Rock music roll. Commentators have traditionally perceived a decline of rock and roll in the late 1950s and early 1960s. By 1959, the death of Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens in a plane crash, the departure of Elvis for the army, the retirement of Little Richard to become a preacher, prosecutions of Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry and the breaking of the payola scandal (which implicated major figures, including Alan Freed, in bribery and corruption in promoting individual acts or songs), gave a sense that the rock and roll era established at that point had come to an
Buddy Holly (album) includes the original liner notes and two extra tracks, which are "Now We're One" (issued as the B side of Holly's "Early in the Morning") and "Ting-A-Ling" . It also included new liner notes written by Gary Blailock on September 2014. Released as WaxTime Catalog # 772006 with bar code 84365442 017596. The Crickets Additional personnel Single Buddy Holly (album) Buddy Holly is a studio album by Buddy Holly. It was released by Coral Records on February 20, 1958. The album collects Holly's four hit singles released on the Coral label; "Words of Love", "Peggy Sue", "I'm Gonna Love You