Cricket
Holly saw Elvis Presley singing in Lubbock in 1955 and began integrating the styles of rockabilly with the son of Chet Atkins style guitar, rhythm acoustic bass and slaps on the music. On October 15, she opened the bill for Presley in Lubbock, attracted the attention of a Nashville talent scout. Holly rock transition continued when he opened Bill Haley & His Comets at a local event organized by Eddie Crandall, the manager of Marty Robbins.
Following this performance Decca Records signed him in February 1956, misspelled his name as "Holly". Later, he adopted the name misspelled for his career. Holly formed his own group, later called The Crickets, and consists of Holly (guitar and vocals), Niki Sullivan (guitar), Joe B. Mauldin (bass) and Jerry Allison (drums). They went to Nashville for three recording sessions with producer Owen Bradley. However, he chafed under the strict atmosphere that makes it a little input. Among the songs he recorded the first version of "That'll Be The Day", which took the title of a line that John Wayne's character said repeatedly in the movie 1956, The Searchers. (This first version of the song that is played more slowly and about half an octave higher than the new version of the hit.) Decca released two singles, "Blue Days, Black Nights" and "Modern Don Juan", which failed to make an impression. On January 22, 1957, Holly Decca information that his contract will not be extended, but insisted he could not record the same songs for other people for five years.
Norman Petty Recording Studios in Clovis, New Mexico
Holly and Norman Petty hired as director, and the band began recording in the studio Petty in Clovis, New Mexico. music publishers and labels contact Petty, and Brunswick Records, a subsidiary of Decca, signed on March 19 Cricket 1957. Holly was signed as a solo artist with another subsidiary of Decca, Coral Records. That puts him in the unusual position of having two record contracts at the same time.
On May 27, 1957, "That'll Be The Day" was released as a single, credited to the Crickets to try to reduce the rights claimed right Decca. When the song became a hit Decca decided not to support the request. "That'll Be the Day" led the United States' Best Sellers in Stores "table and Sept. 23 UK singles chart for three weeks in November. The Crickets performed" That'll Be the Day "and" Peggy Sue "on The Ed Sullivan Show on December 1st. They also sang "Peggy Sue" in The Arthur Murray Party on December 29 and gave a rude introduction by Kathryn Murray. The kinescopes of this program is the only document in 1957 they appeared on television.
Holly helped win the all-black audience of rock and roll / rockabilly when cricket was recorded in New York's Apollo Theater in 16 to 22 August 1957. Unlike direct reception featured in 1978 film The Story of Buddy Holly, it actually took several performances for the public to warm to him. In August 1957, cricket is the only white player on a national tour, including a black neighborhood theater.
As Holly was signed both as a solo artist and member of crickets first two albums were released: The "Kicau" Cricket on November 27, 1957 and Buddy Holly on February 20, 1958. His single "Peggy Sue" and "Oh Boy!" Reached the top ten U.S. and UK charts. Buddy Holly and the Crickets toured Australia in January 1958 and England in March. The third and final album, it will Day, be put in place early recordings and published in April.
