Buddy Holly and Waylon Jennings during the Winter Dance Party tour in
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Winter Dance Party: Ten days before the music died in 1959
60 Winters Later: The 1959 Winter Dance Party
This Day in Alternate History: February 3, 1959
Winter Dance Party: Ten days before the music died in 1959
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The Day the Music Died
Winter Dance Party Tour schedule, 1959. The tour began in Milwaukee on January 23, 1959, with the performance in Clear Lake, Iowa on February 2 being the eleventh of the twenty-four scheduled events. The amount of travel required soon posed a serious problem. The distances between venues had not been properly considered when the performances ...
Winter Dance Party
Winter Dance Party. In January of 1959 Buddy Holly, Dion and the Belmonts, Ritchie Valens, the Big Bopper and Frankie Sardo set out on a twenty-four day tour of the mid-western United States. The tour for Holly, Richardson and Valens would end in disaster on February 3, 1959. All three would die in their charter plane crash on the way to the ...
60 Winters Later: The 1959 Winter Dance Party
On this day 60 years ago, General Artist Corporation's 1959 Winter Dance Party, the ill-fated "tour from hell" kicked off at George Divine's Million Dollar Ballroom in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The roster boasted a firmament of rock and roll stars in bright ascent, among them Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson ("The Big Bopper") along with Dion & The Belmonts and Frankie Sardo. There ...
275: the 1959 Winter Dance Party Tour
The 1959 Winter Dance Party was a scheduled 24-show barnstorming tour of the Midwest orchestrated by the General Artists Corporation. The entire lineup featured headliners Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, Dion DiMucci - along with his Belmont's Carlo Mastrangelo and Fred Milano, The Big Bopper (J.P. Richardson), and Frankie Sardo.
February 4, 1959
February 4, 1959 - A day after the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper, the Winter Dance Party tour continues in Sioux Ci...
60 years later, 1959 Winter Dance Party lives on as Green Bay's most
60 years later, 1959 Winter Dance Party lives on as Green Bay's most historic night of rock. Gary Lane probably had no business being out on the road that February night in 1959, but like Buddy ...
The Winter Dance Party Tour 1959
The Winter Dance Party Tour Jan 23 - Feb 15, 1959. January 20 Buddy Holly, Tommy Allsup, Waylon Jennings, and Carl Bunch leave New York City and travel by train to Chicago to rendezvous with the other artists on the Winter Dance Party tour. From Chicago, the artists are scheduled to travel by bus on the tour route. Other performers include: J.P.
The Winter Dance Party 1959: The Night the Music Lived
The General Amusement Company (GAC) attracted Holly with the promise of a tour in England. On the evening of his death, he was already making plans to include the original Crickets. Unfortunately, the Winter Dance Party came first; it was as ill-fated as the sinking of the Titanic. At GAC there was an extreme lack of consideration for the artists.
Sixty years later, remembering 'The Day the Music Died'
The crash, the final concert and the Winter Dance Party tour also are memorialized each year at the Surf Ballroom. It's a tradition that started in 1979, on the 20th anniversary of the crash.
Winter Dance Party
Other articles where Winter Dance Party is discussed: Buddy Holly: …participate in the doomed "Winter Dance Party of 1959" tour through the frozen Midwest, during which he and coheadliners Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper (J.P. Richardson) were killed in a plane crash. (See Winter Dance Party itinerary.)
Winter Dance Party: Ten days before the music died
J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson performs at the Winter Dance Party tour on Jan. 24, 1959 at the Eagles Ballroom, 302 58th St., in Kenosha. Szikil documented the historic night in Kenosha with a series of stunning photographs, capturing a sea of star-struck teenagers singing along to hits including Holly's "Peggy Sue", Valens' "La ...
In 1959, Buddy Holly Stopped in the Northwoods on the Winter ...
The Winter Dance Party Tour schedule before and after the February 3rd, 1959 plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, Richie Valens, and pilot. The ride that brought them to the Northwoods was typical of the tour. Traveling in an old, reconditioned school bus, the musicians finished playing in Duluth around 11:00 ...
File:Winter Dance Party Tour Schedule, 1959.svg
Winter Dance Party Tour Schedule, 1959.svg. English: The Winter Dance Party Tour schedule before and after the February 3rd, 1959 plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, Richie Valens, and pilot. Date. 14 November 2013.
Winter Dance Tour, 1959
Winter Dance Party Jan 23 - Feb 15 in 1959. On January 20 1959, Buddy Holly, Tommy Allsup, Waylon Jennings, and Carl Bunch left New York City by train and arrived in Chicago where they met with Ritchie Valens, "The Big Bopper", Dion and The Belmonts, Frankie Sardo, and other members of the Winter Dance Party tour.
