"CD in 1991, with bonus tracks not featured on the original album. After Buddy Holly's departure, The Crickets recorded with Earl Sinks serving as lead vocalist, with Crickets Jerry Allison and Sonny Curtis also sharing vocals. David Box also recorded a single as lead vocalist in 1959. Several weeks after relocating to Los Angeles in 1960, guitarist and songwriter Sonny Curtis was drafted and began a two-year stint in the US Army. Curtis was stationed in Fort Ord and limited in his ability to continue working with the band . With Curtis away, Jerry Allison offered fellow Texan Jerry Naylor"
"Jerry Naylor Jerry Naylor Jackson (born March 6, 1939) as Jerry Naylor, is an American country and rock and roll artist and broadcaster and inspirational speaker, who was the lead singer of The Crickets following the death of Buddy Holly. Jerry Naylor Jackson was born in Chalk Mountain, Texas to a great depression farming family. His mother played piano in their local church and encouraged Jerry's love of music. Jerry listened to the greats of Country music such as Hank Williams, Sr., Lefty Frizzell, Bob Wills (with whom he shared his birthday) and Slim Whitman, and Whitman's steel guitar player,"
"consisted of Curtis, Allison, Glen D. Hardin and Jerry Naylor. That year, the Crickets' version of the Gerry Goffin–Carole King song ""Don't Ever Change"" (Liberty Records), featuring Naylor on lead vocals, reached the top five in the British single charts. Also in 1962 they released ""Bobby Vee Meets the Crickets"", an album with Bobby Vee on lead vocals. For their 1962 UK tour, Allison was temporarily out of the group because of commitments with the U.S. Air Force. In 1963, the Crickets hit the UK top 40 twice more, with the singles ""My Little Girl"" and ""Don't Try to Change"
"a talent show there in 1956. At the time Alton Baird was the band's original lead singer. In c.1957 after Baird went into the military, Naylor became the lead singer of the rockabilly band The Cavaliers. In 1961, Jerry Naylor became the lead singer for the Crickets. This was two years after the tragic death of Buddy Holly and the departure of other singers from the group. Jerry Ivan Allison, Buddy Holly's drummer and co-songwriter, owned the name and trademark of ""The Crickets"". Jerry Allison, now the sole owner of ""The Crickets"" their manager, H. Daniel Whitman, offered Naylor the"
"Eric Clapton, Rodney Crowell, Waylon Jennings, Nanci Griffith, John Prine, Graham Nash, and Bobby Vee. The album was produced and mixed by Greg Ladanyi and included editing and additional mixes by Dave Carlock, Rob Hill, and Rogers Masson. For the album, the Crickets officially consisted of Allison, Curtis and Mauldin; former members Albert Lee (guitar) and Glen D. Hardin (keyboards) also played throughout, and one-time member Steven Krikkorian (now known as Tonio K.) was the lead vocalist on two tracks. On October 28, 2008, the Crickets were inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, Tennessee. They"
"Singles / EPs Singles Singles Earl Sinks Henry Earl Sinks (January 1, 1940 – May 13, 2017), known professionally as Earl Sinks, was an American singer-songwriter and actor, known by many pseudonyms. He led a prolific musical and acting career from the 1950s to the 1990s before retiring. He was best known for his long music career, including his brief tenure as lead singer of the Crickets from 1958 to 1960, and for his acting roles in numerous low budget movies and TV shows in the 60s. Sinks was performing with Bob Wills at age 12 before doing his first"
"Earl Sinks Henry Earl Sinks (January 1, 1940 – May 13, 2017), known professionally as Earl Sinks, was an American singer-songwriter and actor, known by many pseudonyms. He led a prolific musical and acting career from the 1950s to the 1990s before retiring. He was best known for his long music career, including his brief tenure as lead singer of the Crickets from 1958 to 1960, and for his acting roles in numerous low budget movies and TV shows in the 60s. Sinks was performing with Bob Wills at age 12 before doing his first recordings in 1958 at Norman"
"solo artist, the Crickets seemed to be on hiatus after their few releases in 1965. The remaining members remained active in the music business. Guitarist [Sonny Curtis] and drummer [J.I. Allison], billed as The Camps, Curtis recorded the novelty single ""The Ballad of Batman"" and ""Batmobile,"" on the Parkway label in 1965. Allison and Curtis worked as session musicians, Allison toured with country singer Roger Miller for two years and Curtis released two solo records on the Viva label. Keyboardist Glen D. Hardin joined Elvis Presley's TCB Band in 1969. The August 1968 single, ""Million Dollar Movie"" (Curtis) and ""A"
