"If there had never been The Crickets, that there never would have been The Beatles" ..... Paul McCartney. Arguably the most important recognition of influence in the history of popular music.

The story of the beginning right out of the mouths of those who were there. It just doesn't get any better than that. Thank you for sharing these interviews they are solid gold.

Omg...this is fantastic! a treasure; it should go in a vault! I could listen to J.I. tell stories all day.....I was 10 years old in '59 "the day the music died"; I did cry. Thanks Joe.

I was born in 1953, was only 6 years old when he died and I had listened to my older brothers and sisters records and Buddy Holly was the first album I ever bought.

JI Allison passed away last night, y'all. One of the greatest cats you could ever know. ❤️

Cool Beans, Joe. That’s the same Sonny Curtis that composed & sang the Mary Tyler Moore theme “Love is all Around.” He also showed up on Clapton’s first solo LP. These musicians are the roots of R&R.

These oral histories document a piece of American history that stay with me for days, even months. Have you considered contacting the Library of Congress? I’d imagine they’d be interested in these

I met Joe B, and JI and Gordon Payne in 1992 when I was 18....I got to play my guitar for them. I had goosebumps.

This is priceless Rock and Roll history. It’s just so sad and yet also so interesting to see these guys talking about the genius that was Buddy Holly. Both Jerry Allison and Joe B Mauldin were such genuinely great guys! I am completely obsessed with Buddy Holly and his music, and his legacy and music will live on forever.

Every one of these guys had a brilliant natural talent which woke us up when they performed, not like the manufactured boredom of today.

That first line from JI makes the mood, “someone should have talked Buddy out of getting on that plane in a snow storm” sad!!! This was well done, people just don’t understand how important Buddy Holly and the crickets were to Rock n Roll music, the beginnings of it, to me he’s the father of the modern rock band, plain and simple!

I got to meet Jerry and Joe after a show in Dallas in the late 80s. Super nice guys…and of course I got their autographs. One of my proudest moments.

At 10:45, who would have thought the inspiration for the tom tom beat in "Peggy Sue" came from the B-side of a 1954 single by future "Gong Show" gal Jaye P. Morgan? And I loved learning from J. I. that The Crickets' "Not Fade Away" uses a traditional hambone beat on a cardboard box, while The Stones' version used the Bo Diddley beat. Just priceless stuff from beginning to end, Joe!

Thanks for this! Such genuine stories from these gentlemen.

Hi Joe, you have some of the best interviews, but this one really stands out for me. I was 10 years old when Buddy Hollys plane crashed. I still remember my mom bringing in the newspaper and she was just crushed at what happened. And so true as J I said this was just 18 months of Buddy’s talent and we were blessed to have had him....thanks again!

R.I.P.... Jerry and the boys are all together again with Buddy. He will be missed.

Fabulous, Joe! So much history right there! I thoroughly enjoyed their stories. Thank you!

I'm at these gentleman in person. They autographed my LP Bobby vee meets The crickets and it was signed by Bobby vee it's a promo album. And my girlfriend makes you rest in peace at the time and my friend Joe consoli and Joe Jr we got our picture taken with them

Joe, I’m 71 years old. In 1963 I lived in a little town 13 miles straight west from Lubbock. I was 13 years old that year. My dad was going to a barber school in Lubbock. All the people that worked there had known Buddy Holly personally. Buddy came in school to get his hair cut. They loved to tell Buddy Holley stories. All Buddy wanted to talk about was music and his songs and his band. That same year my 15 year old brother was getting to where he could play the guitar my dad had bought him pretty well. One Sunday night he brought his guitar to the youth group at our Church. He was playing his guitar around the kids and they were loving it. They kept bugging him to play and sing some rock and roll. He told the kids that he couldn’t sing but that I could. Everybody started begging me to sing but I was the shyest kid you could know. They kept begging to the point that was extremely embarrassed. My brother told them that I could sing just like Buddy Holly. So he started playing Peggy Sue. I finally gave in and agreed to sing it but only with my back facing them. So he played and I sang. The kids loved and we were hooked. We played for years with cover bands doing all the great songs of the 60’s. We finally quit playing rock and roll and began playing jazz. From the time I was fifteen to age 35 I had been offered six opportunities to make a record from various wealthy people who didn’t know anything about the music business. They told me it was true they didn’t know the business but had influential friends who did. I was always afraid they would invest their money and loose it. The very first offer came from someone who had heard me sing Patches by Dickey Lee. When I was young my voice very high and clear so it was a perfect fit. We played many prestigious events and won some nice awards. There is much more to tell but too much for this venue. Love your show Joe! Thanks for sharing so much info on your show. Later.

