Songs By Musicians Who Died In Plane Crashes

Morbid theme, I know, but whatever. It interests me, and hopefully it will interest you as well. I gave some details about the incidents involving these artists' deaths whenever I felt like it. As for the rest, if you want to know more, Google it!  Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Buddy Holly  ~  "Peggy Sue"  (Known as "The Day The Music Died," the crash which killed Holly also took the lives of fellow rock-and-rollers The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens – see below)

2)  The Big Bopper  ~  "Chantilly Lace"

3)  Ritchie Valens  ~  "Come On, Let's Go"

4)  Patsy Cline  ~  "I Fall To Pieces"

5)  Otis Redding  ~  "(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay)"

6)  The Bar-Kays ft. Otis Redding  ~  "Try A Little Tenderness"  (This performance was filmed just days before the crash which killed 4 members of The Bar-Kays and Otis Redding – the band's trumpeter and their bassist [who was aboard a different plane] survived)

7)  Jim Croce  ~  "Operator"

8)  Lynyrd Skynyrd  ~  "Free Bird"  (Lead singer Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines, and backup singer Cassie Gaines – all of whom can be seen here – passed away in the crash)

9)  Ricky Nelson  ~  "Travelin' Man"

10)  John Denver  ~  "Leaving On A Jet Plane"  (It wasn't a jet plane that killed Denver, but a single-engine plane that he himself was piloting)

11)  Aaliyah  ~  "One In A Million"

12)  Chase  ~  "Open Up Wide"  (Crash killed bandleader Bill Chase and 3 other band members)

13)  Jenni Rivera  ~  "Por Que No Le Calas"  (Rivera is the latest "member" of this dubious "club")

14)  Stevie Ray Vaughan  ~  "Texas Flood"  (Vaughan actually died in a helicopter crash, but still…)

15)  Keith Green  ~  "I Can't Wait To Get To Heaven"

16)  Randy Rhoads  ~  "Paranoid"  (Rhoads was Ozzy Osbourne's lead guitarist on this song; he also played with Quiet Riot)

A Baker's Dozen Of "Bad" Songs

In case the title of this post isn't obvious (and it probably isn't what you thought at first), this is a collection of songs with "Bad" somewhere in their titles. That doesn't mean the songs are, in and of themselves, "bad" songs. Some of them might be, some of them might not, depending on your (or my) tastes. You probably have guessed this already, but there will be a follow-up to this post, featuring – you guessed it! – a collection of "Good" songs. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Michael Jackson  ~  "Bad"  (you knew this one would be here, right?)

2)  Glee Cast  ~  "Bad Romance"  (this "Glee" cover of Lady Gaga's song is cleaned up a fair bit, and far less racy than the original song/video)

3)  George Thorogood And The Destroyers  ~  "Bad To The Bone"  (Whether or not George is actually bad to the bone is irrelevant; one thing's for sure – this dude is UGLY!)

4)  U2  ~  "Bad"  (There's no "official" music video for this one, but this live version is AMAZING!)

5)  Bad Company  ~  "Bad Company"  (Culled from the files of the Department of Redundancy Department)

6)  Daniel Powter ~  "Bad Day"  (Powter had a bad day when he realized he'd never again have a song as successful as this one)

7)  Bon Jovi  ~  "You Give Love A Bad Name"  (This song is brought to you by my wife, who's always been a big Bon Jovi fan – it's gotta be the hair...)

8)  Meat Loaf  ~  "Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad"  (In baseball, two out of three is fantastic – and impossible to maintain throughout the course of a long season)

9)  Dominique Pruitt  ~  "He's Got It Bad"  (For you country music fans out there – or country/rock, or rockabilly, or whatever this is)

10)  Creedence Clearwater Revival  ~  "Bad Moon Rising"  (To those of you who thought they were singing: "There's a bathroom on the right" – they weren't!)

11)  Inner Circle  ~  "Bad Boys"  (Whatchu gonna do when they come for you?)

12)  Meiko  ~  "Bad Things"  (Apparently, this song was recently featured on one of the Real Housewives series on Bravo; Meiko's a terrific singer, and she deserves better than that)

13)  Jim Croce  ~  "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown"  (For those of  you with "virgin ears," Croce does use "the D word" five times in this song – but it's a classic, so I'm still posting it)