![]() ![]() ![]() Over the ensuing decades, Allison also became an in-demand session player, recording with such artists as Bobby Vee, Eddie Cochran, Waylon Jennings, Paul McCartney and Nanci Griffith. One of Buddys closest friends and a true trailblazer in the music industry, the longest tenured member of The Crickets was not only a Real Wild Child, but was also an innovator on the drums. Promotional Music video of Iggy Pops hit 'Real Wild Child (Wild One)', from his 1986 album Blah-Blah-Blah. “More Than I Can Say,” a 1960 Crickets single co-written by Allison and Curtis, later became a No. Iggy Pop: Real Wild Child (Wild One): With Iggy Pop. 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. 68 on the Billboard singles chart.įollowing Holly’s death in a plane crash in February 1959 alongside fellow rock ‘n’ roll pioneers Ritchie Valens and J.P. As part of The Crickets, Allison co-wrote songs like That'll Be The Day and Peggy Sue. Real Wild Child The Chipmunks & The Chipettes Track 8 on Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked: Music from the Motion Picture Featuring Nomadik Produced by Ali Dee 2011 1 viewer 3 Contributors. Allison 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. Jerry Allison, whose drumming powered Buddy Holly's influential rock and roll hits, has died at the age of 82. 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 “Day” with a string of successful singles including “Oh, Boy!”, “Maybe Baby” and “Think It Over” (the latter co-written by Allison). ![]() Alongside 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. 31, 1939, in Hillsboro, Texas, 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. Shirley Watts, Widow of Rolling Stones Drummer Charlie Watts, Dies at 84īorn Aug. ![]()
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