Holly helped win over an all-black audience to rock and roll / rockabilly when the Crickets were booked at New York's Apollo Theater for August 16 – 22, 1957.

The Crickets were only the second white rock group to tour Great Britain.

American-born entrepreneur Lee Gordon, who arrived in Australia in 1953, played a key role in establishing the popularity of rock & roll with his famous " Big Show " tours, which brought to Australia many leading American rock ' n ' roll acts including Bill Haley & His Comets, Little Richard, Bo Diddley, Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent, Buddy Holly & The Crickets and Jerry Lee Lewis.

The Crickets are a rock & roll band from Lubbock, Texas, formed by singer / songwriter Buddy Holly in the 1950s.

In 1964, The Crickets recorded their version of the rock and surf song " California Sun " for their album of the same title.

The film opens with Buddy Holly's beginnings as a teenager in Lubbock, Texas and his emergence into the world of rock and roll with his fictional good friends and bandmates, drummer Jesse Charles ( Don Stroud ) and bass player Ray Bob Simmons ( Charles Martin Smith ), soon to be known as The Crickets.

As a result Beat bands were heavily influenced by American groups of the era, such as Buddy Holly and the Crickets ( from which group The Beatles gained the model for their name, combining it with a pun on the beat in their music ), and to a lesser extent by British rock and roll groups such as The Shadows.

He established himself with a record-breaking tour by American singer Johnnie Ray and Gordon's now-legendary " Big Show " promotions brought to Australia — in many cases for the first or only time — dozens of the biggest American jazz, rock and popular stars of the era, including Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Artie Shaw, Nat King Cole, Johnnie Ray, Frank Sinatra, Bill Haley & The Comets, Little Richard, Buddy Holly & The Crickets, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry and many others.

Cornell had two coincidental links with the rock music which swept him into obscurity a year or two later He recorded on the same record label-Vogue Records-as Buddy Holly and the Crickets, who gave the label their only other UK number ones ; and he also put out a single of the song " Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues ", which Holly heard, liked and subsequently recorded.

Holly formed his own band, later to be called The Crickets, consisting of Holly ( lead guitar and vocals ), Niki Sullivan ( guitar ), Joe B. Mauldin ( bass ), and Jerry Allison ( drums ).

He assembled a backing band consisting of Tommy Allsup ( guitar ), Waylon Jennings ( bass ) and Carl Bunch ( drums ), and billed them as The Crickets.

From listening to their recordings, one had difficulty determining if the Crickets, the name of Buddy's band, were white or black singers.

After terminating his partnership with The Crickets, Buddy Holly assembled a new band consisting of Waylon Jennings, Tommy Allsup and Carl Bunch to be a part of the " Winter Dance Party " tour.

Years later, The Beatles chose their band name partly in homage to The Crickets.

The Crickets, now a trio, continued to make stage and TV appearances, and recorded more songs, many composed by the band members themselves.

Some disc jockeys referred to the band as " Buddy Holly and The Crickets ," but the record labels never used this wording until after Holly's death.

On April 14, 2012, The Crickets were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by a special committee, aimed at correcting the mistake of not including the band with Buddy Holly when he was first inducted in 1986.

Fuller and his band returned to El Paso and continued to release regional hits, the most popular being " I Fought the Law ," originally by the Crickets.

Meanwhile, the Crickets, feeling nostalgic, appear unexpectedly at Maria's door, expressing their desire to reunite the band.

The name of the band translated in English means The Crickets.

They settled down in Lubbock until Buddy broke up with his band, The Crickets, and they moved to New York.

" I Fought the Law " is a song written by Sonny Curtis of The Crickets and became popularized by a cover by the Bobby Fuller Four, which went on to become a top-ten hit for the band in 1966 and was also recorded by The Clash in 1979.

