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)

Songs With "Easy" In The Title

Some scientific smartypants said that for every action, there's an equal and opposite reaction. Therefore, for every "Songs With 'Hard' In The Title" blog post, there must be also be a "Songs With 'Easy' In The Title." And here it is...  ~  JH

1)  Engelbert Humperdinck  ~  "Am I That Easy To Forget?"

2)  Commodores  ~  "Easy"

3)  Rascal Flatts & Natasha Bedingfield  ~  "Easy"

4)  Bobby Sherman  ~  "Easy Come, Easy Go"

5)  Elvis Presley  ~  "Such An Easy Question"

6)  Three Dog Night  ~  "Easy To Be Hard"

7)  Willie Nelson & Johnny Rodriguez  ~  "Forgiving You Was Easy"

8)  Dierks Bentley  ~  "Free And Easy (Down The Road I Go)"

9)  Keith Carradine  ~  "I'm Easy"

10)  Ringo Starr  ~  "It Don't Come Easy"

11)  Eagles  ~  "Take It Easy"

12)  ABBA  ~  "Love Isn't Easy (But It Sure Is Hard Enough)"

13)  Sarah McLachlan  ~  "Loving You Is Easy"

14)  Cleopatra  ~  "Life Ain't Easy"

15)  Buddy Holly  ~  "It's So Easy"