The 1959 Winter Dance Party in Milwaukee: Memories of a Moment
Feb. 15, 2023. 2:40 p.m. Expand. Photo by Donna Fischer Doffing. Ritchie Valens at George Devine's Million Dollar Ballroom Jan. 24, 1959 for the Winter Dance Party. February 3, 1959. When daylight came, a slight dusting of snow had already fallen. A few miles from Iowa's Mason City Airport, a crumpled heap of metal that was once a Beechcraft ...
Winter Dance Party: 1959
On Wednesday, January 28, 1959, the ill-fated "Winter Dance Party" came to the Prom Ballroom in St. Paul. The show was emcee'ed by WDGY DJ Bill Diehl. At the Prom was a crowd of 2,000 people, including a lot of screaming girls. Performers on the tour included: Buddy Holly, nee Charles Hardin Holley. Buddy was performing without the ...
WINTER DANCE PARTY 1959 TOUR DATES-
1959 WINTER DANCE PARTY TOUR DATES. Click the date to read about each show (Before the plane crash) JAN.23. MILWAUKEE, WIS. MILLION DOLLAR BALLROOM. JAN.24. KENOSHA, WIS. ... Fabian & Jimmy Clanton were pulled off another tour to replace Buddy, Ritchie & the Bopper on the above dates.. WDP drummer Carl Bunch's bandmate (The Poor Boys), Ronnie ...
The Winter Dance Party Tour
The Winter Dance Party Tour. This poster from a 1959 tour featuring Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson advertises their performance in Fort Dodge, four days before the three early rock and roll stars died in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa. Don McLean's 1971 song "American Pie" famously refers to this ...
Buddy Holly & The Crickets Stunningly Rare 1959 Winter Dance Party
This poster advertised the ill-fated Winter Dance Party tour stop in Mankato, Minnesota on Sunday, January 25, 1959 - eight days before the final show in Clear Lake, Iowa (for which no poster or handbill was ever made). It was pulled off the wall by a female teenager as she filed out of the ballroom after the last song.
Dyatlov Pass incident
The Dyatlov Pass incident (Russian: гибель тургруппы Дятлова, romanized: gibel turgruppy Dyatlova, lit. 'Death of the Dyatlov Hiking Group') is an event in which nine Soviet hikers died in the northern Ural Mountains between February 1 and 2, 1959, under uncertain circumstances. The experienced trekking group from the Ural Polytechnical Institute, led by Igor Dyatlov, had ...
Yekaterinburg city centre
Ekaterinburg Free Tour: Yekaterinburg city centre - See 12 traveler reviews, 23 candid photos, and great deals for Yekaterinburg, Russia, at Tripadvisor.
The Dyatlov Pass Incident
In 1959, the group was formed for a skiing expedition across the northern Urals in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Soviet Union. According to Prosecutor Tempalov, documents that were found in the tent of the expedition suggest that the expedition was named for the 21st Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and was possibly dispatched by the local Komsomol organisation.Which was a political ...
Yekaterinburg
Yekaterinburg [a] is a city and the administrative centre of Sverdlovsk Oblast and the Ural Federal District, Russia.The city is located on the Iset River between the Volga-Ural region and Siberia, with a population of roughly 1.5 million residents, [14] up to 2.2 million residents in the urban agglomeration. Yekaterinburg is the fourth-largest city in Russia, the largest city in the Ural ...
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Winter Dance Party Tour schedule, 1959. The tour began in Milwaukee on January 23, 1959, with the performance in Clear Lake, Iowa on February 2 being the eleventh of the twenty-four scheduled events. The amount of travel required soon posed a serious problem. The distances between venues had not been properly considered when the performances ...
Winter Dance Party. In January of 1959 Buddy Holly, Dion and the Belmonts, Ritchie Valens, the Big Bopper and Frankie Sardo set out on a twenty-four day tour of the mid-western United States. The tour for Holly, Richardson and Valens would end in disaster on February 3, 1959. All three would die in their charter plane crash on the way to the ...
On this day 60 years ago, General Artist Corporation's 1959 Winter Dance Party, the ill-fated "tour from hell" kicked off at George Divine's Million Dollar Ballroom in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The roster boasted a firmament of rock and roll stars in bright ascent, among them Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson ("The Big Bopper") along with Dion & The Belmonts and Frankie Sardo. There ...
The 1959 Winter Dance Party was a scheduled 24-show barnstorming tour of the Midwest orchestrated by the General Artists Corporation. The entire lineup featured headliners Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, Dion DiMucci - along with his Belmont's Carlo Mastrangelo and Fred Milano, The Big Bopper (J.P. Richardson), and Frankie Sardo.
February 4, 1959 - A day after the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper, the Winter Dance Party tour continues in Sioux Ci...
60 years later, 1959 Winter Dance Party lives on as Green Bay's most historic night of rock. Gary Lane probably had no business being out on the road that February night in 1959, but like Buddy ...
The Winter Dance Party Tour Jan 23 - Feb 15, 1959. January 20 Buddy Holly, Tommy Allsup, Waylon Jennings, and Carl Bunch leave New York City and travel by train to Chicago to rendezvous with the other artists on the Winter Dance Party tour. From Chicago, the artists are scheduled to travel by bus on the tour route. Other performers include: J.P.
