The Beginnings of Buddy Holly & The Crickets until the End. As Told by J.I., Joe B, & Sonny
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- Опубліковано 28 лют 2021
- This clip features Sonny Curtis, Joe B Mauldin and J.I. Allison. All three talk about the beginnings of Buddy Holly and The Crickets.
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"If there had never been The Crickets, that there never would have been The Beatles" ..... Paul McCartney. Arguably the most important recognition of influence in the history of popular music.
The story of the beginning right out of the mouths of those who were there. It just doesn't get any better than that. Thank you for sharing these interviews they are solid gold.
Your so welcome James. Thanks for supporting our channel too. Best, Joe
I love you JI .RIP
I miss you Joe Chambers ,what a stellar human being you are ,RIP
Omg...this is fantastic! a treasure; it should go in a vault! I could listen to J.I. tell stories all day.....I was 10 years old in '59 "the day the music died"; I did cry. Thanks Joe.
Thanks Joseph.... glad you liked it.... thanks for watching as always...Joe
I was 15, heard the news on loudspeaker at school... I cried too....
Yup i did too..
I was born in 1953, was only 6 years old when he died and I had listened to my older brothers and sisters records and Buddy Holly was the first album I ever bought.
JI Allison passed away last night, y'all. One of the greatest cats you could ever know. ❤️
Cool Beans, Joe. That’s the same Sonny Curtis that composed & sang the Mary Tyler Moore theme “Love is all Around.” He also showed up on Clapton’s first solo LP. These musicians are the roots of R&R.
Thanks again for watching Scott.....Joe
Sonny Curtis also wrote "Walk Right Back" which was a hit for the Everly Brothers after they were signed by Warner Brothers.
Oh I had no idea about the Mary Tyler Moore song,love that song !
@@MusiciansHallofFameMuseum One can only speculate career Buddy might have had, and how greater he would have become, had he not died in 1959.
CBS this morning did a great segment on Sony Curtis 1/09/21. Did not know that until I caught the episode!
This is priceless Rock and Roll history. It’s just so sad and yet also so interesting to see these guys talking about the genius that was Buddy Holly. Both Jerry Allison and Joe B Mauldin were such genuinely great guys!
I am completely obsessed with Buddy Holly and his music, and his legacy and music will live on forever.
I met Joe B, and JI and Gordon Payne in 1992 when I was 18....I got to play my guitar for them. I had goosebumps.
That first line from JI makes the mood, “someone should have talked Buddy out of getting on that plane in a snow storm” sad!!! This was well done, people just don’t understand how important Buddy Holly and the crickets were to Rock n Roll music, the beginnings of it, to me he’s the father of the modern rock band, plain and simple!
Buddy Holly was without doubt the father of modern rock and roll. 4 piece band: lead singer guitarist and songwriter, drummer, rhythm guitarist, double bass. Beatles: lead guitarist singer, rhythm guitarist singer, bass guitarist singer, and drummer (occasional singer). 3 songwriters. Sounds familiar? I cried the day I heard of the plane crash. I was eleven and in some ways have never really gotten over it. Most of the big British bands have paid tribute to Holly in one way or another. The Beatles did a great cover of 'words of love', the Stones a different cover of 'not fade away'.
The true king of Rock n Roll
These oral histories document a piece of American history that stay with me for days, even months. Have you considered contacting the Library of Congress? I’d imagine they’d be interested in these
Hi 567.... I appreciate your nice comments. I would gladly share them with the LOC but I have no idea how to contact them. I guess if enough people feel the same way about them eventually it will happen.... Thanks again...Joe
I got to meet Jerry and Joe after a show in Dallas in the late 80s. Super nice guys…and of course I got their autographs. One of my proudest moments.
Thanks for sharing Kay…Joe
Every one of these guys had a brilliant natural talent which woke us up
when they performed, not like the manufactured boredom of today.
Hi Joe, you have some of the best interviews, but this one really stands out for me. I was 10 years old when Buddy Hollys plane crashed. I still remember my mom bringing in the newspaper and she was just crushed at what happened. And so true as J I said this was just 18 months of Buddy’s talent and we were blessed to have had him....thanks again!
Thanks Jack... I appreciate your supporting our videos...Joe
Thanks for this! Such genuine stories from these gentlemen.
