BIG WHAT!?..Big Bopper - Chantilly Lace | FIRST TIME HEARING REACTION

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[@dagmar.6954]

Nice tribute to Jiles Perry Richardson Jr. (The Big Bopper). He was only 28 when he tragically died with Buddy (22) & Ritchie (17). "Chantilly Lace" was his biggest hit but he also wrote "White Lightning" which launched George Jones career in 1959 & also wrote "Running Bear" for Johnny Preston in the same year.

[@michaelhoyt3736]

JP and George Jones sang the background vocals on "Running Bear." Because of Jp's death, the release of "Running Bear" was delayed.

[@socket_error1000]

It's so hard to think of the impact these guys made on music in their short lives without also considering how much we lost when they died. They were just getting started.

[@dggydddy59]

Really?! All these years and I never knew that! Thanks for teaching me something today, friend!

[@theshadowfax239]

Such young, talented people. It really was a tragic day, the day the music died.

[@maureenmoran9326]

I sang Running Bear at camp!

[@evanhughes1510]

This is one of the people Don McLean sang about in American pie. The plane crash killed the big bopper Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens

[@user-or1ye3iz6d]

Today is the anniversary of the plane crash. That's why they are doing those artists today.

[@vincentdarrah]

JP Richardson, AKA The Big Bopper was a DJ and his on air name was the Big Bopper. He wrote White Lightning which was the first number 1 hit for George Jones and Running Bear which became a hit for Johnny Preston

[@cmnslcf]

Sonny James, aka The Southern Gentleman, also had a huge hit with Running Bear nine years later.

[@midnightryder611]

I love the shot gun wedding song!

[@Mr05Chuck]

Thanks didn’t know that.

[@RobertSmith-iw2kb]

He was multi talented, but this was his only hit song.

[@vincentdarrah]

@@RobertSmith-iw2kb yes because he wasnt primarily a musician. He was a DJ and song writer

[@neildonley9626]

Sometimes overlooked trivia. Waylon Jennings was on that tour and gave up his seat to the Big Bopper because the Bopper was sick and didn't want to ride in a cold bus to the next gig. It is said Jennings and Holly joked with each other, with Holly saying, "I hope your bus freezez up." To which Jennings replied, "I hope your plane crashes." That statement lived with Waylon the rest of his life. Waylon Jennings went on to become a pioneer in the "Outlaw" Country movement with Willie Nelson and others. You should check him out as well.

[@richardfromtexas]

True story. And yes you need to do some outlaw country from the 70s. Waylon Jennings was one of the Pioneers of this type of music. Wliie and Wayon had some classic songs during this time.

[@matthewdrake4385]

Mama's don't let your babies grow up.

[@matthewdrake4385]

Loved the Willie and Waylon songs when I was a kid. Willie and Merle too, like Pancho and Lefty.

[@otisroseboro5613]

That's facts

[@tahesarockwood9168]

I don't know which singer gave up thejr seat but it was Ritchie Valens who got the seat and was the one who was sick also he was scared to death of flying.

[@gregstivers8959]

I'm a punk rock guy, but old enough to know that these guys opened the door, Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens

[@Cat425]

They were all so young when they died. May they continue to Sleep In Paradise.

[@MsDemeanorsMusings]

I'm 52, and my grandpa, who, if he was still with us, would have been 95 and this was 'our song'. One of my earliest memories, I couldn't have been more than four, was him standing me up on the counter of a local diner, putting a dime in the jukebox, and playing 'our song'. I of course, sang it at the top of my lungs and got applause when it was over. He was my rock and I miss him so. Thanks for the misty eyed memories. 💙

[@drdr76]

It's the soundtrack of our lives and it's magical they way some songs instantly connect us to a memory as if no time has passed at all.

[@MsDemeanorsMusings]

@@drdr76 With some people, it's smell, but overwhelmingly, with me, it's music. ( I do travel back in time when I smell homemade bread baking) My childhood has a soundtrack, lol. My family constantly had music playing. I was going to marry Mac Davis when I was five. (He had porkchop sideburns like my dad)

[@drdr76]

@@MsDemeanorsMusings Mac Davis was big in his time. I took a girlfriend to Vegas to see him in concert. I wasn't disappointed. I don't know if it was a song or a line from a song but I'll never forget when he sang "happiness is Lubic, Texas in my rearview mirror."

