In the Summer of 1957 a young man named Charles Holley started his fame and glory.
He changed his name when someone called him Buddy and he misspelled his last name on a
contract one night.
For 18 months he wrote 49 songs and on that dreadfull night of Feb. 1959 he ended his career.
Only Heaven knows how far Buddy Holly could have gone. Most still believe that date was
the date the music stopped in the song American Pie. He was a great composer. That is what he
wanted to do in his life, was compose, not sing.
Elvis Presley liked the style of Buddy Holly and tried to copy it but the people put him down for it.
That was when he started toning it down long before they got killed. Then another Rocker came along and
started copying Buddy's style. This singer was Conway Twitty with "Lonely Blue Boy". His agent told him,
who didn't know he had cut the song, to never to do that style again or they would be finished. That was when
Conway went over to Country.
Rock music continued for another 5 years before the British Invation started which lasted 3
years then the music turned physiodiliac with the Vietnam war raging. That lasted only a decade
thank God, and music started coming back to normal in the 80's. Music has had it time on this Earth.
But Rock and Roll has shown time it can stand up to anything. Except for this new generation.