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Buddy Holly
Buddy Holly in concert
Buddy Holly in concert
Background information
Birth name Charles Hardin Holley
Born September 7, 1936(1936-09-07),
Lubbock, Texas U.S.
Died February 3, 1959 (aged 22),
Clear Lake, Iowa, U.S.
Genre(s) Rock and roll , Rockabilly
Occupation(s) Singer-songwriter, Guitarist
Instrument(s) Vocals, Guitar, Piano, Fiddle, Violin
Years active 1949 – 1959
Label(s) Decca
Associated acts The Crickets
Influences Elvis Presley
Website BuddyHolly.com
Notable instrument(s)
Fender Stratocaster
Fender Telecaster

Charles Hardin "Buddy" Holley (September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959)[1] was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll. Events 1251 BC - A Solar eclipse on this date might mark the birth of legendary Heracles at Thebes Greece. Year 1936 ( MCMXXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Texas ( is a state geographically located in the South Central United States and is also known as the Lone Star State. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Events 1112 - Ramon Berenguer III of Barcelona and Douce I of Provence marry uniting the fortunes of those two states The year 1959 ( MCMLIX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Clear Lake is the largest natural Lake entirely in California, and has the largest surface area of any freshwater lake entirely in California the tenth largest by The State of Iowa ( is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States of America. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A music genre is a categorical and typological construct that identifies musical sounds as belonging to a particular category and type of music that can be distinguished from other Rock and roll (also known as rock 'n' roll) is a form of Music that evolved in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s with roots in mostly African Rockabilly is one of the earliest styles of Rock and roll music and emerged in the early 1950s Singer-songwriter is a term that refers to Performers who write, compose and sing their own material including Lyrics A guitarist is a Musician who plays the Guitar. Guitarists may perform solo pieces or play with ensembles and bands of a wide variety of genres A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified for the purpose of making Music. The guitar is a Musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles The piano is a Musical instrument played by means of a keyboard that produces sound by striking steel strings with Felt covered hammers The violin is a bowed String instrument with four strings usually tuned in Perfect fifths It is the smallest and highest-pitched member In the Music industry, a record label can be a Brand and a Trademark associated with the Marketing of music recordings and Music Decca Records is a British Record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis. The Crickets were a rock band from Lubbock Texas, formed by Singer / Songwriter Buddy Holly in the 1950s The Fender Stratocaster, often referred to as the Strat, is a model of Electric guitar designed by Leo Fender, George Fullerton and Freddie Tavares The Fender Telecaster, also known as the Tele (pronounced Telly is typically a dual-pickup solid-body Electric guitar made by Fender. Events 1251 BC - A Solar eclipse on this date might mark the birth of legendary Heracles at Thebes Greece. Year 1936 ( MCMXXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1112 - Ramon Berenguer III of Barcelona and Douce I of Provence marry uniting the fortunes of those two states The year 1959 ( MCMLIX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Singer-songwriter is a term that refers to Performers who write, compose and sing their own material including Lyrics Rock and roll (also known as rock 'n' roll) is a form of Music that evolved in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s with roots in mostly African The change of spelling of "Holley" to "Holly" came about because of an error in a contract he was asked to sign, listing him as Buddy Holly. [1] That spelling was then adopted for his professional career.

Although his success lasted only a year and a half before his death in an airplane crash, Holly is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most influential creative force in early rock and roll. The Day the Music Died refers to a plane crash occurring just after 100 a "[2] His works and innovations were copied by his contemporaries and later musicians, notably The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, and exerted a profound influence on popular music. The Beatles were a pop and rock band from Liverpool, England formed in 1960 In 2004, Rolling Stone Magazine ranked Holly #13 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. Rolling Stone is a United States -based Magazine devoted to Music, Politics, and Popular culture that is published [3]

