Buddy Holly: Biography (79 page)

“His loss was all: Quoted in Denisoff,
Waylon,
p. 75.

The tour manager went into the hotel: WJEN quoted in BG, “18 Interviews (all at once),” p. 3.

“Come outside:
Ibid.

and asked for Buddy Holly’s room: TA on “Instant Recall.”

“Haven’t you heard?”:
Ibid.

“‘Boys, they didn’t make: “18 Interviews (all at once),” p. 3; G&B, RB, p. 146.

“felt guilty,” as if:
Waylon
video.

responsible for the accident: Edwards, AP, “Waylon Thinks About Buddy Every Day,” MCGG, 6/1/84.

“go home,”: WJEN quoted in BG, “18 Interviews (all at once),” p. 3.

“tough reckoning with himself: with Carter,
Reba,
p. 257.

Tommy found a telephone: TA quoted in BG, “TA,” p. 13.

“I went crazy: Quoted in Denisoff,
Waylon,
p. 70.

hunched before the TV: TW, p. 89.

“There were no survivors”:
Ibid.

“All around me were:
Ibid.,
pp. 89–90.

Fred Milano of the Belmonts was sound: FM quoted in “FM,” p. 4.

“The plane had crashed:
Ibid.

accompany Buddy’s body: Denisoff,
Waylon,
p. 71.

“the people from New York called: CT, 6/24/88.

The promoters promised to fly: BM, RV, p. 111.

GAC later reneged: G&B, RB, p. 147.

Bobby Vee, who lived in: Lazell,
Rock Movers & Shakers,
p. 527.

had been looking forward: Vee,
I Remember BH,
Liberty LP liner notes, LST-7336.

had formed a band:
Ibid.

Jim Stillman, called the: “Bobby Vee,” Clovis Music Festival Official Program, p. 12.

christened themselves the Shadows: Vee,
I Remember BH.

“It was a very bizarre: Larson, “Bobby Vee,” RM 15, 6/80, p. 12.

audience burst into sobs: Denisoff,
Waylon,
p. 72.

Tommy Allsup seemed a million:
Ibid.

staring blankly:
Ibid.

wire service correspondents: AP dispatch, “Show Goes on Despite Death of 3,”
Independent Journal,
2/4/59 (city not specified, clipping found in files of Mason City Municipal Airport).

were properly lit: Vee quoted in Larson, “Bobby Vee,” p. 13.

Bing Bingstrom: Lazell,
Rock Movers & Shakers,
p. 527.

“were trying to hold back: “FM,” p. 4.

“screamed, clapped, and whistled: “Show Goes,”
Independent Journal.

“paid tribute to the:
Ibid.

increasing uneasiness as Dion: Williams, “A Star Dies, Another Is Born,”
Movieland and TV Time,
4/61, reprinted in AC,
BH,
No. 1, p. 54.

“and he saw the audience:
Ibid.

Everly Brothers, Little Richard: Vee quoted in Larson, “Bobby Vee,” p. 12.

Discovered by Bing Bingstrom: Lazell,
Rock Movers & Shakers,
p. 527.

“a fair-sized hit”: Bobby Vee,
I Remember BH.

Snuff Garrett, who recorded: Lazell,
Rock Movers & Shakers,
p. 527.

“Our style was modeled: Bobby Vee,
I Remember BH.

“But then,” Tommy later:
Waylon,
p. 72.

promoters announced they were: WJEN quoted in G&B, RB, p. 147.

“This, after begging us:
Ibid.

canceled one of the:
Ibid.

in Sioux City, Iowa:
Ibid.;
CB quoted in BG, “CB,” p. 8.

the Shore Acres ballroom: insert in
Playbill,
Shubert Theatre,
Buddy,
5/91, Vol. 91, No. 5.

including Ronnie Smith, who: G&B, RB, p. 147: CB quoted in BG, “CB,” p. 7.

“I always felt that: BG, “Jimmy Clanton,” RM 13, 12/79, p. 11.

“eerie,”:
Ibid.

Frankie Avalon: Nite,
Rock On,
pp. 19–20.

dropped him during the: Stallings,
Rock-’n’-Roll Confidential,
p. 89.

substantial interests in music: Pareles and Romanowski,
Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock ’n’ Roll,
p. 103.

“too hurt, too sad: CB quoted in BG, “CB,” p. 8.

Ronnie Smith assisted Waylon; Denisoff,
Waylon,
p. 72.

tried to play Buddy’s: CB quoted in BG, “CB,” p. 8.

Waylon’s applause matched Frankie: Denisoff,
Waylon,
p. 73.

“it was a different: Quoted in BG, “Frankie Sardo,” R50, 4/92, p. 22.

teenager named Doug McLeod: Author interview with HG.

“Shock permeated the atmosphere,”: Quoted in “Personal Remembrances,” IC, 1/31/87, Val Air Ballroom, Des Moines, Iowa, Easter Seal Society of Iowa, Inc.

