Texas Musicians Top Ten: Buddy Holly (#4)

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So, you’re wondering, just who can beat Don Henley on my list? It’s tough, but this just shows you the magnitude of greatness that the Lone Star State has given the music world. Let’s continue the countdown with today’s great. #4: Buddy Holly Welp, see ya tomorrow. It’s always “what if.” You think about the songs this man wrote — songs that are still being recorded today, 65 years after his death — and you can’t help but wonder “what if.” Buddy Holly was part of the first induction class of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, indicating the magnitude of influence he had on the world…with a career that was barely four years long. You know the man. You know his music. You sadly know the story. But, as Crickets member Sonny Curtis wrote in a song, “The levee ain’t dry and the music didn’t die, ‘cause Buddy Holly lives every time we play rock and roll.” What if. Buddy Holly Born Charles Hardin Holley September 7, 1936, Lubbock Died February 3, 1959, Clear Lake, Iowa (plane crash) (age 22) HALLS OF FAME: Rock and Roll, Songwriters, Nashville Songwriters, Rockabilly, Texas Country Music Buddy singing “Oh Boy” on the Ed Sullivan Show: