Buddy Holly: Biography (81 page)

“Ultimately, Bowen didn’t agree:
Ibid.,
p. 148.

New Traditionalist movement:
Ibid.,
p. 149.

most recorded song of 1967:
Ibid.,
p. 73.

“Montgomery was polite:
Ibid.

driving a camper with: BG, RM 30, p. 13.

Many of them had to spend:
Ibid.

of criticizing the Beatles: Author interview with Billy Stull.

“In his latter years:
Ibid.

He lay dying of leukemia:
Ibid.;
“Petty, 57, Friend, Manager of Buddy Holly, Dies Here,” LAJ, 8/16/84, p. A-11; Roberts, “Petty’s Musical Genius Influenced Today’s Tunes,”
Clovis News-Journal,
8/19/84.

“Norman never spoke of: Author interview with Billy Stull.

“Norman was hurt by all:
Ibid.

“eminence in the recording: “Holly’s Album Merits Gold Record for Clovis Man,”
Amarillo Daily News,
6/1/84, p. 13-A.

“Petty still waxes nostalgic:
Ibid.

“He died unfulfilled,”: Author interview with Billy Stull.

PETTY
, 57,
FRIEND
: 8/16/84, p. A-11.

“It’s real sad: BG, “NP, 1927–1984,” RM 31, Summer/84, p. 3.

“True Love Ways,” which was: BG, “NP, 1927–1984,” p.3.

“Petty took as much: Author interview with BG.

suffered a stroke: “Hospitalized Father of Star BH on Critical List,” LAJ, 7/8/85.

moved to the intensive care: “Holly’s Father Still Critical,” LAJ, 7/8/85.

at eight
P.M.
, he died: “Lawrence Holley Dead at 83,” LAJ, 7/9/85.

“father of the late: “Services Slated Wednesday for Buddy Holly’s Father,” LAJ, 7/9/85.

The Reverend E. L. Bynum: BG, RM 38, 9/85, p. 3.

pallbearers were his barber: “Lawrence Holley Sr. Dies,” LAJ, 7/10/85.

fall off a bridge: Author interview with LH.

one of the ten original: LAJ, 1/24/86.

circumstances eerily similar: Bashe,
Teenage Idol: Travelin’ Man,
pp. 276–78;
People,
1/20/86; Selvin,
Ricky Nelson,
pp. 286, 289, 291–92, 294, 296.

“I wish Buddy, Elvis, and: Quoted in BG, “News Briefs,” RM 42, 5/86, p. 2.

rock’s “Magnificent Seven”: BG, RM 44, 9/86, p. 8.

pilot’s seventy-one-year-old: “Pilot’s Parents Can’t Forget.”

“Mrs. Holly, fifty-five, said:
Ibid.

“someone can be so: Quoted in
Ibid.

Peterson’s name was included: JP, “Legends of Rock Remembered: Monument Is in Place at Surf,” MCGG, 6/7/88.

photograph taken during the dedication: CLMR, 6/22/88.

“Now that I am:
Ibid.

she held aloft:
Sunday Globe,
6/19/88.

Jay P. Richardson, Jr.: JP, “Saturday: Day Music Lives Again,”
Clear Lake Weekend A.M.,
6/16/88.

“It’s heartwarming to take:
Reporter,
6/22/88.

film biography of his father: Gales, “Hollywood Introduced Son to Bopper,” MCGG, 2/1/89.

“she tried to put it: Quoted in
ibid.

Bob Morales: JP, “Saturday: Day Music.”

actor Esai Morales: BM, RV, p. 138.

Marshall Crenshaw: WJ, “Marshall Crenshaw,” RM 26, Spring 1983, p. 26.

migrant laborer and a farmworker: BM, RV, p. 139.

snakeskin was purely fictitious:
Ibid.

The creative team included: Program, Surf Ballroom,
Buddy: BH Story,
p. 16;
Playbill, Buddy,
Shubert Theater, 5/91, Vol. 91, No. 5, p. 63.

“an unashamed, rabble-rousing: advertisement for
Buddy,
Colonial Theatre, Boston, Massachusetts.

“big cast … big sound: cover, Program, Surf Ballroom,
Buddy.

party at the Lone Star: Giuliano,
Blackbird,
p. 312.

venerable Shubert Theater: “At This Theatre,”
Playbill, Buddy,
p. 5.

“Buddy has them dancin’: poster, Shubert Theatre.

Hipp’s portrayal won him: “Who’s Who in the Cast,”
Playbill, Buddy,
p. 48.

performances in Lubbock: BG, “Buddy—BH Story,” R50, 12/91, p. 4.

Christopher Eudy: Surf Ballroom program,
Buddy,
p. 7.

“The Lubbock audience stood: BG, “Buddy—BH Story,” p. 4.

Prime Minister John Major:
LDM
cited in BG, “Prime Minister Likes Buddy,” R50 35, 4/92, p. 23.

take “everything we’ve got: Author interview with LH.

Buddy’s Ariel Cyclone: BG, “Buddy’s Motorcycle,” p. 16.

“Mother was losing her mind: Author interview with LH.

suffering a heart attack: BG, R50, 12/88, p. 22.

“I boxed them up: Author interview with LH.

