my 2nd cousin. Tommy Allsup. he just went to join Buddy in Heaven this yr around 85. .

I reckon McCartney, Hank Marvin or Keith Richard would have paid much more than $80,000 for those glasses considering their iconic importance and the fact that he was wearing this particular pair that night. A one off piece of music history.

Those glasses are priceless

Every time I hear Buddy’s story I get sad

It's so sad to look at the condition of the glasses and to imagine the trauma that they went through.... It's hard to think about

Buddy Holly the Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens are the best

You put on the glasses and suddenly.... “OO-EE-OO I LOOK JUST LIKE BUDDY HOLLY.”

The story didn't say SHE received 80 grand for the glasses. She sold them to some other party for an undisclosed sum. The other party sold the glasses to the Buddy Holly museum. THEY are the ones who received the 80 grand. At least the glasses are now in a safe place where EVERYONE can see them. If she had kept them and after she passed away who knows what would have happened to them. Strange things happen at estate sales. "things" have a way of "disappearing".

That first background song is unnecessarily creepy.

His vision was 20/800? that's 4x legally blind.

Kinda spooky the glasses were found the same year John Lennon was killed. A sad, early death just like his hero Buddy. The other items found in the envelope were a watch, cigarette lighter and pair of dice owned by the Big Bopper, which were returned to his son.

I’m a 1970 baby but man I love the Holly songs .... was a big loss that night and it I think changed music😎 Rock on and someday hope to meet you guys

Love those glasses!

My late father had the same indentical pair back in the day the year I was born

Buddy Holly 1st Rock and Roll performer to wear glasses on stage. Others would wear glasses on stage because it was Well Alright... to wear them on stage. Many individuals that weren't performers would wear Buddy Holly Glasses. In the movie "Batman vs Superman" Henry Cavill looked more like Buddy Holly than Clark Kent. Even Buddy Holly would influence what type of glasses Clark Kent would wear. Those type of glasses are still popular till this day. Buddy Holly was cool.

I would kill for those glasses.

Good thing his wife sold the glasses because after she passes what would have happened to them? They probably would have gotten lost somewhere or stolen. The glasses are in a safe place now where every one can see them. 💙👓🕊

yes one of them was Waylon Jennings remember???...he was a country singer..but for years he thought he'd caused the crash cause he was joking with Buddy Buddy had said well I hope your bus freezes and Waylon said well I hope your plane crashes and it did ...Waylon was haunted by guilt for years thinking he'd caused it but it was just a joke

1:59 Ah the days before it was decreed by the god of music that once a pick is dropped... It shall never be found.... Even with proper eyewear.

My boss's dad was Niki Sullivan, Buddy Holly's rhythm guitarist.

Rest in peace.

Love you and will miss you forever Buddy sorry you had to lose the nice glasses you loved.

He was legally blind. Once he appeared on stage without glasses, dropped his guitar pick, and could not find it.

Make glasses great again!

I've noticed that a lot of kids wear them today, In fact my nephew has a pair I refer to as Buddy Hollys and he asked me "Who is Buddy Holly???"and I tell him Buddy's story

I totally agree!! To open up a museum in memory of Buddy yes! they could of been donated, Anything for a buck

I wear eye glasses I'd love to have Buddy Holly's glasses!

Apparently, Holly and his gang were flying in Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis, if we're to believe the plane seen in this video! Those glasses held up fairly well when you consider the horrendous trauma Holly and the 2 thrown from the plane sustained. Crushed chest, large lacerations, multiple fractures of arms & legs, skull fracture and brain mostly removed by the impact is a very violent set of injuries.

If u r going to the crash site. On the way you'll see a giant pair of glasses!

maybe that's why he was so good an gifted in music .like when people cant read and write ,they norm make up in some other way /buddys eye sight was not good .but his music and guitar playing sure was }

Im writing this today Feb 3rd 2023, been playing Buddys Music all day here in England UK, my hero since an early teenager, now im 57, ive been into Rock N Roll forever, Buddy always stood out as a musician, singer, songwriter, guitarist, composer, musical genius, sound engineer, etc etc at the age of 22. Now we have to listen to the shit we are brainwashed with today. So sorry Buddy that our music industry has failed you. R.I.P Charles Hardin (Buddy) Holly

....rock and roll shall never die.... Neil Young.

The first man to look handsome in glasses

Buddy holly glasses are in style in 2019. I know cuz I have a pair but mine are black outside and red on the inside people tell me there cool!😎💥✌🏼🎸❤️👠🎶😘🔥😳🎨

For the record, the Big Bopper's body was thrown out of the plane on the first contact of the wing , the plane then cartwheeled some 150 feet, finally hitting a fence, where it rested and the bodies of Buddy and Richie Valens were expelled, the body of pilot Roger Peterson, was stuck inside of the mangled remnants, of the plane.

