Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper have been immortalized as bobbleheads, on the anniversary of their death in one of rock's most ...
Where: The Big Dipper, 171 S. Washington St. Tickets: $15, all ages; online at thebigdipperspokane.com Long after “the day the music died,” the timeless crooning of “Big Bopper” J.P. Richardson, Buddy ...
On Feb. 3, 1959, the face of modern music changed forever in one tragic moment with the simultaneous deaths of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper. Later referred to as The Day the Music ...
Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens & Big Bopper Exhibit Launches at Final Venue From the Night They Died originally appeared on Parade. Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson were ...
Two months after his body was exhumed, a forensic expert says there was no foul play in the death J.P. Richardson, better known as the Big Bopper. The expert says The Bopper suffered massive fractures ...
On this day (October 24) in 1930, J.P. Richardson Jr. was born in Sabine Pass, Texas. Throughout his all-too-short career, he was a popular radio DJ, a recording artist, and a songwriter. The Big ...
He’s best known for his 1958 hit “Chantilly Lace,” with the signature opening, “Heeelllooo, Baaaby,” and as the third singer to die in a 1959 plane crash that also took the lives of legends Buddy ...
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The son of The Big Bopper has hired a forensic anthropologist to try to answer questions about how his father died in the 1959 plane crash that also took the lives of famous early ...
On January 23, 1959 a tour bus set off from Chicago for a twenty four date rock ‘n’ roll tour of the frozen Midwest. The tour was named The Winter Dance Party, and the three stars were Buddy Holly, ...
During his late night broadcasts Richardson would put away Doris Day, Sinatra and Bing, to deliver the kind of music - rock ‘ n’ roll, that was sweeping the country, carefully interspersed with some ...
Courtesy of the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum If all of this wasn’t enough, The National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum has rolled out the news that Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper ...