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the Big Bopper

American deejay, songwriter, and recording artist

Also known as: J. P. Richardson

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Holly

In Buddy Holly: Winter Dance Party of 1959 and plane crash
…co-headliners Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper (J.P. Richardson) were killed in a plane crash.
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Jones

In George Jones
…recording artist known as the Big Bopper. Other chart-toppers were “Tender Years” (1961) and “She Thinks I Still Care” (1962).
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Valens

In Ritchie Valens
…which Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper also perished.
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