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Biography

Charles Hardin Holley was born in Lubbock, Texas[1] to Lawrence Odell Holley and Ella Pauline Drake in 1936. The Holleys were a musical family and as a young boy Holley learned to play piano, guitar, fiddle and the violin (his brothers oiled the strings so much that no one could hear him play). In 1949 Buddy cut a demo of Hank Snow's 'My Two-Timin' Woman' on a home tape recorder, his first known recording. [4] During the fall of that year he met Bob Montgomery in Hutchinson Junior High School. Bob Montgomery (born May 12, 1937) is an American singer songwriter and music producer/publisher They shared a common interest in music and soon teamed up as the duo "Buddy and Bob. " Initially influenced by bluegrass music, they sang harmony duets at local clubs and high school talent shows. Bluegrass music is a form of American roots music, and is a sub-genre of Country music. His musical interests grew throughout high school while singing in the Lubbock High School Choir. [5]

Holly turned to rock music after seeing Elvis Presley sing live in Lubbock in early 1955. A few months later, he appeared on the same bill with Presley, also in Lubbock. Holly's transition to rock was finalized when he opened for Bill Haley & His Comets at a local rock show organized by Eddie Crandall, who was also the manager for Marty Robbins. This article is specifically about the rock and roll band See Bill Haley for biographical information regarding Haley himself Martin David Robinson ( September 26 1925 – December 8, 1982) was an American singer songwriter and multi-instrumentalist As a result of this performance, Holly was offered a contract with Decca Records to work alone, which he accepted. Decca Records is a British Record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis. According to the Amburn book (p. 45), his public name changed from "Holley" to "Holly" on February 8, 1956, when he signed the Decca contract. Events 421 - Constantius III becomes co- Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. Year 1956 ( MCMLVI) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Among the tracks recorded for Decca was an early version of "That'll Be The Day", which took its title from a phrase that John Wayne's character said repeatedly in the 1956 film, The Searchers. " That'll Be The Day " is a song written by Garth Salisbury and Buddy Holly and performed by various artists including Buddy Holly and The John Wayne ( May 26, 1907 &ndash June 11, 1979) was an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award -winning American The Searchers is a 1956 Epic Western film directed by John Ford, based on the 1954 novel by Alan Le May, which tells the story [6]

Back in Lubbock, Holly formed his own band, The Crickets and began making records at Norman Petty's studios in Clovis, New Mexico. The Crickets were a rock band from Lubbock Texas, formed by Singer / Songwriter Buddy Holly in the 1950s Norman Petty ( May 25, 1927 – August 15, 1984) was an American musician songwriter and pioneer Record producer Clovis is a City in and the County seat of Curry County, New Mexico, United States Norman had music industry contacts and believing that "That'll Be the Day" would be a hit single, he contacted publishers and labels. Coral Records, a subsidiary of Decca, signed Buddy Holly and The Crickets. For the label that owned Coral Records see Decca Records. This put Holly in the unusual position of having two record contracts at the same time. Before "That'll Be The Day" had its nationwide release, Holly played lead guitar on the hit-single "Starlight", recorded in April, 1957, featuring Jack Huddle. Jack Huddle (1928 - 1973 was an American rockabilly musician and songwriter The initial, unsuccessful version of "That'll Be The Day" played more slowly and about half an octave higher than the hit version.

Holly managed to bridge some of the racial divide that marked rock n' roll music. While Elvis made black music more acceptable to whites, Holly won over an all-black audience when the Crickets were accidentally booked at New York's Apollo Theater (though, unlike the immediate response depicted in the 1978 movie The Buddy Holly Story, it actually took several performances for his talents to be appreciated). For the Buddy Holly album see The Buddy Holly Story (album For the musical about Holly see Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story

After the release of several highly successful songs, Holly and the Crickets toured the United Kingdom in 1958. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located [7]

That same year, he met Maria Elena Santiago (born 1935 in San Juan, Puerto Rico) while she was working as a receptionist for Peer-Southern Music, a New York music publisher. San Juan (saŋ hwaŋ (from the Spanish San Juan Bautista, " Saint John the Baptist " is the Capital and largest municipality in Puerto Rico (ˌpwertoˈriko officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico ("Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico" {{lang-en|"Associated Free State of Puerto Rico"}} He proposed to her on their very first date. She initially thought he was kidding, but they were married in Lubbock, Texas on August 15, 1958, less than two months after they met. Events 778 - The Battle of Roncevaux Pass, at which Roland is killed Year 1958 ( MCMLVIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Maria traveled on some of the tours, doing everything from the laundry to equipment set-up to ensuring the group got paid.

