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.

Holly was always called " Buddy " by his family.

Unlike the immediate acceptance shown in the 1978 movie The Buddy Holly Story, it actually took several performances for the audience to warm up to him.

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.

Buddy Holly on The Ed Sullivan Show with Ed Sullivan, January 26, 1958, New York.

According to Billy Altman's liner notes to the Geffen / Universal compilation, Buddy Holly: The Definitive Collection, in addition to " True Love Ways ", during the October 1958 sessions at Decca's Pythian Temple, Holly also recorded two other songs, " It Doesn't Matter Anymore " and " Raining In My Heart.

" Although the plane came down only five miles northwest of the airport, no one saw or heard the crash ", wrote rock performer, archivist and music historian, Harry Hepcat, in his article about Buddy Holly.

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.

In his biography of rock legend Elton John, Philip Norman recounted that by his early teens, John ( then known as Reg Dwight ) was wearing glasses " not because he needed them, but in homage to Buddy Holly.

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

" In an August 24, 1978, Rolling Stone interview, Bruce Springsteen told Dave Marsh, " I play Buddy Holly every night before I go on ; that keeps me honest.

Various rock and roll histories have asserted the singing group The Hollies were named in homage to Buddy Holly.

On September 7, 1994 ( Holly's 58th birthday ), Weezer released their single, " Buddy Holly ".

Buddy Holly released only three albums in his lifetime.

Buddy Holly continued to be promoted and sold as an " active " artist, and his records had a loyal following, especially in Europe.

The last new Buddy Holly album was Giant ( featuring the single " Love Is Strange "), issued in 1969.

Listen to Me: Buddy Holly is being produced by Peter Asher and includes contributions from Stevie Nicks, The Fray, Cobra Starship, Jeff Lynne, Train's Pat Monahan, Patrick Stump, Jackson Browne, Chris Isaak, Natalie Merchant, Imelda May, Ringo Starr, Lyle Lovett, Zooey Deschanel, Brian Wilson and more.

Holly's life story inspired a Hollywood biographical film, The Buddy Holly Story ( 1978 ).

This led Paul McCartney to produce and host his own documentary about Holly in 1985, titled The Real Buddy Holly Story.

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.

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* The Crickets, a rock and roll band formed by Buddy Holly

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 ).

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

I was two weeks pregnant, and I wanted Buddy to stay with me, but he had scheduled that tour.

And I blame myself because I know that, if only I had gone along, Buddy never would have gotten into that airplane.

Buddy Rogers often gave guests tours of Pickfair, including views of a genuine western bar Pickford had bought for Douglas Fairbanks, and a portrait of Pickford in the drawing room.

By 1959, the death of Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens in a plane crash, the departure of Elvis for the army, the retirement of Little Richard to become a preacher, prosecutions of Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry, and the breaking of the payola scandal ( which implicated major figures, including Alan Freed, in bribery and corruption in promoting individual acts or songs ), gave a sense that the initial rock and roll era had come to an end.

Eddie Cochran and fellow Texan Buddy Holly — both of whom Orbison had previously toured with — had died, to Orbison's deep astonishment.

He was first married to Maxine Caroll Lawrence in 1956 at age 18, with whom he had four children: Terry Vance Jennings ( born January 21, 1957 ), Julie Rae Jennings ( born August 12, 1958 ), Buddy Dean Jennings ( born March 21, 1960 ), and Deana Jennings.

" The slogan had also been used by both Bosko and Buddy and even Beans at the end of every Looney Tunes cartoon.

Since Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising had left the studio in 1933, taking the studio's star character Bosko with them, Looney Tunes had been kept afloat by cartoons featuring the bland Buddy.

I was two weeks pregnant, and I wanted Buddy to stay with me, but he had scheduled that tour.

And I blame myself because I know that, if only I had gone along, Buddy never would have gotten into that airplane.

The remainder of the album consisted of cover versions, several of which had been staples of The Beatles ' live shows years earlier, especially in Hamburg, Germany and at The Cavern in Liverpool, including Chuck Berry's " Rock and Roll Music ", Buddy Holly's " Words of Love ", and two by Carl Perkins, " Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby ", sung by Harrison and " Honey Don't ", sung by Ringo Starr.

No reason for the dissolution of the show was given, but Thompson did say that Buddy Cole now had his own blog instead, written and updated by Thompson himself.

Producer Buddy DeSylva, who also had written the book and lyrics, was certain it could be reworked into a success and, with a revamped script and additional songs by Vincent Youmans, it opened with the new title Take a Chance on November 26 at the Apollo, where it ran for 243 performances.

They were forced to withdraw from Fireman Save My Child in 1954 due to Costello's poor health — he had been plagued by heart problems all his life due to a childhood bout of rheumatic fever — and were replaced by lookalikes Hugh O ' Brian and Buddy Hackett.

Axton, however, agreed a publishing deal with Buddy Killen, a young Nashville bass player, who had recently set up his own publishing company called Tree Publishing.

The couple had two children, Diane and husband Buddy Grammer and Johnny and wife Kathy Brandon, all of Lubbock ; four grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren.

When he questions them, he learns that the bandleader had many enemies, among them Buddy Hollis.

He was identified by his Yiddish name, Moishe Selig, when he had his belated bar mitzvah in " Buddy Sorrell – Man and Boy.

There are also a few antecedents to folk rock present in pre-British Invasion American rock ' n ' roll, including Elvis Presley's 1954 cover of the Bill Monroe bluegrass standard " Blue Moon of Kentucky "; Buddy Holly's self-penned material, which strongly influenced both Dylan and The Byrds ; Ritchie Valens ' recording of the Mexican folk song " La Bamba "; Lloyd Price's rock ' n ' roll adaptation of the African-American folk song " Stagger Lee " ( which had originally been recorded by Mississippi John Hurt in 1928 ); Jimmie Rodgers ' rock ' n ' roll flavored renditions of traditional folk songs ; and the folk and country-influenced recordings featured on The Everly Brothers ' 1959 album, Songs Our Daddy Taught Us.

Stock had also worked on the band's debut single ( a cover of Buddy Holly's " Not Fade Away ", with an original composition, " You Can't Fight It ", on the B-side ).