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Tour From Hell: Buddy Holly and Crew Stranded in Wisconsin
The Winter Dance Party tour 1959 faced brutal cold as the bus stalled on Hwy 51 south of Hurley Wisconsin leaving Buddy Holly Ritchie Valens and others stranded. They endured frostbite and hid in the cold awaiting a rescue then chose air travel to Clear Lake after delays.
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Duluth, Minn
Armory
St. Louis Bay
Wisconsin
Appleton
Green Bay
Wis
Hurley
Buddy Holly
the Big Bopper
Ritchie Valens
Waylon Jennings
Dion
Wisconsin Forest
Buddy
Holly
Iowa
Mason City
Clovis
N.M
Rockers
Clear Lake
Moorhead
J.P
Richardson
Valens
Don McLean
Hell
Texans Holly
California
Jennings
Texas
General Artists Corp
Bill Griggs
Griggs
Milwaukee
Minnesota
Montevideo
Fort Dodge
Duluth
Bob Dylan
Hibbing
Minn
Rolling Stone Magazine
Tommy Allsup
Crickets
Allsup
Belmonts
Carl Bunch
Bunch
Greyhound
Lubbock
Bronx
John Mueller
Mueller