Buddy Holly: Biography (70 page)

“Kid’ll flip over: BG, RM 19, 6/81, p. 6.

$1,200 a night as: BG in Floyd, “Crickets’ Appearance at the Apollo,” RM 28, Fall/83, p. 18.

to sign her breasts: Quoted in Dodge,
The Everlys,
p. 41.

“They thought you were: 8/86, cited in Dodge,
The Everlys,
p. 41.

“how the guys looked: Cited in
ibid.

“were fighting the current:
Ibid.

“wasn’t respectable at all:
Ibid.

“And we all did,”:
Ibid.,
p. 42.

“cannibalistic and tribalistic.”: Cited in Bayles,
Hole in Our Soul,
p. 144.

“a barrage of primitive: Quoted in Jahn,
Story of Rock ’n’ Roll From Elvis Presley to the Rolling Stones,
pp. 40–41.

“means by which the white: Quoted in
Rock ’n’ Roll: Early Days,
documentary film aired on PBS, 12/8/86, Paul Montgomery, producer.

“Much has been made: “50’s,”
Rolling Stone,
576, 4/19/90, p. 48.

a target of Communist: McLeod, “Jerry Engler,” R50, 10/91, p. 19.

political propaganda: Quoted in
ibid.

“Buddy Holly put me: Quoted in PN,
Road Goes on Forever,
p. 38.

Buddy was drinking:
Ibid.

“gutless and greedy:
New Book of Rock Lists,
p. 479.

He naturally wanted: G&B, RB., p. 98.

“He called me from: Author interview with LH.

saying he was furious: G&B, RB, p. 115; ACOB.

he demanded full royalties: G&B, RB, pp. 115–16.

“steaming mad,”:
Ibid.,
p. 115.

cut “Rave On” in New York: Bob Thiele quoted in
ibid.,
p. 98; NP quoted in Brooks and Malcolm, “NP—Part 2,” RM 38, 9/85, p. 9.

song about a domestic fight: G&B, RB, p. 97.

Petty rejected the first:
Ibid.

Thiele thought better of: Thiele quoted in G&B, RB, p. 98.

neither Sullivan nor Petty: BG, “Bill Pickering Talks About the Picks,” RM 21, 12/81, p. 8.

Sullivan demanded to be told: G&B, RB, p. 87.

he didn’t know or care:
Ibid.

they must
not
sing: Sullivan quoted in BG, “Tour Schedules,” p. 9.

banned all rock music: Ward, “Fifties,” ROA, p. 171.

he was going to walk out: BH quoted in G&B, RB, p. 87.

Sullivan resented Buddy’s defiance: BG’s analysis of the film clip of the show in RM 20, 9/81, p. 12.

had an animal act waiting: Leonard,
Really Big Show,
p. 33.

he ordered Bo Diddley:
Ibid.,
p. 181.

Sullivan cheated Bo: Bo Diddley quoted in Loder, “Bo Diddley,” TRSI, p. 185.

seemed to go wrong: BG, RM 20, 9/81, p. 12; BG, “Tour Schedules,” p. 9; kinescope, Canadian TV special,
Roots of Rock ’n’ Roll.

like a bush-league: JA quoted in G&B, RB, p. 87.

CBS then doubled its offer:
Ibid.

CBS didn’t have enough:
Ibid.

Chapter 9

Pan Am Constellation: Johnstone, “Australian Tour,” RM 26, Spring/83, p. 8.

pick up Jerry Lee:
Ibid.;
GBOF, p. 153.

started cracking jokes: GBOF, pp. 155, 157.

Buddy, unamused:
Ibid.

“Anchor.”:
Ibid.

showed Lewis some lyrics:
Ibid.,
p. 158.

scorned them, deciding he:
Ibid.,
p. 156.

naked motorcycle ride: Quoted in
Off the Record,
Fink, ed., p. 99.

“only for thirty-five:
Ibid.

a cut in his regular: G&B, RB, p. 88.

Anka’s manager, Bill McCadden: Johnstone, “Australian Tour,”
Ibid.

pictures from the plane: NP quoted in BG, “NP,” RM 6, 3/78, p. 7.

over better than expected: Quoted in BG, R50, 12/88, p. 10.

Oahu’s Scofield Barracks: BG, RM 43, 7/86, p. 11.

Elvis Presley’s conquest of Hawaii: Worth and Tamerius,
Elvis: His Life From A–Z,
pp. 8, 245, 278.

Ritchie Valens briefly joined: BM,
RV: First Latino Rocker,
p. 98.

guero: Ibid.,
p. 23.

His repertoire at the:
Ibid.,
p. 28.

substituted his own lyrics:
Ibid.

