Quoted:
Quoted:
Quoted: The "American Pie" was the name of the plane that Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and the "Big Bopper" were killed in in 1959. The "Day the music died" referrs to the night of that plane crash.
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WRONG.
www.snopes.com/music/artists/amerpie.htm
Planes don't normally get names like boats.
McLean himself has also corrected this bit of trivia falsehood.
Snopes is good reading.
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guess my high school history teacher was wrong then.
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Most likely. If he was right, he wouldn't be teaching.
I Grock The Fullness of the tune save for two aspects.
Both in the chorus:
"Drove the Chevy to the Levy, but the Levy was dry"
and
"Good ol' boys were drinking whiskey and rye, sayin 'this will be the day that I die'"
The former was never even touched in the FAQ linked above, and the latter, only obliquely sideswiped.
I figure if the minds of USENET can argue a topic for 15 YEARS and not get the 'full answer", I am positive we can have it nailed in 30 pages and a week.