The ambitious Holly became increasingly interested in the New York music/recording/publishing scene, while his easygoing bandmates wanted to go back home to Lubbock. As a result, in 1959, the group split.

Death

Main article: The Day the Music Died
Holly's headstone in the City of Lubbock Cemetery
Holly's headstone in the City of Lubbock Cemetery

Holly began a solo tour with other notable performers, including Dion DiMucci, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson. The Day the Music Died refers to a plane crash occurring just after 100 a Dion Francis DiMucci (born July 18 1939) better known as Dion, is an American Singer-songwriter who blended elements of Ritchie Valens ( Richard Steven Valenzuela; May 13 1941 February 3 1959) was an American singer songwriter and guitarist One night after a performance in Green Bay, Wisconsin at the Riverside Ballroom, the three headliners gave a show at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa on February 2, 1959. Green Bay is a city in and the County seat of Brown County in the U The Surf Ballroom is located in Clear Lake, Iowa. It was originally built in 1933 burned down in 1947 and rebuilt in 1948 across the street from its original location Clear Lake is a city in Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, United States. The State of Iowa ( is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States of America. Events 962 - Translatio imperii: Pope John XII crowns Otto I Holy Roman Emperor, the first Holy Roman Emperor The year 1959 ( MCMLIX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Afterwards, Buddy Holly chartered a Beechcraft Bonanza to take him and his new back-up band (Tommy Allsup and Waylon Jennings) to Fargo, North Dakota, enroute to play the next leg of the Winter Dance Party tour at the Armory in Moorhead, Minnesota. WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout Tommy Allsup (born November 24 1931, Owasso, Oklahoma) is an American Musician. Waylon Arnold Jennings ( June 15, 1937 &ndash February 13, 2002) was an influential American Country music Singer Fargo is a city in Cass County, North Dakota in the United States. North Dakota ( is a state located in the Midwestern and Western regions of the United States of America. Moorhead is a city in Clay County, Minnesota, United States, and the largest city in northwest Minnesota Carl Bunch missed the flight as he had been hospitalized with frostbite three days earlier. Carl Bunch (born November 24, 1939, in Big Spring Texas) is an American musician Frostbite ( congelatio in Medical terminology) is the Medical condition whereby damage is caused to Skin and other tissues [8] The Big Bopper asked Jennings for his spot on the four-seat plane, as he was recovering from the flu. Ritchie Valens was still signing autographs at the concert site when Allsup walked in and told him it was time to go. Ritchie Valens ( Richard Steven Valenzuela; May 13 1941 February 3 1959) was an American singer songwriter and guitarist Allsup pulled a 50 cent coin out of his pocket and the two men flipped for the seat. Allsup lost.

The plane took off in light snow and gusty winds at around 12:55 A. M. , but crashed after only a few minutes. The wreckage was discovered several hours later by the plane's owner, Jerry Dwyer, some 8 miles (13 km) from the airport on the property of Albert Juhl. The crash killed Holly, Valens, Richardson, and the 21-year-old pilot, Roger Peterson. Roger Arthur Peterson ( May 24, 1937 February 3, 1959) was the pilot of the aircraft whose crash claimed the lives of Rock and roll Holly's body, along with those of Valens and Richardson, was thrown from the wreckage. Holly and Valens lay 17 feet (5. 2 m) south of the wreckage and Richardson was thrown around 40 feet (12 m) to the north of the wreckage. The pilot's body remained in the wreckage. All had suffered severe and multiple injuries. Without any doubt, all had died on impact, with the plane hitting the ground at 170 mph (270 km/h). While theories abound as to the exact cause of the crash, an official determination of pilot error was rendered by the Civil Aeronautics Board. Pilot error (sometimes called cockpit error) is a term used to describe the cause of a crash of an airworthy Aircraft where the pilot is considered to be principally Governments have played an important part in shaping air transportation Although the crash received a good deal of local coverage, it was displaced in the national news by an accident that occurred the same day in New York City, when American Airlines Flight 320 crashed during an instrument landing approach at LaGuardia Airport, killing 65. The City of New York American Airlines Flight 320, registration N6101A was a Lockheed L-188A Electra en route from Chicago Midway International Airport to New York City LaGuardia Airport (ləˈɡwɑɹdiə is an airport located in Queens County on Long Island in the The City of New York. Don McLean referred to it as "The Day the Music Died". Donald McLean (born October 2 1945 in New Rochelle New York) is an American Singer-songwriter.

