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 Buddy Holly  with the Three Tunes from his first Nashville recording session for Decca records on January 26, 1956.  Featuring Buddy Holly on vocals only, Grady Martin rhythm guitar, Sonny Curtis lead guitar, Don Guess bass guitar and Doug Kirkham on percussion (is that like a fancy way of saying drums).  I remember getting ready for school when I was in the eighth grade at O. L. Slayton Junior High in Lubbock, Texas and hearing Buddy doing "Blue Days-Black Nights" on KSEL Radio.  I mentioned to my brother that that was Buddy Holly whom we had just seen the previous Friday night at Lawson's Roller Rink on the corner of College Avenue and 2nd Street.  We had walked over to the roller rink and watched Buddy, Sonny, Larry and Jerry standing in Paul Carmello's boxing rink that had been moved to the back of the building to allow the kids to dance.  Based of course on whether or not you'd actually call the jumping and moving about that we all did "dancing".  So we laid down our quarters to get in and had enough "cash" left to buy a Dr Pepper.  Over the years people have asked on numerous occasions how Buddy acted on stage and I have to tell them that I had just discovered that the girls could do a whole lot more than just throw a baseball badly.  So I actually wasn't actually watching the band but rather the girls.  However, I do remember that he smoked cigarettes on stage and while he was playing and singing he'd impale his lit cigarette on one of the strings he'd purposely left untrimmed for just that occasion.  I thought that was really cool!  It was really hot on the floor and probably a lot hotter on their makeshift stage.  Paul Carmillo was an Italian wanna-be mobster from New York City.  He had a little Italian deli and cafe over by Lubbock High School, he taught the kids how to box. was affiliated with the Golden Gloves folks and rented a space or place to set up his boxing rink From Mister Lawson at the College Avenue and 2nd Street roller rink location - across the street from Bells Quality Checked Creamery at 201 College Avenue.  They were on the south east corner of College and Lawsons was across the street on the north east corner.  I mention this only to say that when Buddy quit playing for the evening Bells' was always closed or at leat the few tables and stools area was.  I only remember ever asking Buddy to do a request for one or two songs - Blueberry Hill and Brown Eyed Handsome man.  Sonny was a long time "family" friend so I would usually ask him to play some particular song.  Even though Sonny had been teaching me guitar since I was seven or eight years old (he even got his brother Dean to loan me his old Gibson J-45 until I could get one of my own.  And still after all of that I never once watched Buddy play his guitars. Is that dumb or what?

Joe Westbrook