Tuesday's Toon! #3 (78 rpm)

Buddy Holly, 1957.

A 17-year-old then unknown Bob Dylan attended the January 31, 1959 concert in which Buddy Holly was appearing; just two nights before Holly's death. Dylan referred to this in his 1998 Grammy acceptance speech for his "Time Out Of Mind" being named Album of the Year:
"And I just want to say that when I was sixteen or seventeen years old, I went to see Buddy Holly play at Duluth National Guard Armory and I was three feet away from him...and he LOOKED at me. And I just have some sort of feeling that he was — I don't know how or why — but I know he was with us all the time we were making our record, in some kind of way."

Note: Norman Petty owned the studio in which Holly recorded with the Crickets. 

Petty's name always appears as a co-writer with Holly, even though Petty never wrote or 

co-wrote any of the songs! The deal was this: Holly could have use of the studio,
 and in return, he Petty would share a writing credit and therefore receive 
 50% of any writing royalty. Holly also wrote under the name Charles Hardin.

Charles Hardin Holley (September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959), known professionally as Buddy Holly, was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer in recording techniques: to name but a few, Holly was the first to double track, use strings, knee drumming and first to be his own Producer! Just think: in only18 months, Holly wrote, recorded and produced some of the most seminal and cross-over and creative music before his death in an airplane crash. Holly is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most influential creative force in early rock and roll." His works and innovations inspired and influenced contemporary and later musicians, notably The  Beatles, Elvis Costello, The Rollig Stones, Don McClean, Bob Dylan, and Eric Clapton, and exerted a profound influence on popular music.  Holly was among the first group of inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked Holly #13 among "The Fifty Greatest Artists of All Time". ^{(Wikipedia) (Photo: Copyright Control)}