The Crickets
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The Crickets were a rock band from Lubbock, Texas, formed by singer/songwriter Buddy Holly in the 1950s.
Legend has it that The Crickets chose their name while listening to a playback of "I'm Gonna Love You Too." A cricket was chirping in a garage that contained a speaker used for an echo effect, and could be heard at the end of the song. While this event did occur, and Holly's manager and owner of the studio decided to keep the chirping in the record, this is in no way tied to the origin of the band's name. In reality, they chose the name due to its similarity to that of the current-popular band Bill Haley & His Comets, and they wanted a name that would sound catchy to the audience. It is worth noting that they almost chose the name "Beetles".[1] (Years later, John Lennon named his band The Beatles partly in homage to Holly and the Crickets. Lennon, however wanted his version of the band's name to reflect the new Beat Music sound coming out of Liverpool in the early sixties. Therefore, "Beetles" became "Beatles".
The band personnel were drummer Jerry Allison, bassist Joe B. Mauldin, and rhythm guitarist Niki Sullivan. Sullivan dropped out within less than two years of touring and recording. He wasn't comfortable with the amount of traveling and to a lesser extent, he didn't fit in with Jerry and Joe. For the same reason, Jerry and Joe were not backing Holly after he moved to NYC. The big move was the real reason why the Crickets broke up, but Holly was not daunted by the breakup; he gained a new back-up band with Tommy Allsup and Waylon Jennings on the tour shortly after the Crickets folded ( Mauldin and Allison made an informal agreement with Buddy to keep the Crickets name, while Holly would now tour under his own name ). But after about 4 months, due to fans' mail and the band feeling nostalgic, a reunion was planned to start with all the original Crickets after Holly's winter tour through the northern mid-west was completed. It was on that tour that Holly was killed in a plane crash.
In The Buddy Holly Story, the story of the band was altered drastically. Due to the Crickets selling the rights to another studio, their film counterparts' names were changed for legal reasons. In addition, there are only two Crickets — a bass player clearly being Mauldin and a drummer modeled on Allison, and the character of Sullivan and his quitting the band is omitted entirely. The real Crickets were outraged on being portrayed as racists, as well as the latter scene in which they appear at Holly's door wanting to reunite. In reality, they had discussed with Holly, shortly before his death, about going on a reunion tour.
Allison and Mauldin later retained the rights to the story, still hoping for a real Buddy Holly biopic to come out someday.
The Crickets featuring Buddy Holly
Not Fade Away
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Charles Hardin Holley (September 7 1936 – February 3 1959),[1] better known as Buddy Holly, was an American singer, songwriter, and a pioneer of rock and roll.
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Legend has it that The Crickets chose their name while listening to a playback of "I'm Gonna Love You Too." A cricket was chirping in a garage that contained a speaker used for an echo effect, and could be heard at the end of the song. While this event did occur, and Holly's manager and owner of the studio decided to keep the chirping in the record, this is in no way tied to the origin of the band's name. In reality, they chose the name due to its similarity to that of the current-popular band Bill Haley & His Comets, and they wanted a name that would sound catchy to the audience. It is worth noting that they almost chose the name "Beetles".[1] (Years later, John Lennon named his band The Beatles partly in homage to Holly and the Crickets. Lennon, however wanted his version of the band's name to reflect the new Beat Music sound coming out of Liverpool in the early sixties. Therefore, "Beetles" became "Beatles".
The band personnel were drummer Jerry Allison, bassist Joe B. Mauldin, and rhythm guitarist Niki Sullivan. Sullivan dropped out within less than two years of touring and recording. He wasn't comfortable with the amount of traveling and to a lesser extent, he didn't fit in with Jerry and Joe. For the same reason, Jerry and Joe were not backing Holly after he moved to NYC. The big move was the real reason why the Crickets broke up, but Holly was not daunted by the breakup; he gained a new back-up band with Tommy Allsup and Waylon Jennings on the tour shortly after the Crickets folded ( Mauldin and Allison made an informal agreement with Buddy to keep the Crickets name, while Holly would now tour under his own name ). But after about 4 months, due to fans' mail and the band feeling nostalgic, a reunion was planned to start with all the original Crickets after Holly's winter tour through the northern mid-west was completed. It was on that tour that Holly was killed in a plane crash.