Pan-Am Constellation that had sleepers: JA quoted in BG, “JA—Part Two,” p. 5.

started a pillow fight:
Ibid.

fire Jerry and hire: G&B, RB, p. 117.

she’d married her college classmate:
Ibid.,
p. 25.

checked into the Chevron Hotel: Johnstone, “Austalian Tour,” p. 10.

Buddy was “electric: Quoted in Johnstone, “Australian Tour,” p. 10.

“overwhelmed” in his initial:
Ibid.,
pp. 10–11.

“ill-at-ease … inexperienced.”: Quoted in
ibid.,
p. 10.

Jerry Allison later acknowledged that:
Ibid.,
p. 12.

Allison cooled off by hitting: GBOF, p. 158.

A non-drinker, Anka:
Ibid.

encouraged Anka to have:
Ibid.,
pp. 158–59.

was going to kill him:
Ibid.,
p. 159.

Upset and ill, Anka:
Ibid.

Anka scrupulously avoided:
Ibid.

didn’t care for Jerry Lee: Johnstone, “Australian Tour,” p. 9.

“a great fellow [with]: Quoted in
ibid.

“rocked in the aisles: Cited in
ibid.

Pat Barton from radio: Courtesy BG.

“I guess he’s one:
Ibid.

“quite well.”… “stayed behind.”:
Ibid.

Jerry Lee later told: Quoted in G&B, RB, p. 88.

first gentlemen: Taylor,
Rock Generation,
cited in
ibid.

“innate decency”… “ascetic”:
Ibid.

Jerry Lee insulted the: GBOF, p. 160.

so dumb when inebriated:
Ibid.,
p. 159.

urinated in an empty:
Ibid.

going to murder:
Ibid.,
p. 160.

“pretty horrible.”: Quoted in Smith and Johnstone, “Stan Rofe,” RM 26, Spring/83, p. 23.

“You’re hysterical.”:
Ibid.

he went back out front: Smith and Johnstone, “Stan Rofe,” p. 24.

“shook the stadium: Cited in
ibid.

“There’s just one problem: Author interview with SC.

unassuming and likable: Quoted in Smith and Johnstone, “Stan Rofe,” p. 12.

“thrilling”: Quoted in BG, “Bits and Pieces,” RM 5, 12/77 (unpaged).

undermined by an untimely: G&B, RB, p. 93.

color picture Petty took of Buddy: BG, “Crickets’ Stopover in Tropical Hawaii,” RM 26, Spring/83, p. 5.

blew a valve and stalled:
Ibid.

40-degree temperature: LAJ, 2/10/58.

into buying a Lincoln: Author interview with LH; IC (unpaged); Lehmer, “Holly Almost Drowned in ’58 Swimming Mishap,”
Des Moines Register
(undated, unpaged clipping).

“a skinny guy with a pack: Quoted in BG, “Clovis’s Own Robert Linville,” 1988 Clovis Music Festival Official Program.

overdub their vocals:
Ibid.,
p. 2.

only $65 each per:
Ibid.,
p. 3.

Tomsco’s attitude suddenly changed: Tomsco quoted in BG, “George Tomsco,” RB 15, 6/80, p. 4.

“spellbound”:
Ibid.

inserted some awkward lyrics:
BH: Somthin’ Else (Undubbed and Unreleased Version of Some of Buddy’s Historical Recordings),
Coral Records, CR42359, LP: “Take Your Time” (False Start No. 1) and “Take Your Time” (False Start No. 2).

Vi an honorary Cricket: BH quoted in Swanson, “BBC Follows BH Trail to Clovis,”
Albuquerque Journal,
6/9/85, C-1.

none of the Crickets: BG, “Vi Petty, 9/17/28–3/22/92,” R50, 4/92, p. 4.

play tunes from sheet:
Ibid.

outspoken and sometimes rude: JA quoted in G&B, RB, p. 99.

referred to as “chicks.”:
Ibid.

an unlucky fan:
Ibid.

“Hey, forget you,”: Quoted in
Ibid.

punched some fans: GBOF, p. 146.

got their hands crushed and:
Ibid.,
p. 126.

“Animosity toward Jerry Lee’s: GBOF, p. 126.

groupie wanted to go: McNie, “PE,” RM 14, 3/80, p. 14.

“If I asked her: Quoted in
ibid.

Lincoln Continental,”: TBIK.

what he should do about: Quoted in TBIK.

with Little Richard:
Ibid.

Little Richard was now: Lazell et al,
Rock Movers & Shakers,
p. 301.

Was it possible: TBIK.

unless spirituality came first:
Ibid.

God does not take:
Ibid.

dropped a sizable check:
Ibid.

record some religious:
Ibid.

withheld their approval: a boyhood friend of BH quoted in G&B, RB, p. 24.

“The voice of my beloved!: 2:8–17, pp. 864–865.

He reminisced about that time:
Ibid.

“all kinds of jams,”:
Ibid.

turned his life and his:
Ibid.

on the day of his baptism: TBIK.

the booker in Florida: PE in RBHS.

