And I knew if I had my chance, That I could make those people dance, And maybe they’d be happy for a while. I can still remember how That music used to make me smile. “American Pie” reached #1 in 1972, shortly after it was released. Buddy Holly, unfortunately, died in 1959 while other aspects of the song hint even further back. Little did I know then that the impression it left would be indelible, drawing me decades later to Austin, TX, the live music capital of the world, where the story of Buddy Holly’s impact on Texas music can be found in the Texas History Museum. No longer online, that domain was later replaced with a site I called RareException, an effort also relegated to history when I found myself first employed at Yahoo! As it happens, my passion for this song was imprinted on my life thanks to my young love affair with high school theater as a Junior at Portage Northern High School, the performing artists of the graduating Senior class sang this, a cappella, during their graduating performance. The republishing, here, is to retain, as an archive, the history of that publishing it was the first of a few music related articles I used in the creation of my first website The Octopus’s Garden. First published in 1996- ish, what follows is an article I wrote out of a passion I had for the tune and lyrics, for a music history class.
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