January 15, 1959: On this day, the smash hit single "Chantilly Lace" by Beaumont native J.P. Richardson Jr., aka The Big Bopper, found itself outside of the Billboard Top 40, for the first time in 22 ...

The landscape of rock music shifted forever in July 1957, when Jerry Lee Lewis made his TV debut on The Steve Allen Show. For more than seven decades, the Louisiana-born rockabilly pioneer churned out ...

On Feb. 3, 1959 — "The Day the Music Died" made famous in Don McLean's song AmericanPie — a plane crash in Iowa claimed the lives of three pop singers. Buddy Holly's life came to the big screen in The ...

Jay P. Richardson is adamant that he isn't doing an impersonation of his famous rocker dad, the Big Bopper, when he performs during the "Winter Dance Party" tribute to Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and ...

CLEAR LAKE, IOWA - The plane crash that took the lives of J.P. "Big Bopper" Richardson, Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens is one of rock music's pivotal moments, more significant than an electrified ...

A rendering of a statue of The Big Bopper shows him holding a rotary phone, noting his hit song, "Chantilly Lace." His family is hoping to erect the bronze statue in Beaumont, Texas J.P. Richardson, ...

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 ...

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 ...

A film crew from Great Britain is making a documentary about a British man's quest to get Port Arthur native J.P. Richardson Jr. (a.k.a.: The Big Bopper) inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

NEW YORK - JANUARY 26, Buddy Holly (Charles Hardin Holley) (with Ed Sullivan) performs on the Ed Sullivan Show at the Ed Sullivan Theatre on January 26, 1958 in New York City, New York. (Photo by ...

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 ...