Music to my ears Mondays

I love music. It's so complex. It can make you happy,sad and just make you think. I love finding a song that isn't popular and listening to it for weeks and then once the radio stations start playing it, people start saying "I love this song!" and I smile thinking I loved it first. 

I have this thing where I will pick a artist and read all of their lyrics, listen to all of their songs, and research  the artist and the stories behind the songs. When I hear a song  that I can relate to I love it. And when I hear the story behind the song, how it came to be, that gives the song a lot of meaning to me.

So every Monday I will write about music. And sometimes about the artist I researched the week before. Last week as I flipped through the channels I came across 'The Buddy Holly Story'. I had heard the song "American Pie" by Don McLean and researched it to find out that it's about when Buddy Holly, Richie Vallens and the Big Popper crashed in a field to their death in Clear Lake,Iowa. "The day the music died" So when I watched the movie about his career I  decided that would be the artist I researched. And here is what I found out.

Here is my favorite Buddy Holly songs.
1.That'll be the day- The song speaks for itself.
2.Everyday- You can't help but smile when you hear it.
3.It's so easy to fall in love- It is,So dang easy in fact.
4.Have you ever been lonely?- It reminds me of something that I would write.
5.Maybe baby- "You're the one that makes me glad and you're the one that makes me sad.

A pioneer of rock and roll, Buddy Holly set the standard for rock and roll. He was the first to write,sing and produce his music in that genre. 
In his short lived career he bridged the racial divide in music that had an impact on America.
His last performance was on the night of February 2nd 1959.
The bus that had been taking the singers to their shows had been breaking down and the heat didn't work in the −25 °F temperatures. 
Before the crash Waylon Jennings gave up his seat on the plane, causing Holly to jokingly tell him, "I hope your ol' bus freezes up!" Jennings shot back jokingly, "Well, I hope your ol' plane crashes!" Him saying that haunted him for decades. The first song to commemorate the musicians was “Three Stars” by Eddie Cochran. This song was recorded just a single day after the disaster occurred.
After the plane crash authorities found it necessary, in the months following, to implement a policy against announcing victims’ names until after families had first been informed.

As a tribute to Buddy Holly, Elton John wore glasses while performing on stage. Elton John didn't need glasses but due to wearing glasses, his eyes became adjusted to them and then he really did need them. Another neat fact is that there wouldn't be "The Beatles" without him. They would probably be called something else. As a way to honor Buddy Holly and The Crickets, they decided to call their band "The Beatles" similar to "The Crickets".

He was 22 when he died and his career lasted less than four years. But the impact he made on music lasted long after he sang his last note.