How is February 3rd. 1959 referred to in the Don McLean song 'American Pie'?
"made canals and harbors on the northern shore of the lake. Clear Lake is also home to the historic Surf Ballroom which was where Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valens made their last performance on Feb. 3, 1959 before being killed hours later in a tragic plane crash. Often Feb. 3, 1959 is referred to as ""The Day the Music Died"" as highlighted in the Don McLean hit ""American Pie."" Clear Lake (Iowa) Clear Lake is the name of a natural spring fed body of water located in Cerro Gordo County, Iowa near Clear Lake, Iowa. It is"
"Don McLean Donald McLean III (born October 2, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter. He is best known for his 1971 song ""American Pie"", which was a number-one US hit for four weeks in 1972 and stayed put at 2 for 3 weeks in the UK, as well as a hit for Madonna in 2000. McLean's other well-known songs include: ""And I Love You So"", sung by Elvis Presley, Perry Como, Helen Reddy, and Glen Campbell, among others; ""Vincent"", a tribute to the 19th-century Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh; ""Crying"", a cover of the Roy Orbison song and a surprise number"
"terms of a plea agreement. Don McLean Donald McLean III (born October 2, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter. He is best known for his 1971 song ""American Pie"", which was a number-one US hit for four weeks in 1972 and stayed put at 2 for 3 weeks in the UK, as well as a hit for Madonna in 2000. McLean's other well-known songs include: ""And I Love You So"", sung by Elvis Presley, Perry Como, Helen Reddy, and Glen Campbell, among others; ""Vincent"", a tribute to the 19th-century Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh; ""Crying"", a cover of the Roy Orbison"
"American Pie (song) ""American Pie"" is a song by American singer and songwriter Don McLean. Recorded and released on the ""American Pie"" album in 1971, the single was the number-one US hit for four weeks in 1972 and also topped the charts in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. In the UK, the single reached number 2, where it stayed for 3 weeks, on its original 1971 release while a reissue in 1991 reached No. 12. The song was listed as the No. 5 song on the RIAA project Songs of the Century. A truncated version of the song was covered"
"the video. Credits and personnel adapted from ""American Pie"" single liner notes. American Pie (song) ""American Pie"" is a song by American singer and songwriter Don McLean. Recorded and released on the ""American Pie"" album in 1971, the single was the number-one US hit for four weeks in 1972 and also topped the charts in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. In the UK, the single reached number 2, where it stayed for 3 weeks, on its original 1971 release while a reissue in 1991 reached No. 12. The song was listed as the No. 5 song on the RIAA project"
"American Pie (Don McLean album) American Pie is the second studio album by the American singer-songwriter Don McLean, released by United Artists Records on 24 October 1971. The folk/rock album reached number one on the Billboard 200, containing the chart-topping singles ""American Pie"" and ""Vincent."" Recorded in May and June 1971 at The Record Plant in New York City, the LP is dedicated to Buddy Holly, and was reissued in 1980 minus the track ""Sister Fatima"". The album was released to much acclaim, later being included in the book ""1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die"". ""American Pie"" is"
"what was becoming a fragmented music scene. The album was reissued in 1980 without the song ""Sister Fatima"", and again on June 27, 2003 with the track restored, along with the addition of two bonus tracks. Also the first Spanish issue delivered by Hispavox was released without ""Sister Fatima"". In February 2003 George Michael recorded a cover of ""The Grave"" as a protest against the imminent Iraq War. All songs written by Don McLean except where noted. American Pie (Don McLean album) American Pie is the second studio album by the American singer-songwriter Don McLean, released by United Artists Records"
"in the gym/You both kicked off your shoes – man, I dig those rhythm and blues."" —from Don McLean's song ""American Pie might be a vague reference to the Cleftones' 1961 rhythm and blues song, ""Heart and Soul."" In his essay, Schuck argued that such as reference would ""segue nicely into the verses comprising the remainder of this stanza, albeit with a disappointing outcome."" Jan and Dean covered the song at the same time as the Cleftones's record was on the chart. They intended for it to be released on Liberty Records, who balked, and it was released on Gene"
