Trivia / Buddy Holly

• Died During Production: A particularly infamous example, since he died just as he was starting a new, more ambitious phase of his career.
• Executive Meddling: Played straight at the Nashville sessions. Averted in Clovis, where Norman Petty granted unlimited studio time. Played straight again after Buddy's death. He left behind dozens of demo tapes of unfinished songs; sometimes recorded with a band, sometimes just him and his acoustic guitar. During the '60s, these songs were released with meddlesome overdubs to bring them up to commercial standards.
• The Pete Best: Bob Montgomery, Larry Welborn. Montgomery went on to be a successful songwriter and Record Producer in Nashville.
• Short-Lived, Big Impact: Buddy greatly expanded the vocabulary of rock & roll from its Rockabilly beginnings. He was just 22 when he died, and had only 18 months as a professional musician, but without him, The Beatles wouldn't even be named the same, for starters.
• Throw It In!: A famous one heard at the end of "I'm Gonna Love You Too." An actual cricket got into the studio while Buddy was recording vocals, and since it kind of chirped along on the beat, they just left it in. Contrary to one version of the story, this didn't give the Crickets their name, as they were already the Crickets.
• What Could Have Been: This one's almost painful to think about.