I'm so happy this channel is taking off, it's so educating and interesting to hear these stories, no other place can you hear this history of music, love it joe!! Keep it coming

I was born in 52 i Learn rock roll with they music i still do dance 💃 rock roll today i am 69

Awesome episode Joe! I can only imagine what Buddy Holly would have accomplished if not for his early passing!💫

These 3 interviews together made, at least for me, a more cohesive story. Have watched these separately, but really, really enjoyed them spliced together. Thanks.

I liked the format for this Joe!

What a beautiful piece of history, it's funny now that JI is gone... The Crickets is, without any doubt my favourite band in the 50's, Buddy and his gang must have known swell Time together ! I'm french and I'm 19 years old, I love true Rock N roll ❤️ thanks a lot for those documents

Joe ,JI said it better than any one statement I ve ever heard ! Somebody needed to tell Buddy not to get on a plane 1 oclock in the morning in a snowstorm ! I ve contemplated this many times .There's so many to blame along with Buddy .Dwyer shouldn't of taken the flight or flown them himself instead of Roger. Mr Anderson could of lied to Buddy and said all flights are cancelled tonight .Wait till the daylight.If they had well maintained buses it wouldn't of even been a thought . Maybe the band could of talked him out of it instead of agreeing to fly .But Buddy made the horrible decision to chance it and as Waylon said ,what young pilot would say no to Buddy Holly .The crash changed the lives of evereyone involved families ,friends ,band members and their futures , Buddy 's unborn child , plans of Ritchie ,and the Bopper, and Roger Petersons life . And lastly ,changed the course of Rock n Roll forever .and is still reeling from that tragic Feb 3 rd frigid winter morning !

Your interviews never disappoint Joe! Thank you indeed

There you have the story of Buddy Holly and the Crickets--right from the original band members themselves! Many thanks for sharing this video. 🎸🎸🎶🎵🥁🤓❤

fantastic. what a gift to the world to have this and all the other great interviews recorded.

So much talent. I've already given credit to those guys. This time I'm talkin' about splicing and editing of the three interviews into this one. This is great.

Great archive for future generations.

Legendary episode, Joe 🙏

Larry Welborn is still around. I have his pic with Buddy and Bob along with himself. :) He was a friend of someone I knew well. Met him and even went to a gig with him.

What a great compilation and kudos to putting this together. A real treasure of RnR history by the guys that lived it. Thanks for sharing, I really enjoyed watching this.

Really enjoyed this. Great bunch of down to earth guys telling a great story.

Amazing insight to such a fantastic era of music, huge tragic loss to music

Such a good beginning with this, but sad in the end.

Joe...just great! I love Buddy Holly! Treasure trove of REAL stories relating to Buddy. Thank you!

Wow, talk about R&R history. That was a truly incredible video Joe! I remember hearing about that plane crash & the day the music died! It was interesting to learn that Paul had told them that there would have been no Beatles without the Crickets. Thanks Joe & I hope that you are doing well & staying safe! 👍

One of the best you tube channels. I can't wait to someday to see everything in person.

All the venues that the they played honing their craft simply amazing. Thanks again and again, Joe.

I just want to say, my favorite group buddy Holly and the crickets. Great video thank you😢

Really wonderful video. I have loved Buddy Holly and the Crickets all my life, and the older I get I love them even more. They talk about their early recordings in a matter of fact way, but to us fans those records are absolutely fundamental moments of pure genius and inspiration that still sound as great as ever. Over in England some teenage kids who later became the Beatles sure picked up on how great Buddy Holly and the Crickets were. So did many, many others. Buddy's loss was a huge tragedy beyond words and we can only speculate on the great music that he would have produced in later years. The Crickets went on to make many excellent records on their own, and Sonny Curtis is one of the greatest songwriters of all time. I'm a fan of them all forever.

Great interview, love Buddy Holly and the crickets, these guys were and still are some of my biggest influences, they are all gone now and so missed, but your interviews keep them alive, thank you so much ...the history is amazing!!

Thanks for this, Joe. This was particularly interesting to me because I also grew up in Lubbock. Buddy and the Crickets were probably around 18 years older than I was, so I didn’t really grow up listening to their music. I grew up with The Beatles on Ed Sullivan instead of Buddy Holly. I would hear all of Buddy’s hits on the radio growing up, but that was about all I knew about him and the Crickets. Really interesting to put faces to all the names! Thanks again!

What a band!! So talented and humble. We will never see the likes of these gentlemen and Buddy ever again. A one off. 🙏❤️🎼.x

Refreshing how Sonny Curtis is so frank about everything, not trying to measure a lot of comments like so many interviewees , not trying to be careful, just telling the story, and a great one at that.

Joe just when I think it can't get any better you hit another home run. Great show, thank you so much

Awesome interview. Could listen to stories like this all day. Thanks

Kudos to your video editor Joe!

A fantastic treasure to have all this history captured! Great job!