[@joakimberg7897]

That's wonderful

[@billhoppe2991]

Bless you my friend. My Grandpa was my hero also. He died in 1960 when I was 10. They phone rang at 6AM in our house and my dad got up to go in the kitchen to get it. Before he got there I said to him, "Grandpa is dead." Grandma said grandpa's last words were, " I wonder if little Buck could help." That was the nickname he had given me. Those were the songs of my youth also.

[@murrayleewilson0755]

Something about Meatloaf that shocked me was that while most people only knew him as a singer, he actually appeared in fifty movies. Unbelievable.

[@knowledge-girl]

He will always be Eddie to me.

[@TheRealSweetcherryo]

@@knowledge-girl what a guy.....

[@pattiehernandez769]

always enjoyed meat loaf"s acting. he will always ride shotgun when I drive. he is missed

[@seannolan9857]

A Big Bopper tune that I particularly love is "Purple People Eater Meets the Witch Doctor", however as it's essentially a reaction song to two other songs, you'd need to hear Sheb Wolley's "Purple People Eater" and the Chipmunks' "Witch Doctor" first in order to fully understand it. But I'm thrilled that you guys are getting into late 50's 'novelty songs'! It's a very fun sub-genre. And you could argue that since he spends half of this song talking over music, you weren't all that far off by thinking he would be a rapper!

[@wendyhodges7172]

My sister and I would walk around singing Purple People Eater all the time when we were kids. It is such a fun song as is Witch Doctor.

[@StandUpComedyFan28m]

Man, that takes me back living in a trailer park for a few months and all we listened to was 98.7 KLUV in Texas that played hits like this. Lol

[@AnimeOtakuDrew]

That was actually the B side of "Chantilly Lace."

[@Fool3SufferingFools]

Witch Doctor would be under the name David Seville (not the Chipmunks).

[@seannolan9857]

@@Fool3SufferingFools I was debating that while writing it, but I didn't have time to check at that moment. Thanks!

[@lynnerussell1440]

That was American Bandstand back in the day hosted by Dick Clark. Cool to see.

[@walterpanovs]

The Big Bopper was a disc jockey who managed to unexpectedly hit it big with this track. It was something of a fun, novelty song. He was older (28) than his fellow, ill-fated touring partners Buddy Holly (22) and Ritchie Valens (17).

[@DaughterofDarkness]

The Big Bopper was only 28? He looks about 40 here.

[@catwhisperer9489]

@@DaughterofDarkness: Yeah, everybody looked older, back in the day!! I have an old pic of my mother, when she was 17, and she looks like she's 40!

[@thewiseoldherper7047]

@@DaughterofDarkness clothing was more uniform before the 1960s. At this time you either looked like a child, a teenager or an adult. There really wasn’t a variety of adult clothing styles like there is today

[@DaughterofDarkness]

@@thewiseoldherper7047 for me it's not the clothes, but his face that makes him look old.

[@cazgerald9471]

@@DaughterofDarkness Most people born in 1930 didn't have extended adolescence like starting with the boomers.

[@keymack2477]

RIP JP Richardson. Thanks for the reaction, guys!

[@michaelevans1193]

Back in the day they would call this a “novelty” song. Two of my favorite novelty songs are “Beep Beep” and “Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini”.

[@jackmandu]

Holy crap, I haven’t heard Beep Beep in ages! Too bad I don’t still have my Goofy Greats record from the 70s.

[@jbeannie90]

@@jackmandu I was just about to comment the same thing! I also had a similar record as a kid in the 70s that was called Funky Favorites. It had some great tunes on it, including Beep Beep & Itsy Bitsy..., along with Snoopy vs the Red Baron, My Ding-A-Ling & many others. Great songs!