Joe ,JI said it better than any one statement I ve ever heard ! Somebody needed to tell Buddy not to get on a plane 1 oclock in the morning in a snowstorm ! I ve contemplated this many times .There's so many to blame along with Buddy .Dwyer shouldn't of taken the flight or flown them himself instead of Roger. Mr Anderson could of lied to Buddy and said all flights are cancelled tonight .Wait till the daylight.If they had well maintained buses it wouldn't of even been a thought . Maybe the band could of talked him out of it instead of agreeing to fly .But Buddy made the horrible decision to chance it and as Waylon said ,what young pilot would say no to Buddy Holly .The crash changed the lives of evereyone involved families ,friends ,band members and their futures , Buddy 's unborn child , plans of Ritchie ,and the Bopper, and Roger Petersons life . And lastly ,changed the course of Rock n Roll forever .and is still reeling from that tragic Feb 3 rd frigid winter morning !
At 10:45, who would have thought the inspiration for the tom tom beat in "Peggy Sue" came from the B-side of a 1954 single by future "Gong Show" gal Jaye P. Morgan? And I loved learning from J. I. that The Crickets' "Not Fade Away" uses a traditional hambone beat on a cardboard box, while The Stones' version used the Bo Diddley beat. Just priceless stuff from beginning to end, Joe!
Thanks Andy...Joe
Awesome episode Joe! I can only imagine what Buddy Holly would have accomplished if not for his early passing!💫
Thanks as always Larry. Yes no telling what he may have accomplished. Best, Joe
There you have the story of Buddy Holly and the Crickets--right from the original band members themselves! Many thanks for sharing this video. 🎸🎸🎶🎵🥁🤓❤
What a beautiful piece of history, it's funny now that JI is gone...
The Crickets is, without any doubt my favourite band in the 50's, Buddy and his gang must have known swell Time together !
I'm french and I'm 19 years old, I love true Rock N roll ❤️ thanks a lot for those documents
Joe, I’m 71 years old. In 1963 I lived in a little town 13 miles straight west from Lubbock. I was 13 years old that year. My dad was going to a barber school in Lubbock. All the people that worked there had known Buddy Holly personally. Buddy came in school to get his hair cut. They loved to tell Buddy Holley stories. All Buddy wanted to talk about was music and his songs and his band. That same year my 15 year old brother was getting to where he could play the guitar my dad had bought him pretty well. One Sunday night he brought his guitar to the youth group at our Church. He was playing his guitar around the kids and they were loving it. They kept bugging him to play and sing some rock and roll. He told the kids that he couldn’t sing but that I could. Everybody started begging me to sing but I was the shyest kid you could know. They kept begging to the point that was extremely embarrassed. My brother told them that I could sing just like Buddy Holly. So he started playing Peggy Sue. I finally gave in and agreed to sing it but only with my back facing them. So he played and I sang. The kids loved and we were hooked. We played for years with cover bands doing all the great songs of the 60’s. We finally quit playing rock and roll and began playing jazz. From the time I was fifteen to age 35 I had been offered six opportunities to make a record from various wealthy people who didn’t know anything about the music business. They told me it was true they didn’t know the business but had influential friends who did. I was always afraid they would invest their money and loose it. The very first offer came from someone who had heard me sing Patches by Dickey Lee. When I was young my voice very high and clear so it was a perfect fit. We played many prestigious events and won some nice awards. There is much more to tell but too much for this venue. Love your show Joe! Thanks for sharing so much info on your show. Later.
Great story Lowell!!! Thanks for sharing. Funny… I was just talking to my good friend J.I Allison this afternoon. You know his wife was Peggy Sue and he and Buddy wrote that song. … best, Joe
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Fabulous, Joe! So much history right there! I thoroughly enjoyed their stories. Thank you!
Thanks Dennis... much appreciated...Joe
I'm at these gentleman in person. They autographed my LP Bobby vee meets The crickets and it was signed by Bobby vee it's a promo album. And my girlfriend makes you rest in peace at the time and my friend Joe consoli and Joe Jr we got our picture taken with them
These 3 interviews together made, at least for me, a more cohesive story. Have watched these separately, but really, really enjoyed them spliced together. Thanks.
Thanks Frankie.... our editor Jay put them together for me. He did do a great job.......Best, Joe
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Thanks to you, Jay, & to the whole team, Joe.🥰
R.I.P.... Jerry and the boys are all together again with Buddy. He will be missed.
I liked the format for this Joe!
Thanks Bruce....Joe
So much talent. I've already given credit to those guys. This time I'm talkin' about splicing and editing of the three interviews into this one. This is great.
