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Old 06-11-21, 06:20 PM   #948
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Originally Posted by Jimbuna View Post
The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)




Not according to Don McLean


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Don McLean himself said in 1999: “The growing urban legend that ‘American Pie’ was the name of Buddy Holly’s plane the night it crashed, killing him, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper, is equally untrue. I created the term.”
http://web.archive.org/web/200212011...on-mclean.com/
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