They formed as Brian Poole & the Tremoloes ( the Tremoloes being the backing group to Brian Poole, and the name soon being changed thanks to the spelling mistake of an Essex newspaper ) influenced by Buddy Holly and The Crickets.

Sullivan said, " I guess The Crickets are not too excited to be on The Ed Sullivan Show ," to which Holly, still annoyed by Sullivan's attitude, replied, " I hope they're damn more excited than I am.

As the Crickets recalled in John Goldrosen's book The Buddy Holly Story, they were inspired by other groups named after birds.

The Crickets released " The Crickets and Their Buddies " in 2004 which features several classics from all parts of their career featuring guest appearances by several prominent artists including Eric Clapton, Rodney Crowell, Waylon Jennings, Nanci Griffith, John Prine, Graham Nash, Bobby Vee, Tonio K. and more.

With Powell reinstated, the group went on to release " Love's Made a Fool of You ," another Crickets cover ( written by Buddy Holly and Bob Montgomery and recorded by Holly as a demo, reportedly intended for the Everly Brothers, though never recorded by that duo ).

Records by Buddy Holly and Buddy Holly and the Crickets were released on the co-owned Coral Records.

Four singles were taken from it: " Free Me ", written by Hélène Muddiman " Maybe ", written by Yak Bondy " I'll Be There " written by Hélène Muddiman and " Crickets Sing For Anamaria ".

His hit, the blues ballad " It's Too Late ( She's Gone )" was covered by other artists, including Otis Redding, Roy Orbison, Buddy Holly and the Crickets, Eric Clapton's Derek and the Dominos and the Jerry Garcia Band.

The song was written in 1958 by Sonny Curtis, and recorded in 1959 when he joined the Crickets, taking the place of the late Buddy Holly on guitar.

These beat bands were heavily influenced by American groups of the era, such as Buddy Holly and the Crickets ( from which group The Beatles derived their name ), as well as earlier British groups such as The Shadows.

As Holly was signed both as a solo artist and a member of the Crickets, two debut albums were released: The " Chirping " Crickets on November 27, 1957 and Buddy Holly on February 20, 1958.

Buddy Holly and the Crickets toured Australia in January 1958 and the UK in March.

In the liner notes to Buddy Holly: The Definitive Collection, Billy Altman notes that " Peggy Sue " was originally written as " Cindy Lou " ( after Holly's niece ), but Holly changed it prior to recording as a tip of the hat to Crickets drummer Jerry Allison's girlfriend, Peggy Sue Gerron.

Ian Whitcomb said " Buddy Holly and the Crickets had the most influence on the Beatles.

The Center is located on Crickets Ave, one street over from Buddy Holly Ave, in what used to be the Fort Worth and Denver South Plains Railway Depot.

* Buddy Holly And The Crickets. com

Buddy Holly and the Crickets had first appeared on the Sullivan show in 1957, singing two songs and making a favorable impression on Sullivan.

He cut the Crickets ' act from two songs to one, and when introducing them mispronounced Holly's name, so it came out vaguely as " Buddy Hollett.

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

In February 1996, The Band with The Crickets recorded " Not Fade Away ", released on the tribute album Not Fade Away ( Remembering Buddy Holly ).

Buddy Holly terminated his association with The Crickets and his manager Norman Petty during a reunion in Lubbock, Texas, on November 3, 1958.

The Crickets were lead guitarist and vocalist Buddy Holly, drummer Jerry Allison, bassist Joe B. Mauldin, and rhythm guitarist Niki Sullivan.

The solo vocals went out as " Buddy Holly " and the songs with dubbed backing vocals were issued as " The Crickets.

Allison, and Sonny Curtis ( a friend and collaborator with Buddy ) began recording new songs as The Crickets, with Earl Sinks on vocals.

* The " Chirping " Crickets ( 1957, with Buddy Holly )

* Buddy Holly & The Crickets Online

On January 26, 1958, for their second appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, Buddy Holly and the Crickets were scheduled to perform two songs.