In The Buddy Holly Story, the story of the band was altered drastically. Due to the Crickets selling the rights to another studio, their film counterparts' names were changed for legal reasons. In addition, there are only two Crickets — a bass player clearly being Mauldin and a drummer modeled on Allison, and the character of Sullivan and his quitting the band is omitted entirely. The real Crickets were outraged on being portrayed as racists, as well as the latter scene in which they appear at Holly's door wanting to reunite. In reality, they had discussed with Holly, shortly before his death, about going on a reunion tour.
Allison and Mauldin later retained the rights to the story, still hoping for a real Buddy Holly biopic to come out someday.
Discography
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Not Fade Away
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- In Style With the Crickets (1960)
- Bobby Vee Meets the Crickets (1962)
- Something Old, Something New (1963)
- California Sun (1964)
- Rock Reflections (1971)
- Remnants (1973)
- Bubblegum, Pop, Ballads & Boogie (1973)
- Long Way from Lubbock (1975) (With Albert Lee).
- Back in Style (1975)
- T Shirt (1989)
- Cover to Cover (1995)
- The Original (1996)
- Rockin (2000)
- Too Much Monday Morning
- Crickets & Their Buddies (2004)
- About Time Too (With Mike Berry)
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Charles Hardin Holley (September 7 1936 – February 3 1959),[1] better known as Buddy Holly, was an American singer, songwriter, and a pioneer of rock and roll.
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B-side(s) Just Go Away
Released 1978
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Recorded 1978
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Released 1978
Format Vinyl, 7"
Recorded 1978
Genre Power pop/New Wave
Length 2:03
Label Chrysalis
Writer(s) Joe B.
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Bill Haley & His Comets was an American rock and roll band that was founded in 1952 and continued until Haley's death in 1981. The band, also known by the names Bill Haley and The Comets and Bill Haley's Comets
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The Beatles were an English musical group from Liverpool whose members were John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. They are one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed bands in the history of popular music.
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Beat, also known as Merseybeat (for bands from Liverpool), Brumbeat (for bands from Birmingham) etc., is a pop music genre that evolved in the UK in the early 1960s.
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Jerry Ivan Allison (born August 31, 1939, in Hillsboro, Texas) is an American musician, best known for being the drummer for The Crickets.[1] He was also a prolific composer.
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Joe Benson Mauldin, Jr. (Born July 8, 1940, Lubbock, Texas) is ranked among the top rock bassists and became a recording engineer at Gold Star Studios, the legendary Los Angeles studio that became the hit factory for Phil Spector, Brian Wilson and other major 1960's rock performers.
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Niki M. Sullivan (June 23, 1937 – April 6, 2004) was an American rock and roll guitar player, born in South Gate, California. He was one of the three original members of Buddy Holly's backing group, The Crickets.
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Tommy Allsup (born November 24, 1931 in Owasso, Oklahoma) is an American musician.
Allsup began his career in music in 1949 as a guitarist with the Oklahoma Swingbillies.
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Allsup began his career in music in 1949 as a guitarist with the Oklahoma Swingbillies.
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Waylon Arnold Jennings (June 15 1937 – February 13 2002) was a respected and influential American country music singer and musician. A self-taught guitar player, he rose to prominence as a bass player for Buddy Holly following the break-up of The Crickets.
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The Day the Music Died refers to a small-plane crash which took place near Clear Lake, Iowa, United States on February 3 1959, killing three popular American rock and roll musicians: Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P.
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The Buddy Holly Story is a 1978 biographical film which tells the life story of rock musician Buddy Holly. It stars Gary Busey, Don Stroud, Charles Martin Smith, Conrad Janis, William Jordan, and Maria Richwine, who played Maria Elena Holly.
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The Buddy Holly Story is a 1978 biographical film which tells the life story of rock musician Buddy Holly. It stars Gary Busey, Don Stroud, Charles Martin Smith, Conrad Janis, William Jordan, and Maria Richwine, who played Maria Elena Holly.
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Albert Lee (born December 21, 1943 in Leominster, Herefordshire) is an English guitarist known for his finger-style and Hybrid picking technique.
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