The Crickets released "The Crickets and Their Buddies" in 2004 which features several classics from all parts of their career featuring guest appearances by several prominent artists including Eric Clapton, Rodney Crowell, Waylon Jennings, Nanci Griffith, John Prine, Graham Nash, Bobby Vee, Tonio K.
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In the meantime, Joe B. Mauldin, J.I. Allison, and Sonny Curtis (a friend and collaborator with Buddy) began recording new songs as The Crickets, with Earl Sinks on vocals.
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Members of the Crickets (as portrayed by Gary Busey, Don Stroud and Charles Martin Smith) sing a line of the song during a recording session in the film The Buddy Holly Story.
Box was influenced by fellow Texan Buddy Holly, and even took his place as singer of his group, The Crickets, for a short time after his death.
Two covers exist, 'I Fought the Law' (originally written by Sonny Curtis of The Crickets in 1959) and 'My Sitar' which is an acoustic/military tabla version of My Star, the top ten chart song written by Ian Brown and Aziz Ibrahim.
He recorded and performed with the Crickets after Holly's death in 1959, contributing to the album, In Style with the Crickets (singing on notable songs such as "I Fought the Law," "Love's Made a Fool of You", and "When You Ask About Love").
On the island of Kauai, females of a species of parasitoid fly, Ormia ochracea, respond to the stridulation mating calls of male field crickets (Teleogryllus oceanicus) by locating the crickets and then laying their lethal larvae on them.
It was around this period that he also wrote and produced the single "Look to the Future," which was recorded by Gary Tollett and The Picks, who often did back-up vocals for the Crickets.
Over the years, he gave numerous interviews about his life with the Crickets and played at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa, where Holly had given his last concert.
So J.I. (Jerry Allison of the Crickets) told me to sing the song for Don - actually I had only one verse written - and Don called Phil down, and they worked out a gorgeous harmony part.