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Authors: Ellis Amburn
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Pearl: The Obsessions and Passions of Janis Joplin
(Amburn)
Pearsall, Yvonne
Peer, Ralph and Elizabeth
Peer-Southern Music (publisher)
“Peggy Sue” (Holly–Allison–Petty)
success of
“Peggy Sue Got Married” (Holly)
Peggy Sue Got Married
(film)
Penguins
Perkins, Carl
Peters, Jimmy
Peterson, Art (father)
Peterson, DeAnn (wife)
Peterson, Pearl (mother)
Peterson, Roger (charter pilot)
funeral
name on monument
Petty, Norman
Buddy Holly, exploitation of
conflict with Maria Elena Holly
and the Crickets (minus Holly)
Crickets’ breakup
dishonesty
as engineer and accompanist
as manager
sexuality
songwriting credit and royalties
See also
Nor Va Jak; Norman Petty Recording Studios; Norman Petty Trio
Petty, Violet Ann (Vi)
Phillips, Charlie
Phillips, Sam
Photoplay
magazine
Pickering, Billy Duane “Bill”
Picks
“Piece of My Mind”
Pierce, Webb
Pinkston, Dave (“Pappy” Dave Stone)
Pinkston, Pat
“Pistol Packin’ Mama”
Platters
“Pledging My Love”
Poor Boys
“Poor Little Fool”
Posner, Leonard
Powers, Jeremy
“Precious Lord”
Presley, Elvis
and Buddy Holly
and drugs
naked motorcycle ride
style and sensuality
and Sun Records
Presley, Priscilla Beaulieu
Preston, Johnny
“Pretty Baby”
“Pretty Woman”
Price, Ray
“Problems”
Prokop, A. J.
Quarry Men
Quasar of Rock, The
(Little Richard)
Quinn, Carmel
R&B (rhythm and blues)
race records.
See
black music
Rachmil, Milton
Rackham, Lynn
Radloff, Laurence and Evelyn
“Raining in My Heart”
Randle, Bill
Randolph, Boots
Rapp, Danny
Rash, Steve
“Rave On”
Rave On!
magazine
RCA records
“Ready Teddy”
“Real Buddy Holly Story”
Real Buddy Holly Story, The
(BBC TV special)
“Real Wild Child”
Reba
(McEntire)
Reed, Leonard
Reeves, Glen
Reeves, Jim
Reeves, Michael
Remembering Buddy
(Goldrosen/Beecher)
“Reminiscing”
Reminiscing
(Holly-Fireballs album)
Reminiscing
(Iowa PBS-TV documentary)
Reminiscing
magazine
See also
Griggs, Bill
Reyes, Ernestine
Rhythm Orchids
Rich, Buddy
Richards, Cliff
Richards, Doris
Richards, Keith
Richardson, Adrianne Joy Fryon “Teetsie” (Big Bopper’s wife)
Richardson, Deborah (Big Bopper’s daughter)
Richardson, Jay P., Jr. (Big Bopper’s son)
Richardson, Jiles Perry.
See
Big Bopper
Richman, Abraham “Boomie”
Richwine, Maria
Riese, Randal
Rio, Jerry
Rippon, Russ
Ritchie Valens: The First Latino Rocker
(Mendhein)
Riverside Ranch Hands
Roach, Hal
Robbins, Marty
Robinson, Bonnie
Robinson, Jim
Robinson, Red
Roberts, Ruth
Rocha, Gil
“Rock-A-Bye Rock” (Holly)
“Rock Around the Clock”
“Rock Around With Ollie Vee”
Rock of Ages
(
Rolling Stone
)
Rock Generation
(Taylor)
“Rock Island Line”
rock ’n’ roll
age of performers
alcohol and drugs
antirock backlash
black music and
and death
decline
exploitation films
glitter rock
groupies and fans
and guns
and hair length
mismanagement.