"thus the Crickets were born. While trying to record ""Peggy Sue"" after many unsatisfactory takes, Sullivan ended up kneeling next to Buddy while he played, and when cued flipped a switch on Holly's Stratocaster, allowing him to break into the now-famous guitar solo. He also helped sing on back up and arrange the music to ""Not Fade Away"" (which he helped write), ""I'm Gonna Love You Too"", ""That'll Be the Day"" and ""Maybe Baby"". It was around this period that he also wrote and produced the single ""Look to the Future,"" which was recorded by Gary Tollett and The Picks,"
"the core the Liberty house band, working with Bobby Vee, Johnny Burnette and others. In this period they also played as backing musicians on tracks by Eddie Cochran and, according to some reports, Conway Twitty. Both Allison and Curtis were drafted into military service at different times during this period, which introduced some discontinuity in the personnel of the Crickets. Curtis also began to establish a solo career as a songwriter and singer-guitarist. In the late 1970s, the band toured with Waylon Jennings, another one-time Holly sideman. In more recent years, the Crickets have released albums, including collaborations with artists"
"lead singer position with The Crickets following their signing with Liberty Records, Hollywood, California. Jerry recorded as lead singer with the Crickets until 1964. Their first hit for the label was ""Don't Ever Change"", a Carole King/Gerry Goffin written song, which reached the number 5 position on the national charts in the UK. The very first song the new Beatles group performed live on BBC, in 1963, was The Crickets' hit, ""Don't Ever Change."" and the Beatles all acknowledged the Crickets influence in a letter sent to them following a Crickets tour of the UK in 1962. More hit singles"
"with other musicians by the time Buddy Holly put together the Crickets in 1957, Curtis joined the Crickets after Holly's death in 1959, and soon took over the lead vocalist role in addition to lead guitar. As the credits show, he was part of the band for the 1960 album ""In Style with the Crickets"" for which they recorded the original versions of two of Curtis's best known songs, ""I Fought the Law"" and ""More Than I Can Say"" (co-written with drummer Jerry Allison). Along with Cricket Jerry Allison he participated in Eddie Cochran's last recording sessions, including the song"
"with many different songs and while some of the songs do fall within the cliché of country music out there, the delivery is different"", which this is done with a ""sound [that] is authentic and his vocals are smooth."" Crickets (Joe Nichols album) Crickets is the eighth studio album by American country music artist Joe Nichols, released on October 8, 2013 by Red Bow Records. It includes a cover of Merle Haggard's ""Footlights"". This album sold 12,330 albums its first week. Mickey Jack Cones produced the entire album, co-producing with Tony Brown on ""Yeah"" and ""Billy Graham's Bible"", and Derek"
"Texas, who sang in a manner similar to Holly, joined the group as lead vocalist for their 1960 single ""Dont Cha Know""/""Peggy Sue Got Married"", released as Coral 62238 after the departure of Sinks. Curtis was not in the band at the time, as he was completing military service. Box, who had left the group in 1960, died in a charter plane crash on October 23, 1964, while touring as a solo singer. In April 1960 the Crickets backed the Everly Brothers on their first UK concert tour but were not billed as their backing group. By 1962, the Crickets"
"song was written in 1958 by Sonny Curtis, and recorded in 1959 when he joined the Crickets, taking the place of the late Buddy Holly on guitar. Joe B. Mauldin and Jerry Allison continued their positions on the standup bass and drums, respectively, while Earl Sinks filled the role for vocals. The song was on their 1960 LP, ""In Style with the Crickets"", and the following year appeared as the b-side of their single, ""A Sweet Love"". The song never received any airplay. Milwaukee's Paul Stefen and the Royal Lancers covered the song in 1962; it provided them with a"
"""Teardrops Feel Like Rain,"" and ""The Girls on the Beach"" (1965) in America, where they performed ""La Bamba"". The group was derailed in 1965 when vocalist Jerry Naylor suffered a near-fatal heart attack. By the later sixties, bassist Joe B. Mauldin ceased performing, while drummer J.I. Allison and Sonny Curtis continued as working in the music industry as session musicians, before reviving the group in 1970. California Sun / She Loves You California Sun / She Loves You is a rock and roll album by the Crickets, recorded during their time with Liberty Records. It is The Crickets' fourth and"
"the studio musicians Tommy Allsup and Carl Bunch. Waylon Jennings toured with him shortly after the Crickets folded. Allison and Mauldin looked forward to rejoining Holly after he returned from a winter tour through the northern Midwest. In the meantime, Mauldin, Allison, and Sonny Curtis (a friend and collaborator of Holly's) began recording new songs as the Crickets, with vocals by Earl Sinks. While they were recording, it was announced that Holly had died in a plane crash while on tour. The Crickets, now with vocalist Earl Sinks, went on performing after Holly's death. David Box, a native of Lubbock,"
