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 Buddy Holly
Charles Hardin (Buddy) Holly was born September 7, 1936 in Lubbock, Texas the fourth of four children born to Lawrence and Ella Holly.
In his youth, Holly had little direct contact with fls or their music, but like so many other young musicians, he was attracted to the rhythm and blues heard on distant radio stations.
By the time Buddy and Bob entered high school, they were widening their audience by appearing at youth clubs and centers as far away as Carlsbad, New Mexico and Amarillo, Texas.
www.history-of-rock.com /buddy_holly.htm   (1288 words)

  
 Untitled Document
Buddy Holly (Charles Hardin Holley) was born in Lubbock, Texas.
Buddy Holly was a far different person than the public image portrayed him of being a shy and frail geek wearing horn-rimmed glasses.
Buddy’s life as a performer was a story of exploitation, betrayal, and distortion by his manager, record promoters and tour packages that sent him into the frozen North on the most poorly organized rock tour in history...ending in tragedy.
www.westexmusichof.com /artistspages/buddyholly.html   (648 words)

  
 Buddy Holly
In the buckle of the bible belt, Buddy Holly was born to Ella and Lawrence Odell (L.O.) Holley.
Buddy's two elder brothers, Larry and Travis, each played several musical instruments and Buddy began to take an interest in the piano, the fiddle, and eventually the guitar and banjo when he was 12 years old.
Buddy: met and fell in love with a Puerto Rican girl, Maria Elena Santiago.; They were married in Lubbock on the 15th August and went on honeymoon to Acapulco with Jerry and Peggy Sue Allison who had themselves only been married for; four weeks.
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 Buddy Holly @ peermusic - The Independent Major
His mother, who came up with the idea of calling him Buddy, had her son take piano lessons when he was 11, but a year later, it was clear he favored the guitar.
On July 22, 1956, Buddy recorded a song inspired by a line of dialogue spoken by John Wayne in "The Searchers." But Decca executives didn't care for "That'll Be the Day," and decided not to release it.
Holly's songs have been recorded over and over by these artists and other legends.
www.peermusic.com /artistpage/Buddy_Holly.html   (630 words)

  
 Peggy Sue by Buddy Holly Songfacts
Buddy began to change the guitar licks to fit the beat and the new rhythm developed right there on the spot.
Holly wrote a sequel to this called "Peggy Sue Got Married," which was released on a compilation album after he died.
The task that the main character has to perform to leap is help Buddy Holly (at a young age) write the lyrics to said song.
www.songfacts.com /detail.php?id=1167   (838 words)

  
 Buddy Holly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Buddy is also one of the evil citizens that exists in the town of "Rock N' Roll Heaven", a community inhabited by deceased music legends in Stephen King's short horror story You Know They Got a Hell of a Band.
Buddy Holly was part of the first group inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on its formation in 1986.
The Smithereens' song "Maria Elena" is a Buddy Holly tribute as sung to his widow.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Buddy_Holly   (2322 words)

  
 Buddy Holly
Buddy recorded a number of songs for Decca during 1956, of which "Blue Days, Black Nights" and "Modern Don Juan", were released.
Buddy was the group's guitarist and vocalist and was accompanied by Jerry Allison on drums, Niki Sullivan on guitar, and Joe Mauldin on bass.
Holly and the Crickets entered areas of music such as rhythm and blues, which until then, had been exclusive to fl artists.
www.classicbands.com /holly.html   (1309 words)

  
 Biography of Buddy Holly
Holly was one of the first major rock 'n' roll groundbreakers, and one of its most influential artists.
He wrote his own songs, recorded with a self-contained guitar-bass-drums combo, experimented in the studio and even changed the image of what a rock singer could look like: until he came along, the idea of a bespectacled rock idol was unthinkable.
Buddy Holly's legacy lives on, not only with tributes such as these, but in the dozens of cover versions of his songs that have been recorded over the years.
clubs.hemmings.com /clubsites/nifty50s/buddy.htm   (2175 words)

  
 Buddy Holly Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
Holly was born Charles Hardin Holley in Lubbock, Texas on September 7, 1936.
The combo--known as Buddy and Bob and, later, the Rhythm Playboys--played country music, although Holly was beginning to take an interest in R and B and blues as well.
Holly's life was brought to the screen in the 1978 film The Buddy Holly Story, which earned lead actor Gary Busey an Academy Award nomination.
www.bookrags.com /biography/buddy-holly   (1604 words)

