For more than 30 years Allison and the group’s bassist Joe B Mauldin declined to mark Holly’s violent end, killed along with Ritchie Valens and JP Richardson (“the Big Bopper”) when their small chartered aircraft crashed into a frozen field shortly after take-off on February 3 1959, famously enshrined as “the day the music died”. The Crickets were haunted by a split with their frontman shortly before his death, Holly having hired a private plane to reach his next tour venue in wintry weather. With its signature tom-tom motif, it was considered to be as memorable as his work on Peggy Sue. Later, with fellow ex-Cricket Sonny Curtis (guitar), Allison, working as a session drummer, joined Chet Atkins (electric guitar), Floyd T “Lightnin’” Chance (bass) and Floyd Cramer (piano) to create an intro for the Everly Brothers’ (Till) I Kissed You (1959). “Without a doubt,” reported Keith Goodwin in New Musical Express, noting Allison’s singular contribution, “the Crickets are the loudest, noisiest trio I’ve ever heard in my life.” During the tour the Premier factory outside Leicester created a bespoke drum kit for Allison, which included two floor tom-toms. In March 1958 Buddy Holly and the Crickets embarked on a 25-day tour of Britain, co-starring with the American comedian Bob Hope on the Sunday Night At The London Palladium television show before criss-crossing the country on a non-stop roster of one-nighters compered by Des O’Connor. The Crickets had also been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on April 14, 2012.Always known as JI, Allison was astounded when his first effort at songwriting, That’ll Be the Day (also 1957), became their first UK chart-topper, despite the producer opining: “That’s the worst song I’ve ever heard.” After Holly’s death in 1959 at the age of 22, Sullivan died in 2004 and Mauldin in 2017. Over the ensuing decades, Allison also became an in-demand session player, recording with such artists as Bobby Vee, Eddie Cochran, Waylon Jennings, Paul McCartney and Nanci Griffith.Īllison was the last living member of the original line-up. “More Than I Can Say,” a 1960 Crickets single co-written by Allison and Curtis, later became a No. The band’s most famous latter-day album was 2004’s The Crickets and Their Buddies, which included star turns by Eric Clapton, John Prine, Nanci Griffith, Graham Nash, Rodney Crowell, and one-time Crickets member Jennings, among others. The Big Bopper), Allison continued recording and touring as The Crickets with a rotating cast of band members including Mauldin, Sonny Curtis, Glen Hardin, Earl Sinks, and Jerry Naylor. The song went on to become a rock standard, covered in later decades by Iggy Pop and others.įollowing Holly’s death in a plane crash in February 1959 alongside fellow rock ‘n’ roll pioneers Ritchie Valens and J.P. It was a lovely, lovely time and people liked it and we were really pleased they did.”Īllison himself scored a modest solo hit with “Real Wild Child” - a cover of Johnny O’Keefe’s “Wild One” - which was released under his middle name, Ivan, in 1958 and peaked at No. Whatever it was, Norman Petty’s engineering, Buddy’s guitar playing … it would’ve been hard to have been more commercial. There were some Cindy songs out at the time, but there weren’t any Peggy Sue ones. I said, ‘Let’s change the beat.’ I was dating Peggy Sue or had dated Peggy Sue at the time. We were riding around Lubbock and he had it written up as sort of a cha-cha beat or a rumba - a Latin feel. Of “Peggy Sue,” Allison said in an interview with Classic Bands, “ had it about half-finished. 3 on the Top 100 later that year as a solo single for Holly. “Peggy Sue,” on which Allison was also credited as a co-writer and which was named after his then-girlfriend and future wife Peggy Sue Gerron, hit No. 1 hit, The Crickets followed “That’ll Be The Day” with a string of successful singles including “Oh, Boy!”, “Maybe Baby” and “Think It Over” – the latter co-written by Allison. Wayne kept repeating the line, ‘That’ll be the day.’ Buddy said, ‘Let’s write a song,’ and I said, ‘That’ll be the day!’ We worked on it for about half an hour.
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We’d been to see the John Wayne movie The Searchers. Buddy and I rehearsed for hours, day after day. “My bedroom in Lubbock was real big - in fact, it had a piano in it. Allison explained to Texas Music Monthly how their breakout hit came to be.
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