The landscape of rock music shifted forever in July 1957, when Jerry Lee Lewis made his TV debut on The Steve Allen Show. For more than seven decades, the Louisiana-born rockabilly pioneer churned out ...
On Feb. 3, 1959 — "The Day the Music Died" made famous in Don McLean's song AmericanPie — a plane crash in Iowa claimed the lives of three pop singers. Buddy Holly's life came to the big screen in The ...
He’s best known for his 1958 hit “Chantilly Lace,” with the signature opening, “Heeelllooo, Baaaby,” and as the third singer to die in a 1959 plane crash that also took the lives of legends Buddy ...
A British man is asking for the help of Southeast Texans to get Port Arthur native J.P. Richardson Jr. inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Richardson is better known as the Big Bopper, the ...
A rendering of a statue of The Big Bopper shows him holding a rotary phone, noting his hit song, "Chantilly Lace." His family is hoping to erect the bronze statue in Beaumont, Texas J.P. Richardson, ...
During his late night broadcasts Richardson would put away Doris Day, Sinatra and Bing, to deliver the kind of music - rock ‘ n’ roll, that was sweeping the country, carefully interspersed with some ...
He’s best known for his 1958 hit “Chantilly Lace,” with the signature opening, “Heeelllooo, Baaaby,” and as the third singer to die in a 1959 plane crash that also took the lives of legends Buddy ...
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