"Iowa Icon: Surf Ballrooom"

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Air Date: 1.30.13

[@Tonetwisters]

A tribute to the people of IOWA who continue to support this gorgeous club. Thank you from the bottom of my heart ...

[@MrYeloot]

R.I.P. Buddy, Ritchie, and Bopper. Your music and memories will live forever. Rave On

[@joshuawaltz9484]

I coming with my dad this summer to the Surf. I'm so excited. My dad retired so I can spend time with him. RIP Buddy, Richie, Bopper and Roger Peterson.

[@patmooney6867]

REST IN PEACE to all who lost their short lives LOVED THEIR MUSIC great memories

[@strikerorwell9232]

+pat mooney They brought a medium to the Surf Ballroom with a blindfold and she didnt even know what state she was in. But she told the TV-crew that Mexican-American still comes backs during nightime and relives his love for music. Then the tour guides on the site can tell you about seeing shadows on the scene at night!

[@Terrapin2871]

LOVE this place...was honoured to have visited

[@nicoleparry5103]

I love that it has been protected and turned into a piece of musical history for the world to see and treasure, that it holds respect for the last place these amazing life changing men played there music, they played drums and guitar for each other that night, nowhere else in history do you have these men being back up for other stars than here, i love all 3 of them and there music, i must have been born in the wrong era but the good thing about it is my kids hear the classics that changed the course of music and the world forever, to them it isnt as cool as it is to me but i know when they are older and my age, they will have appreciation for such a classic time and pass that on to there kids so as time and time again from generation to generation, the music never dies ❤

[@blackheart5379]

stars backing stars happens all the time...how good do you have to be to have Eric Clapton play back up for you on more than one tour? JJ Cale good.

[@vickyedwards3629]

Would love to visit.......maybe one day to pay my respects to Buddy, Ritchie and The Big Bopper. I live in the U.k. So it's a long way away but would love to go xx

[@loismeyerbruno6847]

It’s an incredible place and worth the drive!

[@calvinloudermilk4404]

Thank You Buddy, Bopper and Ritchie. Godspeed gentlemen....

[@goldenera4ever]

I've never been to The Surf or even to Iowa, but I'm thankful this historical building was saved. There's just something about older buildings, especially with the significance of this one, that intrigues me so much. We need to save as many of them as possible.

[@chouseification]

perspective check - I'm from MN and have a few friends down in Albert Lea / Austin area. The Surf is actually one of the places they just go to for regular music shows - which is sort of funny. I haven't seen a show there but am always tempted to go see the ballroom and the "glasses" on those rare occasions I pass through the area, but always seem to have to be somewhere so can't spare the time. Meanwhile my Southern MN friends just buzz down there to see random 80s hair bands doing the small to medium sized venue tours and similar. It's apparently a wonderful place to see a show since it's big enough to have good acoustics but small enough to be intimate.

[@goldenera4ever]

@@chouseification maybe one day we will make it there. 😊

[@markz9190]

@@goldenera4ever I have been to the Surf many times. It is indeed a magic place...So is the Field Of Dreams movie site.

[@blackheart5379]

WHO-HD Maria Holly has said numerious times that when Buddy called her he said he was chartering a plane for him and the band. the band( waylon jennijngs gave his seat to The big Bopper, Tommy Allsup flipped a coin with Richie) gave up their seats to people sicker than they were.

[@EYE_GOTCHA]

I wonder why others say that Buddy didn’t tell Maria that he was flying that night because she’d had previous premonitions of disaster regarding him and air travel. 🤔

[@uselessjoe]

at 1:50, the 3 pictures of Buddy and then Ritchie, you can see a beardless Waylon Jennings to the left on bass. I just visited the Surf, and the history there, the pictures, and setting, is just a priceless experience.... literally. For no admission, you can see it all.... but give a donation or buy a t-shirt... you will not regret it.

[@vekomaboomerang4094]

I just got back into listening to Buddy Holly's music again, thanks to the Buddy Holly Story movie. I want to take a trip out to Clear Lake Iowa and visit the Surf Ballroom where Buddy Holly performed for the final time. I wish I could travel back in time to 1959 just to hear Buddy, Ritchie and the Big Bopper sing the music that made them who they were.

[@joemanpjg]

Once you visit the Surf Ballroom and crash site you will travel back in time to Feb 1959. I know I did,it was like being there at the Surf Ballroom that sad tragic night. Crash site so cold,desolate, eerie and very windy. Go you won't regret it, actually we will be back here again in Oct. "Three Stars" up in the Northern sky. gee we're going to miss you everybody sends their love.

[@maggiegarber246]

I went to the Winter Dance Party at the Surf every year from 2014 to 2020. Great times, but the weather, a blizzard, caught us one year, and we’re too old to continue going.

[@marianevick4992]

I was 9 years old 1959

[@opticalmixing23]

This was a good time in history

[@mrpeel3239]

Thank goodness saved by dedicated Iowans!

[@stevencoffman34]

Clearlake and stormlake not to far from Davenport I was only 5 years old at that time a true tragedy

[@marianevick4992]

I always love Ritchie Valens

[@cwb0051]

I Love the Surf Ballroom..!

[@doobyboy21]

If those walls could talk...

[@mikeh5039]

Thanks again 👍

[@catnip410]

I am so glad they perserved it

[@9Ballr]

A long, long time ago...

[@countalucard4226]

We will never know how great Buddy Holly would have become. Would his music have progressed like the Beatles did?

[@DynamiteDylan45s]

The Day The Music Died

[@thomaskauser8978]

That's some autograph wall.

[@TempoDrift1480]

I like her!

[@Curly34584]

RUMERS THAT THEY ARE STILL ALIVE ALONG WITH ALOT OF OTHER FAMOUS PEOPLE!!! STAY TUNED!!

[@walterm.robertsiiiphd2157]

Too, too sad.

[@millerroloson4727]

Watch the interview with Waylon, those words haunted him the rest of his life.

[@garyfaught3769]

Waylon wrote a tribute song about Buddy called "Old Friend". Well worth taking a listen to.

[@Sunbear415]

Frankie Sardo was great!!!

[@kenblyth6770]

What a fake out

[@MrPhilfridge]

@@kenblyth6770 Frankie was a decent bloke , what's your problem with that ?

[@kenblyth6770]

@@MrPhilfridge Absolutely agree. It was a jest full comment referencing his hit song Fake Out. On that tour some posters had it titled Take Out by mistake.

[@MrPhilfridge]

@@kenblyth6770 Righto , i understand now !

[@rickmanning6690]

We know what happened no performances on this video boo

[@thedarkknight1357]

It didn't advertise any live performances so why did you expect that?

[@thisthat283]

Be amazing to do a revival show with tribute acts doing the exact order of songs, same order of performance by the stars that played that night

[@rxbandit21]

I'd go just to spend time with Laurie Lietz . *boing*