Buddy Holly

Lubbock College

No, he did not attend college.

No he did not, at least while he was alive. The Grammy Awards started in the later part of 1959 after he passed in the plane crash. He might have won something for his posthumus releases though.

I would say that the value would be extremely high, considering the age of the autograph, the legendary status of Buddy and the fact that he died so young, in or even before his prime...

I guess you could compare that to an Eddie Cochran guitar, a Ritchie Valens guitar, a phone used by The Big Bopper in his shows, etc...

A baseball signed by Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and people like that would have an extrenely high value...but I guess that it couldn't beat a Buddy Holly autograph.

I just couldn't say the exact value because it would depend on the quality of the signature, the paper [or anything else] it was written on, etc...

The most important thing of all would be to make sure it is Buddy who signed the autograph, which could be very hard.

They say that only about 4 % of The Beatles' signatures are real. but consiterining it was is the best condison aboat mmmmm...... 70,000$-100,000$!!!!

Although it is arguable as to the exact date that any well-known individual became famous, according to Wikipedia (refer to the link, below), Chuck Berry's probably started " . . . on May 21, 1955 Berry covered "Ida Red" (renamed "Maybellene") with Johnny Johnson, Jerome Green (from Bo Diddley's band) on the maracas, Jasper Thomas on the drums and blues legend Willie Dixon on the bass. "Maybellene" sold over a million copies, reaching #1 on Billboard's Rhythm and Blues chart and #5 on the Hot 100."

Buddy Holly's last name was misspelled from his original spelling of "Holley" on his first recording contract, so he kept it that way. As for his first name of Charles, "Buddy" had been a nickname since childhood, and he was known as Buddy to his family and friends.

According to the story I heard, it was Waylon Jennings, who rode on the tour bus instead.

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Yes, Buddy Holly had three older siblings: Larry Holley, Travis Holley, and Pat Holley Kaiter (Holly dropped the "e" from his name after the first contract he signed with Decca Records (I think it was Decca) misspelled his name as Holly and he decided to keep it spelled that way.)

1953 Cadillac LeMans now sitting in GM Historical Collection at GM Heritage Center

he was a christian but never lived for Christ

Billie Holiday is a special case. She's not officialy an inductee but she is in the Hall of Fame. She is in the "Early Influences" catergory. Artists inducted into the early influences category are those "whose music predated rock and roll but had an impact on the evolution of rock and roll and inspired rock's leading artists." Unlike the performers category, these inductees are selected by a committee. The full process isn't transparent and it's unclear who comprises this selection committee. She was inducted in 2000 alongside Nat King Cole.

He didn't; he died in 1959. The last album to feature unreleased Holly material was 1968's Giant.

They were going to the next "Winter Dance Party" tour stop in Fargo, ND.

If you are asking about a 1957 Buddy Holly top ten hit, three songs come to mind: "That'll Be the Day" topped number 1 in both the US and the UK, "Peggy Sue" charted at number 3 in the US and number 6 in the UK, and "Oh, Boy" charted number 10 in the US and number 3 in the UK

Unfortunately he did not record any Christmas songs.

His bandmates were supposed to fly with him (Holly chartered an airplane because he was tired of riding in a bus, whose heater kept breaking down), but the Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens persuaded them to give up their seats.

NO to the above. J.P. Richarson (The Big Bopper) was ill and was Buddy's first choice to go with him. The other person was supposed to be Tommy Allsup (Buddy's band member and friend) but at the last moment flipped a coin with Ritchie who "won" the seat. (The movie shows the coin toss between Waylon Jennings and Ritchie)

Buddy's parents lived at 1606 39th Street, Lubbock, Texas which is where Buddy married Maria E. Santiago in 1958. In 2010 there was a plaque in front of this house.

It didn't have a name, but it was a Beechcraft Bonanza

Buddy Holly became famous for his music. He was a guitar player (guitar of choice was a Fender Stratocaster) among other instruments he played every now and then like the accoustic guitar, some piano, some experience in drumming, harmonica and country steel guitar. As well as that, he was famous for being a song writer and singer. He performed early Rock 'N Roll which back then was called "Rock-a-billy" because of the roots in R&B mixed with country. Elvis was known as a rock-a-billy singer when he first emerged as well. Then between the two of them and other singers....it became rock 'n roll.

He became famous on May 27 1957 when "That'll be the Day" and "I'm Looking for someone to Love" hit third on the pop charts and second on the rhythm and Blues charts. He died on a plane crash in 1959.

His real name was Charles Hardin Holley

Violin. He changed to guitar in high school.

Because Buddy Holly wanted to stop or at least tour considerbly less, and because he moved to New York to try writing more elaborate and different styles of music. Buddy was the first rock n roller to add strings and horn arrangements to rock style music. The Crckets continued to tour without him.

No...Buddy said something to him to the effect of "I hope your bus catches fire" or something like that then Waylon said "I hope your plane crashes" they were just kidding around. for years after that...waylon really thought he was the reason why the plane crashed and he thought he was the reason why Buddy Holly died.