Gailard Sartain death: Hee Haw and Elizabethtown actor dies aged 78 - The Oklahoma-born actor was a regular on country music show ‘Hee Haw’ and voiced Big Daddy in ‘The Simpsons’ ...

Gailard Sartain, the actor best known for his long-running role on "Hee Haw" and memorable appearances in films such as "Mississippi Burning" and "The Buddy Holly Story," has died at age 81, it ...

Gailard Sartain, the actor best known for "The Buddy Holly Story" and "Hee Haw," died Tuesday, June 17, at the age of 78.

J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson suffered massive fractures and likely died immediately in the 1959 plane crash in Iowa that also killed early rock 'n' rollers Buddy Holly and Ritchie ...

Waylon Jennings wrote this touching track for his late friend and former bandmate, Buddy Holly, who died in a plane crash in 1959.

In that same crash, the music world lost other folks, including Latin rocker Ritchie Valens and musician and radio DJ The Big Bopper. It was an especially sad occasion.

Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper have been immortalized as bobbleheads, on the anniversary of their death in one of rock's most legendary plane crashes. - Credit: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty ...

Don McLean and Connie Valens tell PEOPLE about their unique experiences on 'The Day the Music Died,' when Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper all died in the same tragic plane trash on ...

THIS IS A PARTY. THIS IS IOWA. (Scott Carpenter / Facebook) <14:17:09 IT'S BEEN 65 YEARS SINCE THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED WHEN MUSIC GIANTS BUDDY HOLLY, RITCHIE VALENS AND THE BIG BOPPER DIED IN A ...

THIS IS A PARTY. THIS IS IOWA. (Scott Carpenter / Facebook) <14:17:09 IT'S BEEN 65 YEARS SINCE THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED WHEN MUSIC GIANTS BUDDY HOLLY, RITCHIE VALENS AND THE BIG BOPPER DIED IN A ...

THIS IS A PARTY. THIS IS IOWA. (Scott Carpenter / Facebook) <14:17:09 IT'S BEEN 65 YEARS SINCE THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED WHEN MUSIC GIANTS BUDDY HOLLY, RITCHIE VALENS AND THE BIG BOPPER DIED IN A ...

February 3 is known as The Day the Music Died after a small plane crash killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper in 1959. Holly, a Texas native, was thought to be the next Elvis ...