I thought I would check youtube to see which videos might be available of my pre-Lighfoot favourite Buddy Holly
the usual four or five main clips were all there plus an interesting one at:-
billed as:-
Buddy Holly - The Day The Music Died
08:45
The story behind the song American Pie by Don McLean. Featuring the Beatles, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Janis Joplin and
of course Buddy, the Big Bopper and Richie Valens.
I grabbed the original and highly compressed Flash video file
YouTube - Buddy Holly - The Day The Music Died.flv which is 19,519KB
using youtube grabber then converted it to an mpg user friendly format file:-
YouTube - Buddy Holly - The Day The Music Died.flv.MPG
where it had grown to a much larger 47,448KB
Naturally of course I followed my by now well practised grabbing/converting technique as explained in my superb tutorial at:-
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/Tutoria...s_tutorial.htm
thank heaven for 2 gigabyte Compact Flash memory cards and the simple built-in media card reader on my new desktop!!
this video has an almost 9 minutes running time because that is the length of the full American Pie recording by Don Mclean
as used by the creators
Who used that great recording and its enigmatic lyrics as the sound track for a great selction of images that are presented and panned in much the same way as Tom "Gahoendoe" Salter's Stonewall Studio masterpieces
Timely reminder his original 23 are at
http://www.corfid.com/ubb/ultimatebb...=004203#000000
I had mentioned Waylon Jennings in another topic
so towards the end of this video I made these two screenshots
Enjoy and discuss!!!
John