The song ”American Pie” is truly a piece of American history. On this day 62 years ago Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and "The Big Bopper" J. P. Richardson died tragically in a plane crash after a show with Holly's band (which at the time included a young Waylon Jennings) at the Surf Ballroom in northern Iowa. Don McLean created magic when he recorded that song 50 years ago talking about that very day… "the day the music died." Today we're here to commemorate that recording with Don himself as we