[Affair on Touhy Ave.]

Originally posted by Affair on Touhy Ave.:
I know the title of this posts sounds a bit odd but here's what I mean.

Don Mcleans American Pie.

According to a website of his the album wich was his 2nd was released in 1971 and considering the song was about the 1959 plane crash that Killed B. Holly, R. Vallens and JP Richardson, I wonder if he might of written it 2 years earlier? (1969) which at that point would of marked the 10th aniversary of the inncident. Mclean was in his mid 20s when the 1st 2 LP's were released so he was probably working the club circut for a few years.

I don't know the exact title of this Doors song which was off their 69 Soft Parade LP but it was kind of a tribute to Otis Redding, Starts out like " Poor Otis dead and gone left me here to sing his song." Since Otis' helecopter crash was in late 1967 it's interesting that the song wasn't on their 1968 LP.

I explained it.