"Today is a Good Day to Drive!" .....Van-Go

Today is a good day to drive! Lubbock is home to Buddy Holly, born in this town back in 1936 as Charles Hardin Holley. His music career started on the radio KDAV on Sunday afternoons with the Buddy and Bob Show.  Bob was his high school friend, Bob Montgomery.   They even opened for Elvis when he came to town the second time around. Buddy singed a recording contract  with Decca Records; they spelled his name with out the family e and Buddy, being young just signed the contract as Buddy Holly and used that as his professional name. After a short time he left Decca and signed with Norman Petty doing songs with the group The Crickets.  Story goes they were looking in an insect book for band name ideas and thought about using beetles, but  liked the sound of crickets so picked that. One of the first songs recorded by The Crickets was "That'll be the Day" The Buddy Holly Museum is on Crickets Avenue! Buddy met his wife, Maria Elena in New York and that sa...