Tommy Allsup, head crooner at the C&W swing dance hall Tommy’s Heads 1 Up Saloon (soon to open in a new entertainment-retail office district called Near Ellum), claims the dubious distinction of having almost flown with Buddy Holly. Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper on February 3,1959, the night their plane crashed, killing) everyone aboard. Tommy, then a member of Holly’s backup group, the Crickets, lost a coin toss to Valens for the last seat on the private aircraft.
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