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Carl Bunch (born November 24, 1939 in Big Spring, Texas
Big Spring, Texas

Big Spring is a city in and the county seat of Howard County, Texas, Texas, United States, at the crossroads of U.S. Highway 87 and Interstate 20....
) is an American musician.

Carl Bunch began playing drums as a teenager, in order to recover from extensive surgery on his right leg. By age seventeen, he was recording with Ronnie Smith and the Poor Boys, in Clovis, New Mexico. Buddy Holly
Buddy Holly

Charles Hardin Holley, known professionally as Buddy Holly was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll. Although his success lasted only a year and a half before his The Day the Music Died, Holly is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most influential creative force in early rock and roll." His works and...
 was also recording in Clovis at the same time and was impressed with the young drummer.

Bunch was invited to join Holly on the "Winter Dance Party" tour in 1959, along with Tommy Allsup
Tommy Allsup

Tommy Allsup is an United States musician.Allsup began his career in music in 1949 as a guitarist with the Oklahoma Swingbillies. In 1958, sound recording and reproduction at Norman Petty's recording studio in Clovis, New Mexico, he was asked to work with Buddy Holly....
 and Waylon Jennings
Waylon Jennings

Waylon Arnold Jennings was an influential United States of America country music singer and musician. A self-taught guitar player, he rose to prominence as a bass guitar player for Buddy Holly following the break-up of The Crickets....
.






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Carl Bunch (born November 24, 1939 in Big Spring, Texas
Big Spring, Texas

Big Spring is a city in and the county seat of Howard County, Texas, Texas, United States, at the crossroads of U.S. Highway 87 and Interstate 20....
) is an American musician.

Carl Bunch began playing drums as a teenager, in order to recover from extensive surgery on his right leg. By age seventeen, he was recording with Ronnie Smith and the Poor Boys, in Clovis, New Mexico. Buddy Holly
Buddy Holly

Charles Hardin Holley, known professionally as Buddy Holly was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll. Although his success lasted only a year and a half before his The Day the Music Died, Holly is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most influential creative force in early rock and roll." His works and...
 was also recording in Clovis at the same time and was impressed with the young drummer.

Bunch was invited to join Holly on the "Winter Dance Party" tour in 1959, along with Tommy Allsup
Tommy Allsup

Tommy Allsup is an United States musician.Allsup began his career in music in 1949 as a guitarist with the Oklahoma Swingbillies. In 1958, sound recording and reproduction at Norman Petty's recording studio in Clovis, New Mexico, he was asked to work with Buddy Holly....
 and Waylon Jennings
Waylon Jennings

Waylon Arnold Jennings was an influential United States of America country music singer and musician. A self-taught guitar player, he rose to prominence as a bass guitar player for Buddy Holly following the break-up of The Crickets....
. The tour bus heater failed, and Bunch suffered from frostbite and was hospitalized. On February 3, 1959, Holly, Ritchie Valens
Ritchie Valens

Ritchie Valens was an singer, songwriter and guitarist of Mexican origin born in the U.S.A rock and roll pioneer and a forefather of the Chicano rock movement, Valens' recording career lasted only eight months....
, and J.P. "The Big Bopper
The Big Bopper

Jiles Perry Richardson, Jr. , called JP by his friends but commonly known as The Big Bopper, was an United States disc jockey, singing, and songwriter whose big voice and exuberant personality made him an early rock and roll star....
" Richardson were killed in a plane crash. Bunch rejoined the tour on February 5, in Sioux City, Iowa. Ronnie Smith, Jimmy Clanton
Jimmy Clanton

Jimmy Clanton was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and as a singer became known as the "swamp pop Rhythm and blues Teen idol". His band recorded a hit song "Just A Dream" which Clanton had written in 1958 in music for the Ace Records label....
 and Fabian
Fabian

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 were also recruited to help fill out the playbill, and Waylon Jennings sang lead in place of the deceased Buddy Holly. The tour ended on February 15, 1959, in Springfield, Illinois.

Bunch then enlisted in the United States Army, but eventually he was drawn back to music. After his discharge from the Army, he spent some time playing for the Bob Osburn band, before moving to Nashville
Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville is the Capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County, Tennessee. It is the second most populous city in the state after Memphis, Tennessee....
 to play for Hank Williams, Jr.
Hank Williams, Jr.

Hank Williams, Jr., is an award-winning American country music singer-songwriter and musician. His musical style is often considered a blend of southern rock, blues, and traditional country....
 and Roy Orbison
Roy Orbison

Roy Kelton Orbison was an influential Grammy Award-winning United States singer-songwriter, guitarist and a pioneer of rock and roll whose recording career spanned more than four decades....
.

Carl Bunch eventually left the music industry and became a minister. He is now retired and lives in Southern California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
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