McLean's major break came when Mediarts was taken over by United Artists Records thus securing for his second album, American Pie, the promotion of a major label.

The Day the Music Died, dubbed by Don McLean's song " American Pie ", was an aviation accident that occurred on February 3, 1959, near Clear Lake, Iowa, where rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. " The Big Bopper " Richardson, as well as the pilot, Roger Peterson, perished.

Williams was an integral participant in the early-mid 60's avant-garde movement, playing on such classics as Jackie McLean's One Step Beyond, Grachan Moncur III's Evolution and Some Other Stuff, Sam River's Fuchsia Swing Song, Andrew Hill's Point of Departure, and Eric Dolphy's Out to Lunch.

On February 3, 1959, a day that has become known as The Day the Music Died ( from Don McLean's song " American Pie "), Richardson was killed in a plane crash in Iowa, along with Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens.

A notable example of a non-R & B hit with two parts was the single release of Don McLean's " American Pie ".

Also in McLean's Hartford group was Mark Berman, the jazz pianist and broadway conductor of Smokey Joe's Cafe and Rent.

With Tommy McLean's departure to Hearts in 1994, much of his squad was broken up ; a large fee in particular was paid by Celtic for Phil O ' Donnell.

The film version took place entirely in McLean's senior year, when he was asked to protect Pearce.

Union Army artillery fired at McLean's house, which was being used as a headquarters for Confederate Brigadier General P. G. T. Beauregard, and a cannonball dropped through the kitchen fireplace.

McLean's advice was to " remove and become a Territory with a patent in fee simple to the nation for all its lands, and a delegate in Congress, but reserving to itself the entire right of legislation and selection of all officers.

Around the same period, Brooks was McLean's understudy in The Connection, a play by Jack Gelber with music by Redd, and performed on an album of music from the play on the Felsted Label.

Originally McLean's alter ego was named Johnny Suede.

McLean's acquisition was an integral part of Vancouver's rebuilding process, led by Quinn.

He set an NHL record for wins in October with nine ( McLean's mark was matched by the Toronto Maple Leafs ' Felix Potvin and Philadelphia Flyers ' Dominic Roussel in October 1993 and surpassed by the Detroit Red Wings ' Manny Legace's 10 wins in October 2005 ); he was named player of the month.

The game was one of McLean's best of the tournament, as he managed to keep the Soviet Union at bay during the third period in which they had a 14 – 2 margin in shots on goal.

Following McLean's retirement, he was hired as a goaltending coach for the Kamloops Blazers of the WHL.

So eight months after McLean's death, Swayne was nominated, on January 21 1862.

A poem was later written about McLean's attempt on the Queen's life by William Topaz McGonagall ,< ref >

McLean's pugilist reputation began in the late 1960s and was sustained through to the mid 1980s.

However, when Lenny's infant brother Raymond was beaten brutally with a belt, McLean's great-uncle Jimmy Spinks-a feared local gangster-attacked Irwin, nearly killing him, and threatened to cut his throat should he ever need to return to protect the children again.

McLean's opponent was just under seven feet ( 213 cm ) tall and weighed twenty stone ( 127 kg ); he lasted less than a minute against McLean, earning McLean £ 500, a considerable prize at the time.

In one of McLean's most notable matches, at the Rainbow Theatre in Finsbury Park, London, in April 1986, McLean ended the long standing feud between them with a dramatic first round knockout in which Shaw was knocked out of the ring.

As the 60's progressed, he recorded some twenty additional albums as a leader, and continued to record as a sideman on the albums of other artists, including Wayne Shorter's Night Dreamer ; Stanley Turrentine's Mr. Natural ; Freddie Hubbard's The Night of the Cookers ; Hank Mobley's Dippin ', A Caddy for Daddy, A Slice of the Top, Straight No Filter ; Jackie McLean's Jackknife and Consequence ; Joe Henderson's Mode for Joe ; McCoy Tyner's Tender Moments ; Lonnie Smith's Think and Turning Point ; Elvin Jones ' The Prime Element ; Jack Wilson's Easterly Winds ; Reuben Wilson's Love Bug ; Larry Young's Mother Ship ; Lee Morgan and Clifford Jordan Live in Baltimore 1968 ; Andrew Hill's Grass Roots ; as well as on several albums with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers.

Being the best-known figure in unlicensed boxing produced for McLean not only fans, but also enemies, including some of his rivals ' supporters, and some who had lost money betting on McLean's opponents.

McLean's counter-attacking tactics paired with a pressuring style brought some memorable results in that year's European campaign.

McLean's charge was reduced to manslaughter, of which he was cleared at the Old Bailey when it emerged that Humphries had been in a scuffle with the police after being ejected from the nightclub.

The title track is reminiscent of Jackie McLean's " Little Melonae ", which Davis had recorded with John Coltrane in 1956.

McLean decided that his team should mount a challenge for the League championship in 1978 – 79, something of which the club, who had long lived in the shadow of McLean's former employers and rivals Dundee, had never previously proved capable of but after a poor finish in the first season of the new Premier Division, United started to prove that they were serious contenders for domestic honours.

Don McLean's popular 1971 ballad " American Pie " is inspired by Holly and the day of the plane crash.

Both McLean's grandfather and father were also named Donald McLean.

The Buccis, the family of McLean's mother, Elizabeth, came from Abruzzo in central Italy.

McLean's magnum opus, " American Pie ", is a sprawling, impressionistic ballad inspired partly by the deaths of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J. P. Richardson ( The Big Bopper ) in a plane crash on 3 February 1959.

" American Pie " reached number one on the U. S. Billboard magazine charts for four weeks in 1972, and remains McLean's most successful single release.

Orbison himself once described McLean as " the voice of the century ", and a subsequent re-recording of the song saw Orbison incorporate elements of McLean's version.

McLean's first concerts at Carnegie Hall in New York and the Albert Hall in London in 1972 were critically acclaimed.

Two years later, Brooks repaid the favor by appearing as a special guest ( with Nanci Griffith ) on McLean's first American TV special, broadcast as the PBS special Starry Starry Night.

In 2008, New York City radio station Q104. 3 FM WAXQ named Don McLean's " American Pie " number 37 in their 2008 Top 1, 043 Songs Of All Time listener-generated countdown.

" American Pie " is considered Don McLean's magnum opus and his signature song.

Excerpt: " The song chronicles important events in the 60s as well as McLean's own growth & loss of innocence as well as his attempt to retain it.

Over the next decade, Winston exhibited McLean's necklace in his " Court of Jewels ," a tour of jewels around the United States, as well as various charity balls and the August 1958 Canadian National Exhibition.

Fifteen years later, Bure's goal and McLean's save were ranked first and second in a Vancouver Sun article listing the " 40 most memorable moments in team history.

Some African American family names that settled in the area were the Buchanan's, Cameron's, McLean's, Minter's, and Womack's.