Thanks Ed.... Our museum editor Jay McDowell put them together for me. This subject is right up Jay’s wheelhouse... Thanks again for watching...Joe
I'm so happy this channel is taking off, it's so educating and interesting to hear these stories, no other place can you hear this history of music, love it joe!! Keep it coming
Thank you Bruce....Joe
Me too Bruce. It’s just on the edge of really blowing up, and I’m so happy for Joe and all the people he’s getting recognized for the credit they deserve. He does bring us so much we would never, ever otherwise know about. On top of it, these are always loaded with such interesting and endlessly fascinating material.
Really wonderful video. I have loved Buddy Holly and the Crickets all my life, and the older I get I love them even more. They talk about their early recordings in a matter of fact way, but to us fans those records are absolutely fundamental moments of pure genius and inspiration that still sound as great as ever. Over in England some teenage kids who later became the Beatles sure picked up on how great Buddy Holly and the Crickets were. So did many, many others. Buddy's loss was a huge tragedy beyond words and we can only speculate on the great music that he would have produced in later years. The Crickets went on to make many excellent records on their own, and Sonny Curtis is one of the greatest songwriters of all time. I'm a fan of them all forever.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts Joe...Best, Joe
Your interviews never disappoint Joe! Thank you indeed
Thanks Gene....Joe
fantastic. what a gift to the world to have this and all the other great interviews recorded.
Thanks for watching Steve... Joe
Wow, talk about R&R history. That was a truly incredible video Joe! I remember hearing about that plane crash & the day the music died! It was interesting to learn that Paul had told them that there would have been no Beatles without the Crickets. Thanks Joe & I hope that you are doing well & staying safe! 👍
Thanks Steve.... you take care too.... Joe
Joe...just great! I love Buddy Holly! Treasure trove of REAL stories relating to Buddy. Thank you!
Thanks again Jose’.......Joe
One of the best you tube channels. I can't wait to someday to see everything in person.
Come on to Nashville Tim. See you soon. Thanks for watching...Joe
I just want to say, my favorite group buddy Holly and the crickets. Great video thank you😢
Really enjoyed this. Great bunch of down to earth guys telling a great story.
Thanks Bill...Joe
All the venues that the they played honing their craft simply amazing. Thanks again and again, Joe.
Thank you too Greg...Joe
Thanks for this, Joe. This was particularly interesting to me because I also grew up in Lubbock. Buddy and the Crickets were probably around 18 years older than I was, so I didn’t really grow up listening to their music. I grew up with The Beatles on Ed Sullivan instead of Buddy Holly. I would hear all of Buddy’s hits on the radio growing up, but that was about all I knew about him and the Crickets. Really interesting to put faces to all the names! Thanks again!
Glad you enjoyed it Poco... thanks for watching...Joe
I used to dream about going to visit Lubbock. I will one day, as God’s my witness 👍🎶🎶
What a great compilation and kudos to putting this together. A real treasure of RnR history by the guys that lived it. Thanks for sharing, I really enjoyed watching this.
Thanks 1515.... I appreciate it...Joe
Thanks to The Crickets for being such an important piece of our American music heritage.
Thanks to you too Joe!!
I was born in 52 i Learn rock roll with they music i still do dance 💃 rock roll today i am 69
Amazing insight to such a fantastic era of music, huge tragic loss to music
Thanks for watching Mark.....Joe
@@MusiciansHallofFameMuseum always a pleasure, great posts
Legendary episode, Joe 🙏
Joe, Buddy was very smart about music and the whole recording process. He had so much potential and even for the short time he was here on earth he influenced a lot of bands. No telling how much bigger he could have been if he had lived. He could have gone in any direction with his music. The other members of the Crickets were just as influential but maybe they didn't always get the credit early on. Once Buddy died their contributions were brought to the forefront. I just learned by reading Wikipedia that Brit season and guitar ordinaire Albert Lee played with the Crickets. As time moves on we continue to lose a lot of these founding members of early rock and country music. Just look at where all this talent was born or spent considerable amount of time in Lubbock Texas.
Joe just when I think it can't get any better you hit another home run. Great show, thank you so much
Thanks again Bob... as always I really appreciate your support....Joe
Great interview, love Buddy Holly and the crickets, these guys were and still are some of my biggest influences, they are all gone now and so missed, but your interviews keep them alive, thank you so much ...the history is amazing!!
