on this day 53 years back Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and Big Booper perish in a plane crash and the song is written

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmyGZ64J9yg"]The Day The Music Died - Don McLean on Buddy Holly's crash - YouTube[/ame]

Waylon Jennings, who lost the coin toss, stated that he was very dissapointed that he had to ride in the freezing bus, so his parting remark to Buddy was "I hope your damn plane crashes!", Waylon Jennings claimed this remark has haunted him ever since then. the plane could only seat four