6/11/2023 0 Comments Real wild child 1958 songHis work on The Crickets recordings gave the records much of their distinctiveness and has influenced subsequent generations of Rock and roll drummers. On these, Allison played only tom-toms in keeping with the sound of the vocals. Later songs, released under Buddy Holly's own name, were softer in tone and filled with innocence and longing. His snappy cracks at the snare drum gave power to the songs released under the name The Crickets. Over time, Allison's rhythm backup ranged from slapping hands-on-knees or hand-clapping the beat to a modal plainness of cymbal drumming. In their early days at the Lubbock Youth Center, Buddy Holly's vocal and guitar were backed only by Allison's drumming, allowing for some of Holly's best guitar work. This recording was also performed at the Norman Petty studio in Clovis, NM about 6 months before Peggy Sue was recorded. This very rare recording was named "Who's Gonna Be the Next One Honey". Allison (born Jerry Ivan Allison, August 31, 1939, in Hillsboro, Texas) is an American musician, best known for being the drummer for The Crickets and co-writer of their Buddy Holly hit "Peggy Sue".Īllison's first professional recording can be heard on a 45-rpm recording of another local legend named Hal Goodson and the Raiders. Over the years I’ve enjoyed doing some deep dives into songs that for one reason or another I find interesting.J.I. Previously, I’ve written about These Foolish Things which was covered by Bryan Ferry, Ghost Town by The Specials, All The Young Dudes by Mott the Hoople and most recently, Still Of The Night by Whitesnake. What I really like is going down the rabbit hole of a song and exploring the story behind it and the people involved in creating it: the writers, the musicians and the producers. It was time to do another one, but I couldn’t find something that piqued my interest. Having just marked the anniversary of Buddy Holly’s death, by posting my art remix of a remarkable and rarely seen photo of him, I thought about looking at one of his songs. However, there’s little that hasn’t already been written about them. That being said, the story of Buddy Holly has always appealed to me and I remember reading biographies about him and going to see the West End musical Buddy many years ago.Īround the anniversary of his fatal plane crash - the so-called day the music died - I was listening to as many podcasts as I could find about Buddy and his songs, when I heard a snippet of one that whilst unfamiliar to me, reminded me of something else. The phrasing sounded an awful lot like Marc Bolan, but this was a song from 1958. The artist was called Ivan, someone I’d never heard of, and if I remembered right, Buddy Holly played on the song.Īnd with that, curiosity got the better of me and before I knew it I was googling ‘Ivan’ and ‘Buddy Holly’ to see what it I could find. The result of that search started me on a new journey, down a new rabbit hole as I pursued the story behind Real Wild Child by Ivan. Ivan, it turns out, was the middle name of Jerry Allison, the drummer of the original Crickets, Buddy Holly’s backing band. So the first question was, who was Jerry Allison?īorn 31 August 1939, in Hillsboro, Texas, Allison moved to Lubbock when he was ten.
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