60th anniversary plane crash site Buddy holly, Big bopper, Ritchie valens, Iowa Feb, 2019

[@BassPlyr23]

65 years ago today. The fact that the videographer chose not to speak and let the place and moment speak for itself makes this that much more powerful. RIP Buddy, Ritchie, J.P. and Roger.

[@bobbiestrella8160]

Let's not forget the pilot, Roger, who was only 21. RIP Buddy, Ritchie, JP and Roger.

[@pbhoulden8212]

Crazy to think all 4 of those young men would now be in their late 70s and 80s. Big Bopper would have been 89 last October!

[@liplodgaming6044]

It was the pilots fault they went down he was to young to get the part for flying in the snow blizzard and that part in the movie when he said " I didn't want to show anyone this plane" was true and it had problems they'd popporatzi around who heard what they were saying and talking about

[@omar_fernandez6614]

@@liplodgaming6044 it wasn’t the pilots fault, it was the person who let the pilot fly

[@liplodgaming6044]

@@omar_fernandez6614 damn that's true

[@MrMrSaldana]

Right ? That’s so crazy because I have never ever one time in my 38 years of living ,and becoming a Richie Valens fan because of the movie as a very v young child ...ever thought about the pilot and now that I read this comment that made me feel pretty shitty about that fact.thank you for saying that and yes your 100% correct let’s not forget the pilot..may they all rest in peace

[@wildcatkelly1966]

The day the music died. I hope to visit the site one day. RIP Buddy, Ritchie and JP

[@robertcrawford5628]

The music did not die

[@MrDREWASIDE]

What a desolate cold place to end your life. Beyond tragic. Your music will never ever be forgotten gentlemen. R. I. P.

[@mcgannahanskyjellyfetti6854]

To be fair, their crash didn't kill anyone else. So in some ways, they died heroes perhaps, saved many lifes...

[@BassPlyr23]

@@mcgannahanskyjellyfetti6854 how can you say that? The pilot was completely disoriented. He had no control whatsoever of the plane. He was using an old-style gyroscope that had him believing he was climbing when he actually was flying the plane into the ground. That he crashed where he did and didn’t kill anyone else was simply a matter of blind luck. The fact is, he was not adequately rated for instrument-only flying. Coupled with an inaccurate weather report, and it can be concluded that he simply had no business being in the air that night.

[@CarlGoldmam]

The sound of the wind and no talking gives that eery feeling.

[@harveywallbanger6258]

Good point.

[@jerrymuzak4534]

61 years ago, today. r.i.p.

[@apogeedata]

That’s awesome how they maintain the area the owners of the property has been nothing but amazing over the years

[@texasblues46]

I was 13 when I read about the plane crash in the Dallas Morning News. It would be 3 or 4 years later after buying The Buddy Holly Story album that I fully realized the greatness of his music. I still have that album.

[@juancisneros9040]

You’re 74 ?

[@lisamorris6676]

R.I.P Buddy, Ritchie, and Bopper. May you have eternal rest. Even though these legions passed 11 years before I was born, I still absoulty love them and their music. I grew up listening to it with my dad. Imagine what they could have done if only they could have stayed with us.

[@dixiewilliams1583]

Thank you. They will be forever young and always in our hearts.

[@pbhoulden8212]

My friend and I went up there last summer, August 2019. Eerie that the weather the day you went was almost the same as it was the day of the crash.

[@robertrusnak620]

Crazy! I can almost feel their spirits at this site and I was 10 years from being born. How very sad that 4 young lives cut short .

[@harveywallbanger6258]

Ok Joe, lol

[@lilithngray]

I am so glad I found your channel. Amazing content! Thank you!!!! 👍🖤👍🖤👍🖤👍🖤👍🖤👍🖤👍🖤

[@travelingtom923]

Thank you.

[@ericlozen9631]

Over a half century later and the entire geographic area is exactly the same. That's pretty amazing.

[@travelingtom923]

Yes it is amazing how little has changed.

[@devinpetersen2387]

Iowa for you.

[@seanoleary1979]

Ahhhhhhhhh... farmland is farmland. What's to change? Crops in the spring summer & fall, barren in the winer. Some people are so used to superficial change that when there is no change, they think something's wrong.... morons.

[@ericlozen9631]

@@seanoleary1979 If you build it they will come.....

[@Punnybone55]

If you haven't already seen it I recommend the episode of Behind the Music on The Day The Music Died. Very well done. Probably the best episode of that entire series. Available free on KZbin. Both in segments and all in one.

[@davem273]

That was awesome, you captured the bleakness of that tragic day. A Miserable, cold and isolated area in the middle of know where. Pity the video wasn't a bit longer,

[@dukewinward]

Not much of a memorial, I would think more since it is so important to so many people. Perhaps someday a group will build a decent memorial with landscaping and a stone monument with names, dates and musical notes.