The General Amusement Company (GAC) attracted Holly with the promise of a tour in England. On the evening of his death, he was already making plans to include the original Crickets. Unfortunately, the Winter Dance Party came first; it was as ill-fated as the sinking of the Titanic. At GAC there was an extreme lack of consideration for the artists.
The crash, the final concert and the Winter Dance Party tour also are memorialized each year at the Surf Ballroom. It's a tradition that started in 1979, on the 20th anniversary of the crash.
Other articles where Winter Dance Party is discussed: Buddy Holly: …participate in the doomed "Winter Dance Party of 1959" tour through the frozen Midwest, during which he and coheadliners Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper (J.P. Richardson) were killed in a plane crash. (See Winter Dance Party itinerary.)
J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson performs at the Winter Dance Party tour on Jan. 24, 1959 at the Eagles Ballroom, 302 58th St., in Kenosha. Szikil documented the historic night in Kenosha with a series of stunning photographs, capturing a sea of star-struck teenagers singing along to hits including Holly's "Peggy Sue", Valens' "La ...
The Winter Dance Party Tour schedule before and after the February 3rd, 1959 plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, Richie Valens, and pilot. The ride that brought them to the Northwoods was typical of the tour. Traveling in an old, reconditioned school bus, the musicians finished playing in Duluth around 11:00 ...
Winter Dance Party Tour Schedule, 1959.svg. English: The Winter Dance Party Tour schedule before and after the February 3rd, 1959 plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, Richie Valens, and pilot. Date. 14 November 2013.
Winter Dance Party Jan 23 - Feb 15 in 1959. On January 20 1959, Buddy Holly, Tommy Allsup, Waylon Jennings, and Carl Bunch left New York City by train and arrived in Chicago where they met with Ritchie Valens, "The Big Bopper", Dion and The Belmonts, Frankie Sardo, and other members of the Winter Dance Party tour.
Feb. 15, 2023. 2:40 p.m. Expand. Photo by Donna Fischer Doffing. Ritchie Valens at George Devine's Million Dollar Ballroom Jan. 24, 1959 for the Winter Dance Party. February 3, 1959. When daylight came, a slight dusting of snow had already fallen. A few miles from Iowa's Mason City Airport, a crumpled heap of metal that was once a Beechcraft ...
On Wednesday, January 28, 1959, the ill-fated "Winter Dance Party" came to the Prom Ballroom in St. Paul. The show was emcee'ed by WDGY DJ Bill Diehl. At the Prom was a crowd of 2,000 people, including a lot of screaming girls. Performers on the tour included: Buddy Holly, nee Charles Hardin Holley. Buddy was performing without the ...
1959 WINTER DANCE PARTY TOUR DATES. Click the date to read about each show (Before the plane crash) JAN.23. MILWAUKEE, WIS. MILLION DOLLAR BALLROOM. JAN.24. KENOSHA, WIS. ... Fabian & Jimmy Clanton were pulled off another tour to replace Buddy, Ritchie & the Bopper on the above dates.. WDP drummer Carl Bunch's bandmate (The Poor Boys), Ronnie ...
The Winter Dance Party Tour. This poster from a 1959 tour featuring Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson advertises their performance in Fort Dodge, four days before the three early rock and roll stars died in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa. Don McLean's 1971 song "American Pie" famously refers to this ...
This poster advertised the ill-fated Winter Dance Party tour stop in Mankato, Minnesota on Sunday, January 25, 1959 - eight days before the final show in Clear Lake, Iowa (for which no poster or handbill was ever made). It was pulled off the wall by a female teenager as she filed out of the ballroom after the last song.
The Dyatlov Pass incident (Russian: гибель тургруппы Дятлова, romanized: gibel turgruppy Dyatlova, lit. 'Death of the Dyatlov Hiking Group') is an event in which nine Soviet hikers died in the northern Ural Mountains between February 1 and 2, 1959, under uncertain circumstances. The experienced trekking group from the Ural Polytechnical Institute, led by Igor Dyatlov, had ...
Ekaterinburg Free Tour: Yekaterinburg city centre - See 12 traveler reviews, 23 candid photos, and great deals for Yekaterinburg, Russia, at Tripadvisor.
In 1959, the group was formed for a skiing expedition across the northern Urals in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Soviet Union. According to Prosecutor Tempalov, documents that were found in the tent of the expedition suggest that the expedition was named for the 21st Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and was possibly dispatched by the local Komsomol organisation.Which was a political ...
Yekaterinburg [a] is a city and the administrative centre of Sverdlovsk Oblast and the Ural Federal District, Russia.The city is located on the Iset River between the Volga-Ural region and Siberia, with a population of roughly 1.5 million residents, [14] up to 2.2 million residents in the urban agglomeration. Yekaterinburg is the fourth-largest city in Russia, the largest city in the Ural ...