Holly's pregnant wife became a widow after barely six months of marriage and miscarried soon after. Miscarriage or spontaneous abortion is the natural or spontaneous end of a Pregnancy at a stage where the embryo or fetus is incapable of surviving generally defined

Holly's funeral services were held at 2:00 p. m. , Saturday, February 7, 1959 at the Tabernacle Baptist Church in Lubbock under the direction of Sanders Funeral Home. Events 457 - Leo I becomes emperor of the Byzantine Empire. 1074 - Battle of Montesarchio in which the Prince The year 1959 ( MCMLIX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. [9] His body was interred in the City of Lubbock Cemetery in the eastern part of the city. Holly's headstone carries the correct spelling of his surname (Holley) and a carving of his Fender Stratocaster guitar. The Fender Stratocaster, often referred to as the Strat, is a model of Electric guitar designed by Leo Fender, George Fullerton and Freddie Tavares

Posthumous record releases

Buddy Holly's music did not die with him. He had recorded so prolifically that his record label was able to release brand-new Buddy Holly albums and singles for 10 years after his death. Holly's simple demonstration recordings were overdubbed by studio musicians, to bring them up to then-commercial standards. The best of these records is often considered to be the first posthumous single, the 1959 coupling of "Peggy Sue Got Married" and "Crying, Waiting, Hoping", produced by Jack Hansen, with added backing vocals by the Ray Charles Singers in simulation of an authentic Crickets record. "Peggy Sue Got Married" is a song by Buddy Holly. It was released in 1959 as a 45-rpm single with " Crying Waiting Hoping " Crying Waiting Hoping is a song by Buddy Holly. It was released in 1959 as B-side to " Peggy Sue Got Married " "Crying, Waiting, Hoping" was actually supposed to be the "A" side of the 45, with the backup group effectively echoing Buddy's call-and-response vocal. The Hansen session, in which Holly's last six original compositions were overdubbed, was issued on the 1960 Coral LP The Buddy Holly Story, Vol. 2' '. An album by Buddy Holly, the second part to " The Buddy Holly Story " (1959

Buddy Holly continued to be promoted and sold as an “active” artist, and his records had a loyal following, especially in Europe. The demand for unissued Holly material was so great that Norman Petty resorted to overdubbing whatever he could find: alternate takes of studio recordings, originally rejected masters, “Crying, Waiting, Hoping” and the other five 1959 tracks (adding new surf-guitar arrangements), and even Holly's amateur demos from 1954 (where the low-fidelity vocals are often muffled behind the new orchestrations). The last new Buddy Holly album was Giant (featuring the single, “Love Is Strange”), issued in 1969. " Love Is Strange " was a 1957 Top 40 hit for Mickey & Sylvia, originally released on Groove Records a division of RCA Between the 1959-60 Jack Hansen overdubs, the 1960s Norman Petty overdubs, various alternate takes, and Holly's undubbed originals, collectors can often choose from multiple versions of the same song.

Style

Holly's music was sophisticated for its day, including the use of instruments considered novel for rock and roll, such as the celesta (heard on "Everyday"). A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified for the purpose of making Music. The celesta (pronounced /səˈlɛstə/ or celeste (pronounced /səˈlɛst/ is a struck Idiophone operated by a keyboard. Holly was an influential lead and rhythm guitarist, notably on songs such as "Peggy Sue" and "Not Fade Away". A guitarist is a Musician who plays the Guitar. Guitarists may perform solo pieces or play with ensembles and bands of a wide variety of genres " Peggy Sue " is a Rock and roll song written by Buddy Holly, Jerry Allison, and Norman Petty, and originally performed recorded and " Not Fade Away " is a song written by Buddy Holly and Norman Petty and performed by Holly the song's rhythm pattern is one of the classic examples of While Holly could pump out boy-loves-girl songs with the best of his contemporaries, other songs featured more sophisticated lyrics and more complex harmonies and melodies than had previously appeared in the genre.

