The Crickets

These undeniably great songs lend a certain gravitas to Buddy Holly's heartbreaking legacy, a legacy that has endured through multiple generations of fans and artists.

A young Paul McCartney was inspired to name his band, The Beatles, as an homage to Buddy's band, The Crickets.

McCartney's contemporaries, The Hollies, were also intentionally named as a direct tribute to their fallen idol.

And in the 1970s, Paul McCartney even bought Buddy Holly's entire song catalog.

He was just a kid from Lubbock, Texas, way tougher than his trademark horn-rimmed glasses would have you believe.

He was still laying tile with his father when That'll Be the Day, his second recorded version of the song, was being prepared for release on Decca Records in 1957.

Throughout 57 and into early 1958, along with his band The Crickets, Buddy Holly quickly rose up the charts with hit after hit.

But the musical tastes of the demographic that was buying Buddy's records, teenagers, were changing, which meant that sales soon began to take a noticeable hit.

He sang with us two or three times.

And then he introduced us to the Crickets and S.J.I. Allison, Sonny Curtis, people like that.

And they all lived here.

They lived in the area.

They've lived in the area for 30 years.

None of them are living now.

But Paul McCartney said one time that there would never have been Beatles had there not been the Crickets.

That's right.

Prior to bringing this up.

Buddy Holly and the Crickets.

The Crickets.

The Crickets with Buddy Holly did the original of this one right there.

RJ's on his game, though.

He is.

I would go with them.

They had some good songs in the 90s for 90s country, very much a 90s country band.

So, yeah, I think that would be, you know, among my favorites.

I would say

I'm going to say other than George Triton, Brooks and Dunn, because obviously I would say probably I mean, I know there are multiple decades, but I'm going to say the Highwaymen and Johnny Cash.

OK,

because I mean, technically the Highwaymen disbanded in the late 90s, but they still had some albums out in the 90s.

Johnny, I mean, well, he died in 2003, so he definitely had

She also got an Emmy Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement in Interactive Media, the Dick Clark Award for Excellence at the American Music Awards, and a whole bunch of Billboard Music Awards, which cemented that album in 1989 as being one of the most decorated pop albums of the entire decade.

Singles that were released on October the 27th include, in 1957, when the Crickets released Oh Boy.

This was written by Sonny West, Bill Tigman, and Norman Petty.

And it had lead vocals by, of course, Buddy Holly.

But it also had his backup group, The Picks, doing the vocals on that.

Not the Crickets.

They didn't sing.

The song was huge.