Give the pseudonym of J.P. Richardson, a pop singer , who dies in a plane crash in 1959?
"the name that the land later comes to be known as: Native Americans and Aboriginal Australians are two examples. ""The Day the Music Died"" refers to the plane crash that took the lives of rock-and-roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. ""The Big Bopper"" Richardson in 1959, but was not used popularly until 1971 when singer-songwriter Don McLean coined it in ""American Pie"". Retroactive nomenclature Retroactive nomenclature is the telling of the earlier history of a person, place or thing while referring to said person, place or thing by a name that came into use at a later"
"were completed. Waylon Jennings was a guitarist for Buddy Holly's band and initially had a seat on the ill-fated aircraft on The Day the Music Died on February 3, 1959. But Jennings gave up his seat to the sick J.P. ""Big Bopper"" Richardson, only to learn later of the plane's crash. When Holly learned that Jennings was not going to fly, he said, ""Well, I hope your ol' bus freezes up."" Jennings responded, ""Well, I hope your ol' plane crashes."" This exchange of words, though made in jest at the time, haunted Jennings for the rest of his life. Jennings,"
"Frankie Sardo Frank Sardo Avianca (September 16, 1936 – February 26, 2014), who performed as Frankie Sardo, was an American rock and roll singer, actor and film producer. He was a member of the ill-fated Winter Dance Party in 1959 after which Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. ""The Big Bopper"" Richardson lost their lives in a plane crash the morning after a show in Clear Lake, Iowa. He was born Frank Marco Sardo on September 16, 1936, in Brooklyn, New York, into an Italian-American family. His father, Marco Sardo Sr. was a bricklayer and his mother Anita (Avianca) Sardo,"
"Three Stars (song) ""Three Stars"" is a song written by Tommy Dee in 1959, as a tribute to Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. Richardson (The Big Bopper), who died in a plane crash earlier that year. The song was recorded by Tommy Dee with Carol Kay and first released on April 5, 1959, by Crest Records. It sold over one million copies and was awarded a gold disc. The lyrics suggested the three ""stars"" represent the three musicians that died in the crash. A year after Eddie Cochran recorded the song, he died in a car accident on his"
"traditional folk material and topical songs inspired other groups such as the Kingston Trio, the Chad Mitchell Trio, The New Christy Minstrels, and the ""collegiate folk"" groups such as The Brothers Four, The Four Freshmen, The Four Preps, and The Highwaymen. All featured tight vocal harmonies and a repertoire at least initially rooted in folk music and topical songs. On 3 February 1959, a chartered plane transporting the three American rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J. P. ""The Big Bopper"" Richardson goes down in foggy conditions near Clear Lake, Iowa, killing all four occupants on board,"
"way to an airport. Although recorded in 1959, Cochran's version was not released until 1966 as a UK single and for the first time in the US on the album Legendary Masters Series. Cochran audibly breaks into sobs in his recording, most notably in the second verse. ""Three Stars"" was also covered by: Three Stars (song) ""Three Stars"" is a song written by Tommy Dee in 1959, as a tribute to Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. Richardson (The Big Bopper), who died in a plane crash earlier that year. The song was recorded by Tommy Dee with Carol Kay"
"J.W. Hodkinson John William Hodkinson (29 December 1942 – 9 June 2013), also known as J.W. Hodkinson or J.W. Hodgkinson, was a British rock vocalist. Hodkinson was born in Leigh, Lancashire. After performing as Johnny Goode, with Larry Parnes' ""The Big New Rock 'n' Trad Spectacular"", and billed as a ""Teenage Idol"" with the likes of Billy Raymond, Georgie Fame, Billy Fury and Jimmie Nicol, in 1961, he recorded, as Tony Allen, the first of a series of 45s for Philips, all with arrangements by Ivor Raymonde. In 1966, he sang the theme track for the United Artists spy thriller"
"fact descending (an example of spatial disorientation). Another contributing factor was the ""seriously inadequate"" weather briefing provided to Peterson, which ""failed to even mention adverse flying condition which should have been highlighted"". On March 6, 2007, in Beaumont, Texas, Richardson's body was exhumed for reburial in a more fitting part of the local Forest Lawn cemetery. The musician's son, Jay Perry, took the opportunity to have his father's body re-examined to verify the original findings, and asked forensic anthropologist William M. Bass to carry out the procedure. Among the rumors surrounding the accident that this second examination sought to verify"