“nervous enough”: HG, “Doug McLeod Remembers Last Tour,” RM 29, Winter/84, p. 13.

betrayed him: G&B, RB, p. 147.

bus to Chicago: Denisoff,
Waylon,
p. 73.

he’d been drinking vodka:
Ibid.

Tommy Allsup spiked his:
Ibid.,
p. 74.

Ronnie had acquired in:
Ibid.,
p. 73.

“After the first one:
Ibid.,
p. 74.

“We gave it all: TA quoted in
ibid.

Petty immediately sought an:
Ibid.

Maria Elena arranged a: Quoted in BG, “CB,” p. 8.

“flesh peddlers.”: Quoted in Denisoff,
Waylon,
p. 75.

“he blamed Norman Petty:
Ibid.

Buddy Holly died intestate: G&B, RB, p. 150.

Maria Elena was his sole:
Ibid.

“The only way I got: Author interview with MEH.

he promised interviewers: Quoted in “NP (Part 3),” p. 8.

Maria Elena Diaz-Hernandez: “Coral Releasing ‘New’ Holly Tapes,” unidentified clipping, dated 9/15/62 in AC,
BH,
No. 1, p. 52.

and had three children:
Parade
magazine, 12/8/91.

“When Buddy died: Author interview with LH.

“most of the things: Quoted in BG, “Maria Elena,” RM 4, 9/77, p. 9.

“We got tired of trying: Author interview with LH.

Larry’s fondest dream:
Ibid.

Ella and L. O. Holley went: CA quoted in Oestreicher and Kennedy, “CA,” p. 12.

“I want you to:
Ibid.

“The ‘death rattle’: “Album Sales Keep ’Em Alive,” cited in G&B, RB, p. 150.

“get masters, get masters: Quoted in BG, “Spotlight on Dick Jacobs,” R50 38, 10/92, p. 13.

Buddy’s priceless apartment tapes:
Ibid.

Jack Hansen assisting:
Ibid.

“reached the Top 30: “No Ballyhoo Is Needed to Sell BH Discs!” reprinted in AC,
BH,
No. 1, p. 50.

“You’ll only hurt: Quoted in Kaye, liner notes,
Eddie Cochran,
double LP, UAS-9959; author interview with Lenny Kaye.

Allison came to visit him: JBM quoted in AC, “Farewell to Eddie Cochran,” p. 39.

Sheeley and Vincent were also: Ward, “Fifties,” ROA, p. 223.

Cochran never regained consciousness: Borie, “Eddie Died in My Arms,”
Photoplay,
8/60, reproduced in AC,
Tribute to Eddie Cochran,
p. 22; Kaye,
Eddie Cochran
LP.

“We’ll all miss Eddie: “Suddenly There Was No Tomorrow,”
Modern Screen,
8/60, reproduced in AC,
Tribute to Eddie Cochran,
p. 25.

into the trucking business: JBM quoted in BG, “Joe Mauldin,” RM 15, 6/80, p. 8, JA quoted in BG, “JA—Part Two,” p. 10.

Jerry became a session drummer:
Ibid.

threatened to withhold them: G&B, RB, p. 150.

Buddy’s parents took him:
Ibid.

“I have a pair of nailclippers: Quoted in RM 10, 3/79.

“terrifically unhappy”: Quoted in G&B, RB, p. 150.

distrusted New York record:
Ibid.

royalties were to be split: “Coral Releasing ‘New’ Holly Tapes,” p. 52; G&B, RB, p. 150.

Jerry felt that if anyone: JA quoted in G&B, p. 152.

Jerry was back in the Southwest:
Ibid.

a direct affront to him: JA in G&B, RB, pp. 294–53.

convinced that Petty was:
Ibid.

“Sugar Shack” the No. 1: Whitburn,
Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits,
p. 470.

“purists” charged that the: Quoted in “NP (Part 2),” p. 9.

“slow version”:
Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock ’n’ Roll,
p. 81.

“Wishing,” an old demo: Lazell et al.,
Rock Movers & Shakers,
p. 234.

“were done better by: 1/64.

Fab Four were simply: George Harrison said in New York on 2/12/64, “In the early days it was Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and Buddy Holly.” Giuliano and Giuliano,
Lost Beatles Interviews,
p. 16.

book business in Surrey: BG, “John Tobler Book,” RM 16, 9/80, p. 2.

“a lot of work”: BG, “Mrs. Holley,” p. 2.

“Musically, the rock ’n’ roll:
Man Who Made the Beatles,
p. 67.

first forty songs: G&B, RB, p. 159.

McCartney revealed in 1987: RBHS.

“They play and harmonize: p. 21.

Tony Bramwell, who’d once: Norman,
Shout!
p. 53.

“Buddy was my very: “Legend of BH,”
16,
4/65.