Joe, Buddy was very smart about music and the whole recording process. He had so much potential and even for the short time he was here on earth he influenced a lot of bands. No telling how much bigger he could have been if he had lived. He could have gone in any direction with his music. The other members of the Crickets were just as influential but maybe they didn't always get the credit early on. Once Buddy died their contributions were brought to the forefront. I just learned by reading Wikipedia that Brit season and guitar ordinaire Albert Lee played with the Crickets. As time moves on we continue to lose a lot of these founding members of early rock and country music. Just look at where all this talent was born or spent considerable amount of time in Lubbock Texas.

Awesome set of interviews Joe. They certainly packed a lot of hits into 18 months.

Volume here as at the perfect level for me , most of the others are very difficult for me to hear guests speak on my set up, this one is great.

I love how you cut, and laced this together Joe. Really clever and well done. I grew up and live about 2 hours South of Lubbock, and there’s some famous...and unknown people from here who did some significant things too. You probably know this, but Bobby Keys was from up there, around this crowd, hanging and playing with them in his early days before the Stones.

So glad I found your videos! You are truly documenting music history. Thanks

Good stuff, thank you

Great stories and shares

Great idea and great story!!! Thanks, Joe...

Man, this is gold! This channel should have way more subscribers. 👍👏

Always enjoy watching.

Hi Joe, another great interview that took me back to my Schooldays in the 50s. Luvit!

Ive seen the three Crickets here several times in the mid-2000s, visited the Surf Ballroom, Lubbock and Clovis. Die-Hard BH fanantic and the inspiration for me pikcing up the guitar. Wonderful to hear firsthand from the Crickets themselves.

Thanks putting this all together, that was a great idea!

Paul McCartney should have gotten a left handed sunburst Stratocaster and taken Jerry and Joe out on a Buddy Holly memorial concert tour. That would have been a treat. Paul owns the rights to the Buddy Holly songs.

Thank you so much for putting this together. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Well done!!! Made my morning!!! Thank you!!!

Fantastic Thanks Joe🤗

So great!

As always, great job by you and your crew!

Thanks for sharing this treasure.

Thank you for all your work on these videos ....Great job!

Great work as usual Joe. Who doesn't like those days better than these days?

Well done, Joe. Thanks.

Great , i had seen one f the single interviews but this tells a better story of course and thank you.

Wow check out Sonny Curtiss - some kind of a legend himself! Composed the Mary Tyler Moore Show theme 'Love is all around' - Also Wrote 'I Fought the Law' (Bobby Fuller Four), 'I Love You More Than I Can Say' (Leo Sayer) and 'Walk Right Back' (Don and Phil Everly) Sonny also co-wrote the 1989 Country Song of the Year, "I'm No Stranger to the Rain", recorded by Keith Whitley.

Great!

Fascinating history. Thanks! (And really nice editing.)

Brilliant how this was put together to tell a story.

I love your channel!

Watching this is absolutely insane. It feels very weird being able to hear this from the people themselves. These people steered history.

Thanks for spreading the glorious name of The Crickets, the best and most innovative r'n'r band ever. Remove the Crickets from the ecuation, and music as we know it know, simply would colapse.. Wish every music fan had this clear, 'cause it's not my opinion, it's a fact.

Thank you Joe. This is fantastic.

This so cool 👍🏻😎

Great edit, Joe. You do a fabulous service to history by making these interviews. Thank you!

RIP JI - sad day :-(

It’s been 1 year since jerry Allison’s death R.I.P to all

6:00 that was their version of Hamburg years before the Beatles were in Hamburg in 60'

7.6 thousand views ! Should be 7.6 million views. The above are second to none on their instruments! Check their music out individually! Pure class!!!

Rockabilly at the roller rink!

Jerry Allison seems like a great guy.

Ed Sullivan story is priceless!!

Another great string of interviews wonderfully woven together. This one is especially dear to me. If you were to check out my IMDb page I'm part of Gary Busey's management, (verified) and yes I've met Gary, and yes, we talked about his role in The Buddy Holly story. He was nominated but didn't win. He was robbed. Thanks Joe. Enjoyed this very much.

You should listen some time to Dion telling of the coin flip and what went on during the Winter Dance party tour. No two people ever tell the same story.

I can't find the interview anymore but a guitarist affiliated with the Crickets came up with the riff that Neil Young used on the song Harvest Moon. If anyone knows who this was please reply.

And not one mention of Earl Sinks. Wow

“The first time we did it (The Ed Sullivan Show), we had to give all of our money to the Union to do it.” Sad.

Jerry Allison!

Question. Why didn't nobody ask about the turning off Buddy Holly's guitar on the night of January 26, 1958. When Buddy Holly Sang " ho,boy!" On the Ed Sullivan show. Nobody asked them about it.

Love this. Is there a way to listen to each individual interview?