Vol. 1 Issue 14 - Feb 11th, 2021 NEXT EDITION FEB 25TH 2021 email: [email protected] East Cork News & Advertiser Thursday February 11th, 2021 In the midst of all of this Buddy had mar- THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED ried Puerto Rican- By John Walshe born receptionist The following year of 1956 Buddy signed Maria Elena Santiago "I can't remember if I cried, when I heard up with Decca Records, the company after a whirlwind about his widowed bride, but something inadvertently misspelling his surname by romance, setting up touched me deep inside, the day the dropping the 'e' in Holley. His first single home in Greenwich music died." "Blue Days, Black Nights" sold a paltry Village. 19,000 records and Decca failed to renew In January 1959, to Sixty-two years ago last Wednesday, on his contract. ease his financial situ- the icy morning of February 3rd, 1959, ation, Buddy agreed fourteen-year-old Don McLean was on A move to Clovis, New Mexico, and a link- to front the 'Winter his newspaper round in New Rochelle, up with musician Norman Petty, the Dance Party Tour'. New York. Cutting open a bale of newspa- owner of a modern recording studio, final- Winter in the harsh pers, he read the tragic news: "3 Stars of ly saw Buddy Holly reach the pinnacle. American Mid-West Rock 'N' Roll Killed in Plane Crash." With a number of his friends who dubbed was no place to be in themselves 'The Crickets' he released a a clapped-out bus Later immortalised in his enduring epi- song he had previously recorded in with inadequate heat- logue 'American Pie', for McClean and for Nashville called "That'll Be The Day", ing. So severe were countless others the deaths of Buddy which eventually went to No. 1 in both the the conditions that Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. ("The Big USA and Britain. one of the party, Carl Over six decades after that fateful day, Bopper") Richardson on a snow-covered Bunch, suffered frostbite in his right leg Buddy Holly's music lives on. In death he Iowa field marked the end of an era. A For the next couple of years, hit followed which required hospitalisation for over a would greatly influence the paths taken ground-breaking, some would say inno- hit. "Everyday", "Oh Boy", "Maybe Baby", year. by the likes of Lennon & McCartney, Mick cent, era of rock and roll had come to a "Rave On", "Listen to Me" and "Peggy Jagger, Linda Ronstadt, the Hollies and close. Sue" which he wrote for Jerry Allison of After the concert at Clear Lake, Iowa, on Don McLean. The Crickets. Originally called "Cindy February 2nd, Buddy decided to charter a Buddy Holly's career at the top spanned Lou" after Buddy's niece, Allison asked small single-engine plane for the trip to Another he impressed at one of his final just a short three years, but in that time he Buddy if he would change the title to Fargo, North Dakota, across the river concerts was a 17-year-old middle-class would transform popular music and have "Peggy Sue", as he and his girlfriend, from Moorhead where they were booked Jewish boy from Hibbing, Minnesota, by influence that even he could not have Peggy Sue Gerron, had recently broken to appear the following night. the name of Bobby Zimmerman. envisaged. An unlikely-looking pop star up "and Jerry wanted to do something to with his scrawny looks and black horn- get me back," Peggy Sue would recall Teenage sensation Ritchie Valens, the "I saw Buddy Holly in Duluth," Bob Dylan rimmed glasses, he was also one of the years later. In his book 'Rock 'n' Roll: The 'Big Bopper' and Buddy Holly, piloted by would later relate to Rolling Stone maga- first to write almost all of the songs he 100 Best Singles', Paul Williams wrote: Roger Peterson, took off from Mason City zine. "I mean, I'll never forget the image of performed. "There is something perfect about the airport around 1am. A few minutes later seeing him up on the bandstand. And he sound of "Peggy Sue." It gets into the the plane went down after encountering died - it must have been a week after that. Born on September 7th, 1936, in the blood." "a terrible snowstorm", killing the four It was unbelievable." Texas town of Lubbock, he was chris- young men on board. tened Charles Hardin Holley. Of English Fame had truly arrived in December 1957 and Welsh descent, he had also inherited when Buddy Holly and The Crickets Indian blood from a grandfather. His appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show which mother gave him the name 'Buddy', say- had an audience of 50 million viewers. ing that Charles Hardin Holley "was too The following month Australia beckoned long for a small boy". He won a song con- and in March their appearance on test at the age of five, and by ten owned 'Sunday Night at the London Palladium' his first guitar. became the foundation on which the British Rock 'N' Roll revolution was In 1954, after teaming up with a school launched. While Buddy was captivating friend, Bob Montgomery, they started to the live audience in London, a seventeen- write songs. Coming from a strict Baptist year-old (and, like Buddy, bespectacled) upbringing Buddy's early musical influ- John Lennon was watching spellbound in ence was country. In January 1955, a his Liverpool home. singer billed as "The Hillbilly Cat" But all was not well on Holly's return. appeared, for a $25 fee, in a country Norman Petty had frozen his money and music show in Lubbock. His real name Buddy had no option but to go back on was Elvis Presley and the young Holly the road. Relations with The Crickets was transfixed and smitten by this new, were also becoming strained and, after raw sound. Holly split with Perry, they decided to stay. email: [email protected] East Cork News & Advertiser Thursday February 11th, 2021 Buying a Car? All your Car Loan Questions Answered Buying a car can be pretty exciting. haven't used the credit union since boot- 3. Where is the best place to get a car loan from them. They will work with you to Getting the finance in order to clinch the cut jeans they're in fashion, worry not. loan? structure payments in a way that suits deal on the car is anything but. 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