Buddy Holly Lives

Tommy Allsup tells the spooky-spooky story of his losing a coin flip to Richie Valens, which of course has kept him alive 50+ years after the day the music died. His wallet & I.D. being on the plane when the plane was found of course led to his name being listed by the AP as among the dead. Still not as bad as poor ol' Waylon Jennings, then Buddy''s bass player: "when Holly learned that Jennings was not going to fly, he said in jest, "Well, I hope your ol' bus freezes up." Jennings responded, "Well, I hope your ol' plane crashes," a humorous but ill-fated response that haunted Jennings for the rest of his life."

And a side fact, if I heard him correctly, that I'd never read in all my years of worshiping Buddy Holly: Buddy's last-ever drummer? Richie Valens. And vice-versa. Cool.