Many of his songs feature a unique vocal "hiccup" technique, a glottal stop, to emphasize certain words in any given song, especially the rockers. This article is about the sound in spoken language For the letter see Glottal stop (letter. [1] Other singers (such as Elvis) have used a similar technique, though less obviously and consistently. Examples of this can be found at the start of the raucous "Rave On": "Weh-eh-ell, the little things you say and do, make me want to be with you-ou. . . "; in "That'll Be the Day": "Well, you give me all your lovin' and your -turtle dovin'. . . "; and in "Peggy Sue": "I love you Peggy Sue - with a love so rare and tr-ue . . . "

Influence

Contrary to popular belief, teenagers John Lennon and Paul McCartney did not attend a Holly concert; Tony Bramwell, a school friend of McCartney and George Harrison, did. John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (born Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE (born 18 June 1942 is an English rock Singer, Bass guitarist songwriter Composer, George Harrison, MBE (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001 was an English rock Guitarist Singer - Songwriter, Author Bramwell met Holly, and freely shared his records with all three. Lennon and McCartney later cited Holly as a primary influence. [10] (Their band's name, The Beatles, was chosen partly in homage to Holly's Crickets. The Beatles were a pop and rock band from Liverpool, England formed in 1960 ) The Beatles did a cover version of "Words of Love" that was a close reproduction of Holly's version. In Popular music, a cover version, or simply cover, is a new rendition ( Performance or Recording) of a previously recorded commercially released Fan McCartney owns the publishing rights to Holly's song catalogue. This article deals with contemporary Popular music publishing [11]

A young Bob Dylan attended the January 31, 1959 show, two nights before Holly's death. Bob Dylan (born Robert Zimmerman, May 24 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota) is an American singer-songwriter author poet and painter who has been a major Events 1504 - France cedes Naples to Aragon. 1606 - Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes The year 1959 ( MCMLIX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Dylan referred to this in his 1998 Grammy acceptance speech for his 1997 Time out of Mind winning Album of the Year:

"And I just want to say that when I was sixteen or seventeen years old, I went to see Buddy Holly play at Duluth National Guard Armory and I was three feet away from him. Time Out of Mind is Bob Dylan 's 30th Studio album, released in 1997 by Columbia Records. . . and he LOOKED at me. And I just have some sort of feeling that he was — I don't know how or why — but I know he was with us all the time we were making this record in some kind of way. "[12]

Various rock and roll histories have asserted that the singing group The Hollies were named in homage to Buddy Holly. The Hollies are an English Rock and roll band formed in the early 1960s. According to the band's website,[13] although the group admired Holly (and years later produced an album covering some of his songs), their name was inspired primarily by the sprigs of holly in evidence around Christmas of 1962. Holly ( Ilex) is a Genus of about 600 Species of Flowering plants in the family Aquifoliaceae, and the only However, the site also admits to a degree of uncertainty about that story.


Other followers

After the death of Buddy he would a leave a trail of followers from Bob Dylan, to Elvis Costello, Paul Simon and The Beatles. Bob Dylan (born Robert Zimmerman, May 24 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota) is an American singer-songwriter author poet and painter who has been a major Elvis Costello (born Declan Patrick MacManus 25 August 1954 is an English Musician and Singer-songwriter, with Irish ancestry Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13 1941 is an American Songwriter, Musician, and member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The Beatles were a pop and rock band from Liverpool, England formed in 1960

Tributes

Songs

Don McLean's popular 1971 ballad "American Pie" is inspired by the "The Day the Music Died" (the day of the plane crash). Donald McLean (born October 2 1945 in New Rochelle New York) is an American Singer-songwriter. In Jazz and Popular music, the term ballad denotes a short Song in a slow Tempo, usually with a romantic or sentimental text though the term " American Pie " is a Folk rock song by Singer-songwriter Don McLean. The Day the Music Died refers to a plane crash occurring just after 100 a He has also covered "Everyday. " Everyday " is a song by Buddy Holly and Norman Petty, recorded as a single by Buddy Holly and the Crickets on May 29 1957 and released "

Eddie Cochran, good friend and fellow rock 'n' roll pioneer was so distraught by the deaths of Holly, Valens and The Big Bopper that he recorded the song "Three Stars" as a tribute. Raymond Edward "Eddie" Cochran ( October 3, 1938 He took music lessons in school but quit the band to play drums Ironically, the song was not released until after Cochran's own premature death.

