LOVED heariung Buddy Holly in the open!! 'Every Day' was his first hit.

Buddy Holly died in a plane crash the day the music dies, of course. . .

And Locke's teacher look an awful lot like Buddy Holly too. But I'm stretching it on that one.

I thought his teacher kind of looked like Fred Armisen and Paul Giamatti at the same time.

Yep, check out my Hell Of A Band In Heaven thread...saw Buddy Hollly poppin' up from a mile away...(<>..<>)

Well, airplane crash analogy aside...at least it was a "happy" song.

That was Don McLean's version of the song, released in 1973.

That was Don McLean's version of the song, released in 1973.

I was just going to point out that the closed captioning credited it to Don McLean too, but that be a pretty big error, since they were wearing 50s clothing and that would mean Locke was only 34/35 years old.

That was Don McLean's version of the song, released in 1973.

Quite sure that's Buddy Holly- 1957. Makes much more sense for Locke to be born then, besides that it is Buddy Holly singing.

:)

Time line of the scene was definitely the 50's. Then we had the 60's when Alpert 'tested' Locke...love the decor!

That was definitely the Buddy Holly version. My dad played it to me when I was a kid all the time.

/me waits for next show to play La Bamba

That was definitely the Buddy Holly version. My dad played it to me when I was a kid all the time.

/me waits for next show to play La Bamba

Or the Big Bopper!!

Someone mentioned in my other group that this song was released like 6 months before Locke's birthday...

CC didn't do it's homework. It's the Buddy Holly version.

Someone mentioned in my other group that this song was released like 6 months before Locke's birthday...

CC didn't do it's homework. It's the Buddy Holly version.I worded my post wrong, I meant like 6 months AFTER Locke's birthday...

Recorded May 1957 (http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=2492) released July 1957.

John was born (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Locke_(Lost)) a year before it was recorded. That's some fancy time traveling.

very cool tie in

I could be wrong about this, but In Stand by me, didnt this song play in the background while Gordy and company started out on their journey to find they dead body? Kinda like Ben< Hurley and Locke setting out to find Jacob.

And the line...Everyday its a getting closer, going faster than a roller coaster....perhaps a reference to how we're getting close to whats going on and the over all faster pace of the post strike episodes. I could be reading into a little too much, but the fact that they put that song in their just because he died in a plane crash just seems a little too obvious.

I guess none of us should be surprised then if Frank Lapidus winds up listening to Waylon Jennings when he gets good and sopping drunk?

(And, um, the science teacher looked nothing like Holly, except in the vague sense that everyone in the 1950s seems to have looked alike. Maybe if Holly had lived long enough to go through a "fat Elvis" stage...but Holly died at age 22 and was very lean.)