The song was initially titled “Cindy Lou” after Buddy’s niece, but Crickets
drummer Jerry Allison convinced Buddy to change the title to “Peggy Sue”,
named after Jerry’s girlfriend Peggy Sue Gerron. Allison and Gerron were
later married. The record reached #3 on the Billboard chart. Many music
critics regard this as Holly’s all-time best recording.

Pictured left to right: Maria Elena Holly, Buddy Holly, Jerry Allison and Peggy Sue Gerron.

Peggy Sue Gerron today

Del Shannon’s cover version of the Beatles’ "From Me To You" became
the first song written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney to appear on
the American charts, where it would stay for four weeks, reaching #77. 

After a June 28, 1967 evening supper club engagement in Biloxi, Mississippi, 
actress Jane Mansfield, accompanied by Sam Brody, her divorce lawyer and 
companion at the time, and their driver, Ronnie Harrison, along with the stars
three children Miklós, Zoltán, and Mariska, set out in Stevens’ 1966 Buick 
Electra for New Orleans, where Mansfield was to appear in an early morning
TV interview.

Before leaving Biloxi, the party made a stop at the home of a family that lived
nearby. After a late dinner with these friends, during which the last photos of 
Mansfield were taken, the party set out for New Orleans. On the morning of
June 29 at approximately 2:25 a.m., on U.S. Highway 90, their the car crashed
into the rear of a tractor-trailer rig that had slowed because of a truck spraying
mosquito fogger. The automobile struck the rear of the trailer and went under
it. Riding in the front seat, all of the adults were killed instantly. The children
who were seated in the rear survived with minor injuries.

Jane Mansfield and Sam Brody