Reference Number
ARC-0797
Level of description
collection
Title
Dale Hannasch Bobby Vee and the Crickets Posters
Date
1989 February 3, 1990 February 3
Size
1.34 (Linear feet)
Scope and Contents
The Dale Hannasch Bobby Vee and the Crickets Posters consists of two posters for 30th and 31st anniversary concerts for Bobby Vee and The Crickets performing a tribute to Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and the Big Bopper. The posters are dated February 3, 1989 and February 3, 1990.
Biography / Administrative History
Robert Thomas Velline (April 30, 1943 – October 24, 2016), known professionally as Bobby Vee, was an American singer, songwriter and musician. Vee and the Shadows filled in for Buddy Holly and his band at the Moorehead engagement of the Winter Dance Party in February 1959. Buddy Holly, Big Bopper, and Richie Valens were killed in an airplane crash on February 3, 1959 on their way to a engagement in Moorehead, Minnesota while on the Winter Dance Party tour. Vee's performance was a success and it began his career as a popular singer and teen idol in the 1960s.
The Crickets were formed by Buddy Holly, Jerry Allison, Niki Sullivan, and Joe B. Mauldin in 1956. As a self-contained group that wrote their own songs, Buddy Holly and the Crickets served to inspire a torrent of bands that followed in the Sixties. Their two-guitar, bass and drums lineup would become a virtual blueprint for rock bands. Although Holly was the centerpiece of the band, the Crickets provided musical accompaniment in the country-tinged rockabilly style—or “western and bop,” as Holly termed it in his early days—that made them rock and roll pioneers. The Crickets were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012.
Notes
Acquisition Note: The Dale Hannasch Bobby Vee and the Crickets Posters were received by the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as a gift from Dale Hannasch on September 27, 2001.
Citation: [Identification of Item], Dale Hannasch Bobby Vee and the Crickets Posters, Library and Archives, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Language Note: Materials are in English.
Processing Information: Processed by Crystal Matjasic, Project Archivist. Completed May 30, 2019. Descriptive sources and standards used to create this inventory: DACS and local processing manual. Collection processed through an Access to Historical Records grant from the NHPRC.
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