"the crash. The song was recorded on May 26, 1971, and a month later received its first radio airplay on New York's WNEW-FM and WPLJ-FM to mark the closing of Fillmore East, the famous New York concert hall. ""American Pie"" reached number one on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 from January 15 to February 5, 1972, and remains McLean's most successful single release. The single also topped the ""Billboard"" Easy Listening chart. With a total running time of 8:36 encompassing both sides of the single, it is also the longest song to reach number 1. Some stations played only part one"
"of the original split-sided single release. WCFL DJ Bob Dearborn unraveled the lyrics and first published his interpretation on January 7, 1972, eight days before the song reached number 1 nationally (see ""Further reading"" under American Pie). Numerous other interpretations, which together largely converged on Dearborn's interpretation, quickly followed. McLean declined to say anything definitive about the lyrics until 1978. Since then McLean has stated that the lyrics are also somewhat autobiographical and present an abstract story of his life from the mid-1950s until the time he wrote the song in the late 1960s. In 2001 ""American Pie"" was voted"
"number 5 in a poll of the 365 Songs of the Century compiled by the Recording Industry Association of America and the National Endowment for the Arts. On April 7, 2015, McLean’s original working manuscript for ""American Pie"" sold for $1,205,000 (£809,524/€1,109,182) at Christie’s auction rooms, New York, making it the third highest auction price achieved for an American literary manuscript. Personnel from the ""American Pie"" album sessions were retained for his third album, ""Don McLean"", including the producer, Ed Freeman, Rob Rothstein on bass and Warren Bernhardt on piano. The song ""The Pride Parade"" provides an insight into McLean's"
"California's Stagecoach Country Music Festival. In May 2015, McLean undertook his 20th nationwide tour of the UK and Ireland. In 1991, McLean returned to the UK top 20 with a re-issue of ""American Pie"". Iona College conferred an honorary doctorate on him in 2001. In February 2002, ""American Pie"" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. In 2004, McLean was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Garth Brooks presented the award and said, ""Don McLean: his work, like the man himself, is very deep and very compassionate. His pop anthem 'American Pie' is a cultural phenomenon"". Two years"
"minutes after takeoff for reasons still unknown. The crash killed all three passengers and pilot Roger Peterson instantly upon impact. As with Holly and Richardson, Valens suffered massive and unsurvivable head injuries along with blunt force trauma to the chest. At just 17 years old, Valens was the youngest to die in the crash. The tragedy inspired singer Don McLean to write his 1971 hit ""American Pie"", immortalizing February 3 as ""The Day the Music Died"". Valens's remains were buried at San Fernando Mission Cemetery, Mission Hills, California. Valens was a pioneer of Chicano rock and Latin rock and inspired"
"gave rise to the hit singles ""Love in My Heart"" (a top-10 in Australia), ""You Can't Blame the Train"" (U.S. country number 49), and ""Eventually"". The latter two songs were written by Houston native Terri Sharp. In 1991, EMI reissued ""American Pie"" as a single in the United Kingdom, and McLean performed on ""Top of the Pops"". In 1992, previously unreleased songs became available on ""Favorites and Rarities"", while ""Don McLean Classics"" featured new studio recordings of ""Vincent"" and ""American Pie"". McLean has continued to record new material, including ""River of Love"" in 1995 on Curb Records and, more recently,"
"the albums ""You've Got to Share"", ""Don McLean Sings Marty Robbins"" and ""The Western Album"" for his own Don McLean Music label. ""Addicted to Black"" was released in May 2009. McLean's other well-known songs include the following. The ""American Pie"" album features a version of Psalm 137, entitled ""Babylon"". The song is based on a canon by Philip Hayes and was arranged by McLean and Lee Hays (of The Weavers). ""Babylon"" was performed in the ""Mad Men"" episode of the same name despite the fact that the song would not be released until 10 years after the time in which"
"the 1980s and into the early 1990s, when the popularity of the easy listening format began to decline nationwide and KDEA went into competition with KTDY with a mainstream adult contemporary format. On August 21, 1992, at 6 pm KDEA started playing the song ""American Pie"" by Don McLean on a continuous loop. Between each playing of the song, a voice could be heard saying, ""A new day begins Monday."" The song continued to play over and over until 6 am Monday, August 24, when a jingle played announcing that the station was now ""Hot Country 99.1, KXKC"". This was"