Awesome interview. Could listen to stories like this all day.
Thanks
Great archive for future generations.
Thanks for watching Rookh…. Joe
A fantastic treasure to have all this history captured! Great job!
Thanks as always Johnny...Joe
What a band!! So talented and humble. We will never see the likes of these gentlemen and Buddy ever again. A one off. 🙏❤️🎼.x
Man, this is gold! This channel should have way more subscribers. 👍👏
Thanks again for watching Summer.... Joe
Such a good beginning with this, but sad in the end.
Awesome set of interviews Joe. They certainly packed a lot of hits into 18 months.
Thanks for watching Scott....Joe
Hi Joe, another great interview that took me back to my Schooldays in the 50s. Luvit!
Goad you enjoyed it Kenneth.... Thanks again for watching...Joe
Kudos to your video editor Joe!
Thanks Vic.... that would be Jay McDowell. Thanks again for watching.....Joe
Paul McCartney should have gotten a left handed sunburst Stratocaster and taken Jerry and Joe out on a Buddy Holly memorial concert tour. That would have been a treat. Paul owns the rights to the Buddy Holly songs.
Thanks for watching Thomas… Joe
Great stories and shares
So glad I found your videos! You are truly documenting music history. Thanks
Thanks Mike…. Joe
I love how you cut, and laced this together Joe. Really clever and well done. I grew up and live about 2 hours South of Lubbock, and there’s some famous...and unknown people from here who did some significant things too. You probably know this, but Bobby Keys was from up there, around this crowd, hanging and playing with them in his early days before the Stones.
Patrick... I filmed and came up with putting these old videos together but my museum video editor Jay put them together perfectly I felt too. Thanks for mentioning that . He deserves much credit for his editing job on these videos. Yes I knew Bobby. He introduced himself to me backstage in 1994 in Atlanta during the Stones
Voodoo Lounge tour. We remained friends until his passing. Thanks again....Joe
@@MusiciansHallofFameMuseum Thank you man, that’s a nice share. You are so blessed and lucky to have known all these cool people. I know you’ll read this but please don’t feel a need to reply. I’ll jaw away on another video soon enough I’m sure.
Thanks for spreading the glorious name of The Crickets, the best and most innovative r'n'r band ever. Remove the Crickets from the ecuation, and music as we know it know, simply would colapse.. Wish every music fan had this clear, 'cause it's not my opinion, it's a fact.
Thanks for watching 77.... Joe
Larry Welborn is still around. I have his pic with Buddy and Bob along with himself. :) He was a friend of someone I knew well. Met him and even went to a gig with him.
As always, great job by you and your crew!
Thanks Sean...Joe
Thank you so much for putting this together. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
You’re welcome Eric..... thanks for watching...Joe
Great work as usual Joe. Who doesn't like those days better than these days?
Thanks for supporting us Larry....Joe
Thank you for all your work on these videos ....Great job!
Many thanks Malina and thank you for watching them....Joe
Refreshing how Sonny Curtis is so
frank about everything, not trying
to measure a lot of comments like
so many interviewees , not trying
to be careful, just telling the story,
and a great one at that.
Thanks putting this all together, that was a great idea!
Thanks again mtc... my editor at the museum, Jay, did a great job... best, Joe
Good stuff, thank you
Thank you too Daniel…best…..Joe
Always enjoy watching.
Great idea and great story!!! Thanks, Joe...
Thanks for sharing this treasure.
You’re welcome Chad. Thanks for supporting our channel...Joe
Well done!!! Made my morning!!! Thank you!!!
Thanks for watching too Jim...Joe
I love your channel!
Thanks for watching Batter….Joe
Fascinating history. Thanks! (And really nice editing.)
Thanks Buzz... Editing was Jay... best, Joe
Watching this is absolutely insane. It feels very weird being able to hear this from the people themselves. These people steered history.
Volume here as at the perfect
level for me , most of the others
are very difficult for me to hear
guests speak on my set up,
this one is great.
Ive seen the three Crickets here several times in the mid-2000s, visited the Surf Ballroom, Lubbock and Clovis.
Die-Hard BH fanantic and the inspiration for me pikcing up the guitar.
Wonderful to hear firsthand from the Crickets themselves.
Well done, Joe. Thanks.
Thanks Mpg.... glad you enjoyed it... Our editor Jay did a great job putting them together too. Best, Joe
Great , i had seen one f the single interviews but this tells a better story of course and thank you.
