24 Aug 22 Original Buddy Holly Drummer Dies
Jerry Allison, the Lubbock drummer who teamed with Buddy Holly to help form American rock and roll music, died Monday. Allison, best known as the drummer for The Crickets and co-writer of their hits “That’ll Be the Day” and “Peggy Sue”, recorded with Buddy Holly. Allison also had a solo chart entry on the Billboard Hot 100 was “Real Wild Child”, issued in 1958 under the name Ivan. Allison was…
Posted by: Sam Moore
Tags: Buddy Holly, Jerry Allison, Texas music
13 Jul 17 Texas Family Musicals Make Holly CD Available
The music of Buddy Holly lives on through the Texas Family Musicals. A CD of The Night the Music Died is being sold.
Posted by: Sam Moore
03 Feb 09 One Door Closes, Another Opens
A flip of a coin, the flu, bad weather and an inexperienced pilot changed the face of music at 1:00 AM, fifty years ago today. America woke up on February 3, 1959 to find that Charles Hardin Holley, Richard Steven Valenzuela and Jiles Perry Richardson, Jr. were killed in an early morning airplane accident. Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and J.P. Richardson (the Big Bopper) had played at the Surf Ballroom…
Posted by: John South
Tags: American Pie, Buddy Holly, Don McLean, J.P. Richardson, Lloyd Maines, Richie Valens, The Big Bopper