"minutes after takeoff for reasons still unknown. The crash killed all three passengers and pilot Roger Peterson instantly upon impact. As with Holly and Richardson, Valens suffered massive and unsurvivable head injuries along with blunt force trauma to the chest. At just 17 years old, Valens was the youngest to die in the crash. The tragedy inspired singer Don McLean to write his 1971 hit ""American Pie"", immortalizing February 3 as ""The Day the Music Died"". Valens's remains were buried at San Fernando Mission Cemetery, Mission Hills, California. Valens was a pioneer of Chicano rock and Latin rock and inspired"
"actress Tamara Drasin. Fellow passenger Jane Froman was one of 14 who survived; her story of survival was made into the 1952 film ""With a Song in My Heart"" starring Susan Hayward. Robertson's body was recovered and identified by a name bracelet he had on one wrist. After a funeral service in the Clemson College Chapel on April 18, 1943, he was buried in the Robertson family plot in West View Cemetery in Liberty, South Carolina. His epitaph reads: I rest in thy bosom, Carolina, thy skies over me, thine earth and air above and around me. Among my own,"
"1968 in an automobile accident while traveling in Texas. He married Mona Evans in 1971. Notes A^ ""May the Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose"" also peaked at number 4 on the Canadian ""RPM"" Top Singles Chart. Little Jimmy Dickens James Cecil Dickens (December 19, 1920 – January 2, 2015), better known by his stage name, Little Jimmy Dickens, was an American country music singer and songwriter famous for his humorous novelty songs, his small size (4'11"" [150 cm]), and his rhinestone-studded outfits (which he is given credit for introducing into country music live performances). He started as a"
"Doc Sausage Lucius Antoine Tyson (7 March 1911 – September 1972), who performed as Dr. Sausage or Doc Sausage, was an American singer, dancer, drummer and bandleader. He was active from the 1930s to the 1950s and is best known for his 1950 recording of ""Rag Mop"". He was born in Brunswick, Georgia, and moved to New York City in 1936. By 1938, he was performing with his group, Dr. Sausage and His Five Pork Chops. Regarded as a novelty act, the group included Al ""Dr. Horse"" Pittman. His pianist Jimmy Harris was killed in a car crash that year,"
"and his Mad Lads Doc Sausage Lucius Antoine Tyson (7 March 1911 – September 1972), who performed as Dr. Sausage or Doc Sausage, was an American singer, dancer, drummer and bandleader. He was active from the 1930s to the 1950s and is best known for his 1950 recording of ""Rag Mop"". He was born in Brunswick, Georgia, and moved to New York City in 1936. By 1938, he was performing with his group, Dr. Sausage and His Five Pork Chops. Regarded as a novelty act, the group included Al ""Dr. Horse"" Pittman. His pianist Jimmy Harris was killed in a"
"Pie"". J. P. Richardson was born in Sabine Pass, Texas, the oldest son of oil-field worker Jiles Perry Richardson, Sr. (1905–1984) and his wife Elise (Stalsby) Richardson (1909–1983). They had two other sons, Cecil and James. The family soon moved to Beaumont, Texas. Richardson graduated from Beaumont High School in 1947 and played on the ""Royal Purple"" football team as a defensive lineman, wearing number 85. Richardson later studied prelaw at Lamar College, and was a member of the band and chorus. Richardson worked part-time at Beaumont, Texas radio station KTRM (now KZZB). He was hired by the station full-time"
"Fitzgerald, The Four Tops, Dick Gregory, W. C. Handy, Lena Horne, The Jackson 5, Mahalia Jackson, Bill Kenny, George Kirby, Eartha Kitt, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Little Anthony and the Imperials, Moms Mabley, Johnny Mathis, The Miracles, Melba Moore, The Platters, Leontyne Price, Richard Pryor, Lou Rawls, Della Reese, Nipsey Russell, Nina Simone, Sly and the Family Stone, The Temptations, Martha and the Vandellas, Ike & Tina Turner, Leslie Uggams, Sarah Vaughan, William Warfield, Dionne Warwick, Dinah Washington, Ethel Waters, Flip Wilson, Jackie Wilson, Nancy Wilson, and Stevie Wonder. Before his death in a plane crash in December 1967,"
"with Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, the Big Bopper (J.P. Richardson), Frankie Sardo, and other performers. On February 3, 1959, after a concert stop in Clear Lake, Iowa, Holly and others decided to charter a flight to the next venue rather than travel on the tour bus. Dion was invited to accompany the group but decided that he did not want to spend $36 for the flight, as it was the same monthly rent his parents paid for his childhood apartment and he couldn't justify the indulgence. The plane crashed, killing all on board: Holly, Valens, Richardson, and the pilot Roger"
"incorporated settlements. According to the USGS, it contains one cemetery, Grant. The city of Fertile borders it to the north. Grant Township, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa Grant Township is one of 16 townships in Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, USA. As of the 2000 census, its population was 354. Grant Township was the site of the airplane crash north of the city of Clear Lake, in which rock and roll stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. ""The Big Bopper"" Richardson, along with their pilot Roger A. Peterson, were killed on February 3, 1959. The site is located in the extreme"