“ardent followers: “Talk of the Town,”
New Yorker,
7/8/91, p. 28.

Eddie Murphy arrived at: BG, “Second BH Auction,” R50, 8/91, p. 24.

Fender Stratocaster fetching $100,000:
Ibid.,
p. 22.

“A Lubbock man was: Author interview with BG.

“just because it was: “Talk of the Town,” p. 28.

“sad”:
Ibid.,
p. 29.

“smooth and engaging:
Ibid.

“brought back in,”: BG, “Second BH Auction,” p. 24.

“a Tiffany flatware: Quoted in “Talk of the Town,” p. 28.

“I noticed the Hard: Quoted in
ibid.

“flooding the market”:
Ibid.

brought in $5,225: BG, RM 31, p. 23.

It was still … Elvis was the king: various TV newscasts, 6/94; BH prices: BG, “Second BH Auction,” pp. 22–24, and BG, RM 31.

“Norman had been a: Author interview with BG.

“gracious widow who loved: Author interview with Billy Stull.

“eccentric cat woman who: Author interview with BG.

“They tried to shrink: Author interview with Billy Stull.

Panhandle South Plains Fair: Kerns, “Stamp Ceremony to Break Tradition,” LAJ, 6/15/93, p. 1B.

deal with a T-shirt company:
Ibid.

“dollar value”:
Ibid.

“to begin capitalizing: Kerns, “City Gets Windfall From Holly Stamp,” LAJ, 6/13/93, pp. 1D-8D.

“a small vacant lot, strewn: “Buddy Holly Stamp Excites Hometown,”
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
6/17/93.

“60, divorced, and: 12/8/91.

photograph atop page one: James Granger.

“He came through the: Kerns, “Holly’s Hit List Grows With Hot-Selling Stamp,” LAJ, 6/17/93, p. 1.

“I hinted. I prayed: Kerns, “Family Appreciates Holly Celebration,” LAJ, 6/17/93, p. 85.

“astonished” by the city’s: Quoted in
ibid.

“given up on the: Quoted in
ibid.

“treating us so well,”: Kerns, “Holly Notes,” LAJ, 6/17/93, p. 85.

“We all know what happened,”: “Holly’s Hit List,” p. 1.

handed it to Maria Elena:
Ibid.

Civic Lubbock, Inc., had recently: Kerns, “Family Appreciates,” p. B-5.

“treasure” and: Kerns, “Holly’s Hit List,” p. 1.

annual summer observance in: LAJ, 6/15/93/ p. 1B.

24,571 Holly stamps: Kerns, “Holly’s Hit List,” p. 1.

“to use Buddy’s name: Author interview with LH.

beneficiaries could not:
Ibid.

name on the toilet paper:
Ibid.

proposed a mammoth Disneyland-type:
Ibid.

percentage of every soft:
Ibid.

“His plan fell through,”: Author interview with BG.

“multi-event center,”:
Ibid.

“The public defeated the: Author interview with Michael Reeves.

Epilogue

in its final days: Author interviews with HG and JP.

“As president of the:
News Letter: Surf Ballroom,
5/88, p. 6.

“Eddie Cochran Birthday Bash”: “Schedule of Events” (program), p. 7.

“If you want to vote: Lanpher, “Having a Ball,”
St. Paul Pioneer Press,
reprinted in
Music & Dance News,
2/93, p. 7.

“If you were a Cricket: Author interview with BG.

“They crisscrossed: Author interview with HG.

“It’s not advisable: Author interview with Mike Berry.

“J.I. [Jerry Ivan]: Author interview with SC.

“His alligator mouth:
Ibid.

“Come again?”: Author interview with Mike Berry.

“He talked the pilot: Author interview with SC.

“There was a lot of tension: Author interview with Frankie Ford.

she’d never let go:
Parade
magazine, 12/8/91.

a healthy catharsis: Author interview with HG.

“My favorite: Author interview with JP.

Sony Corporation: “Member of BH’s Band Recreates Those Days Annually,”
Jefferson City
(Missouri)
News Tribune,
2/6/94.

a bar called Sully’s: Author interview with NS.

credit-card business in Nashville: Author interview with Sue Christensen.

Waylon Jennings had said: Author interview with NS.

Paul McCartney was not interested. Author interview with Sue Christensen and HG.

Niki wanted to buy: Author interview with NS.

“It is one of those: Reprinted in CLMR, 6/16/88.

farmer Laurence Radloff and: “America’s Music Still Waltzes Through the Surf Ballroom,” reprinted in CLMR, 6/16/88.

“The Surf was like: Quoted in
ibid.

“We’ve restored it as: Author interview with Dale Snyder.

“We now have palm trees:
Ibid.

$8,000 a month: Author interview with NS.

to “be a part: “Be a Part of Surf Ballroom History,” advertising mailer, Surf Ltd. c/o Snyder family.

“There are very few: Author interview with JP.

appearing with DJ Randy: ticket, “Tribute to BH,” Fri., Feb. 3, 1995.

“the Regulators from Odessa: Author interview with NS.

“with the Crickets—Gordon: Author interview with SC.

the Fantastic Convertibles, Bobby: ticket, “Tribute to BH,” Sat., Feb. 4, 1995.

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