  
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Buddy Holly -- The Influence opened at the Museum of Texas Tech University on Thursday, September 7, 1995, with on opening celebration and ribbon cutting that began at 10:00 a.m.
Buddy Holly was born in Lubbock, Texas, on September 7, 1936.
Lubbock residents converged on the unveiling of the new Buddy Holly exhibit at the Texas Tech Museum that was held on September 7, 1995.
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 Buddy Holly - hotshotdigital.com
Buddy Holly was one of the first major stars of rock ‘n’ roll.
Buddy’s first chance at stardom came in 1956 when he signed to Decca as a solo artist.
Back in his home town of Lubbock, Buddy got a group together and they rehearsed heavily, particularly on a new song by Buddy and Jerry Allison called “That’ll Be The Day”.
www.hotshotdigital.com /tribute/BuddyHolly.html   (502 words)

  
 NPR : Buddy Holly's Little-Known Encore
Buddy Holly produced some of the most influential work in rock music before he died at 22 in 1959.
Holly made another set of tapes in the living room of his New York apartment just weeks before he died.
Buddy Holly fan Dale Lawrence, who has heard these still-unreleased songs, tells their tale.
www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1496872   (269 words)

  
 Collins' Oldies Website: Buddy Holly
Buddy sings low and softly as his character tells his lady he loves her and asks her to tell him she loves him too; this is the lowest I've ever heard Buddy sing.
This song was written for a Peggy Sue who was a friend of Buddy's and the girlfriend of Jerry Allison of the Crickets.
How fitting that this song was one of Buddy's last hits, for it rained in his fans' hearts when they received word of the plane crash.
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 The Day the Music Died, the Crash that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper
Buddy Holly had had enough of the unheated bus and decided to charter a plane for himself and his guys.
Charles Hardin "Buddy" Holley (changed to Holly due to a misspelling on a contract) and his band, The Crickets, had a number one hit in 1957 with the tune That'll Be The Day.
Holly married Maria Elena Santiago and moved to New York with the hope of concentrating on song writing and producing.
www.fiftiesweb.com /crash.htm   (875 words)

  
 TIGERX.CO Memorials: Fond Farewell Buddy Holly   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
In 1957 Holly and his new band the Crickets went to producer Norman Petty's studio to record a demo.
The song rose to #3 and attracted a record contract from the Coral/Brunswick Label of New York.
Tired of riding the bus Holly and other featured artists on the tour, the Big Bopper and Richie Valens, chartered a private plane after their Clear Lake, Iowa show.
tigerx.com /people/holly.htm   (357 words)

  
 Perfect Sound Forever: Buddy Holly's John Lennon connection
Holly's DJ contacts got him a disastrous early Nashville session in early 1956 for Decca with Owen Bradley (the smoothie who dressed up Patsy Cline in satin and strings) before he retreated to Clovis, New Mexico, with one Norman Petty.
Buddy went up and started talking to them, and they knew from how he talked that he was a musician.
But he devoured Buddy Holly records, and studied them the way geeks take apart clocks, just to see how they work; they were so cleverly layered that to learn and perform them comprised a tutorial in rock form.
www.furious.com /perfect/buddyholly.html   (3738 words)

  
 Rolling Stone : 13) Buddy Holly   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Just about every song, every sound that we emulate and listen to was created by a hillbilly, born out of the frustration of a small town where there ain't much to do in the evening.
Buddy Holly was one of the first great singer-songwriters -- he wrote his own material and in the end was producing it, too.
Holly's melodies and arrangements were a huge influence on the Beatles.
www.rollingstone.com /news/story/5939218/13_buddy_holly   (513 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Best of Buddy Holly: Music: Buddy Holly   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Here, you get Buddy's original versions of Oh boy (a UK number one hit for Mud in the seventies), That'll be the day, Peggy Sue, Listen to me, Rave on, Heartbeat (a UK top ten hit for Showaddywaddy in the seventies), True love ways, Everyday and It doesn't matter anymore.
Holly's first solo was "Peggy Sue" with a running rhythm guitar and drum, was his last solo US Top Ten hit, reaching #3, but #6 in the UK.
Holly also did cover songs, such as Bobby Darin's "Early In The Morning" and Chuck Berry's fast-paced "Brown Eyed Handsome Man." The latter's B-side was the more soft and wistful "Wishing", which became a Top Ten hit in its own right in the UK.
www.amazon.com /Best-Buddy-Holly/dp/B00004UB8T   (1276 words)

  
 Buddy Holly
After Buddy and Jerry left the film, they began using the words as a catch phrase and from this came the idea for the song.
Seats on the plane that Holly died on were to be for Buddy, Tommy Allsup and Waylon Jennings.
Holly crammed virtually all of his composing into the last three years of his life; he showed little interest in writing songs until 1956 when he was trying to break into the recording business
www.nashvillesongwritersfoundation.com /fame/holly.html   (639 words)

  
 Rave On by Buddy Holly Songfacts
The spelling of Holley to Holly was a result of his name being misspelled on a recording contract in 1956 - he never changed it!
Buddy Holly was a key figure in the history of Rocn 'n Roll but the truth is that he was past his best when he died.
Buddy Holly influenced nearly everyone including Dylan and The Stones.
www.songfacts.com /detail.php?id=4141   (518 words)