"campaign of Dwight Eisenhower during the 1952 presidential election. For his contributions to the film industry, Boyd has a motion pictures star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1734 Vine Street. In 1995, he was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The inner sleeve of the original ""American Pie"" album by Don McLean featured a free verse poem written by McLean about Boyd, with a picture of Boyd in full Hopalong regalia. This sleeve was removed within a year of the album's release. The words"
"to non-commercial status. The FCC approved the sale on January 24, 2006, and the final day for the Top 40 format was February 3. The last song ever to be played on All Hit 98.9 was ""American Pie"" by Don McLean, which was followed by a tribute medley produced by ""Red Hot"" Brian Scott. The final section of a song to ever be played on All Hit 98.9 was ""It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday"" by Boyz II Men. The 98.9 frequency went silent at midnight on February 3, returning to the air with the satellite K-LOVE format"
"about the environment."" In February 2015, McLean announced he would reveal the meaning of the lyrics to the song when the original manuscript went for auction in New York City, in April 2015. The lyrics and notes were auctioned on April 7, and sold for $1.2 million. In the sale catalogue notes, McLean revealed the meaning in the song's lyrics: ""Basically in American Pie things are heading in the wrong direction. ... It [life] is becoming less idyllic. I don't know whether you consider that wrong or right but it is a morality song in a sense."" The catalogue confirmed"
"little sweeter. Pie. Grab a slice of life."" Notwithstanding any problematic overtones, though, ""Variety""'s take on the scene was ""What damage [the 1999 film] ""American Pie"" did for the pie industry, ""Labor Day"" has reversed."" National Pie Day National Pie Day, is an annual celebration of pies started in the mid-1970s by Boulder, Colorado nuclear engineer, brewer and teacher Charlie Papazian after he declared his own birthday, January 23, to be National Pie Day. Since 1986, National Pie Day is sponsored by the American Pie Council. In 2014, the American Pie Council partnered with Paramount Pictures in promoting the romantic"
"with fever / Embarrassed by the crowd / I felt he had found my letters / And read each one out loud / I prayed that he would finish / But he just kept right on…""). I had a notion this might make a good song so the three of us discussed it. We talked it over several times, just as we did for the rest of the numbers we wrote for this album and we all felt it had possibilities."" McLean's albums did not match the commercial success of ""American Pie"", but he became a major concert attraction in"
"3, 1959 on the Dutch Singles Chart in Netherlands for five consecutive weeks before falling off the chart. The song also peaked at number two on the Australian Singles Chart compiled by Kent Music Report and emerged as the twentieth best-selling single of 1958 in that country. It was nominated in the categories for Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best Female Vocal Performance at the 1st Annual Grammy Awards held in 1959. Lee's cover version of ""Fever"" became her signature song and her best-known work in addition to becoming her most successful hit. It was ranked"
"band also became famous for its cover songs, an example being Don McLean's ""American Pie"". A version exists on their 1989 all-covers album ""For Ladies Only"". Gerald also did a cover of Jessi Colter's ""I'm Not Lisa"" for the band's 1986 EP ""Burl"", dedicated ""in loving memory of"" the still-living-at-the-time Burl Ives. The EP in its entirety can be found on the CD version of their 1994 album ""Uncompromising War on Art Under the Dictatorship of the Proletariat"". The band recorded under the Touch and Go Records label during the 1980s and 90s and they often toured with or played"
"McLean’s second album; his first, ""Tapestry"", having been released to only moderate commercial success and acclaim in 1970. McLean was a protégé of Pete Seeger, having played with him in the 1960s. The album ""American Pie"" was intended as a unified work, as McLean has said that he was influenced by the Beatles' ""Sgt Pepper"" album and envisioned ""American Pie"" to be a similar album. Believing that an artist's work should stand by itself, McLean generally did not offer explanations for his work's themes or meaning, though he did describe the title song as involving ""a sense of loss"". McLean"
"was the single release of Don McLean's ""American Pie"". With the advent of the 12in single in the late 1970s, the part one/part two method of recording was largely abandoned. Modern day examples are Fall Out Boy's EP, My Heart Will Always Be The B-Side To My Tongue, or My Chemical Romance's The Black Parade, The B-Sides Since both sides of a single received equal royalties, some composers deliberately arranged for their songs to be used as the B-sides of singles by popular artists. This became known as the ""flipside racket"". Similarly, it has also been alleged that owners of"