“quite unlike anything the: Coleman,
Man Who Made,
p. 110.

Buddy’s most profound effect: RM 19, 6/81, p. 7.

reincarnation of Buddy:
Ibid.

“We’re more popular: Cited in Coleman,
Man Who Made,
p. 281.

“on the train from Liverpool,”: BG, “18 Interviews (all at once),” p. 4.

“something … like Buddy Holly’s:
Shout!
p. 74.

Johnny and the Moondogs:
Ibid.,
p. 59.

Long John and the: Lazell et al.,
Rock Movers & Shakers,
p. 34.

“What’s happening in Liverpool: Coleman,
Man Who Made,
p. 68.

“My Bonnie:
Ibid.,
p. 70.

Cavern Club:
Ibid.,
p. 73.

75 shillings each for:
Ibid.,
p. 81.

was gay, found the:
Ibid.,
p. 57.

to be somewhat ragged:
Ibid.,
p. 73.

they rejected the Beatles:
Ibid.,
p. 97.

most popular band in: PN,
Shout!
p. 144.

They dressed like Buddy: RBHS.

EMI had previously: Coleman,
Man Who Made,
p. 108.

George Martin recorded them: PN,
Shout!
pp. 158–59.

Roy Orbison’s high, soaring style: Amburn,
Dark Star,
p. 117.

Sunday Night at the London Palladium:
Coleman,
Man Who Made,
p. 199.

Sid Bernstein, an agent:
Ibid.,
p. 200.

“The first thing the Beatles: Author interview with David Garrard Lowe.

“The way they arranged: Quoted in Schaffner,
British Invasion,
p. 62.

“‘Not Fade Away’ fully:
Ibid.

“He passed it on: RBHS.

“after the American rocker: Schaffner,
British Invasion,
p. 228.

had sixteen Holly tracks: BG, “New Albums (Review),” RM 18, 3/81, p. 7.

Clapton, rock’s future guitar god: Roberty,
Slowhand: Life and Music of Eric Clapton,
pp. 10, 45, 53, 85, 91.

Clapton played with the Roosters: Roberty,
Slowhand,
pp. 11–15.

Clapton played “Peggy Sue”: Schumacher,
Crossroads,
p. 117

Clapton covered Buddy’s “Well:
Ibid.

No. 6 in England’s: “Legend of BH,”
16,
p. 57.

“They said, ‘You mean: Quoted in Oestreicher and Kennedy, “CA,” p. 12.

“Very fine people.” … some day”:
Ibid.
pp. 11–12.

Chapter 16

$400,000-a-year bracket: Hendler,
Year by Year in the Rock Era,
p. 150.

“an eight-minute chronicle: Ward, “Fifties,” ROA, p. 453.

dedicated to Buddy: Don McLean quoted in BG, “Don McLean,” RM 17, 12/80, p. 6.

“‘American Pie’ became a tool: Quoted in Fink, “Don McLean,” RM 43, 7/86, p. 9.

“I can’t stand that surfing: Cited in G&B, RB, p. 162.

Rock ’n’ roll’s been going: BG, RM 3, 6/77, p. 5.

“like an omen: Quoted in Fink, “Don McLean,” p. 9.

Kmart employee and sometime: BG, “Editorial,” RM 16, 9/80, p. 1.

lasted over a decade,… Maria Elena and disagreements: BG, “Lubbock’s 1986 ‘BH Festival’ Called Off,” RM 42, 5/86, p. 10; BG, “Farewell, So Long, Goodbye…” RM 28, Fall/83, p. 26; Ernie Conner, Dale Smith, “Letters,” R50 31, p. 5; BG, “Editorial,” RM 16, 9/80, pp. 1–2.

boasted fifty-two hundred members: BG, “International BHMS,” 1988 Clovis Music Festival Official Program, p. 16.

Netherlands,… Canada: BG, “BHMS Members,” RM 22, 3/82, p. 23.

“I’m not a beautiful:
Linda Ronstadt: It’s So Easy,
p. 61.

“a bad reputation:
Ibid.,
p. 18.

J. D. Souther:
Ibid.,
p. 44.

California Governor Jerry Brown:
Ibid.;
Clifford,
Harmony Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock,
p. 148.

“The Eagles backed me: P. 301.

Peter Asher: Stambler,
Encyclopedia of Pop, Rock, and Soul,
p. 584.

Simple Dreams: Ibid.,
p. 585.

her debt to Buddy: BG, “Lubbock Happenings,” RM 23, 6/82, p. 4.

a mass audience in the seventies: Pareles and Romanowski,
Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll,
p. 479.

“Mother had got behind: Author interview with LH.

“Who do you really: Quoted in “PM 9/13/80,” RM 19, 6/81, p. 2.

“Happy Birthday,” … Ira Gershwin.: Giuliano,
Blackbird.

$500 million: Brown and Gaines,
Love You Make,
p. 366.