The Big Bopper - Hellooo Baby!: The Best of the Big Bopper, 1954-1959
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Free Music Notes for Hellooo Baby!: The Best of the Big Bopper, 1954-1959
Free Music Review: The Big Bopper
Hit: 4 Stars
Hellooo Baby!: The Best of the Big Bopper, 1954-1959
I only bought this CD to record 2 songs from it and otherwise I am not a big fan of his style. For fans of him, the quality of the songs were very well reproduced.
Free Music Review: Good cd!
Hit: 4 Stars
I ordered this cd for my Mom, and she loves it! She had seen the Big Bopper, Richie Valens, and Buddy Holly three days before they were killed. Free Music Review: Big Bundle Of Pure Joy
Hit: 5 Stars
I grew up in the Rockin' Fifties and believe me, no one was sadder than me to hear of the death of J.P. Richardson, a.k.a., The Big Bopper. But to suggest, as one reviewer does, that the "biggest loss when that plane went down" was him is going just a bit overboard. Buddy Holly would certainly have gone on to be an enduring star for many years to come through both his writing and his singing. Ritchie Valens perhaps less so, but certainly was looking ahead to a more lucrative career as a performer than the Big Bopper.
Although he started out recording country music under his own name, even while acting as a DJ for KTRM in Beaumont, Texas, he soon recognized he would have greater immediate success with infectious novelty music. However, aside from a few exceptions such as Ray Stevens, Sheb Wooley and Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs, you would be hard-pressed to find another purveyor of such tunes with any longevity. Indeed, he might have had a better future as a writer, having turned out Running Bear for Johnny Preston [# 1 later in 1959 and long after J.P. was dead], but that too was more novelty than anything else.
Even his first and biggest smash, Chantilly Lace, was more of a fluke, given that the intended A-side was Purple People Eater Meets The Witch Doctor, an attempt to capitalize on the hits by Sheb Wooley and David Seville respectively. But what a fluke. After initially being released on the "D" label in 1958, it was picked up by Mercury and soared to # 3 R&B and # 6 Billboard op Top 100 late in the summer of 1958.
Later that year both sides of his his next release were on the charts [Big Bopper's Wedding - peaked at # 38/Little Red Riding Hood reached # 72] when that plane crashed on February 3, 1959.
Really, when you think of it, the Big Bopper would have been an interesting blip on the music history scene except for the fact he happened to take Waylon Jenning's seat on that fateful flight. Even so, Rhino does a nice job with this package, providing all four sides of his only two hit singles and, as another reviewer says, you can't help but feel good when you hear his music.
Free Music Review: The Bopper lives!
Hit: 5 Stars
On the anniversary of J.P. Richardson's tragic death, I wrote a piece for The Bopper's hometown newspaper, the Beaumont (TX) Enterprise, about his life, his family and his legacy. These songs are an excellent starting place to learning more about the Bopper -- Richardson's jive-talking, flamboyant alter ego. And if this album gets you more interested in The Bopper's short life (he was only 28 when he died with Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens) then you are in for a treat. Did you know that in 1958 The Bopper foresaw the advent of "music videos" (his term), the necessary visuality of rock and roll, and even filmed some of his songs to pitch his idea to Mercury Records? He did, and that's just a small part of the complex person "the other guy on the plane" was.Free Music Review: Bopper's Boogie Woogie
Hit: 5 Stars
The Big Bopper was true original of rock 'n' roll. Before he made his first record he was DJ on KTRM radio. He recorded his first song in 1954 and decided to become known as The Big Bopper (after the dance named The Bop which was popular at the time). He died in an accident with Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens, 28 years old. His songs have funny lyrics (about "Big Bopper's Wedding", "Little Red Riding Hood",...), and is there someone who doesn't know "Chanitily Lace". He even wrote a few songs for other performers ("Running Bear" for Johnny Preston), and George Jones had a big hit with his "White Lightnin'"
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