[@jackmandu]

@@jbeannie90 - They were probably both from K-Tel. Mine was from 1974 and one of my favorites was Mule Skinner Blues. Of course, for the last couple of hours now I’ve had Beep Beep running through head. 😂

[@drdr76]

In 1998 I was teaching English in Latvia. In a class conversation I said, "itsy bitsy" and a student chimed in, "teeny weeny polka dot bakini". I burst out laughing. I said that no teenager in America (in 1998) would know that song or even the words! The radio stations in Eastern Europe played everything from 50s to 90s, not such a narrow format like it became in the US. And about 10% of the songs played on the radio were Spanish for some reason.

[@seannolan9857]

I actually have both of those songs as well as "Chantilly Lace" on a mix cassette my dad made for me when I was nine.

[@redchick5278]

Big Bopper was a DJ who recorded this as a novelty that got National attention!

[@kimcutts424]

I'm soooooo glad you played this. It's brilliant. I've heard this all my life. ❤🖤💙🎤🎶🎼🕺💃

[@davidpahlka6301]

Until I read the comments I didn't know he also wrote "White Lightening" and "Running Bear". "Running Bear" is a tragic love song I loved growing up.

[@emdusha5590]

Chantilly lace is still used in lingerie today. This was on “American Bandstand”, hosted by Dick Clark, which predates “Soul Train”, hosted by Don Cornelius.

[@matthewdrake4385]

By at least 20-25 years

[@elsienisonen8925]

He looks like a peacock near the end, strutting in front of the "lace" decoration at the back. swagger.

[@beantoes1277]

I would sing this song to my youngest son at bedtime. He is 24 now, and still loves this song. I would sing Splish Splash by Bobby Darin to my oldest son. He is 29 now and still loves that song. You two make me very happy that you are introducing all kinds of music to your children.

[@pharaoh2537]

Thank you! When I was younger I heard about the passing of these three men. When I started researching I really found Rock. And I never looked back.... The day the music died

[@donnastewart2280]

I got to know his son Jay after interviewing him a few times on a radio show. He was born not long after his father died and it never left his mind and heart. He performed as Big Bopper Jr. Some of his music is on here. He looked and sounded VERY much like his dad. He oaased from a heart attack in 2013. RIP Jay. I miss you.

[@RobertSmith-iw2kb]

Unfortunately, dont think there were many more,but if u can find em.would like to hear also. 😢

[@nathanjones5403]

This was American Bandstand, THE music show for teens. Was on many years. My parents were on there.

[@willardwooten9582]

Brought a Tear to my eye as I remember watching this on Dick Clark's American Bandstand.

[@alanmackie7012]

This song is so great, it's beyond novelty.

[@tonyalaudermilk9797]

No, matter how I am feeling this is the song that ALWAYS makes me feel better and puts me in a good mood! Thank you! You guys are my favorites🤫

[@lonnyjohnson2061]

The Big Bopper was one of the musicians who died in the airplane crash "The Day the Music Died" along with Ritchie Valens and Buddy Holly.

[@chriso6719]

Of the 3 who died in that 1959 plane crash (Buddy Holly, Richie Vallens are the other ) ,The Big Bopper a.k.a. J.P. Richardson Jr. is the only one who had kids. His daughter was 4 when he died, and his son was born 2 months AFTER his death.

[@ChristChickAutistic]

Buddy's wife was pregnant, but when the crash happened the stress and pain made her lose the baby.

[@jscho8674]

I met his son. He called my office and we talked on the phone about an hour. He was just wonderful. Told me fascinating stories. I was so sad when he died at only 54.

[@K9-Crazy]

The big bopper was a radio DJ. I don't know if he made any other music, people say "why isn't people getting up and dancing?" Well when concerts were televised back then and the crowd would get up to dance the police would shut it down.

[@robertbreedon9137]

These the grandfathers of Rock & Roll I thank my parents for introducing me to classic music as a kid. They grew up in the 50s with this music my mom saw Elvis in the 50 in Toronto she talked about it till they day she died. See back then you got 4 or 5 bands that played the same show not like today you get a opening act then the headliner.

