Buddy Holly: Biography (87 page)

Cohen, Edward H.

Cohen, Paul

Coleman, Jerry

Coleman, Ray

Coleman, Stuart

Collins, Larry

Collins, Lorrie

Collins Kids

Collison, Jim

Columbia Records

Como, Perry

Coniglio, Joe

Contacts
(CYO) publication

Converse, Charles C.

Cook, Esther

Cooke, Sam

Copeland, Alan

Coral Records

Corbin, Larry

Corbin, Ray “Slim”

Corbin, Sky

Cott, Jonathan

Cotton Club (Lubbock)

Country Song Roundups
(Axton)

Covell, Roger

Cramer, Floyd

Crandall, Eddie

Crawford, Fred

Crew Cuts

Crickets

breakup

Clovis recording sessions

finances

financial irresponsibility

gigs

gold and platinum records

horseplay

as independent group (minus Holly)

intergroup problems

and marriage

and motorcycles

naming of

New York, 1st trip to

Niki quitting the band

outfits

Petty as manager

reading music

rehearsals

reunions

stage presence

See also
Allison, Jerry; Curtis, Sonny; Holly, Buddy; Mauldin, Joe Benson; Picks; Roses; Sullivan, Niki; Welborn, Larry

Crickets (performances)

Apollo Theater (NYC)

Arthur Murray Party
(NBC)

The Chirping Crickets
(album)

Colgate Palmolive (Melbourne) radio show

Dick Clark’s
American Bandstand

The Dick Clark Saturday Night Beechnut Show

The Ed Sullivan Show

Freed’s Labor Day (Brooklyn Paramount) show

Freed’s
Rock ’n’ Roll Show
(ABC–TV)

London Palladium

Paramount Theater (NYC)

Val Parnell’s Sunday Night at the London Palladium

Crickets (tours)

Australia

“Big Gold Record Stars” (Florida)

England

Feld-GAC “Biggest Show of Stars” (1957)

Feld-GAC “Biggest Show of Stars” (1958)

Freed’s “Big Beat” (1958)

“Summer Dance Party” (1958)

Crickets (reconstructed)

legal reason for keeping name

outfits

pay

reformation

“Winter Dance Party” tour (1959)

See also
Allsup, Tommy; Bunch, Carl; Jennings, Waylon

“Crying”

“Crying, Waiting, Hoping” (Holly)

Curtis, Dean

Curtis, Pete

Curtis, Sonny

as a Cricket

Daffan, Ted

Dailey, Harold “Pappy”

D’Aleo, Angelo

Dalton, David

Danny and the Juniors

Darin, Bobby

Dark Star: The Roy Orbison Story
(Amburn)

Davies, Steve

Davis, Joe Warren

“Dawn”

Dawson, Jim

Day, Bobby

Day in the Life: The Music and Artistry of the Beatles, A
(Hertsgaard)

Dean Barlow and the Crickets

Decca records

and Buddy Holly

and rock ’n’ roll

See also
Brunswick label; Coral Records

“Dede Dinah”

Dee, Tommy

Delfont, Bernard

Dene, Terry

Denisoff, R. Serge

Denning, Barbara

Denny, Dollie

Denny, Jim

Des Barres, Pamela

Deutch, Murray

“Devil or Angel”

“Devoted to You”

Diamonds

“Diana”

Dickie Doo and the Don’ts

Diddley, Bo

Dilley, Jan

DiMucci, Dion

and the Belmonts

“Winter Dance Party” tour

DiMucci, Sue Butterfield (Dion’s wife)

Dion and the Belmonts.
See
DiMucci, Dion

DJs.
See under
music industry

Dodge, Consuelo

“Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor On the Bedpost Over Night”

Domino, Fats

Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert
(TV)

Donahue, Phil

Donegan, Lonnie

“Donna”

“Don’t Cha Know”

“Don’t Come Back Knockin’” (Holly-Parrish)

Don’t Say Hello; Say Hi-D-Ho
(Sherry Holley album)

Dorsey, Jimmy

Dot Records

Douglas, Mike.
See Mike Douglas Show

“Down the Line”

Drake, Eva P. (Buddy’s grandmother)