[@pbhoulden8212]

Actually if you go to the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, there are all sorts of pictures, memorials, etc. that honor the stars plus there's a monument outside in front of the ballroom and a memorial plaza a block or so down the street. The streets in front of and on either side of the Surf are named after Buddy, Ritchie and the Big Bopper.

[@ALMADIPERU]

@@pbhoulden8212 Como debe ser.

[@Floridafanatic28]

Please remember this is on someone's private land and they are graciously allowing the public to access the site. I doubt they want a big memorial set up in the middle of their cornfield. I think what they have is just fine and it was very considerate of the property owner to allow a small memorial to be accessed by fans at any time. He's even kind enough to mark it at the road so people can find it. Be grateful for small things!

[@jeffkaufman9875]

@Florida Yes, that “small thing” is in fact a HUGE gesture of un-owed generosity, but some people would never be satisfied no matter WHAT!.. 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️👈👀

[@mikejordan8259]

When looking at the memorial, which way did the plane slide? Away from the fence or toward?

[@travelingtom923]

I believe it would have been toward as you are looking at the memorial. It cartwheeled in the field behind you and ended up in a pile against that fence. It never crossed the memorial fence.

[@ROOKTABULA]

@@travelingtom923 That's what I was just asking about. But if it cartwheeled 540 feet, why were the 3 only thrown out during the last bit before the plane came to rest? Why are all 3 lying with their heads towards the direction the plane crashed from instead of the other way? If it was crashing in the direction of the fence and came to rest, somehow Richardson had enough inertia to end up in the field on the other side and Valens and Holly seem to have fallen out just before it came to a stop..... Confusing.

[@travelingtom923]

@@ROOKTABULA I am just speculating, but I would imagine the cockpit was likely structurally sound for the first couple of cartwheels keeping everyone inside. Then the plane must have just disintegrated near the fence throwing the bodies out. If the plane did disintegrate then it would have stopped cartwheeling as well leaving most of the debris in one area.

[@jerrybrownell3633]

" Look up in the sky up toward the north. There are three new stars brightly shining forth. Their shining so high from heaven above. Gee we're gonna miss you.Everybody sends their love. From "Three Stars"- 1959. Words and Music by Tommy McDonald.

[@calypsolightning]

Eddie Cochran made it first.

[@marguskiis7711]

How long the pieces of plane were collected from the place? I read Hollys glasses were found later.

[@edwardrossman9448]

A star like Buddy should not have had to travel in freezing buses nor a base level plane. His manager was holding back money and he wanted some cash as his wife was expecting a baby.

[@polaricee8247]

Are you excited for the movie that is coming out of buddy holly called Clear Lake

[@travelingtom923]

Sure I will check it out.

[@ed9492]

Nice to at least see some place that hasn't changed much at all in that time. I can't say that for anywhere around here.

[@robertarsenty5735]

I was just at the memorial and Surf Ballroom Memorial Day weekend 5/28/2021. RIP Buddy, Ritchie, JP and Roger

[@travelingtom923]

Good to hear they are open again.

[@bluestarlighting29]

Thank You for share this video clip, I would once the Crazy Democratic owe me my back pay four years. I truly love see this in person, most my music artist been out there. Let’s all remember them Forever. The Music wouldn’t die again. God bless all them in Heaven. Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, Be Bopper, and air craft shouldn’t travel on bad weather. In Iowa. I was down there back 2015 but I never know about road map to get there. So I took vist my old high school days in Forrest C. Glad did because my sister vist this summer to remember when she was K back then. God Bless Buddy Holly and Richie Valens ard Be Bopper. Be surf ballroom. See photos . Thank You share this video clip

[@travelingtom923]

You are welcome.

[@takenm9832]

Wow unbelievable sad 😭 mann just to see this 60 years later same exact way they left it . My condolences goes out to their families for lost of these's great men's.

[@ROOKTABULA]

So the plane came towards the fence and to rest against it from the same side it was traveling toward? Or was it in the corn field on the other side and cartwheeled over the fence and then came to rest against it without tearing thru it? Because all 3 bodies were laying with their heads facing in the same direction, as if the plane had come from the OTHER side of the fence it came to rest on.

[@travelingtom923]

This is a pretty good video on that subject. I would refer you to this video. kzbin.info/www/bejne/nJjKoIqIobx0ZpY

[@tomshiba51]

It's nice that it remains open to the public. Not sure if this is true, but I've heard that the Lynyrd Skynyrd crash sight is off limits to the public.

[@elvisfan6475]

Buddy Ritchie big bopper. Hard to believe. But their music will live on forever.