"Duane Peters Duane Thomas Peters (born June 12, 1961), nicknamed ""The Master of Disaster"", is a punk rock singer/songwriter and professional skateboarder. Active since 1975, he is probably best known as the singer in the California punk rock band U.S. Bombs, which formed in 1993. Peters is credited for inventing many tricks, such as the ""acid drop"" into a pool/bowl, the ""layback grind"", the ""Indy air"", the ""Sweeper"", the ""backside layback grind revert"", the ""fakie hang-up"" (a.k.a. ""Disaster""), the ""invert revert"", the ""fakie thruster"", and the ""loop of death"", a full 360-degree rotation in a specially designed loop. He also,"
"the next venue by bus with Dion and the Belmonts and Holly's backing group The Crickets, while Holly, Valens, and Richardson took a plane. The plane crashed in the early hours of February 3, killing the three stars and pilot Roger Peterson. Sardo continued to release singles on several different record labels until 1962; on some, he performed with his brother as a duo, Frankie and Johnny. On September 7, 1960, Frankie Sardo appeared on American Bandstand where he performed his single ""When The Bells Stop Ringing"". (http://www.tv.com/shows/american-bandstand/ab-820-della-reese-frankie-sardo-213579/) Using the name Frank Avianca, he worked as a film actor and"
"Grant Township, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa Grant Township is one of 16 townships in Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, USA. As of the 2000 census, its population was 354. Grant Township was the site of the airplane crash north of the city of Clear Lake, in which rock and roll stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. ""The Big Bopper"" Richardson, along with their pilot Roger A. Peterson, were killed on February 3, 1959. The site is located in the extreme eastern part of the township, near its border with Lincoln Township. Grant Township covers an area of and contains no"
"Richardson, better known as the Big Bopper, who perished in a plane crash with Buddy Holly in 1959. Lewis had his doubts about recording the song but, as he explains in the ""A Half Century of Hits"" essay, his manager convinced him: “Sam Phillips’s brother, Jud, was managing me. He was well oiled on that session...I told him I didn’t even know 'Chantilly Lace.' He said, ‘Well, make it up.’ I did one take on it.” Producer Jerry Kennedy recalled of the sessions to Lewis biographer Nick Tosches, ""He wanted everybody there. He didn't want anything overdubbed later. It was"
"office stated that he died of natural causes. Jo Jo Benson Joseph M. Hewell (April 15, 1938 – December 23, 2014) was an American R&B and soul singer better known under his stage name Jo Jo Benson. He was best known for his recordings in the late 1960s with Peggy Scott. He was born in Phenix City, Alabama, and began singing in nightclubs when in his teens. He joined Chuck Willis as a backing singer in the 1950s, before joining forces with fellow singer Peggy Scott, who previously backed Ben E. King, in a duo. The pair were heard and"
"for Dion as Dion's drummer had frostbitten feet. After the February 2, 1959, performance in Clear Lake, Iowa (which ended around midnight), Holly, Richardson, and Valens flew out of the Mason City airport in a small plane that Holly had chartered. Valens was on the plane because he won a coin toss with Holly's backup guitarist Tommy Allsup. Holly's bassist, Waylon Jennings, voluntarily gave up his seat on the plane to J.P. Richardson, who was ill with the flu. Just after 1:00 am on February 3, 1959, the three-passenger Beechcraft Bonanza departed for Fargo, North Dakota, and crashed a few"
"for best engineer. McKercher and Pleasance, as well as the band, were named producers. Of the singles released from the album, ""There Is No Such Place"" was the most popular, charting at number 47 on the Triple J Hottest 100, 2001. Preparations for a follow-up to ""Sunset Studies"" were thrown into disarray on 2 January 2001 when Dawson died in a car crash. The event had a significant impact on the band and especially on Richards as he wrote their next album. However, the resulting work was not mournful; Richards described it as optimistic and humorous. To replace Dawson, Melbournian"
"Johnny Preston Johnny Preston (August 18, 1939 – March 4, 2011) was an American pop singer, who is best known for his international number one hit in 1960, ""Running Bear"". Born as John Preston Courville in Port Arthur, Texas, of Cajun ancestry, Preston sang in high school choral contests throughout the state of Texas. He formed a rock and roll band called the Shades, who were seen performing at a local club by J. P. ""The Big Bopper"" Richardson. Richardson offered Preston the chance to record a teenage tragedy song he had written, ""Running Bear"", which they did in Houston,"
