Hi, I'm Don MacKenzie and welcome to my corner of ECFM.ca. This is a work in progress so feel free to check back as I add more links and features in the near future. Lunchtime rewind first aired on CKEC in September of 1998. The first song played was Bob Seger's "Old Time Rock 'n Roll" an outstanding choice to convey the concept of the show. We've all grown up listening to the hits of the 50s 60s 70s and 80s, and often when we hear one of these songs, we are transported magically to that time and place we first heard it on the radio. Many of us remember the song that we first slowed danced to, that hit that was playing for weeks on end during summer vacation, or when we first cruised around town with our new driver’s license. Lunchtime rewind is so much more than a show about music; it is a treasury of memories. During Lunchtime Rewind we have special features for you to enjoy. First up at 11:30am Monday to Thursday, it’s the ballad of the day, which very often brings back fond memories of someone special in your past. At 12:45pm it’s the song in history which gives you the story behind some of the celebrated songs and the artists who recorded them. Every Friday at 11:30 a.m. it's disco denial, featuring those classic disco hits you danced to (admit it…you know you did). And you never know when you may be called upon to identify the mystery song and artist for winning, courtesy of lunchtime rewind on East Coast FM. Although the show highlights the memories of the past, thanks to today's technology, in future you can log onto ECFM.ca to request songs for Lunchtime Rewind. Thank you for listening and I look forward to massaging your memory in the months and years ahead. And as the announcer says 'Once a hit always a hit' - Lunchtime Rewind on 94.1 East Coast FM.
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Friday, February 3rd, 2012, 9:47 am
1959: Within minutes of takeoff from the Mason City, IA Airport, at around 1:00 AM CST, the chartered Beech-Craft Bonanza airplane No. N3794N containing Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper crashes into the Iowa countryside, killing all three in addition to pilot Roger Peterson. The plane, headed for the next "Winter Dance Party" tour stop in Fargo, ND, had been chartered by Holly in order for the band members to travel in heated comfort and to arrive early for their next gig.
When he learns that band member Waylon Jennings, who would eventually become a country star in his own right, has decided to take the freezing bus instead, Holly jokes, "Well, I hope your old bus freezes up." Jennings jokes back, "Well, I hope your plane crashes." Another Holly band member, Tommy Allsup, flips Valens for the last available seat, losing the coin toss. Valens exclaims, "That's the first time I've won anything in my life!"
Pilot Peterson, not having been informed of worsening weather conditions, decides to fly "on instruments," meaning without visual confirmation of the horizon, which leads to the crash. The tragedy was later immortalized as "The Day The Music Died" by Don McLean in his famous song "American Pie."
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