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Artist: BIG BOPPER
Title: HELLO BABY-BEST OF
Street Release Date: 01/31/1989
Domestic
Genre: OLDIES

Before he died tragically in the plane crash that took Buddy Holly and Richie Valens, he recorded these rollicking songs: Chantilly Lace; Big Bopper's Wedding; Little Red Riding Hood; Purple People Eater Meets the Witch Doctor; White Lightning; Monkey Song (You Made a Monkey out of Me); Beggar to a King (last two billed as Jape Richardson & the Japetts), and more.

When the Big Bopper died in the plane crash that took the lives of Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens, he'd scored just two hits, but his tragic death on 'The Day The Music Died' ensured his immortality. And it turns out he had a far more interesting career than most one or two hit wonders. For one thing, he wrote several other hits. His original version of George Jones' #1 country hit White Lightning is included here (he also wrote but never recorded Johnny Preston's #1 pop hit Running Bear). Sadly, he never saw either song top the charts. But this generously full CD includes a lot of Bopper, starting with all known recordings: his unissued-at-the-time first recording from 1954, his fabulously rare early rock 'n' roll singles for Mercury, his original recording of Chantilly Lace and the follow-up, and his original LP. But there's more: Big Bopper sequels and tributes include Eddie Cochran's Three Stars, Ray Campi's The Man I Met (A Tribute To The Big Bopper), Donna Dameron's sequel, Bopper 486009, and even Jayne Mansfield's Chantilly Lace spin-off, That Makes It. Add to that, rare and unpublished photos from the Big Bopper's family as well as the first comprehensive biography by Johnette Duff.

Digitally remastered edition of this release from the late Rock 'n' Roll star and DJ. Jiles Richardson's recording career began in 1957, when he adopted the name Big Bopper and recorded 'Beggar To A King'. It was his second single, 'Chantilly Lace', that broke big, prompting Jiles to take a temporary leave of absence from KTRM in order to tour with Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and Dion & The Belmonts on the Winter Dance Party in January and February 1959. The logistics of the tour were such that there were vast distances between several of the dates, and on one such journey, between Clear Lake, Iowa and Moorhead, Minnesota, Buddy Holly suggested chartering a plane to cover the 380 miles. Jiles persuaded Waylon Jennings to give up his seat on the plane as Jiles had flu, a decision that was ultimately to cost him his life. Hallmark.

The Big Bopper famously perished in the same plane crash as Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens The Day The Music Died . This compilation features every known Big Bopper track including two earlier singles issued under his real name, Jape Richardson plus a number of related bonus tracks including Running Bear and White Lightning . The 1958 million seller Chantilly Lace which is one of R&R s acknowledged benchmark tracks is also included along with both Eddie Cochran s and Ruby Wright s versions of the infamous tribute Three Stars .

When the Big Bopper died in the plane crash that took the lives of Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens, he'd scored just two hits, but his tragic death on 'The Day The Music Died' ensured his immortality. And it turns out he had a far more interesting career than most one or two hit wonders. For one thing, he wrote several other hits. His original version of George Jones' #1 country hit White Lightning is included here (he also wrote but never recorded Johnny Preston's #1 pop hit Running Bear). Sadly, he never saw either song top the charts. But this generously full CD includes a lot of Bopper, starting with all known recordings: his unissued-at-the-time first recording from 1954, his fabulously rare early rock 'n' roll singles for Mercury, his original recording of Chantilly Lace and the follow-up, and his original LP. But there's more: Big Bopper sequels and tributes include Eddie Cochran's Three Stars, Ray Campi's The Man I Met (A Tribute To The Big Bopper), Donna Dameron's sequel, Bopper 486009, and even Jayne Mansfield's Chantilly Lace spin-off, That Makes It. Add to that, rare and unpublished photos from the Big Bopper's family as well as the first comprehensive biography by Johnette Duff.

Digitally remastered edition of this release from the late Rock 'n' Roll star and DJ. Jiles Richardson's recording career began in 1957, when he adopted the name Big Bopper and recorded 'Beggar To A King'. It was his second single, 'Chantilly Lace', that broke big, prompting Jiles to take a temporary leave of absence from KTRM in order to tour with Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and Dion & The Belmonts on the Winter Dance Party in January and February 1959. The logistics of the tour were such that there were vast distances between several of the dates, and on one such journey, between Clear Lake, Iowa and Moorhead, Minnesota, Buddy Holly suggested chartering a plane to cover the 380 miles. Jiles persuaded Waylon Jennings to give up his seat on the plane as Jiles had flu, a decision that was ultimately to cost him his life. Hallmark.