Although I grew up wit Rock & Roll and Elvis (my parents loved him) , this show opened up a whole new world of singers and their music to me- like Buddy with "That'll Be The Day", The Big Bopper with "Chantilly Lace" and Ritchie Valens with "La Bamba". My dad loved "Chantilly Lace" and would often sing the song when he wanted to be funny.
But Buddy's story has always been a tragic one as he died in a plane crash at such a young age (all 3 singers were still young), but their music definitely touched my life in a very special way.
Here are a few of yesterday's pics of the new cast ...It was their first fitting session, so there aren't any costumes or props yet. At one stage the actors and musicians took out their instruments and started singing-was quite fun-think it will be a great show and I will definitely go and watch it.
Ps: Did you know that Holly's real name was actually Holley? The change in spelling came about due to an error in a contract he was asked to sign and he did not see the mistake in time. The new spelling was then adopted for his professional career.
And on that topic-apparently Google was also supposed to be "Googol" or something, and was changed to "Google" after a spelling error on a check. I think the developers were afraid to asked for a correction in fear of loosing the funding...but I like the names Holly and Google better anyway!
The new cast getting fired up!
Andrew Webster-the new Buddy
"La Bamba!"
Boy you learn interesting things on the net... (when you are supposed to edit), but "the day the music died" in the song "American Pie" refers to the plane crash. Go and have a look at the meaning of the words-quite interesting:
