known as the Day the Music Died. DiMucci was close to boarding the plane but did not. Dion and the Belmonts would release their next major hit, “A Teenager in Love," in March 1959. Beyond ...

On this day 66 years ago (February 3, 1959) a plane crashed in a cornfield outside Clear Lake, Iowa. The crash unfortunately resulted in the deaths of musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and ...

“I’m a guy from The Bronx.” Over his 85 years, Dion Francis DiMucci has been much more than that: lead singer of the Bronx-based doo-wop legends the Belmonts; solo hitmaker and heartthrob in ...