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Allison, Jerry

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Descriptive conventionsrda
Personal name headingAllison, Jerry
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Variant(s)Allison, J. I. (Jerry Ivan)
Ivan, 1939-2022
See alsoCorporate body: Crickets (Rock group)
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LocatedLyles (Tenn.)
Birth date1939-08-31
Death date2022-08-22
Place of birthHillsboro (Tex.)
Place of deathLyles (Tenn.)
Field of activityRock music
Profession or occupationDrummers (Musicians) Composers Lyricists Rock musicians
Found inThe real Buddy Holly story [VR] 2004?: credits (interviews with ... Jerry Allison)
History-of-rock website, Mar. 8, 2005 (drummer Jerry Allison joined Buddy Holly and the Crickets in the mid-1950s)
Wikipedia, July 19, 2012 (J.I. Allison; b. Jerry Ivan Allison, Aug. 31, 1939, Hillsboro, Tex.; best known as the drummer for the Crickets and co-writer of their Buddy Holly hit "Peggy Sue"; recorded Real wild child under the pseudonym Ivan)
Washington post WWW site, viewed August 25, 2022 (in obituary dated August 25, 2022: Jerry Allison, the drummer in the 1950s rock band Buddy Holly and the Crickets whose rough-hewed style on "Peggy Sue" and "That'll Be the Day" and on later recordings by the Everly Brothers set a template for percussionists including Mick Fleetwood and Ringo Starr, died Aug. 22 at his home in Lyles, Tenn. He was 82. Jerry Ivan Allison was born in Hillsboro, Tex., on Aug. 31, 1939)
Associated languageeng