  
 Understanding the lyrics of American Pie - Don McLean - Rock and Roll and Buddy Holly, an interpretation
Buddy Holly died on February 3, 1959, in a plane crash in Iowa during a snowstorm.
Holly's recent bride was pregnant when the crash took place; she had a miscarriage shortly afterward.
The Byrd's song "Eight Miles High" was found on their late 1966 release "Fifth Dimension." They recorded this song when some of the groups members were considering leaving (some of the groups members actually left the group because they refused to flyin an airplane).
www.rareexception.com /Garden/Pie.php   (3500 words)

  
 Buddy Holly (song) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It was released as a single in 1995 and appeared on the self-titled debut album in 1994.
Oddly enough, as popular as this song was when it was released, the fashion trend that the song, and Weezer, inspired did not take effect until several years after the song was released.
The song was written because of Rivers Cuomo's frustration of his fellow bandmates always making fun of his eccentric Korean then-girlfriend.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Buddy_Holly_(song)   (535 words)

  
 Not Fade Away by Buddy Holly Songfacts
Holly recorded this on May, 1957 with The Crickets at Norman Petty studios in Clovis, NM.
Until the end of his career, Holly recorded with his group, The Crickets, but he set up a deal with their record company, Decca Records, to release some songs under his name and have others credited to the group.
Songs credited to Buddy Holly came out on Coral Records.
www.songfacts.com /detail.php?id=2493   (331 words)

  
 Buddy Holly   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
A highly influential and innovative guitar player, singer, and songwriter, Buddy Holly was influenced in his youth by the southern sounds of country, bluegrass, rhythm and blues, and gospel.
The recordings Holly made with his band, The Crickets, brought him to international prominence and brought the world "That'll Be the Day," "Every Day," and other hit records.
On February 3, 1959, tragedy struck when a plane carrying Buddy Holly and fellow musicians Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper crashed, killing all aboard.
www.beyondbooks.com /bbshared/talkingdictionary/ush12/buddyholly.asp   (162 words)

  
 Buddy Holly - AOL Music
Buddy Holly is considered one of the founding fathers of rock 'n roll and one...
Charles Hardin (Buddy) Holly was born September 7, 1936 in Lubbock, Texas the fourth...
Download, listen and watch Buddy Holly music, mp3's, song lyrics, music videos, Internet radio, live performances, concerts, and more on AOL Music.
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 The Buddy system - The Boston Globe
Tidbit #2: Among rockers who saw Holly in concert were John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and Dylan.
Holly resurrections: Several, beginning with the rash of late-'60s and early '70s rock deaths (Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin) and peaking with ''The Buddy Holly Story," a 1978 biopic earning Gary Busey an Oscar nomination.
Lubbock erected a bronze statue of Holly in 1980.
www.boston.com /ae/celebrity/articles/2005/09/05/the_buddy_system   (763 words)

  
 Buddy Holly -- Bob Dylan's first exposure to "Gotta Travel On"? (Manfred Helfert)
"Gotta Travel On" is one of the 21 songs, which is interesting not only in terms of the SELF PORTRAIT and 1976 RTR use of this song, but also in its proximity, chronologically speaking, to "The Winter Dance Party", a reference to Buddy Holly, which I may explore further in the future.
A line in one of Buddy Holly's last recordings (his Oct 1958 recording of Paul Anka's "It Doesn't Matter Anymore"), "Well, you go your way and I'll go mine," might have inspired Dylan's own "Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)"...
There was a curious footnote to Buddy Holly's death.
www.bobdylanroots.com /holly.html   (1053 words)

  
 [Buddy Holly coversongs]
List of songs released by Buddy Holly (not necessarily written or co-written by Buddy) which are released by other artists.
Buddy Holly and the Hollies, "Not Fade Away", 1995.
This song was never recorded by Buddy Holly
www.funder.nu /buddyholly/buddy_covers.htm   (828 words)

  
 Buddy Holly Lyrics - by WEEZER from album WEEZER : Lyrics And Songs
You are viewing lyrics of Buddy Holly by WEEZER from the album WEEZER at LyricsAndSongs.COM
The Lyrics above are to Buddy Holly and are (Mostly correct, Yet...
The Lyrics seem to be the lyrics to Buddy Holly But they are (Wrong)
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 VH1.com : Buddy Holly : Artist Main   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Buddy Holly is perhaps the most anomalous legend of '50s rock & roll -- he had his share of hits, and he achieved major rock & roll stardom, but his importance transcends any sales figures or even the particulars of any one song (or group of songs...
A radiant mixture of early rock, Number 1 songs and the most sampled R&B hits.
Listen to the history of rock and roll performed by the major contributors to the art form.
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