The Crickets
The Crickets were an American rock and roll band from Lubbock, Texas, formed by singer-songwriter Buddy Holly in January 1957. Their first hit record, "That'll Be the Day", released in May 1957, peaked at number three on the Billboard Top 100 chart on September 16, 1957. The sleeve of their first album, The "Chirping" Crickets, shows the band line-up at the time: Holly on lead vocals and lead guitar, Niki Sullivan on rhythm guitar, Jerry Allison on drums, and Joe B. Mauldin on bass. The Crickets helped set the template for subsequent rock bands, such as the Beatles, with their guitar-bass-drums line-up, performing their own material. After Holly's death in 1959, the band continued to tour and record into the 1960s and beyond with other band members through to the 21st century.
Genre: rock-and-roll, rockabilly, doo-wop
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Top Tracks
- Heartbeat
- Love's Made A Fool Of You
- I Fought The Law
- A Sweet Love
- Time Will Tell
- When You Ask About Love
- Baby My Heart
- Deborah
- Just This Once
- TIng-A-Ling
- Great Balls Of Fire
- Rockin' Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu
- More Than I Can Say
- Raining In My Heart
- Raining In My Heart
- Raining In My Heart
- I Fought the Law
- Sweet Little Sixteen
- Don't Ever Change
- Peggy Sue
Albums (40)
- Essential Classics, Vol. 27: The Crickets (2024)
- 10 Hits of The Crickets (2023)
- Two of a Kind: The Big Bopper & The Crickets (2022)
- Remastered Classics, Vol. 205, The Crickets (2022)
- Great Balls of Fire (2021)
- A Long, Long Way from Lubbock (2021)
- The Crickets and Their Buddies (2021)
- Sound Of The Crickets (2020)
- Anthology: The Deluxe Collection (Remastered) (2020)
- Good Rockin' Tonight with The Crickets (2020)
- Oh Boy (2019)
- Ravin' On - From California to Clovis (2019)
- The Crickets (2017)
- Something Old, Somethiny New, Something Blue, Somethin' Else!!!! (2015)
- The Best of The Crickets (2015)
- Double Exposure (2015)
- About Time Too! (2015)
- Soothing Brown Noise Waves and Calming Ambient Combinations (Loopable and without Fade) (2015)
- White Noise Spa Collection - 50 Shades of Ambience (Loopable and without fade) (2014)
- Back in Style (2014)
- Just This Once (2014)
- I Fought the Law (2011)
- In Style With The Crickets (2011)
- Rockin' 50's Rock 'N' Roll (2007)
- The Definitive Collection (2006)
- Too Much Monday Morning (1996)
- The Liberty Years (1991)
- The Crickets - In Concert at Little Darlin's Rock 'n' Roll Palace (Live) (1986)
- Los dinosaurios (1983)
- I've Always Been Crazy (1970)
- 20 Golden Greats: Buddy Holly Lives (1970)
- California Sun - She Loves You (1964)
- Something Old, Something New, Something Blue, Something Else (1962)
- Bobby Vee Meets The Crickets (1962)
- In Style With The Crickets (Expanded Edition) (1960)
- Here Come... The Crickets! (1960)
- The Buddy Holly Story (1959)
- Buddy Holly (1970)
- The "Chirping" Crickets (1957)
- Presenting The Crickets (1956)
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