Moorhead, Minnesota 1978 film "The Buddy Holly Story" as the next stop in the ill-fated Winter Dance Party tour. Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper died in a plane crash "en route" to their scheduled performance at the Moorhead Armory Building from Clear Lake, Iowa on February 3, 1959. Moorhead's pioneer Prairie Home Cemetery on 8th Street was the inspiration for the name of Garrison Keillor's national radio program, "A Prairie Home Companion". Although Keillor thought the cemetery was founded by Norwegian Lutherans, in fact it was organized in 1875 by the Rev. Oscar Elmer, a Yankee Presbyterian minister who
Everyday (Buddy Holly song) eleventh episode of the fourth season of "Lost" ("Cabin Fever"), as well as during the closing credits of the penultimate episode of "Mad Men" ("The Milk and Honey Route.") The song is covered in the end credits of the seventh episode of the second season of HBO's "Crashing", sung by Fiona Apple. Also the song is sung in "Party of Five" season 1 episode 7 by the character Julia, played by actress Neve Campbell Everyday (Buddy Holly song) "Everyday" is a song written by Buddy Holly and Norman Petty, recorded by Buddy Holly and the Crickets on May 29, 1957,