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Sonny Curtis Through the Years
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Sonny going through career photos during the interview with Mo Rocca
for CBS Sunday Morning, 2021
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Left: Summer 1964. In United Studio B recording a Beatles Hits album
Right: A much later appearance on Hee-Haw
School Photo ~ Spring 1953. The Texas FFA (Future Farmers of America)
talent contest in Fort Worth.
LEFT: April 10, 1956. Opening for Elvis Presley at the Fair Park
Coliseum in Lubbock, Texas.
Buddy is playing Elvis' D-18 Martin, Sonny is playing Buddy's Stratocaster
and Don Guess (out of picture) is playing Bill Black's bass. Jerry
Allison is playing DJ Fontana's drums.
RIGHT: J.I. Allison, Sonny Curtis and Buddy Holly opening for Elvis
Presley
Elvis in the crowd for his April 10, 1956 Lubbock Show
Left Photo: Spring 1956 in Nashville to record one of the Decca sessions
with Buddy Holly at Bradley’s Barn.
Left to right, Thelma King, Sonny, Buddy, Don Guess, Sonny's brother
Dean, and Clara Cobble.
Right Photo: Spring 1956 in Odessa Texas. Sonny, Buddy Holly and
Don Guess (The Three Tunes bassist).
They were booked on a tour of Oklahoma and Texas to open for Faron
Young, Carl Perkins, Wanda Jackson, Sonny James, and Tommy Collins.
They did our new Decca record, "Blue Days, Black Nights" and "Love
Me" and also served as backup band for Sonny and Tommy.
Buddy Holly and the Crickets on the Ed Sullivan Show
On the 1960 Australian tour with the Everly Brothers
Top: Marv Johnson ~ Phil Everly ~ Billy "Crash" Craddock ~ Don Everly
Lower: Sonny Curtis ~ J.I Allison ~ Joe B. Mauldin
April 1960. This is Joe B., J. I. and Sonny with The Everly Bros.
on the Alma Cogan show in London.
Interview with Mo Rocca for CBS Sunday Morning, 2021
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REMEMBERING BUDDY HOLLY
