![]() ![]() Sonny Curtis was gone too, as by this time Buddy wanted to be the lead guitarist, and Curtis was not interested in playing rhythm guitar. Don Guess was dropped from the group as he was unwilling to buy a bass, and the lease had just expired on a bass that he had rented for the past year. Taking the trip were Buddy, Jerry Allison, Niki Sullivan, and Larry Welborn, who had agreed to play the bass on the session. ![]() When they were ready to record they drove to Clovis. Buddy had already recorded a version of the song for Decca, but the label did not plan on ever releasing it, and frankly, the Decca version was not all that good. The one song that Buddy and Jerry Allison were really working on was something called "That'll Be The Day." The title was taken from a John Wayne movie called "The Searchers." Wayne had used that phrase throughout the movie. Petty told Buddy to go back to Lubbock, get his band together, and rehearse some songs. When this Decca group performed live they were billed as Buddy Holly & His Band, although Decca later dubbed the group "Buddy Holly & the Three Tunes" on some records that were released after Holly had become famous with the Crickets.īuddy's big break came when he visited record producer Norman Petty in Clovis, New Mexico in early 1957. Songs were recorded just like in a live performance. They were concerned about feedback from Buddy's guitar leaking into the microphone, as there was no laying down of tracks in those days. Studio musician Grady Martin played the rhythm guitar on these records, as Decca did not want Holly playing rhythm guitar while he was singing. Unfortunately none of the Decca records ever became hits. Buddy recorded 12 songs for Decca in 1956, with 11 of them being released in the 50s, although 7 of the songs were not released until after he had become popular with the Crickets. Buddy was apprehensive at first, but Montgomery convinced him not to let this oppurtunity go by. The only drawback was that Decca was interested only in Buddy, and not in his longtime partner Bob Montgomery, or Larry Welborn. Crandall hooked Buddy up with talent agent Jim Denny, who in turn contacted Decca's Nashville A & R man, Paul Cohen, who liked what he heard and got Decca executive Paul Stone to offer Buddy a contract. Marty Robbins' manager, Eddie Crandall, was instrumental in getting Buddy his first recording contract in early 1956. They did record a number of songs in 19, although none of these recordings were released until several years after Buddy's death. They started to perform live on local radio station KDAV, and eventually they became a trio, taking on a third member, bassist Larry Welborn. Before long they had begun to incorporate rhythm and blues songs into their act, as Buddy, Bob, and the other teenagers in the Lubbock area were starting to develop a taste for this new "rock 'n' roll" music that was catching on in many parts of the country around 1953. He and his friend Bob Montgomery were a duo, and would play country and western songs live at any function they could find that would have them. Along with the rest of the Crickets, he had his first big hit records just around the time that he turned 21 years old in 1957.īuddy's musical career started very early, while he was still in Junior High School in Lubbock. Born on September 7, 1936, in Lubbock, Texas, Charles Hardin Holley was already recording when he was still a teenager. It's hard to believe that Buddy Holly was only 22 years old when he was killed (along with Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper) in that fateful plane crash on February 3rd, 1959. ![]()
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