[@FlyDog79]

“The stars belong to the sky, man”

[@gdawg1585]

Im not that religious anymore but I pray these four wonderful people who believed in God above now have a special place in heaven and are singing with the angels R.I.P BUDDY RAVE ON!! R.I.P RITCHIE LA BAMBA FOREVER!!! R.I.P BIG BOPPER HELLOOO BAAABBBYYY!!!! R.I.P RODGER PETERSON You will all be missed but we will never forget you all and your beautiful music Godspeed

[@joshrichardson3837]

You feel bad for the victims, I understand. The musicians and family members had to live their remaining days with guilt and sadness. They still experienced periods of joy, but I imagine that was a big change.

[@samiee4200]

Oh wow after all these years and its still an empty land. I was expecting full residential houses by now

[@AetherealGirl]

It's a privately owned corn field. The owners are nice enough to let the public come and pay their respects at the site of the crash.

[@MrBoom-nx7qi]

Well, I guess that those three will be playing at the sky

[@gerardoarguello3385]

Where is these site ?

[@armandogallardo853]

Your not that smart G but Google it Bro 😂😂😂😂😂

[@pbhoulden8212]

5 miles north of Clear Lake, about a mile or two west of Interstate 35.

[@micheleondeck5373]

a nice tribute

[@jacksalvin364]

February 3rd, 1959.

[@aidenblackwelder5234]

1957*

[@jacksalvin364]

No, silly. You got it all wrong.

[@aidenblackwelder5234]

Jack Salvin no you got it wrong

[@jacksalvin364]

No you.

[@socal3154]

@@aidenblackwelder5234 technically, you're wrong Aiden. Ritchie died in 1959, according to Google.

[@awbernardy]

I was there in early January that year was almost no snow then... it was a somber moment to be out there for me.... I sat on the ground and just thought of what it must have been like for the people back then to find such a shocking crash and then to find out who was involved in it.... and if this crash did not happen where would the music of back then have gone.... I was out on a weekend and the Surf Ball Room was not open... I will have to go back to see that...

[@cashbuyer4308]

NOT MY RITCHIE!!!😫

[@rosehernandez475]

Let them be please the pilot made a very horrible mistake ..

[@donhendricks2950]

Truly, the day the music died,

[@mcgannahanskyjellyfetti6854]

Exactly ONE month after the crash, Lou Costello dies... 😔

[@Cricket-km4bx]

Did you see the buddy holly glasses

[@travelingtom923]

I don't know where the glasses are.

[@Cricket-km4bx]

They are on the right when he his walking in the pathway

[@charlymercury366]

Se ve medio tristón el lugar además el monumento está bien chiquillo deberían de ponerles estatuas grandes con una leyenda y su música

[@warrenallen4559]

WHat strange about this crash,the plane was fully fuel and yet no explosion on impact,could it be it wasn't fully fuel?

[@polaricee8247]

probably

[@mariac6280]

Going on the plane that day shouldn't even be an option due to the state of the weather condition! They paid the price! Some things in life could be prevented! All about decisions.

[@joncampos-cw2tk]

The area gives off the vibes of a graveyard.

[@stevenhaskell9025]

He died tonight 🤓😢 Crazy because im 22 (age Buddy was) now and my dad was born in 1959

[@seanoleary1979]

Maybe you should take a plane flight by an inexperienced pilot in a blizzard and test your theory???

[@mirandaceballos3529]

Rest in heavenly paradise to these beloved loved ones who were tragically taken from their lives fly high with the Angels in Heaven 🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕊️🌹🌈

[@LUTECHBR]

Triste demais a história desses artistas. Partiram tão jovens e em um acidente tão brutal 😢

[@kristopherguilbault5428]

That would be the perfect place to do some EVP investigations.. do you guys think that would be a rude thing to do? Or do you think it would be really worth it to maybe hear from any of them? Let me know because this is gonna be a major possibility for me here VERY soon! Thanks for the advice in advance.

[@travelingtom923]

I think its a good idea. This is in a pretty isolated area so you should have plenty of time to yourself.

[@sccrhsccc]

They should fence the area so ppl can visit but area should stay as a memorial never removed.

[@amoqueenrolingstones3099]

😞

[@brianchisnell1548]

Impact was 600 ft. back and ended up on the fence

[@Critico-hs7jn]

Muito triste eu nasci 20 anos depois mas o sentimento e muito imagino naquela epoca foi muito triste isso.

[@Splitshot1]

What a lonely place to die.

[@travelingtom923]

Yes I agree.

[@keithgrow2577]

When you're so young & innocent u just don't know.no way in hell I would have gotten into that airplane that night with the weather that bad &:a young kid polit no way !!!

[@yungpoet]

Rest in peace

[@MrJeep75]

Very sad

[@christiphergarmendia8196]

Can they stop saying the day the muisc die it so old now

[@alexamagalygarciagrajeda675]

My cumple

[@andrecoelho6935]

Brazil 🙏