"Beatles, Charles Manson, and much more). When asked what ""American Pie"" meant, McLean jokingly replied, ""It means I don't ever have to work again if I don't want to."" Later, he stated, ""You will find many interpretations of my lyrics but none of them by me ... Sorry to leave you all on your own like this but long ago I realized that songwriters should make their statements and move on, maintaining a dignified silence."" He also commented on the popularity of his music, ""I didn't write songs that were just catchy, but with a point of view, or songs"
"later immortalized as ""the day the music died"" in the song ""American Pie."" Another characteristic is the openness to Latin American sounds and influences. Trini Lopez, Santana, Malo, and other Chicano 'Latin Rock' groups follow this approach with their fusions of R&B, Jazz, and Caribbean sounds; but all of the groups and performers have some of these influences. Los Lobos in particular alternates between R&B/roots rock and the Tex-Mex/Latin rock style. The 1958 hit song ""Tequila!"" was written and sung by the saxophone player Danny Flores (not to be confused with Danny David Flores, a former member of Renegade) and"
"Sweetie Pie (Eddie Cochran song) ""Sweetie Pie"" is a song written by Eddie Cochran, Jerry Capehart, and Johnny Russell and recorded by Eddie Cochran. It was recorded in 1957 and released posthumously as a single on Liberty F-55278 in August 1960. In the UK the single rose to number 38 on the charts. The U.S. release did not chart. The flip side, ""Lonely"", reached number 41 on the UK singles chart. Keld Heich has recorded the song in 2010. The song appeared on the 1962 ""Never To Be Forgotten"" album, the 1979 ""Eddie Cochran Singles Album"" compilation, the 1999 ""Eddie"
"29, 1992 (Leary)"". April 29, 1992 (Miami) ""April 29, 1992 (Miami)"" is a song written by American ska punk band Sublime in 1996 from their eponymous album ""Sublime"". The song title refers to the date of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, of which news spread throughout the United States following the acquittal of four police officers accused in the videotaped beating of Rodney King. The official title of the song references the date April 29, 1992; however, the lyric is sung as ""April 26, 1992."" It has been said this was a mistake, but the take was strong enough the"
"National Pie Day National Pie Day, is an annual celebration of pies started in the mid-1970s by Boulder, Colorado nuclear engineer, brewer and teacher Charlie Papazian after he declared his own birthday, January 23, to be National Pie Day. Since 1986, National Pie Day is sponsored by the American Pie Council. In 2014, the American Pie Council partnered with Paramount Pictures in promoting the romantic thriller film ""Labor Day"" in conjunction with National Pie Day. (A pie-making scene features prominently in the film, and the film's general release was within a few days of National Pie Day.) The APC distributed"
"on Christmas Day 1998. Bryan MacLean Bryan Andrew MacLean (September 25, 1946 – December 25, 1998) was an American singer, guitarist and songwriter, best known for his work with the influential rock band Love. His famous compositions for Love include ""Alone Again Or,"" ""Old Man,"" and ""Orange Skies."" Bryan MacLean's mother was an artist and a dancer, and his father was an architect for Hollywood celebrities such as Elizabeth Taylor and Dean Martin. Neighbor Frederick Loewe, of the songwriting team Lerner & Loewe, recognized him as a ""melodic genius"" at the age of three as he doodled on the piano."
"for the band before it was released in the United States. In the late 1990s and early 2000s the song gained some additional exposure and popularity when it was used as the theme song for the ""American Pie"" films starring Jason Biggs and Seann William Scott. A cover by Matt Nathanson was recorded exclusively for the third film, and was later included on the film's soundtrack. When performed by Matt Nathanson live he often creates a lot of banter over the vocals after the second verse, where he encourages the audience to sing along with him. The seventh installment in"
"immediate reaction to stardom. McLean told ""Melody Maker"" magazine in 1973 that ""Tapestry"" was an album by someone previously concerned with external situations. ""American Pie"" combines externals with internals and the resultant success of that album makes the third one (""Don McLean"") entirely introspective."" Other songs written by McLean for the album include ""Dreidel"" (number 21 on the Billboard chart) and ""If We Try"" (number 58), which was subsequently recorded by Olivia Newton-John. ""On the Amazon"" from the 1920s musical Mr Cinders was an unusual choice but became an audience favorite in concerts and featured in ""Till Tomorrow"", a documentary"