AM Radio Echoes

"A long, long time ago, I can still remember how that music used to make me smile." ~ Don McLean

I heard on the radio earlier that this is the day Buddy Holly was killed in a plane crash in 1959 (I had to just now look up the year, again).  Buddy Holly was well before my time, but the song American Pie wasn't, and of course Buddy's songs endured as well.  

There was something mythic and mysterious about American Pie when it came on the radio, in the days of actual radio.  It was the early 70's, but this song echoed through the years.  Still, I remember it in its time, somehow, even though I was very young in the early 70's.

These were different times.  AM radio was a shared experience, and music wasn't an individual affair.  It echoed where it traveled.  This particular song had aspects to it that shouted danger, but still, the music played and played and played on the radio.  Who could understand it?

Light on the Water photo by Susan Larison Danz.