CLEAR LAKE -- Big names hit the stage for the final night of the winter dance party.
Headliner Pat Boone first performed here in 1957.
"I don't know any other entertainer anywhere who has headlined the same place 55 years apart,” Boone said.
One of Boone’s more well-known hits is "Aint That a Shame"
But the singer explains he played at The Surf Ballroom several years after the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and "The Big Bopper".
And still he remembers the day
"I never got to meet buddy, I know it would have happened,” Boone said. “And I didn't meet The Big Bopper or Ritchie and I felt like everybody was just stunned I mean this wasn't supposed to happen."
Fellow performer Marshall Lytle tells us the surf is now a monument for those who want to remember all that those three stood for.
"We just meet wonderful people that have come here to reminisce about the accident,” Lytle said
Now they're glad to get the chance to honor the legends with a little rock-n-roll.
"This is just a great place to perform,” Lytle said. “That dressing room with all the names on the walls back there there's such history, I'm so glad to be part of it."
So for at least one weekend a year, it's as if the music never died.