A 1980 Gyllene Tider song is called "Ska vi älska, så ska vi älska till Buddy Holly". Gyllene Tider is a famous Swedish pop group. The name "Gyllene Tider" means 'Golden ages' or 'Golden times' in English ("If We'll Make Love, We'll Make Love (listening) to Buddy Holly").

The Smithereens' song "Maria Elena" is a Buddy Holly tribute as sung to his widow. The Smithereens are a Rock band from Carteret, New Jersey, United States.

Blink 182 has a song named "Peggy Sue" which is a tribute to Holly. Blink-182 was an American Pop

Phil Ochs famously sang a long tribute to Buddy Holly on the infamous Gunfight at Carnegie Hall album. Philip David Ochs ( December 19 1940 – April 9 1976) was a U Gunfight At Carnegie Hall was Phil Ochs ' final album comprising songs recorded at the infamous gold-suited bomb-threat shortened first set at Carnegie Hall

Mike Berry released a 1961 single called "Tribute to Buddy Holly". For the cartoonist see Mike Berry (cartoonist. Not to be confused with 1960s singer Dave Berry. It was written by Geoff Goddard and produced by Joe Meek, who was a great Buddy Holly fan. Geoff Goddard (19 November 1937 Reading Berkshire – 15 May 2000 Reading Berkshire) was an English Songwriter. Joe Meek (born Robert George Meek; 5 April 1929 — 3 February 1967 in London) was a pioneering English Record producer and Songwriter In the USA, it was released on Coral, Buddy Holly's label. [14]

Weezer's self-titled debut album features the band's popular single "Buddy Holly". Weezer (ˈwizɚ is an American Alternative rock band from Los Angeles California formed in 1992 Weezer, often referred to as " The Blue Album " is the debut album by the American Alternative rock band Weezer. " Buddy Holly " is a song by the rock group Weezer, written by Rivers Cuomo.

The Dixie Chicks mentioned him in "Lubbock or Leave It" on Taking The Long Way - "International airport / A quarter after nine / Paris, Texas, Athens, Georgia's not what I had in mind / As I'm getting out I laugh to myself / 'cause this is the only place / Where as you're getting on the plane you see Buddy Holly's face / I hear they hate me now just like they hated you / Maybe when I'm dead and gone, I'm gonna get a statue too. The Dixie Chicks are a multiple Grammy Award -winning Country music group composed of three women Martie Maguire, Natalie Maines, and Emily "

In 1985 the German rock band Die Ärzte sang a song named "Buddy Hollys Brille" (Buddy Holly's glasses), in which they discussed in a humorous way the question of what happened to Buddy Holly's glasses after his death. Die Ärzte airtz-ah ( German for "The Doctors" is a punk band from Berlin.

Mac Davis' "Texas In My Rearview Mirror" also references Buddy Holly, with these lines:

Humming an old Buddy Holly tune called "Peggy Sue"
With my favorite jeans
And a cheap guitar
I ran off chasing a distant star
If Buddy Holly could make it that far
I figured I could too

"Sleep Walk" is an instrumental steel guitar-based song recorded and released in 1959 by Santo & Johnny. It was recorded at Trinity Music in Manhattan. "Sleep Walk" entered Billboard's 'Top 40' on August 17, 1959. Events 986 - A Byzantine army was destroyed in the pass of Trajan's Gate by the Bulgarians under the Comitopuli The year 1959 ( MCMLIX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. It rose to the No. 1 position for two weeks in September (the 21st and the 28th) and remained in the Top 40 list until November 9. It is also recognized as a tribute to Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper.