"performed ""Peggy Sue"", ""Not Fade Away"" and ""That'll Be the Day"" at the ceremony, accompanied by guest guitarist Keith Richards. In 2011, Allison was still touring with Sonny Curtis, a childhood friend and bandmate of Holly's, on vocals and guitar. On April 14, 2012, the Crickets were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by a special committee charged with correcting the omission of the band with Holly when he was first inducted in 1986. The inducted members were Jerry Allison, Sonny Curtis, Joe B. Mauldin, and Niki Sullivan. The group was unable to attend the ceremony because"
"Cliff Edwards Clifton Avon Edwards (June 14, 1895 – July 17, 1971) — known as ""Ukulele Ike"" — was an American musician, singer, actor and voice actor, who enjoyed considerable popularity in the 1920s and early 1930s, specializing in jazzy renditions of pop standards and novelty tunes. He had a number-one hit with ""Singin' in the Rain"" in 1929. He also did voices for animated cartoons later in his career, and is best known as the voice of Jiminy Cricket in Walt Disney's ""Pinocchio"" (1940) and ""Fun and Fancy Free"" (1947). Edwards was born in Hannibal, Missouri. He left school"
"In Style With the Crickets In Style With the Crickets is an influential rock and roll album by the Crickets. Although it was the band's first release following the departure and subsequent death of their front man, Buddy Holly, it still contains many of the band's most memorable songs and many tracks have also been featured on numerous compilations over the years. Originally released as an LP record on December 5, 1960, the album remained out of print for some time until it was re-released on CD in 1993, with bonus tracks not featured on the original album. This album"
"Crickets (Joe Nichols album) Crickets is the eighth studio album by American country music artist Joe Nichols, released on October 8, 2013 by Red Bow Records. It includes a cover of Merle Haggard's ""Footlights"". This album sold 12,330 albums its first week. Mickey Jack Cones produced the entire album, co-producing with Tony Brown on ""Yeah"" and ""Billy Graham's Bible"", and Derek George on all other tracks. ""Crickets"" garnered generally positive reception from the ratings and reviews of music critics. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic rated the album three stars out of five, remarking how ""All of ""Crickets"" is peppered with"
"Niki Sullivan Niki Sullivan (June 23, 1937 – April 6, 2004) was an American rock and roll guitar player, born in South Gate, California. He was one of the four original members of Buddy Holly's backing band, The Crickets. Though he lost interest within a year or two of his involvement, his guitar playing was an integral part of Holly's early success. He performed on 27 of the 32 songs Holly recorded over his brief career. He co-wrote a number of his own songs. In 2012, Sullivan was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member"
"first fifty Cricket Records, and the remainder were recorded in a scatter-shot fashion afterward. Cricket singles sold for 49 cents each. Cricket Records are often anonymous, or credited cryptically to non-entities such as ""Cricketone Orchestra."" Among established name artists to appear on Cricket were Gene Autry, William Bendix, Smiley Burnette, Bobby Colt, Dennis Day, Eddie Dean, Leif Erickson, Ray Heatherton, Boris Karloff, Joseph Cotten, Maury Laws, Gisele MacKenzie, Norman Rose and David Wayne. Cy Leslie himself is credited on C-85 as the leader of The Calypso Tones. There are no credits on records in the 6-inch series, though these largely"
"even though the singer acknowledges that they have ""gallantly and nobly done their share"" Bradman still ""tops them all"". The lines: ""How that Mister Lion, poor fish / must just sit and wish and wish / that our Don had never come across the foam"" refer to the lion, one of the symbols of English cricket. The lyrics also mention British cricketers Maurice Tate and Harold Larwood. The song was recorded with a vocal by Art Leonard and released in July 1930 by Regal. Some of Jack O'Hagan's verses were omitted. On the B side was another cricket song, ""Our"
"to the UK. His music spoke of home and a life that they all longed for but in many cases couldn't or wouldn't return to. He immortalised the defining moment for many of the migrants in writing the Victory Calypso with its lyrics ""Cricket, Lovely Cricket"" to celebrate West Indies cricket team's first victory over England in England, in the 2nd Test at Lord's in June 1950. This was one of the first widely known West Indian songs, and epitomised an event that historian and cricket enthusiast C. L. R. James defined as crucial to West Indian post-colonial societies. He"
