Allsup lost a coin toss to Ritchie Valens for his seat on the plane, while Jennings gave up his seat to J. P. Richardson, who was suffering from a cold and complaining about how uncomfortable a long bus trip was for a man of his size.

Big Bopper Richardson, who was affected by the flu swapped Waylon Jennings ' place on the plane, while Tommy Allsup lost his place to Ritchie Valens on a coin toss.

Meanwhile, Ritchie Valens, who had once had a fear of flying, asked Tommy Allsup for his seat on the plane.

Holly's guitarist, Tommy Allsup, agreed to flip a coin with Ritchie Valens for the remaining seat ; Valens won.

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

On September 10, Jennings recorded the songs " Jolie Blon " and " When Sin Stops ( Love Begins )", with Holly and Tommy Allsup on guitars with saxophonist King Curtis.

After a show in Clear Lake, Iowa, Holly chartered a plane for himself, Allsup and Jennings to avoid a long bus trip to Fargo, North Dakota.

Jennings and Allsup continued the tour for two more weeks, featuring Jennings as the lead singer.

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.

Waylon Jennings and Tommy Allsup continued the tour for two more weeks, featuring Jennings as the lead singer.

In 2009, a 50th anniversary concert was held on February 2nd at the Surf, including artists such as Graham Nash, Peter and Gordon, Tommy Allsup, and the son of the Big Bopper JP Richardson, Jr.

Holly now recorded under his own name with studio musicians Tommy Allsup and Carl Bunch.

Music and poetry were highlights of the festival, which featured performers Leon Rausch, Tommy Allsup and the Texas Playboys ; Mel Tillis and the Statesiders ; Larry Gatlin ; Billy Mata, and Liz Talley.

The Mayor of Warr Acres is Pat Woolley and the city council is composed of David Dirkschneider, Jan Blake, Roger Godwin, Bill McClure, Dr. Stewart Shapiro, Blayne Allsup, Cathy Maxey and Doug Davis.

Shortly after abandoning the Redwood moniker, the vocalists hired a group of backing musicians – Michael Allsup on guitar, Floyd Sneed on drums, Joe Schermie from the Cory Wells Blues Band on bass, and Jimmy Greenspoon on keyboards – and soon became one of the most successful bands in the United States during the late 1960s and early 1970s.

In late 1974, Allsup & Sneed left to form a new band, SS Fools, with Schermie.

Two guitarists, Paul Kingery and Steve Ezzo, occasionally played with the band, filling in for Allsup for the next two years, and eventually replacing Allsup when he departed in late 1984 to take care of some personal and family matters.

Allsup returned to the group in the spring of 1991, and Pat Bautz succeeded Keely as drummer in 1993.

The current lineup features founding members Wells, Hutton, Greenspoon and Allsup, along with longtime members Paul Kingery and Pat Bautz.

( The personal diary of Percy Allsup, an Accrington Pal, is listed below in the external links.

In 378, Valens decided to take control himself.

Valens ' officers also recommended that he wait for Gratian, but Valens decided to fight without waiting, ready to claim the ultimate prize.

Valens decided to execute Pap and invited him to a meeting in Tarsus.

After al-Hawari's death, the Roman emperor Valens, an Arian heterodox, decided to disregard the requests of the Arabs for an orthodox bishop, insisting on the appointment of an Arian bishop instead.

Valens won the coin toss and with it, a seat on the flight.

Solidus ( coin ) | Solidus of Emperor Valens

A coin of Valens dates this activity to shortly after 364 AD.

He overpowers Musso, locks him in his closet, then goes to the pet cemetery where, once again, Valens must decide whether to pull the trigger on someone who is pointing a gun directly at him.

* 378 – Gothic War: Battle of Adrianople – A large Roman army led by Emperor Valens is defeated by the Visigoths in present-day Turkey.

Valens is killed along with over half of his army.

The Roman Emperors Constantius II ( 337 – 361 ) and Valens ( 364 – 378 ) were Arians or Semi-Arians.

However, to minimize the extent of the movement ignores the facts that at least two Roman emperors, Constantius II and Valens, became Arians, as did prominent Gothic, Vandal and Lombard warlords both before and after the fall of the Western Roman Empire.

The Emperor Valens, however, revived Constantius ' policy and supported the " Homoian " party, exiling bishops and often using force.

Valens died in the Battle of Adrianople in 378 and was succeeded by Theodosius I, who adhered to the Nicene creed.

In this, the emperor was assisted by five chief lawyers: L. Fulvius Aburnius Valens, an author of legal treatises ; L. Volusius Maecianus, chosen to conduct the legal studies of Marcus Aurelius, and author of a large work on Fidei Commissa ( Testamentary Trusts ); L. Ulpius Marcellus, a prolific writer ; and two others.

He was residing in Antioch in 372 when one Theodorus was thought to have been identified by divination as a new Emperor, the successor to Valens.

At Rome, he wrote in Latin a history of the Roman empire from the accession of Nerva ( 96 ) to the death of Valens at the Battle of Adrianople ( 378 ), in effect writing a continuation of the history of Tacitus.

Two years later, the Emperor Valens, who favored the Arian position, in his turn exiled Athanasius.

This time however, Athanasius simply left for the outskirts of Alexandria, where he stayed for only a few months before the local authorities convinced Valens to retract his order of exile.

Valens, who seems to have sincerely dreaded the possible consequences of a popular outbreak, gave orders within a few weeks for the return of Athanasius to his episcopal see.

Fifth exile: under Emperor Valens, 4 months Oct 365 – 31 Jan 366 ; in his father's tomb.

In the spring of 365, after the accession of Emperor Valens to the throne, troubles again arose.

If the Bastarnae remained an identifiable group, it is highly likely that they participated in the vast Gothic-led migration, driven by Hunnic pressure, that was admitted into Moesia by emperor Valens in 376 and eventually defeated and killed Valens at Adrianople in 378.

Holly was offered a spot in the Winter Dance Party, a three-week tour across the Midwest opening on January 23, 1959, by the GAC agency, with other notable performers such as Dion and the Belmonts, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. " The Big Bopper " Richardson.

Holly, Valens, Richardson and the pilot were killed en route to Moorhead, Minnesota, when their plane crashed soon after taking off from nearby Mason City in the early morning hours of February 3.

He is featured performing at the Surf Ballroom and boarding the doomed airplane with Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper.

The Day the Music Died: The Last Tour of Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valens.