BUDDY HOLLY 1954 Lubbock Texas Westerner Yearbook Bob Montgomery US BIDDERS ONLY

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You are bidding on a real, ORIGINAL 1954 Lubbock, Texas High School yearbook called THE WESTERNER featuring future Rock 'N' Roll Hall of Fame member and legend BUDDY HOLLY. It measures 8" X 11" and is hard bound with a fabric-like covering. It is 323 pages long with some blank pages at the end for signatures, of which there are many. The original owner of this yearbook, Sandra Crouch (nickname "Crutch"), was quite a popular girl and there are signatures and writing to her throughout. Apparently, the only person she didn't know was Buddy Holly since his signature doesn't appear here. The yellowish, front exterior covering and logo are in nice shape. The back has a light green stain there, mostly near the bottom and along the spine side, where I'm sure this was next to another book on a bookshelf for many years and some of the other book rubbed off onto it. This is not real bad. The spine is real clean. The pages are all firm and secure. Nothing is loose or falling out or cut out. It's all complete. There is a small lower right corner ding. Along it's 67 year journey, I'm guessing at the time, someone spilled a soda or coffee near it and some splashed onto the edges of the pages near the top area causing a stain there. The inside is affected by this on a few of the back pages and a few pages at the front of the book. The stain pretty much stays at the edges of the book. None of the students photos are affected by this. There is a student/faculty registry at the back making it easy to look up someone. There are also many pages of local business ads including the Hi D Ho Drive-In, which I'm sure all the boys and bobbysoxers hung out at after school. A different time indeed from which we're now living.
Of the 3 yearbooks with Buddy in it, 1953, 1954 and 1955, this is the best and the rarest one. The 1953 & 1955 seem more common for some reason. Not only is Buddy in it, with his correctly spelled name "HOLLEY", on pages 94 and 146, without his glasses there, but the future drummer for The Crickets Jerry Allison is also there on pages 112 and 151. Buddy's performing friend and fellow band mate ("Buddy & Bob") songwriter Bob Montgomery is on pages 99 and 138. Bob later wrote songs for Buddy like "Heartbeat", "Wishing" and "Love's Made A Fool Of You", later covered by big Buddy fan and fellow Texan Bobby Fuller. Also, there is Buddy's girlfriend Echo McGuire on pages 98, 147 and 163. Ever heard of a girl named "Echo"? Pretty neat, huh? Like I said, it was a different time. The later pages listed after their class photo is for the various clubs the students were involved with. They are all juniors except for Jerry Allison who was a sophomore and still very much alive. Buddy would have been 85 this September. It's hard to believe he was only 22 when he died and had only been known outside Lubbock, Texas for 18 months. He and his bandmates performed on the Ed Sullivan show, toured the world, was huge in the UK. Pretty amazing impact on music in such a short time.
Almost exactly 5 years to the day after Buddy's death, the first 45 released by The Rolling Stones was "Not Fade Away". And, it was also the first song on the first U.S. Rolling Stones Lp. Four years later, The Grateful Dead performed "Not Fade Away" for the first time at the Carousel Ballroom in San Francisco, Ca. on June 19, 1968. And, "Not Fade Away" was the LAST song performed by the reunited remaining members of The Grateful Dead at their last show, following the death of Jerry Garcia. In 1973, a virtually unknown band from Canada named RUSH released their first 45 and it was the song "Not Fade Away". And Buddy and they will...Not Fade Away.
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