Drake, Tom

Drifters

Duncan, William Joseph “Hi Pockets”

as Buddy and Bob’s manager

and Buddy Holly’s career

and Elvis Presley

Dwyer, Jerry

Dylan, Bob

Eagles

“Early in the Morning”

“Earth Angel”

Eberle, Bob

Eddie Cochran
(album)

Eddy, Duane

Edwards, Tommy

Egan, Cy

Eisenberg, Dr. M. Michael

Eldridge, Reeve

Elegants

Ellsbury, Bob

Ely, Joe

Emery, Ralph

Engler, Jerry

Epstein, Brian

Ertegun, Ahmet

Eudy, Christopher

Everly, Alice (Phil’s wife)

Everly, Don

Everly, Mary E. (Don’s daughter)

Everly, Mary Sue (Don’s wife)

Everly, Phil

Everly Brothers

Everly Brothers, The
(Dodge)

Everly Brothers Signature Guitar (Guild J-180)

“Everyday”

“Faded Love”

“Fake Out”

Fantastic Convertibles

Fechter, Lambert

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)

Feld, Irving.
See also
GAC

Feld, Izzie

Fender, Clarence Leo

Finch, Earl

“Fine as Wine”

Fink, Stu

Fireballs

Fisher, Eddie

Five Strings

Fleming, William D.

Flippo, Chet

Florer, Cindy

“Flowers of My Heart”

Floyd, Bill

Fontana, Dominic Joseph “D. J.”

“Fool’s Paradise”

For the First Time Anywhere
(Holly album)

Ford, Frankie

“Forty Cups of Coffee”

Four Ekkos

Four Lads

Four Non-Blondes

Four Seasons

Four Teens

“Four Walls”

Fox, Ted

Frady, Claudette

Francis, Connie

Francis, David “Panama”

Franklin, Aretha

Frederick, Sue

Free, Ray

Freed, Alan

“Big Beat” tour (1958)

Labor Day (Brooklyn Paramount) show

Rock ’n’ Roll Show
(ABC–TV)

Fried, Frank

Friedman, Jerry

Frisby, John

Frizzell, Lefty

“Fujiyama Mama”

Fuller, Bobby

Fuson, Ken

Gabler, Milt

GAC (General Artists Corporation)

“Winter Dance Party” tour (1959)

See also
Feld, Irving

Gacek, Cathy

Gale, Tim

Gales, Carol

Garcia, Provi

Garrett, Snuff

G-Clefs

Gerron, Peggy Sue.
See
Allison, Peggy Sue

Gibson, Don

Gibson’s Fabulous Flat-Top Guitars
(Whitford/Vinopal/Erlewine)

Gilmer, Jimmy

Giordano, Lou

Girl Can’t Help It, The
(film)

“Girl From the North Country”

“Girl on My Mind”

Gittler, Robert

Glory Days
(Marsh)

“Go, Jimmy, Go”

Go, Johnny, Go!
(Roach film)

Godfrey, Arthur

Goeppinger, Hans

“Goin’ to the River”

“Gold Records in the Snow”

Goldman, Albert

Goldner, George

Goldrich, Clerk Henry

Goldrosen, John

See also Remembering Buddy

Goldstein, Richard

Goodwin, Keith

Gordon, Lee

Goss, Jake

“Gotta Get You Near Me Blues”

“Gotta Travel On”

Gourdine, Anthony

Grade, Leslie

Grade, Lew.
See also
ATV

Grammer, Billy

Grammill, Doyle

Grant, Gogi

Great Balls of Fire
(Lewis)

Griggs, Bill

See Also Reminiscing
magazine

Griggs, Mary

Gross, Mike

Guess, Don

Guitar Player
magazine

Guralnick, Peter

Guterman, Jimmy

Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians

Hahn, Emily

Hale, Bob

Haley, Bill

Hall, Ben

Hamilton, Roy

Hammerstein, Oscar

Hansen, Jack

Harper, Jo

Harrison, George

See also
Beatles

Harry, Bill

“Have Mercy, Baby”

“Have You Ever Gone Sailing on the River of Memories”

Hawkins, Screamin’ Jay

Hayes, Ernest

Hayward, Ritchie

“Heartbeat”

“Heartbreak Hotel”

Hearts

“Heeby-Jeebies”

Heffernan, Alan

Held, Julius

“He’ll Have to Go”

Hellfire
(Tosches)

Hendrix, Jimi

Herman, Woody

Hertsgaard, Mark

Hester, Carolyn

Hi Pockets Duncan and His Texas Hot Shots

Hickey, Pat

“High Noon”

Hill, Jessie

Hill, Randall C.

Hines, Douglas

Hipp, Paul

Hit Parade

Hoffman, Jim

Holiday, Billie

“Holiday of Stars Twelve Days of Christmas Show” (NYC)

Holdsworth, Peter

Holley family

Buddy’s estate

gold and platinum records

Lubbock opening of
The Buddy Holly Story

Lubbock statue of Buddy

memorabilia

memorabilia sale

record royalties

sale of Buddy’s songs

trips to Clear Lake

Holley, Charles Hardin.
See
Holly, Buddy

Holley, Ella Pauline Drake (Buddy’s mother)

and Buddy

and Buddy’s death and funeral

and Buddy’s marriage

and “Maybe Baby”

Holley, Mr. and Mrs. John (Buddy’s grandparents)

Holley, Larry (Buddy’s brother)

Holley, Lawrence Odell “L. O.” (Buddy’s father)

Holley, Maxine (Larry’s wife)

Holley, Patricia (Buddy’s sister).
See
Kaiter, Patricia Holley

Holley, Sherry (Buddy’s niece)

Holley, Travis (Buddy’s brother)

teaching Buddy to play guitar

Hollies

Holly, Buddy (childhood and adolescence)

Baptism

birth

delinquency

and the draft

education

family Oldsmobile

as a fundamentalist

and the outdoors

popularity

puberty

Holly, Buddy (career: early)

audiences

C&W

early gigs

employment (non–musical)

influence (protégés)

influenced by

influences on

and jazz

name change

and pop music

pseudonym

reading music

and rock ’n’ roll

Saturday morning kiddie shows

as sideman

See also
Crickets; Guess, Don; Montgomery, Bob; Neal, Jack; Tollett, Gary; Tollett, Ramona

Holly, Buddy (career: success)

agent (Eddie Crandall)

broken teeth

the charts

the charts (United Kingdom)

clothes style

commercial endorsements

finances (business)

finances (lack of money)

guitar technique

and heckling

manager (Hi Pockets)

manager (Norman Petty)

rehearsals

stage presence

Holly, Buddy (instruments)

banjo

Epiphone acoustic guitar

Fender Stratocaster guitar

Gidson J-45 acoustic guitar

Gibson J-200 acoustic guitar

Gibson Les Paul guitar

Gibson Stereo GA series amp guitar

Guild Buddy Holly signature guitar

Guild F-50 Navarre acoustic guitars

Magnatone Custom 280 amp guitar

mandolin

theft and pawning

Holly, Buddy (personal life)

acne

aggressiveness and temper

alcohol use

appearance

blacks, identification with

confidence and ambition

and Echo Elaine McGuire

and fame

generosity

glasses

health (ulcers)

holiday visit home (1958)

home movie of

and Maria Elena (wife)

and motorcycles

and New York City

personality

“pink” Cadillac

sexuality and religion

smoking

spirituality

and women

Holly, Buddy (press)

Billboard
reviews

Cash Box
reviews

interviews

press hostility

reviews

Holly, Buddy (radio and TV appearances)

air play

Arthur Godfrey Talent Scouts

Arthur Murray Party
(NBC)

“The Buddy and Jack Show”

Colgate Palmolive (Melbourne) radio show

commercials (KLLL)

Dick Clark’s
American Bandstand

The Dick Clark Saturday Night Beechnut Show

The Ed Sullivan Show

Freed’s
Rock ’n’ Roll Show
(ABC–TV)

and radio station KLLL

“Sunday Party”

Ted Pandall’s KPIX-TV show

Val Parnell’s Sunday Night at the London Palladium

Holly, Buddy (recording)

amateur records

apartment tapes (NYC)

big-band recordings

BMI earnings

Brunswick label

Clovis sessions

Columbia Records

Coral Records

Dave Stone acetate

Decca Nashville sessions

gold and platinum records