Delmonico's Un-Sense-a-tiv-itty trainin' class

[Delmonico]

Thinkin on it, there's several reasons they could a called ya that.   

Clue, Buddy Holly's bass player.

[Arcey]

Ahab the arab’s camel?

[Delmonico]

Ahab the arab’s camel?

Nope, and though I don't play bass, I often don't have no shoes.  Wore bibs a lot then.

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[Leo Tanner]

Geez Del, I'm a Buddy Holly fan, an there weren't no Clydes in the Crickets.  Think the guy's name was Allison.  Yer drivin me nuts here.  Mebbe ma new Pa can figgure it out.


Leo

[Four-Eyed Buck]

Waylon Jennings was in The Cricketts, don't remember if he was playin'' base though.......Buck

[Leo Tanner]

Waylon weren't in the Crickets, but he was one of the guys that was sposed ta be on the plane that crashed.  He was tourin with 'em, Ritchie Valanz and the Big Bopper.  He lost a coin toss and had ta ride a bus--an he got ta live.  The other guy in the Crickets name was Maudlin.


Leo

[Delmonico]

Waylon was BK's bass player.  Buddy was on a solo tour at the time with out the Crickets.

Jennings was born in Littlefield, Texas, the son of Lorene Beatrice (née Shipley) and William Alvin Jennings.  When Waylon was eight, his father taught him how to play guitar, and Waylon formed his first band two years later. During his time working as a DJ, he befriended Buddy Holly. The two were inspired by the music of the Mayfield Brothers of West Texas, Smokey Mayfield, Herbert Mayfield, and Edd Mayfield. When he was twenty-one, Jennings was tapped by Holly to play bass in Holly's new band on a tour through the Midwest in early 1959. Holly also hired guitarist Tommy Allsup and drummer Carl "Goose" Bunch for the "Winter Dance Party" tour.

During the early morning hours of February 3, 1959, the charter airplane carrying Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson (aka "The Big Bopper") crashed outside Clear Lake, Iowa, killing all on board. In his 1996 autobiography, Jennings admitted that in the years afterward, he felt severe guilt and responsibility for the crash. After Jennings gave up his seat, Holly had jokingly told Jennings, "I hope your 'ol bus freezes up!" Jennings shot back facetiously, "I hope your damn plane crashes!"[6]

[Leo Tanner]

OK, no Googlin guys (like I can trust ya), what did J.P. stand fer? 
     Don't know why I remember it, but I do.

Still wonderin where the Clyde comes inta things.  It's probably right in front of ma face.


Leo

[Texas Lawdog]

Waylon did a stint as a DJ at a station around Lubbock. They even have a street named after Waylon.  Littlefield is west of Lubbock.

[Delmonico]

Can't 'member the JP right now, try to answer the Clyde thing afore I leave at 5.  So simple it is, no Gogglin' either, should I meantion a hound dawg or will that make you think of Elvis, no elvis involved, he was already dead.

[Texas Lawdog]

JP was another Texan. He was born in Sabine Pass, Texas in 1930.  He worked as a DJ at a radio station in Beaumont while he went to college.  The JP stands for Jiles Perry Richardson Jr.

[Leo Tanner]

All right Pop.  I would a bought that ya didn't cheat if ya just gave the name, but all that other info off the top a yer head is a little suspicious.  Then again, I been known ta do the same

     Kin I borrow them keys again?


Leo

[Texas Lawdog]

I try and keep track of the folks from Texas.

[Delmonico]

Clyde plays electric bass,
Plays it with finese and grace
Sits on the porch, ain't got no shoes
Pickin' the bass and singin' the blues



Misery loves company,
This ole dog sings harmony,
Tamborine tied to his tail,
You can hear him moan, you can hear him wail,


Jody baby, she got a dollar,
Down the road,  you can hear her holler,
Git up Clyde, we got things to do,
That ole dog can sing the blues,

He don't move, he don't flinch
Clyde, he don't move an inch,
Set on the porch, ain't got no shoes,
Pickin' the bass and singin' the blues

Clyde plays electric bass,
Plays it with finese and grace
Sits on the porch, ain't got no shoes
Pickin' the bass and singin' the blues

[Leo Tanner]

That set it off.  It was Cale.  J.J. Cale.


Leo

[Texas Lawdog]

Leo, I knew you had it in you.

[Delmonico]

That set it off.  It was Cale.  J.J. Cale.


Leo

Sit him in the corner and ground him TLD, t'was Waylon Jennings.

[Texas Lawdog]

We can't be right all the time.

[Leo Tanner]

Well Cale did it too.  I'm a sure of it.  Prolly one a them deals like when folks think CCR wrote "Put a Spell on You" or "Suzie Q".

     Thank you fer yer benevolance Pop, I'll rake the yard this weekend and wash the truck

[Texas Lawdog]

Thanks, Both chores need to be done.