In December of 1958, Buddy Holly was on vacation with his wife in his hometown of Lubbock, Texas when he met a local radio DJ Waylon Jennings at KDAV and KLLL. The two became fast friends and Holly ...

Within a year before Holly’s death on February 3, 1959, the two collaborated on three songs, including Jennings’ first single, a cover of the traditional cajun waltz “Jole Blon.” Holly produced the ...

February 3 is known as The Day the Music Died after a small plane crash killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper in 1959. Holly, a Texas native, was thought to be the next Elvis Presley.

In the frozen early hours of February 3, 1959, a small Beechcraft Bonanza plane carrying three of rock ‘n' roll's brightest young stars crashed into an Iowa cornfield. The tragedy would come to be ...