[@deborahstrickland9845]

"Talked about it until the day she died." That is so sweet.❤️

[@parsifal40002]

The Big Bopper was part of the early development of American rock and roll music the mid 50s

[@AlexHernandez-yb9rx]

I remember my cousin, when she was little, used to sing this song like when she was 4 (so cute 🥰). This song makes me think of her 💜

[@memonk11]

The greatest lyrics in all of rock n roll history!

[@jackiegerspachhas4237]

He’s not talking about sex . He means kissing and hugging. This was the fifties after all.

[@bobsylvester88]

This is the difference in how previous generations thought over the last two or three.

[@scottcarter8155]

my grandmother who grew up on big band and classical music loved this song,

[@deborahstrickland9845]

I think part of the reason in "American Pie" that the plane crash was, "the day the music died" is that this includes the American loss of innocence of the 50s when the life jarring 60s and 70s came to be. Don McClean said that he set out to write a "big song about America", and he certainly did.

[@terrywiebe5616]

Big popper ! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@leonardpoindexter5289]

Hittin the late 50s pretty hard today, BIG Bopper and Buddy Holly both in one day. Yoohoo.

[@judydalton3812]

So glad you are doing a tribute to the day the music died!!! you are awesome!!

[@jillbrown1276]

My daddy sang this to me every morning while driving me to the babysitter! This song brings back so many memories of him!

[@jodiidahoianfarmgirl4728]

Im just a girl standing in the middle of a field in Idaho, Kid Rock has a really great song"" We The People"" ""Bawditdaba""😊

[@TomGorham]

When my kids were little, they liked for me to sing to them and they would dance around the room. This was one of the songs I would sing to them. To this day (I'm 71) I know it by heart. I could sing you Peggy Sue as well. Helllo Baaaby!

[@kevinmcconnell9426]

Now you have finally gotten to the roots of rock n roll!! Before the bands of the sixties there were the bands of the fifties!!

[@clydeb7713]

Thanks soo soo much for this great tribute about the day the music truly died. Rest In Peace to all who were lost that ill-fated night.

[@jscho8674]

I used to run the box office at a large concert venue. One day, The Big Bopper's son called me. His daughter was coming to a show and he needed some help with getting her club passes I think. I wound up staying on the phone with him about an hour just talking about his Dad and about music in general. He sounded just like his Dad, and even said "Helllooooo babyyyy" for me. I cried when I heard he died at only 54. Too young. I think cancer got him, if memory serves.

[@colibri1]

Bop doesn't just mean to punch or hit. In the 1950s, it also referred to a style of dancing.

[@BigDaddy-dr8gf]

Yes, where the term "teeny-bopper" came from.

[@vbvermont]

People also say a good song is a bop.

[@dr.burtgummerfan439]

It means.......many things.

[@craigcarroll6161]

Back then in Brooklyn, there was a local gang called the Halsey (Street) Bops. So, yes, lots of meanings and uses for the word. Chantilly lace was one of the first 45s I started out with, so it got alot of play back then.

[@noelleone1305]

Coming in my top 20 all time songs.

[@rray848]

Big Bopper wrote a few songs for others... one that is great and amusing like this one is "White Lightning"... he wrote it for George Jones. I had an 80s band/song pop into my head today that I hadn't thought about in a long time. They only put out two albums before they broke up but they had a great smooth sound. They had a beautiful love song called "Hands to Heaven". The band is an English band called Breathe. Please consider trying them. Thank you. Songs back then were purposely kept short. They liked them under 3 minutes so they could fit more on the radio. They started getting little longer in 60 and 70s. When Queen created Bohemian Rhapsody that was one of the record execs big gripes "No Radio station is going to play a 6 minute long song."

[@pishposhreselling]

Oh I forgot about Breathe…..

