Sonny Curtis - The Real Buddy Holly Story 1980 PLUS Sonny Curtis Songwriting Tribute

Sonny Curtis – Real Buddy Holly Story (1980) PLUS a hit medley salute to Sonny’s Songwriting.
From my Sunday Night Hall of Fame Show tapes and my VHS Buddy Holly collection this video features:

1/ Sonny Curtis' song “The Real Buddy Holly Story” which Curtis wrote after seeing the 1978 movie “The Buddy Holly Story”. And yes, it was a great music movie, but factually left so much to be desired. Curtis was one of the early members in Holly's musical groups, and was involved in his 1956 Nashville recordings for Decca. After Holly's death, Sonny Curtis would join Jerry
Allison, Joe B. Mauldin, Glen D. Hardin and others as one of the recording and touring members of The Crickets.
2/ A short tribute to the songwrting of Sonny Curtis, who in 1991 was inducted into the “Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame”. His songwriting gave us classics like “I Fought The Law”, “More Than I Can Say” and even the theme song for the “Mary Tyler Moore Show”.

Buddy Holly and the Crickets became one of my favorites in 1957 when I first heard “That’ll Be The Day” on my radio. I started writing, producing and hosting tributes to Buddy, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper as early as 1969 on WEEX - AM 1230 in Easton, Pa. That was the tenth anniversary of the plane crash and coincided with the Coral album release “Buddy Holly - Giant”. At first I called the special tribute show “Three Star Special”, as influenced by a 1959 hit song “The Three Stars” by Tommy Dee. After Don McLean’s dedication of “American Pie” to Buddy, I started calling the show “The Day the Music Died”. My tribute shows continued throughout my broadcast radio career in the Lehigh Valley, PA and Northwest New Jersey area. The last time my five-hour special aired was February 3, 1999 on WODE – Oldies 99.9.

The Sunday Night Hall of Fame Show was broadcast from 1980 to 1992 on WAEB - AM 790 and WKAP – AM 1320. My show returned between 1999 and August 2001 on WODE “ Oldies 99.9”. All stations were located in the Allentown – Bethlehem – Easton, PA area, AKA: The Lehigh Valley.