Thursday, June 12, 2008
Pop culture quiz
About three hours ago I got this email:
So I am sitting in a Turkish restaurant in London listening to travelling musicians play a song made popular by a guy who died in a plane crash in NW Iowa in a plane piloted by a guy buried two graves from my great-grandfather. That seems odd to me.
My correspondent's great-grandfather is buried in the Buena Vista County Cemetery.
What is the title of the song?
9 Comments:
By 
Dawnfire82, at
Thu Jun 12, 07:37:00 PM:
Odd choice of words, "made popular" rather than "written" or "performed."
American Pie?
By TigerHawk, at
Thu Jun 12, 07:40:00 PM:
I believe you are on to something.
By StLCard, at
Thu Jun 12, 07:45:00 PM:
"Peggy Sue" or some hit from Buddy Holly. "American Pie" was a song recounting the event, but wasn't preformed by anyone who was there (quite obviously). An interesting trivia aside - Waylon Jennings got "bumped" from that flight at the last minute.
By 
, at
Thu Jun 12, 08:27:00 PM:
chantilly lace by the Big Bopper
By , at
Thu Jun 12, 08:39:00 PM:
La Bamba, by Ricky Valens
My wife says it was a folk song that he "made popular".
By , at
Thu Jun 12, 08:41:00 PM:
By Country Squire, at
Thu Jun 12, 08:41:00 PM:
By TigerHawk, at
Thu Jun 12, 08:51:00 PM:
By , at
Fri Jun 13, 06:38:00 AM:
That fateful last show took place at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake Iowa. My mom grew up in nearby Mason City and often went to dances there as a teenager. "La Bamba" is okay, but it's too bad those Turks weren't playing Buddy Holly's "Rave On" - now there's a really great tune.