Fantastic Thanks Joe🤗
Thanks Nelly....Joe
Another great string of interviews wonderfully woven together. This one is especially dear to me. If you were to check out my IMDb page I'm part of Gary Busey's management, (verified) and yes I've met Gary, and yes, we talked about his role in The Buddy Holly story. He was nominated but didn't win. He was robbed. Thanks Joe. Enjoyed this very much.
Thanks G….Joe
Great!
So great!
Thanks Barry...Joe
Brilliant how this was put together to tell a story.
Thanks Max..... Joe
This so cool 👍🏻😎
Thanks for watching David...Joe
Ed Sullivan story is priceless!!
Thanks as always Andy....Joe
Wow check out Sonny Curtiss - some kind of a legend himself! Composed the Mary Tyler Moore Show theme 'Love is all around' - Also Wrote 'I Fought the Law' (Bobby Fuller Four), 'I Love You More Than I Can Say' (Leo Sayer) and 'Walk Right Back' (Don and Phil Everly) Sonny also co-wrote the 1989 Country Song of the Year, "I'm No Stranger to the Rain", recorded by Keith Whitley.
7.6 thousand views ! Should be 7.6 million views. The above are second to none on their instruments! Check their music out individually! Pure class!!!
Thanks for watching Kevin.......Joe
Thank you Joe. This is fantastic.
Thanks a lot Tom......Joe
Very well edited.
That’s our editor Jay McDowell. He did a great job. Thanks for watching...Joe
Great edit, Joe. You do a fabulous service to history by making these interviews. Thank you!
Thanks for watching di..... I did the interviews but Jay is my editor at the museum....... best, Joe
RIP JI - sad day :-(
Rockabilly at the roller rink!
Thanks for watching 2001.....Joe
You should listen some time to Dion telling of the coin flip and what went on during the Winter Dance party tour. No two people ever tell the same story.
Dion was clout chasin
Jerry Allison seems like a great guy.
Hi Flat Cap… you are right. J.I’s one of the best…. Joe
Sonny Curtis is the only one of these guys still around as of July,2024.
I can't find the interview anymore but a guitarist affiliated with the Crickets came up with the riff that Neil Young used on the song Harvest Moon.
If anyone knows who this was please reply.
It’s been 1 year since jerry Allison’s death R.I.P to all
6:00 that was their version of Hamburg years before the Beatles were in Hamburg in 60'
“The first time we did it (The Ed Sullivan Show), we had to give all of our money to the Union to do it.” Sad.
Love this. Is there a way to listen to each individual interview?
Jessica........ There are interviews with each person on our channel... J.I has a “Vault” series and a MHOF “Backstage” interview. They are two different kinds of interviews we’ve done over the years. Best, Joe
@@MusiciansHallofFameMuseum Okay, thank you.
@@MusiciansHallofFameMuseum I looked on your channel but couldn't find what I was looking for. This video seems like it's made from snippets from longer individual interviews is there somewhere I can find the full interviews? I am a fan of Buddy Holly's even though that was before my time, and I like the Crickets too, and have watched pretty much everything I can find and it's not very often that you hear J.I. talk about the plane crash, so it would be kind of interesting to hear the rest of that part of the conversation with J.I. if possible. Is it true that J.I. and Buddy were best friends? Did J.I. get a little emotional when talking about his friends plane crash? I ask because it kind of looks and sounds like J.I. may have been a little emotional when talking about the plane crash. Sorry for the long message and I truly hope I don't come off as rude as that's not my intention.
Jessica.... There’s a musicians hall of fame “Backstage” interview I did with J.I ... we are sitting at a black u shaped restaurant style booth. I was the very first backstage show I did. There is also a “Vault” Series interview that was shot around 2008 with just J.I sitting on a stool with black curtains in background. I’m filming it and asking questions so you won’t see me in the interview. Those are the two interviews I have with J.I. You will find them if you go to our channel. There’s a lot of interview clips but if you look you’ll find them. Best, Joe
I think John Lennon said if there wasn't Elvis, there would be no Beatles. Something like what Paul McCartney told Joe Mauldin, if there wasn't any Crickets
there wouldn't be any Beatles. 🚶♂🚶♂🚶♂🚶♂
Question. Why didn't nobody ask about the turning off Buddy Holly's guitar on the night of January 26, 1958. When Buddy Holly Sang " ho,boy!" On the Ed Sullivan show. Nobody asked them about it.