Hope someday their presentation in American Bandstand will be found.

Buddy Holly was such a treasure

This is priceless! It is a pity that the interview was not filmed.

The English girls were quite taken with the clean-cut Crickets on their first visit to the UK, and a tabloid came up with this rather brilliant headline: "Crickets Bowl Maidens Over."

This gives me great, hope that there are other Buddy Holly and The Crickets treasures waiting to be discovered

Jeff Beck once told me about seeing Buddy Holly & The Cickets when they came to England,he said how he was blown away!!!

Thanks for posting this. I hadn’t heard it before. I wonder if there are any more interviews that haven’t surfaced yet.

Thank you for this. Now I know what Buddy’s talking voice sounded like. (Actually I already did because he speaks halfway through Listen To Me.)

Never have heard this😮!

Good interview. Thanks.

😢🇬🇧did not know they came to Britain if only they had not gone Early ❤🎼🎶🎶🎶🇬🇧

If this from the Bright Lights show broadcast live on the West Midlands home service on a Friday then it must have taken place on Friday 7th March when The Crickets played Wolverhampton.

wonderful.

BUDDY HOLLY and the CRICKETS more important than the beatles 4AVER

Not heard that before - Thanks!

With the passing of time the US & UK accents don't seem that far apart.

You can definitely here that the Beatles were influenced but buddy holly. That song sounds like beatles

The reference to Birmingham has led some Buddy experts to suggest this was recorded on March 10th when the Crickets and Norman Petty visited the Austin Healey car factory at Longbridge. Could there have been a factory radio station which interviewed the boys during their visit? Perhaps 'Bright Lights' is a good title for a feature on a 'car radio' station? Perhaps there is a Buddy Holly and the Crickets radio jingle somewhere for the British Motor Corporation!?

Fantastic! I speed and pitch corrected this and it sounds great! You really made my year! Do you have anything else on Holly?

Do you have sight of the other recording Mr Dunn made that is mentioned in the interview?

I don't know who had the idea of displaying holiday ads with my video. Certainly not me!

"The point is, do the other two sing with you in your stage act?" "Yes, they do." Comments, anyone??!!

Is the interviewer John Dunn who was a staple of the BBC for many years?

Wow! Where did that come from?

UHU is a glue. I think The Bright Lights Show was on the Midlands Home Service on Friday afternoons. It was advertised in either the Birmingham Post or (more likely) the Birmingham Mail. However, the BBC Genome Project, which reproduces old Radio Times listings, has not yet tackled regional variations. I may have got the broadcast date wrong, a week either way. The Crickets performed in Birmingham on Monday 10th March. Des O'Connor may also have been in town. fyi: www.bradfordtimeline.co.uk/mindex58f.htm At around that time, Bill Haley was interviewed on the Bright Lights show, but I suppose no recording survives. I realised, not so long ago, that the BBC tapes must have been wiped. Your recording is from a tape which is in secure storage. I don't know who the presenter was. Does anyone recognise his voice? Why don't some of you enterprising fans tweet the Crickets for more information? They know what the controversy was all about, and can speak freely now. Something to do with the tour producers using British musicians?

Sound corrected, it does sound like Buddy, but there is no record of a Bright Lights show at that time in the UK. So that raises the question 'is it genuine'? . Only was to be sure is trace its history. Where did it come from after all this time? Over to you Archiveperson.......

I have grave reservations about this interview. Something does not feel and sound right?