THE CRICKETS

'The Crickets' were a rock band from Lubbock, Texas, formed by singer/songwriter Buddy Holly in the 1950s.
Legend has it that The Crickets chose their name while listening to a playback of "I'm Gonna Love You Too." A cricket was chirping in a garage that contained a speaker used for an echo effect, and could be heard at the end of the song. While this event did occur, and Holly's manager and owner of the studio decided to keep the chirping in the record, this is in no way tied to the origin of the band's name. In reality, they chose the name due to its similarity to that of the current-popular band Bill Haley & His Comets, and they wanted a name that would sound catchy to the audience. It is worth noting that they almost chose the name "Beetles".^[1] (Years later, John Lennon named his band The Beatles partly in homage to Holly and the Crickets.
The band personnel were drummer Jerry Allison, bassist Joe B. Mauldin, and rhythm guitarist Niki Sullivan. Sullivan dropped out within less than two years of touring and recording. He wasn't comfortable with the amount of traveling and to a lesser extent, he didn't fit in with Jerry and Joe. For the same reason, Jerry and Joe were not backing Holly after he moved to NYC. The big move was the real reason why the Crickets broke up, but Holly was not daunted by the breakup; he gained a new back-up band with Tommy Allsup and Waylon Jennings on the tour shortly after the Crickets folded ( Mauldin and Allison made an informal agreement with Buddy to keep the Crickets name, while Holly would now tour under his own name ). But after about 4 months, due to fans' mail and the band feeling nostalgic, a reunion was planned to start with all the original Crickets after Holly's winter tour through the northern mid-west was completed. It was on that tour that Holly was killed in a plane crash.
In ''The Buddy Holly Story'', the story of the band was altered drastically. Due to the Crickets selling the rights to another studio, their film counterparts' names were changed for legal reasons. In addition, there are only two Crickets — a bass player clearly being Mauldin and a drummer modeled on Allison, and the character of Sullivan and his quitting the band is omitted entirely. The real Crickets were outraged on being portrayed as racists, as well as the latter scene in which they appear at Holly's door wanting to reunite. In reality, they had discussed with Holly, shortly before his death, about going on a reunion tour.
Allison and Mauldin later retained the rights to the story, still hoping for a real Buddy Holly biopic to come out someday.

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Discography

References

Discography

★ ''In Style With the Crickets'' (1960)

★ ''Bobby Vee Meets the Crickets'' (1962)

★ ''Something Old, Something New'' (1963)

★ ''California Sun'' (1964)

★ ''Rock Reflections'' (1971)

★ ''Remnants'' (1973)

★ ''Bubblegum, Pop, Ballads & Boogie'' (1973)

★ ''Long Way from Lubbock'' (1975) ''(With Albert Lee)''.

★ ''Back in Style'' (1975)

★ ''T Shirt'' (1989)

★ ''Cover to Cover'' (1995)

★ ''The Original'' (1996)

★ ''Rockin'' (2000)

★ Too Much Monday Morning

★ ''Crickets & Their Buddies'' (2004)

★ ''About Time Too (With Mike Berry)''

References

1. http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/crickets.htm