"employs cricket themes, such as in the poem 'Strange Dismissal' which appears in Quadrant: Albert Craig, better known as ""The Surrey Poet"" was a popular figure at The Oval at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, hawking his rapidly improvised verses to the crowd. Of Jack Hobbs' County Championship debut he wrote: Lord Beginner sings Victory Calypso At Lord's in 1950, West Indies defeated England in England for the first time. Egbert Moore, who sang under the pseudonym Lord Beginner, popularized the most famous of cricketing calypsos to celebrate the occasion. He was accompanied by"
"group the 'Crickets'. He then alternated with Sonny Curtis in singing lead with the band for about 2 1/2 years. his last Clovis recording session with the group was in 1965. He appeared in an English movie (1963) with the Crickets titled ""Just for Fun"". On January 30, 1966, Naylor married Pamela Ann Robinson. Jerry and Pamela, married over four decades, have three children and six grandchildren. Jerry Naylor Jerry Naylor Jackson (born March 6, 1939) as Jerry Naylor, is an American country and rock and roll artist and broadcaster and inspirational speaker, who was the lead singer of The"
"song in the Crickets' repertoire for years to come. The 1993 CD re-release includes outtakes from the Crickets' studio sessions surrounding the recording of the album. Included is ""Someone, Someone"", the B-side to the single ""Love's Made a Fool of You"", featured on the album. The songs off the single ""Don't Cha Know"" featuring vocalist David Box are also featured in these bonus tracks. The B-side, ""Peggy Sue Got Married"", is a cover of Buddy Holly's acoustic demo, which was never formally recorded by the band during his lifetime. The Crickets' recording features an instrumental similar to the original ""Peggy"
"It's Just Not Cricket ""It's Just Not Cricket"" is the debut single of The Twelfth Man, a series of comedy productions by skilled impersonator Billy Birmingham. The single topping the charts for three weeks in June 1984, and was the second highest selling single in Australia in 1984 behind ""Dancing in the Dark"" by Bruce Springsteen. At the time of ""It’s Just Not Cricket's"" release, Birmingham was running his own music marketing consultancy and helping manage fellow comedian Austen Tayshus. In a 2014 interview with Sydney Morning Herald, Birmingham explains “The year before I’d written ""Australiana"" [also a No. 1"
"Million Miles Apart"" (Glen D. Hardin), was the only Crickets release of new material since early 1965. The Crickets signed to Barnaby records, a subsidiary of CBS records founded by singer Andy Williams primarily to manage releases from the Cadence archive, the famed label of the Everly Brothers releases. (Williams had enjoyed success with Cricket Sonny Curtis' ""A Fool Never Learns"" and had recorded other Curtis songs including ""Walk Right Back."" Additionally, Williams-Price Agency managed The Mary Tyler Moore Show, for which Sonny Curtis penned the theme song ""Love is All Around"" in summer 1970.) In 1970, Curtis and Allison"
"before the Crickets were formed in 1957 and rejoined shortly after Holly's death. Others who were in the band at one time or another include Glen D. Hardin, who was also a member of Elvis Presley's live band; Albert Lee, who was also once a member of Emmylou Harris's Hot Band; and several lead vocalists, including Earl Sinks, David Box and Jerry Naylor. The band's last recordings for the Coral label included several singles, which were incorporated in the 1960 album ""In Style with the Crickets"". The rock classic ""I Fought the Law"", written by Curtis, first appeared there, and"
"10CC sing Dreadlock Holiday with lyrics ""Dreadlock Holiday"" is probably the most well-known pop song to mention cricket. 10cc's hit single reached number 1 in the UK in 1978. However, the song has only a tenuous connection with cricket, mentioning it in the chorus, ""I don't like cricket, oh no, I love it"" The group The Duckworth Lewis Method have released two concept albums about cricket. Cricket poetry The game of cricket has inspired much poetry, most of which romanticises the sport and its culture. Francis Thompson wrote the following poem, ""At Lord's"": Not long before his death and long"
"on the second all-star Big Show, which included The Crickets (with lead singer Buddy Holly on his first and only Australian tour), Jerry Lee Lewis and Paul Anka. During this period The Dee Jays also acted as the backing band for many of the international acts that Gordon toured, since they were at the time the only rock'n'roll band in the country who could read music. According to Lou Casch, they backed acts including Chuck Berry, The Everly Brothers, Fabian, Tab Hunter, Jimmie Rodgers and Ricky Nelson, and on his 1960 tour, Nelson was booed by fans of O'Keefe's whom"