![]() ![]() Buddy’s older brothers, Larry and Travis, both play multiple instruments. Everyone but father ‘L.O.’ Holley can play an instrument. Charles Hardin Holley is nicknamed ‘Buddy’ at an early age because his mother feels his given name is too big for her little boy to say. The family attends Tabernacle Baptist Church and their youngest – like his kin – is brought into the Baptist faith. ‘L.O.’ and Ella Holley have four children, three boys and a girl. ‘L.O.’ Holley changed jobs several times. No liquor is served or sold inside the town line.’ During the great depression (1929-1939), the Holley family moved house a number of times – but always within Lubbock. Lubbock is ‘a community of innumerable churches and zero barrooms. The married couple moved from Northeast Texas to Lubbock in the 1920s when cotton farming provided an economic boom period in the State’s west. ‘L.O.’ Holley was brought up on a farm, but it was while working as a short-order cook that he met the woman who became his wife. The family is mostly of English and Welsh descent, but there is some Native American heritage in there too. He is the son of Lawrence Odell ‘L.O.’ Holley (1901-1985) and Ella Pauline Holley (nèe Drake) (1901-1990). I have thought about making a career out of Western music if I am good enough but I will just have to wait and see how that turns out…”īuddy Holly (7 September 1936–3 February 1959) is born Charles Hardin Holley in Lubbock, Texas in the United States of America. “Some of these are hunting, fishing, leatherwork, reading, painting, and playing Western music. “My life has been what you might call an uneventful one, and it seems there is not much of interest to tell,” writes Buddy Holly in an autobiographical essay for his English class when he is a teenaged high school student. The song later joined the Grammy Hall of Fame, as did his next release, “Peggy Sue,” this time credited to Holly himself, and backed by the equally indelible “Everyday.” The single scaled the charts in tandem with another dynamite double bill by the Crickets, “Oh, Boy!” and “Not Fade Away,” accompanied by the seminal LP The ‘Chirping’ Crickets.“You say you’re gonna leave me / You know it’s a lie / ‘Cos that’ll be the day-ay-ay / When I die’ – ‘That’ll Be The Day’ (Buddy Holly, Jerry Allison) Holly and the Crickets coalesced early in 1957 and were immediately recording “That’ll Be The Day,” which made the Billboard bestsellers in August and topped them by September. “Buddy Holly has been on the charts every single week of the past six months,” reported Cash Box just ahead of the album’s release. But once he and the Crickets hit their stride, there was no stopping them, and by the time of his first LP in his own name, the self-titled album released in March 1958, he was a major national and international star. There was an unseen apprenticeship, of course, in demo recordings dating back to 1954, when Buddy was just 18. The impact made on music history by Charles Hardin Holley in a period of approximately 18 months is more than most artists manage in a full career. The year of 1958 brought more undisputed rock’n’roll and pop classics, Holly’s self-titled debut LP, and more. There were two more timeless, simultaneous singles (his “Peggy Sue” and “Oh, Boy!”, the latter with the group) that November. Buddy Holly scored his first hit with the Crickets, “That’ll Be The Day,” in the summer of 1957. ![]()
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