He now joins the others who passed on "Day The Music Died" He was a walk on to fill in the show, in 1959 after the plane crash that killed rock 'n' roll stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson. He was only 73 years old .
He had a garage band or something like that, just a couple of local high school kids, and in the tradition of the show must go on he was pressed into service and performed as an unknown walk on at that scheduled show, another notable fact, he had Robert Zimmerman in his band, whom we all know now as Bob Dylan.
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