"heart attack just after take-off in the aircraft at Carrabassett Valley Airport in Maine. The plane flipped over, falling some 300 feet, killing him instantly along with his passenger, Dick Ayotte, a longtime friend and local businessman. Jud was 45 years old. Jud's sons contribute to the Sugarloaf Community, with Jud's grandson performing onstage at The Rack on Sunday afternoons. Jud Strunk Jud Strunk (born Justin Roderick Strunk, Jr., June 11, 1936—October 5, 1981) was an American singer-songwriter and comedian. Born Justin Roderick Strunk, Jr. in Jamestown, New York, he was raised in Buffalo, New York, where as a small"
"Janis Joplin Janis Lyn Joplin (January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970), nicknamed ""Pearl"", was an American rock, soul and blues singer and songwriter, and one of the most successful and widely known female rock stars of her era. After releasing three albums, she died of a heroin overdose at the age of 27. A fourth album, ""Pearl"", was released in January 1971, just over three months after her death. It reached number one on the ""Billboard"" charts. In 1967, Joplin rose to fame during an appearance at Monterey Pop Festival, where she was the lead singer of the then"
"in 1954. In 1959, Jones recorded ""White Lightning,"" written by J. P. Richardson, which launched his career as a singer. His second marriage ended in divorce in 1968; he married fellow country music singer Tammy Wynette a year later. Years of alcoholism compromised his health and led to his missing many performances, earning him the nickname ""No Show Jones."" After his divorce from Wynette in 1975, Jones married his fourth wife, Nancy Sepulvado, in 1983 and became sober for good in 1999. Jones died in 2013, aged 81, from hypoxic respiratory failure. During his career, Jones had more than 150"
"Skip Spence Alexander Lee ""Skip"" Spence (April 18, 1946 – April 16, 1999) was a Canadian-born American musician and singer-songwriter. He was co-founder of Moby Grape, and played guitar with them until 1969. He released one solo album, 1969's ""Oar"", and then largely withdrew from the music industry. He had started his career as a guitarist in an early line-up of Quicksilver Messenger Service, and was the drummer on Jefferson Airplane's debut album, ""Jefferson Airplane Takes Off"". He has been described on the AllMusic website as ""one of psychedelia's brightest lights""; however, his career was plagued by drug addictions coupled"
"his second appearance on ""The Ed Sullivan Show"" in January 1958 and soon after, toured Australia and then the UK. In early 1959, he assembled a new band, consisting of future country music star Waylon Jennings (bass), famed session musician Tommy Allsup (guitar), and Carl Bunch (drums), and embarked on a tour of the midwestern U.S. After a show in Clear Lake, Iowa, he chartered an airplane to travel to his next show, in Moorhead, Minnesota. Soon after takeoff, the plane crashed, killing Holly, Ritchie Valens, The Big Bopper, and pilot Roger Peterson in a tragedy later referred to by"
"1959. Then in April 1960, while touring with Gene Vincent in the UK, their taxi crashed into a concrete lamp post, killing Eddie at the young age of 21. The grim coincidence in this all was that his posthumous UK number-one hit was called ""Three Steps to Heaven"". Rockabilly music enjoyed great popularity in the United States during 1956 and 1957, but radio play declined after 1960. Factors contributing to this decline are usually cited as the 1959 death of Buddy Holly in an airplane crash (along with Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper), the induction of Elvis Presley into"
"Gram Parsons Ingram Cecil Connor III (November 5, 1946 – September 19, 1973), known professionally as Gram Parsons, was an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, and pianist. Parsons is best known for his work with the Byrds and Flying Burrito Brothers. He also popularized what he called ""Cosmic American Music"", a hybrid of country, rhythm and blues, soul, folk, and rock. He recorded as a solo artist, and with the International Submarine Band, The Byrds, and The Flying Burrito Brothers. His relatively short career was described by AllMusic as ""enormously influential"" for country and rock, ""blending the two genres to the"
"John W. Peterson John Willard Peterson (November 1, 1921 – September 20, 2006) was a songwriter who had a major influence on evangelical Christian music in the 1950s through the 1970s. He wrote over 1000 songs, and 35 cantatas. Born in Lindsborg, Kansas, he served as an Army Air Force pilot flying the ""China Hump"" during World War II. Later, he attended Moody Bible Institute and served on the radio staff there for a number of years. In 1953, he graduated from the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago and shortly thereafter settled in Pennsylvania to continue his songwriting career."