264 The Crickets with Buddy Holly (1936-1959) “Rock Around with Ollie Vee” 1957

The song was first recorded in Nashville in 1956, written by Holly’s friend, Sonny Curtis (1937- ), “a multitalented musician from Meadow, Texas.” Curtis “found Buddy to be aggressive and reckless… ‘He was a drinker—loud, a smart aleck, headstrong’” (Ellis Amburn, Buddy Holly). 

The Crickets with Buddy Holly “Rock Around with Ollie Vee”