Posted on 07/22/2014 1:51:10 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
You can like what you want but I just stated facts. Holly set the template of what is called the classic Rock line up...two guitars a bass and drums. He was one of the earliest to write his own songs, songs that sounded nothing like the Tin Pan Alley derived pop being written at the time. His songs were covered by the Beatles, the Stones, Bob Dylan and many others. It’s just facts there.
You stated opinions. I stated mine. Music is subjective. To each his own.
What was the opinion part of my comments? That all those other acts covered Buddy Holly songs and revered him? That’s fact. That the two guitar, bass and drum line up existed before the Crickets? It did not.
I didn’t know he was religious! Christian?
Well, his family was very religious Baptists and all joined in on regular family singalongs.
However, Buddy was considered sort of the “rebel” of the family.
But he wasn’t so rebellious that he got himself into serious trouble. But he wanted to “break free”.
His “rebellion” was sort of the desire to get out of the “chains” of his traditional religion.
Buddy’s friend Sonny Curtis remembers him as “someone who drinks —loud, a smart aleck, head-strong.” Even after publicly professing Christ and being baptized, Buddy told his friends that he had no intention to stop his sinful ways.
From time to time, Buddy expressed some remorse for his rebellious life... Buddy’s older brother, Larry, who is still a member and a trustee at Tabernacle Baptist, believes Buddy was saved but backslidden and the Lord took him home because of his stubborn rebellion.
Mom and Dad were skeptical because of his fiance, Maria Elena, not being the same religion. But they just figured he would change her, or she would change him.
The wedding took place on Aug. 15, 1958, at the Holley family home at 1606 39th St.
Family pastor Ben Johnson presided over the ceremony.
Holly’s funeral took place at the Tabernacle Baptist Church, 1911 34th St., four days after the Feb. 3, 1959, crash.
I got the above information from David W. Cloud’s “1950s Rock — Creating a Revolution”
Thank you writing all of that up for me! How fascinating! I never knew any of that. I’m going to pass that all on to my mother. She’s the one who got me to love his music. She was born in 1942, so he was her contemporary.
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