Over the ensuing decades, Allison also became an in-demand session player, recording with such artists as Bobby Vee, Eddie Cochran, Waylon Jennings, Paul McCartney and Nanci Griffith. 'She was a vivacious, curvy woman, not the scrawny, scruffy girl we saw on that screen.
“More Than I Can Say,” a 1960 Crickets single co-written by Allison and Curtis, later became a No. The Big Bopper), Allison continued recording and touring as The Crickets with a rotating cast of band members including Mauldin, Sonny Curtis, Glen Hardin, Earl Sinks and Jerry Naylor. It sounds like one big, amazing show, spotlighting the godfather of punk as he edged into the 90s. 68 on the Billboard singles chart.įollowing Holly’s death in a plane crash in February 1959 alongside fellow rock ‘n’ roll pioneers Ritchie Valens and J.P. Recorded live in the late 80s, Real Wild Child harvests the cream of Iggy Pop’s crop from various stages. Allison himself scored a modest solo hit with “Real Wild Child” - a cover of Johnny O’Keefe’s “Wild One” - which was released under his middle name, Ivan, in 1958 and peaked at No. Provided to YouTube by Redeye Worldwide Real Wild Child Ivan Rockin' Reelin' & Rollin': 1950 to 1959 2016 Copyright Controlled Released on. 3 on the Top 100 later that year as a solo single for Holly. In 1958, the song was released as a single by Jerry Allison, a member of the Crickets, using the name Ivan, with Buddy Holly backing him on guitar. “Peggy Sue,” on which Allison was also credited as a co-writer and which was named after his then-girlfriend and future wife Peggy Sue Gerron, hit No. 1 hit, The Crickets followed “Day” with a string of successful singles including “Oh, Boy!”, “Maybe Baby” and “Think It Over” (the latter co-written by Allison). Alongside bassist Larry Welborn (subsequently replaced by Joe Mauldin) and rhythm guitarist Niki Sullivan, they later found success as The Crickets, scoring their first hit with “That’ll Be the Day,” recorded during a February 1957 session with songwriter and producer Norman Petty in his Clovis, N.M., studio (a country-leaning version of the song had previously been released by Decca during Holly’s short-lived stint in Nashville).Ĭo-written by Allison, Holly and Petty, the 1957 version of “That’ll Be the Day” was released by Brunswick Records and slowly picked up steam on radio before hitting the peak of the Billboard Top 100 (the progenitor of the Hot 100) in September of that year. 31, 1939, in Hillsboro, Texas, Allison attended the same middle school as Holly in Lubbock, Texas, but the two didn’t become friends until high school, when they formed a band and began playing gigs at roller rinks and other local venues. Shirley Watts, Widow of Rolling Stones Drummer Charlie Watts, Dies at 84īorn Aug.
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