Comments on: BUDDY HOLLY AND THE CRICKETS - “That’ll Be The Day” http://freakytrigger.co.uk/popular/2003/12/buddy-holly-and-the-crickets-thatll-be-the-day/ Lollards in the high church of low culture Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:05:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: tim davidge http://freakytrigger.co.uk/popular/2003/12/buddy-holly-and-the-crickets-thatll-be-the-day/#comment-397794 tim davidge Fri, 21 Mar 2008 23:00:32 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/popular/2003/12/buddy-holly-and-the-crickets-thatll-be-the-day/#comment-397794 Proof that pop music is changing fast. I seem to recall having seen and heard a Buddy Holly LP on Ace of Clubs issued from the time when he made his very first recordings, for American Decca. He didn’t stay with them long, but one of the tunes on that LP was this one. In its original form it was a bottom-heavy, echo-laden affair. It didn’t work, so Holly and Co went away, re-thought, and tried again. A year or so later this was the result - on a different label. Holly still had a way to go before he produced his best work (during the course of 1958 there were to be some gems, some of which barely dented the chart) but this, while not his best, certainly showed he was hitting his stride. The (very good) drummer on Crickets records was Jerry (“J.I.”) Allison, who went on to be a session drummer as well as featuring in later Crickets line-ups. He also made a solo record, 'Real Wild Child' under the name of Ivan (his middle name). A final note on this group was that they came to this country in their original form in 1958, braving a ten-hour, prop-driven flight to land up in these chilly islands. They toured and appeared on TV and on one occasion young Alvin Stardust, then in a previous life, blagged his way backstage… Proof that pop music is changing fast. I seem to recall having seen and heard a Buddy Holly LP on Ace of Clubs issued from the time when he made his very first recordings, for American Decca. He didn’t stay with them long, but one of the tunes on that LP was this one. In its original form it was a bottom-heavy, echo-laden affair. It didn’t work, so Holly and Co went away, re-thought, and tried again. A year or so later this was the result - on a different label. Holly still had a way to go before he produced his best work (during the course of 1958 there were to be some gems, some of which barely dented the chart) but this, while not his best, certainly showed he was hitting his stride. The (very good) drummer on Crickets records was Jerry (“J.I.”) Allison, who went on to be a session drummer as well as featuring in later Crickets line-ups. He also made a solo record, ‘Real Wild Child’ under the name of Ivan (his middle name).

A final note on this group was that they came to this country in their original form in 1958, braving a ten-hour, prop-driven flight to land up in these chilly islands. They toured and appeared on TV and on one occasion young Alvin Stardust, then in a previous life, blagged his way backstage…

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