Also under
Petty Norman
package tours
press hostility
racism and
religious opposition to
riots
Satanism and witchcraft
and sex
and social and cultural change
as subversive
success of
“teenager” as a term
rock ’n’ roll (United Kingdom)
and Buddy Holly
charts
See also
Skiffle
Rock–’n’–Roll Hall of Fame
“Rock ’n’ Roll Music”
“Rock ’n’ Roll Party” (Freed radio program)
rockabilly
women and
Rockin’ 50s
magazine
Rodgers, Jimmie
Rofe, Stan “The Man”
Rogers, Bob
Rogers, Will
“Roll Over Beethoven”
Rolling Stone
Rolling Stones
Romantic Rebels: An Informal History of Bohemianism in America
(Hahn)
Ronnie Smith and the Jitters
Ronstadt, Linda
Rose, Billie
Rose, Wesley
Roses
Rossi, Adrian
Rossi, Kenny
Rossi, Nick
Roulette label
Rowe, Johnny
Royal Teens
“Rubber Ball”
Ruff, Ray
“Runaround Sue”
“Runaway”
“Running Bear”
Rush, Ray
Saha, Mark
“Salty Dog Blues”
“San Antonio Rose”
Sandquist, Lowell
Santiago, Maria Elena.
See
Holly, Maria Elena
Sardo, Frankie
Sartain, Gailard
“Scattered”
Schaffner, Nicholas
Schiffman, Bobby
Schiffman, Frank
Schiffman, Jack
Schneider, Leonard
Schreader, walt
Schwartz, David
Scott, Jack
Scott, Ted
Scriven, Joseph
Sedaka, Neil
“Sexy Ways”
Shadows
“Shake, Rattle, and Roll”
Shannon, Del
“Sh-Boom”
Sheeley, Sharon
Shepherd Sisters
Sheridan, Jack
Shetlock, George
Shinn, Shara
Shirelles
“Short Fat Fanny”
“Short Shorts”
Showcase
(Holly album)
Shriver, Dave
Shulman, Sylvan
“Silhouettes”
Silhouettes
Sinatra, Frank
“Sincerely”
Sinks, Earl
16
magazine
“Sixty Minute Man”
Skiffle
Skinner, Dave
“Slippin’ and Slidin’”
Smiley, Ralph E.
Smith, Charles Martin
Smith, Connie “Guybo”
Smith, Gail
Smith, Joe
Smith, Nigel
Smith, Ronnie
Snow, Hank
Snyder, Dale
“So Wrong”
“Someone, Someone”
“Someone’s Watching Over You”
Somerville, Dave
“Somethin’ Else”
Song of Solomon, The
Sonny James–Jim Reeves show
Spaniels
Spector, Phil
Spence, Richard
Spice, Irving
Spiders
Spitz, Robert Stephen
Springsteen, Bruce
“Sputnik (Satellite Girl)”
“Stage, The”
“Starlight”
Starr, Ringo. See also Beatles
“Stay Close to Me” (Holly)
“Steel Guitar Rag”
Steuer, Mark
Stillwagon, C. E.
“Stroll, The”
Stroud, Don
Stull, Billy
“Sugar Shack”
“Sugartime”
Sullivan, Ed
Sullivan, Eryn (Niki’s son)
Sullivan, Fran (Niki’s wife)
Sullivan, Marty (Niki’s son)
Sullivan, Niki
as a Cricket
quitting the band
“Summertime Blues”
Sun Records (Memphis)
“Sunday Party” (KDAV radio program)
Surf Ballroom (Clear Lake, Iowa)
Buddy Holly’s final performance
Buddy Holly Tribute Dance and Concert
memorial monument
“Suzie baby”
“Sweet Little Sixteen”
Szikil, Tony
Tabernacle Baptist Church (Lubbock, Texas)
“Take Good Care of My Baby”
“Take Your Time”
Taylor, Ken
Taylor, Sam
Tecklenburg, Jeff
Teddy (June Clark’s sister)
“Teddy Bear”
Teddy Bears
Teen Kings
Teen
magazine
“teenager” as a term
“Teenager in Love, A”
Teenagers
“Tell Me How”
“Tell Me Why”
Terry, Kevin
“That Makes It Tough” (Holly)
“That’ll Be the Day” (Petty-Holly-Allison)
release and success
“That’s All Right, Mama”
“That’s My Desire”
“That’s What They Say” (Holly)