Musician Albert Hammond, Jr. has a cover of "Well. Albert Hammond Jr (born April 9 1980 Los Angeles, California) is a Musician and member of the Garage rock band, The Strokes . . Alright" on his 2007 album Yours To Keep. Yours to Keep, the debut solo album by The Strokes Guitarist Albert Hammond Jr, was released October 9, 2006 in the

Monuments

Fan monument in a private cornfield at the site of the airplane crash, near Clear Lake, Iowa
Fan monument in a private cornfield at the site of the airplane crash, near Clear Lake, Iowa

Downtown Lubbock has a "walk of fame" with plaques to various area artists such as Glenna Goodacre, Mac Davis, Maines Brothers Band, and Waylon Jennings, with a life-size statue of Buddy by sculptor Grant Speed (1980), playing his Fender guitar, as its centerpiece. Glenna Maxey Goodacre (born 1939 in Lubbock Texas, US) is a sculptor best known for having designed the Sacagawea dollar that entered circulation Morris Mac Davis, known as Mac Davis (born January 21, 1942) is a Country music Singer and Songwriter originally The Maines Brothers Band is a Texas-based Country music band The Maines Brothers for which the band was named are Lloyd Maines ( steel, rhythm Waylon Arnold Jennings ( June 15, 1937 &ndash February 13, 2002) was an influential American Country music Singer Downtown Lubbock also features Buddy Holly Avenue and the Buddy Holly Center, which is a museum dedicated to Texas art and music.

In 1988, Ken Paquette, a Wisconsin fan of the 1950s, erected a stainless steel monument at the site of the airplane crash, depicting a steel guitar and a set of three records bearing the names of each of the three performers. [15] It is located on private farmland approximately five miles north of Clear Lake. Clear Lake is a city in Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, United States. He also created a similar stainless steel monument to the three musicians at the Riverside Ballroom in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Green Bay is a city in and the County seat of Brown County in the U Wisconsin ( or wɪˈskɑnsɨn (French Ouisconsin) is one of the fifty United States of America, located in the north central part of the United States That memorial was unveiled on July 17, 2003. Events 180 - Twelve inhabitants of Scillium in North Africa are executed for being Christians Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. [16]

Other

The Surf Ballroom hosts an annual tribute on the anniversary of Holly's last performances. The Surf Ballroom is located in Clear Lake, Iowa. It was originally built in 1933 burned down in 1947 and rebuilt in 1948 across the street from its original location The 'Winter Dance Party Tour' is a tribute tour to Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, the Big Bopper and early rock and roll. It gets its name from the tour that ended the lives of Holly, Valens, and Richardson. This reproduction of the tour ends every year at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa.

Buddy Holly in popular culture

Film and musical depictions

Books

The science fiction novel Buddy Holly Is Alive and Well on Ganymede, by Bradley Denton (ISBN 0-688-10822-9 and ISBN 0-380-71876-6), begins when television sets throughout the world suddenly begin broadcasting a concert by an apparently living Buddy Holly, who says he is on Ganymede. Bradley Clayton Denton (born 1958 Towanda Kansas) is an award-winning American Science fiction author TemplateInfobox Planet.--> Ganymede (ˈgænɨmiːd, or as Greek

In Soul Music, part of Terry Pratchett's Discworld, a character by the name of Imp y Celyn appeared as a bard-cum-guitar-playing-rocker from the fictional Cymric country of Llamedos. Soul music is a Music genre that combines Rhythm and blues and Gospel music, originating in the United States. Terence David John Pratchett, OBE (born 28 April 1948 is an English fantasy, Science fiction, and children's author. Discworld is a comedic Fantasy Book series by the British author Terry Pratchett, set on the Discworld, a flat This article contains brief biographies for characters from Terry Pratchett 's Discworld series See also Discworld (world This article concerns the fictional geography of Terry Pratchett 's Discworld, featured in the long running series of He became the Disc's greatest musician under the name Buddy in the Band with Rocks In, before dying in a cart crash (a reference to Buddy Holly as Imp's name translates as "bud of the holly").

Television

"Oil", an episode of The Young Ones features Mike (Christopher Ryan) discovering Buddy Holly, alive and well and tangled in parachutes, in the attic of a house in London. The Young Ones was a popular British sitcom, first seen in 1982, on BBC2. Christopher Ryan (born 1942 in Bristol, England, UK) is an British Actor who trained at East 15 Acting School

A fictional version of a young pre-fame Buddy Holly is a main character in an episode of Quantum Leap, working as a veterinarian's assistant. Quantum Leap is an American science fiction television series that ran for 96 episodes from March 1989 to May 1993 on the NBC network [20]

Nirvana's music video for "In Bloom" has Kurt Cobain as Buddy Holly and the other members as The Crickets. " In Bloom " is a song by the American grunge band Nirvana.