[@rray848]

@@pishposhreselling I thought Amber would like the Sax in the song... oops... I forgot to tell them about the sax. 🎷The song has sax! 🎷 There... now they know. 😁

[@rebeccasimantov5476]

I believe "Hey Jude" (Beatles) was a very long 7 minutes & I think many radio stations were reluctant to play it (most songs then were 3 minutes or less)

[@rray848]

@@rebeccasimantov5476 I remember two DJs talking once about how bad it was to have dead air on a radio station and they commented on the song "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" by Iron Butterfly. One of them said they always put that song on when they needed to run to the bathroom because it was 17 min long... LOL

[@JohnSmith-oj6ir]

J.P. Richardson was a disk jockey here in Beaumont. Husky boy, he was nicknamed the Big Bopper. He had written White Lightning for George Jones and Running Bear for Johnny Preston, and wasn't really interested in being a rock star himself. He was a little older than the guys he was touring with, and a real family man. He wanted to come home and write songs. He's buried about a mile from here.

[@elizabethfranco1284]

His son the one his wife was pregnant with when his dad died got to meet to meet Waylon Jennings who was on the bus instead of the airplane during the Winter Dance Party Tour

[@wnsafford1854]

Just to add a tad; Waylon was then Buddy Holly's bassist. He voluntarily gave his seat on the plane to the Big Bopper, who was sick (flu or cold, I think), because the bus was not well heated & would take much longer (to get to the next gig/hotel). He was trying to do him a favor. So sad.

[@Im_Bad_ROFL]

My mother sang this to my brother (28) and I (26) as a lullaby when we were babies, along with Bobby Day's Rockin' Robin.

[@ronnix23]

After today's videos you should try to watch La Bamba and The Buddy Holly Story. It will give you a lot more information about these guys, and they're great movies as well.

[@terereynolds698]

The Big Bopper died along with Buddy Holly, and Ritchie Valens so there aren't a lot of his songs, he passed away just as his career was starting, he started out as a radio DJ, his name is JP Richardson. You should hear Meatloaf's version of the National Anthem it's fantastic.

[@joiedevivre2005]

I'm so glad y'all listened to this 'coz I KNEW you'd love it! "The Big Bopper" was his DJ handle, his real name was Jiles Perry (JP) Richarson. In the 50's, the DJs were as famous as the musicians whose records they played & you had to have a BIG personality to be one. JP Richardson definitely fit that bill. The only other song of his that was well known was "White Lightening", which was later covered by country singer, George Jones.

[@allieren]

It’s impossible not to move to these 50s songs. So fun!

[@jackgilchrist]

My parents turned me on to their 50s and early 60s music from the time I was born just about, and I remember listening to this song constantly as a toddler. I listened to a lot of doo wop but this, along with Buddy Holly and Chuck Berry, were my favorites. Then I got me a transistor radio and started listening to the then-current 70s pop and soft rock. After a while I discovered stuff like Zeppelin, Steppenwolf (first record I bought with my own money), Peter Frampton (which my dad actually introduced me to when he brought home the Frampton Comes Alive album), etc. So I grew up listening to a wide range of music, from the originators of rock and roll, early Motown, R&B, Country, on up to all kinds of 70s music, and beyond. That's why I have such a vast taste in, and appreciation for music today, and I have my parents to thank for introducing me to their music from the start.

[@drdr76]

Transistor radio..brings back memories, holding it up to our ears to hear better. I don't think mine even had an earphone jack.

[@jackgilchrist]

@@drdr76 Yep, the Walkmans of the 60s/70s. That and a little record player was how I consumed all my music as a child. Good times.

[@victorduffany7723]

"Oooo baby. You KNOOOWW what I like!!" He is called the Big Bopper is because this type of music is called Be-Bop.

[@rmac8008]

J P Richardson (the big bopper) Was a DJ from Texas He wrote songs and performed a few

[@johnnyhawkins43]

You mean to tell me yall don't know about the Big Bopper?I can't believe it I knew about him before I was born he took several nursery rhymes and mad some great songs before his death in the plane crash back in February 59!

[@RobertJones-ux6nc]

Been listening to this song since I was a child and loved it. RIP Big Bopper, Richie Valens, & Buddy Hollie 🙏⚘🌻🌷😭🌟💔

[@G-grandma_Army]

So happy you are honoring those who died. All wee influences in music and died VERY YOUNG 😂

[@Caynnor]

Buddy Holly and now the Big Bopper, do we get to hear some Ritchie Valens next?

