buddy holly

[Cherrybabe]

who sang a song about buddy hollies death?

[littleoldme]

Don McLean's American Pie (as...er..."memorably" covered by Madonna) was about Buddy Holly's death among other things.

[mushroom25]

apparently it's an urban myth that it is...

[mushroom25]

http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/americanpi e.asp

don maclean has never confirmed what the song is about, though the phrase "the day the music died" WAS a reference to holly. he reports that telling people what the song is about would make it lose all meaning..so i guess we'll never know for sure

[Keeprockin]

Mike Berry recorded: Tribute to Buddy Holly 1963
also
Tommy Dee and the Teen Tones got to N011 in 1959 with:
Three Stars. .. A tribute to ;Rithie Valens;Big Bopper and of course Buddy Holly