Its 1957, and Buddy Holly and the Crickets are playing on The Arthur Murray Dance Party – a show where young people learned the basics of ballroom dancing to add to their repertoire of social skills. Introduced by a patrician Kathryn Murray – "They're rock and roll specialists. Now, whatever you think of rock and roll, I think you have to keep a nice, open mind about what the young people go for." (via):
Not much discernible movement from the smart young people there.
Buddy Holly would have been 75 this week.
Another fatality of that crash: The Big Bopper. I doubt he would have been invited onto The Arthur Miller Dance Party: altogether too louche. But a great showman:
Mick Hartley 
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