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Originally Posted by chuckinca View Post
From the history.com article:

"On this day in 1959, rising American rock stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson are killed when their chartered Beechcraft Bonanza plane crashes in Iowa a few minutes after takeoff from Mason City on a flight headed for Moorehead, Minnesota. Investigators blamed the crash on bad weather and pilot error. Holly and his band, the Crickets, had just scored a No. 1 hit with “That’ll Be the Day.”


Wrong!

“That’ll Be the Day" was a big hit in late 1957.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That%27ll_Be_the_Day

Good catch.