The continued interest in “American Pie” is completely mystifying. Note: “What rhymes with ‘doorstep’? ‘Poor schlep?’ ‘Dinah Shore-step’?” Missing verse about Dino, Desi & Billy and Gary Lewis & The Playboys: (“The sons of laughter on Hullaballoo /One Italian, one half-Jew.”)ĥ.
“Jack be nimble, Jack be quick”: really about fitness guru Jack LaLanne.Ĥ. Fire, it turns out, was not “The Devil’s only friend.” The Devil was also friendly with Earth & Wind, but they snubbed him at a Hell Mixer.ģ. It was a random day in August when McLean misplaced his 45 rpm adapter and his records played all wobbly.Ģ. In an early version, “The Day the Music Died” wasn’t in February. Some things that might have been uncovered in McLean’s original notes:ġ. “The draft that was auctioned is 16 pages, 237 lines of manuscript and 26 lines of typed text…including lines that didn’t make the final version as well as extensive notes.” News item from 2015: Manuscript of Don McLean’s “American Pie” sells for over a million bucks. Don McLean’s American Pie turns 50 this fall (Image: Discogs)
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