“Only by the grace of God”:
Ibid.

“solid reception … nondescript offerings.”: Quoted in AC,
BH,
No. 1, article dated 3/10/58, p. 25.

“Impulsive that … of him,”: 7/60, reprinted in AC,
BH,
No. 1, p. 51.

“Holly and his group:
Ibid.,
p. 26.

molded a generation: Whitcomb, “The Rockers,”
Age of Rock,
Eisen, ed., p. 115; PN,
Shout!
p. 51.

under contract to Lew: “The British Tour of BH and the Crickets,” liner notes, double LP,
Memories of Buddy,
MCA 301735.

“the fat-cat:
Lives of John Lennon,
p. 338.

to sign the Beatles: Brown and Gaines,
Love You Make,
p. 94.

ATV seized controlling: PN,
Shout!
pp. 370–72.

London’s West End stage: Brown and Gaines,
Love You Make,
pp. 92–94.

changed their names from:
Ibid.

Bernard preferred the tonier:
Ibid.

sole rock band: JA quoted in RBHS; Mann,
A–Z of Buddy Holly,
p. 51.

one million English teens: “4,500 Disc Fans Pack Troc—Despite Elvis,” unsigned, undated clipping.

Trocadero, Elephant and Castle:
Ibid.

“one of the breeziest:
Ibid.

“Shortweight is hardly:
Ibid.

cheered by the British: JA quoted in RBHS.

Joe B. reclined:
Ibid.

Buddy squatted:
Ibid.

“marvelin’… the ones!”:
Ibid.

master of early rock: Lennon letter to Jim Dawson quoted in BG, RM 19, 6/81, p. 7.

“info” as a rock: RBHS.

where his father worked: Bockris,
Keith Richards,
p. 17.

rode their tricycles:
Ibid.,
p. 20.

performing the “Hallelujah:
Ibid.

“rock ’n’ roll hit England: Quoted in
Ibid.,
p. 25.

“self-contained: RBHS.

would derive their sound: British critic Martin Elliot cited in Bockris,
Keith Richards,
p. 74.

“extra provocation,”: Quoted in RBHS.

“a very old man with: Quoted in Schumacher,
Crossroads,
p. 13.

Clapton first heard of: Coleman,
Clapton!
pp. 35–36.

“greatly admired the:
Ibid.,
pp. 18, 37.

He picked up a $35:
Ibid.,
p. 38.

“on the HP: PN,
Road Goes on Forever,
p. 52.

[double cutaway]: Roberty,
Slowhand,
p.11.

“It sounded like a record: Quoted in Schumacher,
Crossroads,
pp. 16–17.

“not because he needed: PN,
Elton John,
p. 33.

“listening to Buddy Holly: Giuliano,
Blackbird: Life and Times of Paul McCartney.

solo LP
Holly Days:
Mann,
A–Z of Buddy Holly,
p. 87.

with comedian Bob Hope: BG, “Second BH Auction,” R50, 8/91, p. 24.

punctilious, polite and: NP quoted in Brooks and Malcolm, “NP (PART 2),” RM 38, 9/85, p. 6.

“fanatical reception”… heading?”: Cited in G&B, RB, p. 91.

suffering from a cold: BG, “Tour Schedules,” p. 10.

homesick and full of: JBM quoted in BG, “Joe Mauldin,” RM 16, 9/80, p. 8; G&B, RB, p. 91.

Expecting to freeze: JBM quoted in BG, “Joe Mauldin,” p. 8.

“This is rock ’n’ roll: Cited in G&B, RB, p. 91.

overcoat with a fur: Photographs in TW, p. 123; RM 22, 3/82, cover; R50 34, 2/92, p. 24; R50, 12/88, p. 11;
Voyageur,
Winter/Spring/93, p.22

grew up a shoplifter: PN,
Shout!
p. 22.

juvenile delinquent: Goldman,
Lives of John Lennon,
pp. 106–107: The Beatles brutally mugged a sailor.

gang member: PN,
Shout!
p. 32.

McCartney was invited to: Brown and Gaines,
Love You Make,
p. 21.

“really good-looking: McCartney in RBHS.

“Until Buddy came: Quoted in Giuliano and Giuliano,
Lost Beatles Interviews,
p. 291.

stumbled around onstage:
Ibid.

“the Buddy Holly Look … closet.”:
Ibid.

Lennon became such a: BG, RM, p. 8 (undated clipping).

the name the Beatles: Lennon letter to Dawson quoted in BG, RM 19, 6/81, p. 7; Ringo Starr quoted in BG, “Bill Pickering,” p. 8; Schaffner,
British Invasion,
p. 15.

was called the Beetles: p. 42.

to be getting decrepit: BG, “Letter From Buddy,” RM 5, 12/77, p. 8.