Thiele, Bob
“Think It Over”
Thomas, Jim
Thompson, Hank
Three Friends
“Three Stars”
Tilghman, Bill
Tillis, Mel
Tillman, Floyd
Time
magazine
“To Be Loved”
“To Know Him Is to Love Him”
Tobler, John
Tollett, Gary
Tollett, Ramona
Tompkins, Tommy
Tomsco, George
“Too Old to Cut the Mustard”
Tosches, Nick
Travalena, Fred
Tribute to Eddie Cochran
(Clark)
“True Love”
“True Love Ways” (Petty–Holly)
Tubb, Justin
Turner, Bo
“Tutti-Frutti”
TV Movie and Record Stars
magazine
Uggams, Leslie
Universal (booking agent)
Valens, Ritchie
funeral
the plane crash
“Winter Dance Party” tour
Valenzuela, Concepcion “Connie” (Ritchie Valens’s mother)
“Valley of Tears”
Valli, June
Van Sheldon, Ricky
Van Slyker, Dick
Vaughan, Ivan
Vee, Bobby (Robert Thomas Velline)
“Venus”
Vesterdahl, Carl
Villa, Joe
Village Gate (NYC)
Vincent, Gene
Vitek, Steve
“Wake Up Little Susie”
“Walk Like a Man”
Wall, Anthony
Walmsley, Adam
Wanderer, The
(DiMucci)
Ward, Ed
Waters, Muddy
Waylon: Renegade, Outlaw, Legend
(video biography)
Wayne, Cal
“Wayward Wind, The”
Weavers
Weddell, Jim
Weezer
Weir, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. (Buddy’s brother-in-law and sister)
Welborn, Larry
as a Cricket
Welk, Lawrence
“Well All Right”
Wenck, Esther
West, Sonny
Western Swing Band (Tommy Allsup and)
Wexler, Jerry
“What a Friend We Have in Jesus”
“What Am I Living For?”
“What to Do” (Holly)
“What’s Going On?”
Whiskey, Nancy
“White Lighting”
“White Sport Coat (And a Pink Carnation), A”
Whitman, Slim
“Whole Lot of Lovin’”
“Whole Lot of Shakin Goin’ On”
“Who’s Sorry Now”
Who’s Sorry Now
(Francis)
“Why”
“Why Baby Why”
“Why Do Fools Fall in Love”
Wilcox, Bruce
Wilcox, Wendell
“Wild One”
Wild One
(Brando film)
“Wild Side of Life”
Wilinsky, Dan
William, Hank, Sr.
William Morris (booking agent)
Williams, Larry
Williams, Pat
Willis, Chuck
Wills, Bob
Wills, Johnnie Lee
Wilson, Jackie
Wilson, Little Johnny
Wink Westerners
Winker, Neale
Winter, Paul
Winters, Lauri
Winwood, Stevie
“Wishing” (Holly–Montgomery)
“Witchcraft”
“Without Love (There is Nothing)”
Wood, Melvin O.
Woods, George
“Words of Love” (Holly)
Diamonds recording
“Work With Me, Annie”
“Yakety Yak”
Yardbirds
Yempuku, Ralph
“You Are My One Desire”
“You Are My Sunshine”
“You Can’t Catch Me”
“You Send Me”
“You’ll Never Walk Alone”
“(You’re) Havin’ My Baby”
“(You’re So Square) Baby I Don’t Care”
“You’re the One” (Holly)
“You’ve Got Love”
Young, Charles
Young, Faron
Young Lions, The
(Brando film)
“Young Love”
Young Rockers
“Your Cheatin’ Heart”
Your Hit Parade
(TV show)
ALSO BY ELLIS AMBURN
Pearl: The Obsessions and Passions of Janis Joplin
Dark Star: The Roy Orbison Story
BUDDY HOLLY: A BIOGRAPHY.
Copyright © 1995 by Ellis Amburn. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
Photo credits:
Frontispiece
. Buddy Holly, 1959, AP/Wide World.
Part One
. Buddy Holly,
Westerner.
Part Two
. Buddy Holly, AP/Wide World.
Part Three
. Edwin L. Musser photo.
First St. Martin’s Griffin Edition: August 1996
eISBN 9781466868564
First eBook edition: March 2014