Bye Bye Miss American Pie

[North of 49]

Where were you??..........50 years ago...

 

[Nana]

Playing barefoot in the Kalahari Desert sand! Guess I don't fit the "American Pie" mold.

 

[john]

a young kid living in Starbrick PA riding a 250 cc Indian motorcycle. WOW where did the time go.

 

[Juju]

Playing barefoot in the Kalahari Desert sand! Guess I don't fit the "American Pie" mold.

Nana, you definitely do not. Not sure you fit any mold but your own! (That's a compliment, btw.) Myself, I was 5 years old and mainly knew music through my uncle's little 3-piece jazz band.

Sad, though--the plane crash that took down three rising rock-and-roll musicians.

 

[Trikerjim]

Shooting tin cans with my Daisy Red Ryder BB gun that my grandmother gave me for Christmas.

 

[John Luciano]

Was not into music yet.(never really did get in to it) I think I may have purchased 5 records in my life, I was fixing cars. and dreamin of driving.

 

[Juju]

Shooting tin cans with my Daisy Red Ryder BB gun that my grandmother gave me for Christmas.

And you didn't "put your eye out" with that thing? (Remembering Ralphie in Christmas Story.)

 

[katfish16]

Living in Chickasaw Alabama moving into our 2nd home there.

By the way Jim had the same b-b gun, and yes JuJU I still have 2 eyes that work sometimes.

 

[tis]

Building my first Street Rod, 1939 Ford coupe with a 401 Buick engine.

 

[lfd1]

I was minus 1 month and 7 days old..lol

 

[Ironhorsepilot]

Playing Horsey, cowboy and indians in Templeton, Mass

 

[Mr.Wizard]

Loosing my diaper on a one mile hike down a busy road all by myself.

 

[BlueTrinity]

Do I remember?

I had just graduated from high school and was on a date with my future wife. We were in the car (won't tell you where) on a double when the news broke over the radio.

The girls broke down and the night was eerily quiet.

Valens' "Donna had teens swooning, Holly was a hot as a rockabilly and the Booper had all the guys telling their girls "Oh baby, you know what I like.

Yep! We'll always remember "The Day The Music Died"!

But for us true rednecks, it didn't all die. A little known fact is that Waylon Jennings and Tommy Allsup were two unknown backup musicans from Texas performing with Holly who chartered the flight for the three of them. Jennings felt his tall frame was going to be cramped so he gave his seat to J.P. Richardson and Valens "won" a coin flip with Allsup for the third seat.

Dave

 

[Juju]

A little known fact is that Waylon Jennings and Tommy Allsup were two unknown backup musicans from Texas performing with Holly who chartered the flight for the three of them. Jennings felt his tall frame was going to be cramped so he gave his seat to J.P. Richardson and Valens "won" a coin flip with Allsup for the third seat.

Wow, I never knew that!

 

[rmrc51]

I was a little kid running around the streets in Brooklyn but was a big fan of Rock-N-Roll. I remember hearing some older kids talking about the plane crash.

 

[The Wolf]

These are all the songs my granny told me about!!!

 

[Papa Zook]

I was three years old and living on my grandparents farm in Hartford, Alabama. My grandpa was a small farmer and the kindest gentleman I have ever known. I remember picking tangerines, kumquats, scuppernons and persimmons from his trees and vines. Lord help you if you bit into a not yet quite ripe persimmon!

 

[bdn56]

I was trying to get into all the trouble I could. I could easily hide with 6 brothers and sisters.
I do remember hiding from my parents in a huge snow fort the neighbor kids all built.
Yes, I was a northern Michigan Yankee. I smartened up in 1982 when I moved to Alabama.

 

[Angelbymyside]

I was 7 yrs. old and was trying to learn to ride the bike my dad had put together from junk yard scraps. I sure wished he had made it a three wheeler, I thought my knees and elbows would be raw forever!

 

[Goldwingtrike]

playing cowpatty football, either up at Granny's in Tallapoosa GA, or while visiting cousins in Fruithurst AL or while they were visiting us over in Eastaboga AL. Didn't have money to buy a real football, we used an old softball wrapped in black electrical tape that we snuck out the tack room. If Daddy or Uncle John had found out about it (and I am sure they did) we would have been skinned for "stealing".

Garland

Roll Tide

 

[Papajoe]

I was searching for the Loch Ness Monster in Scotland...........

 

[rmrc51]

I was 7 years old and I clearly remember going with my Uncle to Flatbush Chevrolet on Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn to by his 1957 Chevy Bel Air.

He took a car that was on the show room floor. I remember him asking me if I liked it and I said; "Yeah,, It's black!" I loved black cars. lol.

I still have that Chevy today!

 

[newtriker]

excited about starting kindergarten next year, learning to write my name and thinking I had the best big brother there ever was

 

[Okie]

I was 14 and just getting my scooter license in Oklahoma and was riding a Cushman Highlander scooter and been riding ever since.
Okie
Tulsa, Ok