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.

In August 1957, the Crickets were the only white performers on a national tour including black neighborhood theaters.

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.

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

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

They were then considering insects-centered names, apparently unaware of the Bronx R & B vocal group The Crickets, who recorded for Jay-Dee.

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.

On October 28, 2008, The Crickets were inducted into the Musicians ' Hall of Fame in Nashville, Tennessee.

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.

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

During the afternoon the Crickets were summoned to rehearsal at short notice, but only Holly was in their dressing room.

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 ".

Four singles were taken from it: " Free Me ", " Maybe ", " I'll Be There " and " Crickets Sing For Anamaria ".

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.

The last British-built Crickets were actually imported into the U. S. in the later part of 1972 but were sold until mid-1973 as " 1973 " models.

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.

Crickets were everywhere, often ruining shots by jumping on actors ' shoulders or chirping loudly.

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.

In the fall of 1958 it was documented and accepted by all involved parties, including Norman and his wife that there was roughly $ 50, 000 in a special account designated to Buddy Holly and the Crickets, but only Norman was able to withdraw money from that account.

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.

British pop singer Emma Bunton's recording of " Crickets Sing for Anamaria " became the fourth and final single from her second solo album Free Me, released in 2004.

" Crickets " debuted and peaked at number fifteen in the United Kingdom, her second single not to reach the top ten ( the first being " We're Not Gonna Sleep Tonight ").

The Crickets DVD was a promotional item that was to be given away with copies of Dredg's second album, El Cielo, on tour.

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

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.

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 ).

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.

Mauldin became the bassist in the group The Crickets, which included Buddy Holly and drummer Jerry Allison and guitarist Niki Sullivan.

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.

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 ).

Petty contacted music publishers and labels, and Brunswick Records, a subsidiary of Decca, signed the Crickets on March 19, 1957.

On May 27, 1957, " That'll Be The Day " was released as a single, credited to the Crickets to try to bypass Decca's claimed legal rights.

The Crickets performed " That'll Be the Day " and " Peggy Sue " on The Ed Sullivan Show on December 1.

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.

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

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

( Their bug-themed band's name, The Beatles, was chosen partly in homage to Holly's Crickets.

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.

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.

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 )

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 are now recognized in Lubbock, Texas, with a downtown avenue named in their honor.