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To: FREAKAZOID who wrote (16356)	2/3/1999 10:34:00 PM
From: V$gas.Com	Respond to of 44908

That's a good story and I believe correct. It was Waylon Jennings who gave up his seat to J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson. Jennings had joked with Holly about the plane crashing and wracked with guilt avoided the "Surf" until 1995 when he performed there, telling the crowd, "I lost some great friends that night." V$gas

To: FREAKAZOID who wrote (16356)	2/3/1999 10:36:00 PM
From: TOPFUEL	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 44908

Heres even more that backs up Bobs post. tsha.utexas.edu RICHARDSON, JILES PERRY (1930-1959). J. P. Richardson (the Big Bopper), disc jockey, songwriter, and singer, was born on October 24, 1930, in Sabine Pass, Texas. He is best known for his hit, "Chantilly Lace," which reached number one on the charts in 1958, and for being on the disastrous plane trip that killed him, Richie Valens, and Buddy Holly (see HOLLEY, CHARLES H.) in February 1959. While still a teenager Richardson began working as a disc jockey at KTRM radio in Beaumont. After a stint in the army, he returned to KTRM in 1955, eventually becoming program director while still working as a disc jockey. Some sources claim his first name was Jape rather than Jiles, but he usually went by J. P. He also had a pseudonym, the Big Bopper, that he used on air and when recording. Richardson's early musical influences were country and western singers. In 1957 he sent some songs to Pappy Dailey at Mercury Records in Houston, where he was signed as a country and western act. He left Mercury when the records were unsuccessful and began working with Shelby Singleton, who also had Johnny Preston and Bruce Channel under contract. The switch also indicated Richardson's move from traditional country to the new and extremely popular rockabilly music. His first single was "Chantilly Lace," which he followed with "Little Red Riding Hood" and "Big Bopper's Wedding." These songs were also hits but were not of the same caliber as "Chantilly Lace." Other songs written by Richardson included "The Purple People Eater Meets the Witch Doctor" and "Running Bear." In 1960 fellow Texan Johnny Preston recorded "Running Bear" and had an international hit. Most of the Bopper's recordings were classified as novelty songs that did not have lasting power. He wrote approximately thirty-eight songs during his life and recorded twenty-one of them. Richardson's appeal was attributed largely to his stage performances, which were somewhat outrageous and flamboyant. He wore checkered jackets and zoot suits and used a prop phone during "Chantilly Lace" to talk to his girl. In order to maintain his showman image, he did not wear his wedding ring in public and generally kept his marriage to Adrian Richardson a secret from his fans. The couple had two children. On February 2, 1959, Richardson, Buddy Holly, and Richie Valens played a show at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa, and were scheduled to play in North Dakota the next day. After the show, Holly and Valens chartered a plane so that they could rest before their bands arrived. Richardson, who had the flu, was supposed to take the bus, but at the last minute switched places with Holly's band member, Waylon Jennings. The plane went down just after takeoff at 1 A.M. in Mason County, Iowa, killing the pilot and all three musicians. In the late 1980s the Port Arthur Historical Society commissioned sculptor Donald Clark to create a memorial to the musicians. The piece was initially displayed at a Fabulous Thunderbirds benefit concert on February 3, 1989, thirty years after the crash. Proceeds from the concert were to be used by the society for a museum commemorating such Texas musicians as Richardson, Holly, Janis Joplin,qv W. M. (Tex) Ritter,qv and Ivory Joe Hunter.