[@michaelglick1287]

Do people not listen to what they say?

[@KittiesMombo]

I grew up listening to my Mom's favorite music. She would crank up records while we cleaned & danced thru the house ...

[@tjhunger8644]

I enjoy that but the best part was seeing Dick Clark introduce him. He was so young and he stayed young looking throughout his career. In case you just arrived on this planet Dick Clark was a legend who hosted the American Bandstand for over 30 years

[@davidwhitley1545]

Catch his "You're sixteen , you're beautiful and you're mine"

[@footballlover9207]

So glad you're doing these songs on the anniversary date of their passing. Such a good song! P.S. love your Cincinnati Bengals shirt!

[@emmettlarusso6988]

I know this video is a year old, but insight for you - JP Richardson (The Big Bopper) is one of the first people to have made a music video. History will say that it was down to someone else but he was the first massive influential icon to make it the norm. And if you're checking out Buddy Holly in the process - The Beatles tried to adopt his singing/production style because it was so unique, and it's why Paul McCartney owns the rights to Buddy Holly's music now ☺️

[@ruthannfinnen8899]

Died too young! Definitely has a DJ voice! Rob- thanks for repping the Bengals sweatshirt- us here in Cincinnati love our team!

[@beaubradley2171]

Good luck from a lifelong (since ‘65) Rams fan!!

[@cameronpickard7456]

ambers expression over the bopper was adorable

[@mamb70]

His only hit but it was a big one back then. RIP Jiles, Richie and Buddy! Appreciate you remembering them. Don McLean coined the phrase the day the music died. Never understood that. Great music continued especially in the 60s and afterward. They wouldn't want it to "die" they were true pioneers and fine gentlemen.

[@Xcris_crosX]

They were killed in Feb 1959. It marked the end of the Rock n' Roll era, America's so-called innocence, the 1950s Happy Days. Bob Dylan, the Jester, was an Activist and recorded his first protest song in the early 1960s

[@susanspringfield448]

The Big Bopper was a DJ at KTRM in Beaumont, Texas. I worked at that station in 1977. His gold record was hanging in the front hallway. I walked by it everyday. FYI: I was a news reporter and announcer there. First day on the job, Elvis died. Talk about baptism by fire!!

[@mikec3853]

This seems like the time to bring up the fun 50's rock and roll of Larry Williams-"Dizzy Miss Lizzy", "Bonie Maroney" and what I think is one of his best "Short Fat Fannie" which namechecks dozens of contemporary 50's hits. High Energy all the way made to make you move.

[@1177kc]

My mom loved this song. She used to cut loose to this!!! I miss her, hearing this. I can just see her dancing in the kitchen.

[@Pauba1946]

You should check out his song “White Lightning” a song that was recorded by the GREAT GEORGE JONES.

[@gerardoneill1513]

Thanks for honouring the day the music died,🙏🙏🙏, February 3rd 1959.

[@JohnnyTalia]

Amber always talks about music she used to listen to with her mom. Well my mom had "Chantilly Lace" on a 45 single, and I used to listen to it all the time when I was a kid. BTW, the B-side of the single was an equally memorable tune called "The Purple People Eater Meets the Witch Doctor".

[@tomroberts2860]

Rock and roll emerged as a defined musical style in the United States in the early to mid-1950s. It derived most directly from the rhythm and blues music of the 1940s, which itself developed from earlier blues, the beat-heavy jump blues, boogie woogie, up-tempo jazz, and swing music.

[@Shrykespeare]

His real name was Jiles Perry Richardson Jr., born in Sabine Pass, Texas. His voice was very mature, but he was only 28 when he died in that fateful plane crash. I honestly couldn't name another hit song that he sung himself, but he did compose "White Lightning" for country legend George Jones.

[@beegee1960]

I am 81 and this was a song of my young days.

[@DizJakeOG]

Loving the theme today guys.

