Buddy Holly and ACU
2009 February 9
Did you know that Buddy Holly didn’t die in the infamous plane crash fifty years ago this month? He was afraid of flying in winter, and someone who looked like him took his place.
Instead, Buddy Holly entered ACU as a ministry student and became a Church of Christ preacher.
If you didn’t realize this, check out this past weekend’s “Prairie Home Companion,” starting at about 18:00.
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Mike, I’ve been dealing with the ‘disappearance’ of Elvis for 31 years – will I get over it? Maybe, baby! But, now you drop this bomb! It’s so easy to fall in love with a simple storyline, but this new revelation may not fade away. I want to believe, but putting BH at ACU? Oh, boy, that’ll be the day!
Did Albert get to you?
Maybe baby, It’s so easy to fall in love, Oh boy, That’ll be the day.
Did I miss any? that was clever.
Not fade away….good.
Where he met a gal named Peggy Sue.
This story is reversed for Tennessee, it was Elvis who became a church of Christ preacher.
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Jackie, how about dealing with it Everyday?
Yep, and then Preacher Man Holley met up with Pat Boone and Ray Walker and they formed a Trio. They were going to call themselves The Cathedrals, but they got into a theological debate: a trio would be fine, but Ray didn’t believe in Cathedral Singing and besides if they were going to be absolutely scriptural they would need four voices for that, not three. Pat reasoned that if they were going to be a gospel Trio, well now, why couldn’t they just call themselves The Trinities?
They were about to join hands peacefully and agree on The Trinities, but then Holley confessed he would prefer to use a red guitar instead of a blue guitar. Why did Pat and Roy make him use the blue guitar on that first gig to begin with? He didn’t tell Ray he had to use a tuning fork instead of a pitch pipe. That really threw a spanner into the holy kit and debacle!
So before they could even get off the ground, The Trinities split over creative differences and went their separate ways: Pat flew to Hollywood, Ray cruised Nashville, and Bud took the train to New York.
I’ll Swanee, why can’t Keillor tell a complete story?
Deb – I have no idea what “I’ll Swanee” means, but that was hilarious.
That’s southern for “I swear.”
Yes, thanks for finishing that story, Deb!