{"id":113,"date":"2021-09-19T09:29:09","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T09:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/o5go.com\/music\/?page_id=113"},"modified":"2021-09-19T09:29:10","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T09:29:10","slug":"buddy-holly","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/o5go.com\/music\/buddy-holly\/","title":{"rendered":"Buddy Holly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Buddy Holly<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/m.youtube.com\/results?search_query=Buddy+Holly+playlist\">https:\/\/m.youtube.com\/results?search_query=Buddy+Holly+playlist<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Charles Hardin \u201cBuddy\u201d Holley\u00a0(September 7, 1936 \u2013 February 3, 1959) was an American singer-songwriter who was a central and pioneering figure of mid-1950s\u00a0rock and roll. He was born in\u00a0Lubbock, Texas, to a musical family during the\u00a0Great Depression, and learned to play guitar and sing alongside his siblings. His style was influenced by\u00a0gospel music,\u00a0country music, and\u00a0rhythm and blues\u00a0acts, which he performed in Lubbock with his friends from high school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He made his first appearance on local television in 1952, and the following year he formed the group &#8220;Buddy and Bob&#8221; with his friend&nbsp;Bob Montgomery. In 1955, after&nbsp;opening&nbsp;for&nbsp;Elvis Presley, he decided to pursue a career in music. He opened for Presley three times that year; his band&#8217;s style shifted from country and western to entirely rock and roll. In October that year, when he opened for&nbsp;Bill Haley &amp; His Comets, he was spotted by&nbsp;Nashville&nbsp;scout Eddie Crandall, who helped him get a contract with&nbsp;Decca Records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Holly&#8217;s recording sessions at Decca were produced by&nbsp;Owen Bradley, who had become famous for producing orchestrated country hits for stars like&nbsp;Patsy Cline. Unhappy with Bradley&#8217;s musical style and control in the studio, Holly went to producer&nbsp;Norman Petty&nbsp;in&nbsp;Clovis, New Mexico, and recorded a demo of &#8220;That&#8217;ll Be the Day&#8221;, among other songs. Petty became the band&#8217;s manager and sent the demo to&nbsp;Brunswick Records, which released it as a single credited to &#8220;The Crickets&#8221;, which became the name of Holly&#8217;s band. In September 1957, as the band toured, &#8220;That&#8217;ll Be the Day&#8221; topped the&nbsp;US&nbsp;and&nbsp;UK&nbsp;singles charts. Its success was followed in October by another major hit, &#8220;Peggy Sue&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The album&nbsp;The &#8220;Chirping&#8221; Crickets, released in November 1957, reached number five on the&nbsp;UK Albums Chart. Holly made his second appearance on&nbsp;The Ed Sullivan Show&nbsp;in January 1958 and soon after toured Australia and then the UK. In early 1959, he assembled a new band, consisting of future country music star&nbsp;Waylon Jennings&nbsp;(bass), famed session musician&nbsp;Tommy Allsup&nbsp;(guitar), and&nbsp;Carl Bunch&nbsp;(drums), and embarked on a tour of the midwestern U.S. After a show in&nbsp;Clear Lake, Iowa, he chartered an airplane to travel to his next show, in&nbsp;Moorhead, Minnesota. Soon after takeoff, the plane crashed, killing Holly,&nbsp;Ritchie Valens,&nbsp;The Big Bopper, and pilot Roger Peterson in a tragedy later referred to by&nbsp;Don McLean&nbsp;as &#8220;The Day the Music Died&#8221; in his song &#8220;American Pie&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During his short career, Holly wrote and recorded many songs. He is often regarded as the artist who defined the traditional rock-and-roll lineup of two guitars, bass, and drums. He was a major influence on later\u00a0popular music\u00a0artists, including\u00a0Bob Dylan,\u00a0The Beatles,\u00a0The Rolling Stones,\u00a0Eric Clapton,\u00a0The Hollies\u00a0(who named themselves in his honor),\u00a0Elvis Costello,\u00a0Marshall Crenshaw\u00a0(who later played Holly), and\u00a0Elton John. He was among the first artists inducted into the\u00a0Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, in 1986.\u00a0Rolling Stone\u00a0magazine ranked him number 13 in its list of &#8220;100 Greatest Artists&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>View more &#8211; Wikipedia.org:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Buddy_Holly\">https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Buddy_Holly<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buddy Holly https:\/\/m.youtube.com\/results?search_query=Buddy+Holly+playlist Charles Hardin \u201cBuddy\u201d Holley\u00a0(September 7, 1936 \u2013 February 3, 1959) was an American singer-songwriter who was a central and pioneering figure of mid-1950s\u00a0rock and roll. He was born in\u00a0Lubbock, Texas, to a musical family during the\u00a0Great Depression, and learned to play guitar and sing alongside his siblings. 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