In the Simpsons episode "Colonel Homer", the manager of the recording studio fondly recalled how "Buddy Holly stood on this spot in 1958 and said, 'There is no way in hell, I am gonna record in this dump. " Colonel Homer " is the twentieth episode of The Simpsons ' third season. '" In a later episode, Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper appear on an Itchy and Scratchy cartoon. Itchy sabotages the plane's engine, resulting in the crash that kills the musicians and pilot Scratchy. In yet another episode, Lisa discovers Sideshow Bob had won election as mayor through votes by her two dead cats, Snowball I and Snowball II, as well as Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper (whose tombstone reads "good bye, baaaaby!!").

In an episode of the MTV series Clone High, Holly "guest stars", along with Ritchie Valens, the Big Bopper, and several other musicians who died in plane crashes. Clone High (occasionally referred to in the US as Clone High U

In episode "Victor Echo November" of The Venture Bros., Triana Orpheus says that Dean Venture "dresses like Buddy Holly, but I think he does it by accident". " Victor Echo November " is an episode of the animated television series The Venture Bros The Venture Bros (alternatively The Venture Brothers) is an American Animated television series airing as part of Adult Swim

In the Miami Vice episode "Heart of Darkness", Crockett gets mad at Elvis, his pet alligator for devouring his "entire Buddy Holly collection". Miami Vice is an American Television series produced by Michael Mann for NBC. Miami Vice is an American Television series produced by Michael Mann for NBC. for differences between alligators and crocodiles please see Crocodilia An Alligator is a Crocodilian in the Genus

In episode "Cabin Fever", of "Lost", John Locke's mother is dancing to Holly's "Everyday". " Cabin Fever " is the eleventh episode of the American Broadcasting Company 's fourth season of the serial drama Lost is an Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning American serial drama television series. John Locke, most often referred to by his surname is a Fictional character on the ABC television series Lost played by Terry O'Quinn " Everyday " is a song by Buddy Holly and Norman Petty, recorded as a single by Buddy Holly and the Crickets on May 29 1957 and released

Discography

Main article: Buddy Holly discography

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Buddy Holly - Singer/Songwriter. This article serves as a Discography for Buddy Holly. Holly recorded under several names and with several different backing bands BBC.
  2. ^ "Buddy Holly" by Bruce Eder for Allmusic. com; accessed 09 January 2007
  3. ^ The Immortals: The First Fifty. Events 475 - Byzantine Emperor Zeno is forced to flee his capital at Constantinople. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Rolling Stoner Issue 946. Rolling Stone.
  4. ^ Buddy Holly Center: Timeline: 1936 - 1956
  5. ^ Lubbock High School. Hutchinson Junior High.
  6. ^ That'll Be the Day. Rollingstone.
  7. ^ The Buddy Holly Story. Rick Thorne.
  8. ^ BuddyHollyOnline.com - Most Frequently Asked Questions About Buddy Holly
  9. ^ Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, Morning Edition, February 7, 1959, Section 1, Page 3
  10. ^ John Lennon on Buddy Holly@Everything2.com
  11. ^ Sir Paul's fortune boosted. Lubbock Avalanche-Journal is a Newspaper based in Lubbock Texas, U Events 457 - Leo I becomes emperor of the Byzantine Empire. 1074 - Battle of Montesarchio in which the Prince The year 1959 ( MCMLIX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. BBC.
  12. ^ Bob Dylan 980225 at the Grammy Awards. The Starlight, Starbright Tour.
  13. ^ http://www.hollies.co.uk/goldmineintro.html.
  14. ^ http://www.geocities.com/shakin_stacks/mikeberry.txt Mike Berry biography
  15. ^ Findadeath
  16. ^ The Day the Music Died - Music Articles
  17. ^ Buddy Holly and the Cricketers
  18. ^ Youtube - Buddy Holly And The Cricketers
  19. ^ The Day the Music Died
  20. ^ "Quantum Leap": How the Tess Was Won - August 5, 1956 (1989) at the Internet Movie Database

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