[@flutesong5527]

Huge huge huge hit! BTW the design behind him is Chantilly Lace

[@PhlintheartGloomgold]

My favorite was "The Big Bopper's Wedding"

[@paulkersey1007]

I think somewhere in heaven, Big Bopper, Ritchie Valens, and Buddy Holly are smiling that their legacies still live to this day and forever.

[@johntepu1869]

I’m sure your knowledgeable RSR subscribers have informed you that the phrase from American Pie “The day the music died” refers to when the world tragically lost (way before their time) 3 iconic singers/musicians. I hope you react to my favourite Ritchie Valens song “Donna”

[@frankortiz237]

This brotha. Was Also a D.J. BACK THEN, ALONG WITH " THE WOLF MAN" ,," WOLF MAN JACK". ,Radio was the shit back then ,and these brought it LIFE.. MISS IT....

[@kateritter5765]

See.....we knew you'd like this. What makes this song great, is that he doesn't say anything risky, we fill in the blanks with our own ideas. How many of us had "Hello Baby" on our answering machines?

[@drdr76]

Right! Each of us gets to fill in what she is saying to him that he likes.

[@peggyeggers6268]

I think its to your credit that you are honoring these pioneering artists. Bravo

[@adamrichards3174]

JP had some great songs outside of the novelty genre including "Crazy Blues" "Someone Watching Over You" and "Walking Through My Dreams "

[@frankortiz237]

That's why I said ," BEING HERE WITH GUYS, I'M RELIVING IT,, LOVE YOU GUYS, THANK YOU..

[@wonsworld61]

Thank you guys. Your reaction keeps this music alive. ❤️

[@irmagallegos501]

Too much talent taken on that plane crash. Thanks for the triby

[@brynw4702]

This was my parents' music.. we were lucky they married young and were still listening to great music as we grew up(they also let us play our music loud!) This one was played alot when I was little. Great reaction!

[@bettyb1313]

I love this song it just pure fun... I love you all of you reading this post! AMEN

[@rebeccawilson9933]

The three we lost were do young and were so influential at that age. These talented children were such a loss. Btw enjoy playing in the snow now, the girls especially are going to hit an age when playing in the snow is so passe. I really hate the snow now, but I remember the rimos with my brothers in the snow so vividly...by doing Ng this you are giving them something amazing to remember 💗

[@floridaboy6051]

When I used to stay at my grandmas, I would sit and listen to The Big Bopper on her large console stereo. I am now almost 70 and loved growing up listening to this stuff.

[@kensilverstone1656]

You think you were shocked? What do you think we felt when this song came out. One of a kind.

[@lindabeckworth8637]

I just watched 50 years later Chantiiy Lace by The Big Bopper Jr. It was ok but just seeing his son talk about his father was so heartwarming. I enjoyed it. Thought you might like it.

[@EcclesiasticusRex]

He was definitely one of the early larger than life radio DJs of the Rock era. Then he started writing hit songs. I think he set a record for continuously broadcasting for several days straight. It may be apocryphal, but I have heard that the Bif Tannen character in the Back to the Future films was based on J.P. Richardson aka The Big Bopper, but i don't know for certain. Cheers.

[@ANCIENT_TECNO]

Yes it was a very tragic time when Big bopper Ritchie Valens and Buddy Holly past we will never know what would have been thank you you showing this you're keeping the treasure treasures of our history of music alive it was a great change between this and 1969

[@Lamm139]

I love these theatrical artists. It so much fun to listen to AND watch them. Meat Loaf, Alice Cooper, Big Bopper.

[@wallacecallow2255]

How about Roger Miller and Johnny Cash?

[@myredenvelopes]

JP "The Big Bopper" Richardson was a radio DJ from Texas. Like most DJs who broke into the Top-40, he was a so-called "one-hit wonder". It is unfortunate he lost his life in that plane crash, otherwise he very well could have evolved into one of the greatest radio DJs of all time, right up there with Charlie Tuna, Wolfman Jack, and Rick Dees. His son, JP Richardson Jr, has toured in tribute of the father he never knew.