Ritchie at 0:12

when your eyesight is 20-800, larger, olastic horn rimmed glasses are probably most comfortable because they distribute the weight.

don't call her a cow I thought that was good she at least sold them to a place where people can see them the Buddy Holly Center in Lubbock

oohh, i wanna go there!

Very interesting video! Those Faiosa frames are distinctive, unique, and VERY hard to find--I've tried, without success, so far...

They Should Be Put In a Museum

I have the glasses today. I like to wear them on Halloween.

Carburetor icing was the probable cause of the crash that night ! Sad sad day when this happened !

Eighty grand for a pair of glasses ,should have gone to SpecSavers !

The name of the show is "History Lost and Found" on the History Channel. I still have a few dozen episodes to post.

@scottieman2 Sonny Curtis and Jerry Allison are still part of the group, and Joe Mauldin still joins in from time to time.

nothin wrong with the glasses buddy

People say I'm a nerd because of my glasses!

Does anyone know the title of this program or documentary? thanx in advance! Rave On :)

Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman and Tommy Dorsey wore glasses as well on stage.

R I P

I wear 1959 glasses with glass lenses like the way they used to be based on my Rx which is legally blind and these lenses are thicker than a coke bottle and are frickin awesome. LoL

i believe the glasses are cursed and who ever wears them will suffer a horrible fate.

Today is the 56th anniversary if his death.

wish I HAD THOSE KIND OF GLASSES

I been wearing glasses since little. I used to lose picks all th time. Always keep a few picks in a pocket

spooky

The high-wing plane they show flying isn't even the Bonanza in which he was killed.

Where can I get me some Buddy Holley glasses?

And now we know

I don't understand how Maria Elena could part with those glasses after receiving them back 20 years later, let alone putting a price tag on them!

@KingOfTheClutch Cool.

3:05 he cried after he left to ny because the crickets stayed

Buddy alquiló ese avión tomando todos los riesgos por no llegar tarde nunca llegó Ricardo alegría zambrano popayan Colombia feliz año 2020

That shuck how they said the day the music die

How get the full episodes

kinda weird when you think about it...he was wearing those glasses when he died and then flew off his body at the moment of his death...

What's the song playin at 2:18? It's got a nice groove to it.

oh oh oh and a Mary Tyler Moore

what is this show called?

Why did Maria sell the damn glasses. I would never. She could have given them to his grieve stricken brother

No one is more Rock n Roll and 50s style than myself clothing music cars ect, But one thing I could not stand were those Awfull Nerd glasses, I managed without glasses until 1966 I had been driving without any since 1961 but had to get some for driving so I thought about it and what about the sort Glenn Miller used to have, YES,, sadly nowdays those Awfull NERD glasses have made a come back, not for long I would like to think, they are NOT for me,,

They should have been but it says they weren't found until probably a few months later and turned in to the police dept.

You know that he invited Dion Dimucci onto that plane but Dion refused? (I think he was busy or something) Just imagine of Dion got on that plane, he wouldn't have had the legendary legacy he has today.

What’s the guitar instrumental that starts at 0:53 ?

anyone have a grandparent who went to the clear lake concert? my parents were babies at this time

hmm i would say his widows heart had the shape of a cash register

@dannyaingefan Yes its called,the pilot should have gone to spec savers..............

20/800 vision man he was almost blind

20-800 vision means you have to be 20 feet away to see things people with normal eyes can see at 800 feet away. Apparently Buddy Holly was close to being legally blind, so the lenses in those famous specs had to have been as thick as the glass in the bottom of a Coke bottle.

anyone know the doo wop melody starting at 0:52 ?

What song was at 2:30?

Wonder what happened to the other pair in Tortoise shell?

according to Little Richard, Buddy was something of a horn dog!

3:20 oh so it was Mexico

What do you find stupid about that? I'm just saying that I love buddy holly and I would love his glasses.

Aren't the glasses on display at his museum

What was That Song On 2:23!!!

Did his other band members from the Crickets go onto any fame?

They belong in Rock the hallafame

I hate the way how people wear these "nerd glasses" but don't know where they came from and how they were influenced, it's the reason why I don't wear horn rimmed glasses

I betcha remnants of the lenses are some where buried in dirt.

Wht is tht gutair tone around the middle

It must be weird for the guy to touch hollys body when did

I remember he being haunted. I really don't listen to country.