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On this night, January 30, 1959, the Winter Dance Party Tour will be playing in Fort Dodge, Iowa.
Then it's on to Duluth, Minnesota, and Green Bay, Wisconsin, before heading back to Iowa to play in Clear Lake on February 2, 1959. The routing of the tour didn't make a lot of sense.
Winter Dance Party Tour schedule, 1959
They didn't care. It was like they threw darts at a map ... The tour from hell—that's what they named it—and it's not a bad name.
—?Buddy Holly historian Bill Griggs
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Music_Died
