The Big Bopper), Allison continued recording and touring as The Crickets with a rotating cast of band members including Mauldin, Sonny Curtis, Glen Hardin, Earl Sinks, and Jerry Naylor.
The song went on to become a rock standard, covered in later decades by Iggy Pop and others.įollowing Holly’s death in a plane crash in February 1959 alongside fellow rock ‘n’ roll pioneers Ritchie Valens and J.P. It was a lovely, lovely time and people liked it and we were really pleased they did.”Īllison himself scored a modest solo hit with “Real Wild Child” - a cover of Johnny O’Keefe’s “Wild One” - which was released under his middle name, Ivan, in 1958 and peaked at No. Whatever it was, Norman Petty’s engineering, Buddy’s guitar playing … it would’ve been hard to have been more commercial. There were some Cindy songs out at the time, but there weren’t any Peggy Sue ones. I said, ‘Let’s change the beat.’ I was dating Peggy Sue or had dated Peggy Sue at the time. We were riding around Lubbock and he had it written up as sort of a cha-cha beat or a rumba - a Latin feel. Of “Peggy Sue,” Allison said in an interview with Classic Bands, “ had it about half-finished. 3 on the Top 100 later that year as a solo single for Holly. “Peggy Sue,” on which Allison was also credited as a co-writer and which was named after his then-girlfriend and future wife Peggy Sue Gerron, hit No. 1 hit, The Crickets followed “That’ll Be The Day” with a string of successful singles including “Oh, Boy!”, “Maybe Baby” and “Think It Over” – the latter co-written by Allison. Wayne kept repeating the line, ‘That’ll be the day.’ Buddy said, ‘Let’s write a song,’ and I said, ‘That’ll be the day!’ We worked on it for about half an hour. We’d been to see the John Wayne movie The Searchers. Buddy and I rehearsed for hours, day after day. “My bedroom in Lubbock was real big - in fact, it had a piano in it. “I couldn’t stay in college.” Crickets start chirpingĪlongside bassist Larry Welborn (subsequently replaced by Joe Mauldin) and rhythm guitarist Niki Sullivan, they later found success as The Crickets, scoring their first hit with “That’ll Be the Day,” recorded during a February 1957 session with songwriter and producer Norman Petty in his Clovis, N.M., studio (a country-leaning version of the song had previously been released by Decca during Holly’s short-lived stint in Nashville).Ĭo-written by Allison, Holly and Petty, the 1957 version of “That’ll Be the Day” was released by Brunswick Records and slowly picked up steam on radio before hitting the peak of the Billboard Top 100 (the progenitor of the Hot 100) in September of that year.Īllison explained to Texas Music Monthly how their breakout hit came to be. We traveled 6,000 miles in two weeks,” Allison recalled in an interview with Texas Music Monthly. “Buddy got us a job backing Hank Thompson and George Jones and others for two weeks. Born on August 31, 1939, in Hillsboro, Texas, Jerry Allison attended the same middle school as Holly in Lubbock, Texas, but the two didn’t become friends until high school, when they formed a band and began playing gigs at roller rinks and other local venues.
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