* 1951 – Buddy Bell, American baseball player and manager

* 1904 – Charles " Buddy " Rogers, American actor and trombonist ( d. 1999 )

* 1926 – Buddy Greco, American singer and pianist

* 1908 – Buddy Ebsen, American actor and dancer ( d. 2003 )

* 1961 – Buddy Jewell, American singer-songwriter

* 1999 – Charles ' Buddy ' Rogers, American actor and jazz musician ( b. 1904 )

The Beverly Hillbillies is an American situation comedy originally broadcast for nine seasons on CBS from 1962 to 1971, starring Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, and Max Baer, Jr.

Charles Hardin Holley ( September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959 ), known professionally as Buddy Holly, was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll.

Twelve years later, in 1971, Don McLean released his single, " American Pie ”, to commemorate Buddy Holly ’ s death and further accentuate the loss of the United States ’ innocence.

* 1916 – Buddy Cole, American pianist ( d. 1964 )

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.

* 1913 – George Holmes " Buddy " Tate, American jazz musician ( d. 2001 )

* 1941 – Buddy Baker, American race car driver

* 1909 – Buddy Adler, American film producer ( d. 1960 )

* 1930 – Buddy Bregman, American conductor and producer

* 1936 – Buddy Guy, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

* 1936 – Buddy Merrill, American guitarist

* 1964 – Buddy Cole, American jazz pianist and orchestra leader ( b. 1916 )

* 1967 – Buddy Lazier, American race car driver

American rock and roll acts such as Elvis Presley, Little Richard and Buddy Holly thereafter became major forces in the British charts.

This style of show was the prototype for many later American TV series, such as Alias Smith and Jones, The Incredible Hulk, Run For Your Life, Renegade, and the spoof Run, Buddy, Run.

* 1917 – Buddy Rich, American drummer, bandleader, and actor ( d. 1987 )

* 1936 – Buddy Holly, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( The Crickets ) ( d. 1959 )

* 1947 – Buddy Miles, American singer-songwriter and drummer ( The Electric Flag and The California Raisins ) ( d. 2008 )

** Charles " Buddy " Rogers, American silent film actor ( b. 1904 )

Orbison became one of the first recording artists to popularize the Nashville Sound, a trend of country and pop crossover music that used session musicians dubbed the A-Team: guitarists Grady Martin, Harold Bradley, Ray Edenton, and Bob Moore ; pianists Floyd Cramer or Hargus " Pig " Robbins ; drummer Buddy Harman ; and backup vocals by the Jordanaires or the Anita Kerr Singers.

Burke returned to his country roots with the release on September 26, 2006 of a 14-track country album titled Nashville, produced by Buddy Miller.

Burke was joined by a host of top country stars and backed by Buddy Miller and his band at the Belcourt Theatre in Nashville, Tennessee on September 25, 2006 for a one-off concert to celebrate the release of Nashville.

Hazlewood then produced Sanford Clark's 1956 hit, " The Fool ", featuring guitarist Al Casey, while Eddy and Delbridge performed and appeared on radio stations in Phoenix before joining Buddy Long's Western Melody Boys, playing country music in and around the city.

* 13 Waylon Jennings, 64, country music performer, actor, disc jockey, former member of Buddy Holly's band.

After having recorded 12 Golden Country Greats, an album of ten country tunes Ween had written over the years with the help of Charlie McCoy, Buddy Harman, Bobby Ogdin and many other legendary session players in Nashville, he married longtime girlfriend Ellen Schmit ( whom he met when she pulled up in her pickup truck at his job pumping gas at a Mobil Station ).

During the 1960s-1980s an independent label out of Fort Worth known as Bluebonnet recorded numerous albums of high quality material by many pioneer artists in the country music and religious field such as Bradley Kincaid, The Girls of the Golden West, Buddy Starcher, Yodelin ' Kenny Roberts, and many other country music and gospel pioneers, many of whom had been popular on radio in the ' 20s-40s.

However, her interpretations of country songs " Buddy " and " Trouble " gained the attention of Rock ' n ' Roll star Eddie Cochran, who arranged for her to travel to California to meet his girlfriend, singer-songwriter Sharon Sheeley, who formed a writing partnership with DeShannon in 1960.

Rock and roll has also been seen as leading to a number of distinct sub-genres, including rockabilly ( see below ) in the 1950s, combining rock and roll with " hillbilly " country music, which was usually played and recorded in the mid-1950s by white singers such as Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly and with the greatest commercial success, Elvis Presley.

Buddy Jewell Jr. ( born April 2, 1961 ) is an American country music singer who was the first winner on the USA Network talent show Nashville Star.

Buddy Jewell sold 500, 000 copies and earned a gold certification from the Recording Industry Association of America ( RIAA ), in addition to producing a second number three country hit in " Sweet Southern Comfort ", which also reached number 40 on the pop charts.

Bringing in a wide variety of seasoned ( and sometimes legendary ) Nashville musicians ( including Charlie McCoy, Buddy Spicher, Bobby Ogdin and The Jordanaires ), the album sought to recreate the sound of golden-age country music with a great amount of success, while also combining this sound with classic Ween on such tracks as " Piss Up a Rope.

* Buddy Jewell, country music singer

US country musicians Buddy Miller and Julie Miller added guitars and vocals to four tracks.

Rock and roll has been seen as leading to a number of distinct sub-genres, including rockabilly, combining rock and roll with " hillbilly " country music, which was usually played and recorded in the mid-1950s by white singers such as Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly and with the greatest commercial success, Elvis Presley.

Banker Drysdale managed the millions of dollars in oil money royalties in the bank account of country gentleman Jed Clampett ( portrayed by Buddy Ebsen ).

He also worked with other big bands, with singer and former Goodman " bop band " pianist Buddy Greco and the Sharps, as well as with several country western groups.

* Buddy Williams ( country musician ), known as the yodeling jackaroo

He had earlier received the Buddy Award og Foreningen norske jazzmusikeres « Årets jazzmusiker » ( 1992 ) in his home country Norway.

Beginning in 1957 the Bryants came to national prominence in both country music and pop music when they wrote a string of hugely successful songs for the Everly Brothers and hits for others such as Roy Orbison and Buddy Holly.

As Goodwill Ambassador, he travels the country attending Buddy Walks, making public appearances, speaking with the press and greeting fans.

Following on from Seth and Scott's former rock band Nemo, the Avett Brothers combine bluegrass, country, punk, pop melodies, folk, rock and roll, honky tonk, and ragtime to produce a sound described by the San Francisco Chronicle as having the " heavy sadness of Townes Van Zandt, the light pop concision of Buddy Holly, the tuneful jangle of the Beatles, the raw energy of the Ramones.