European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 26, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse The Day the music died by Joe Edwards associated press s Inger Jerry nay loft has Boon in Ihn music business Lor a Long Limo. Bul will probably never Marco a bigger Mark than he did very Early in his career when he Sang with he great buddy Holly. Naylor Sang on Holly s hit thai ii be the Day and Lacr was Lead Singer of Holly s band. The crickets alter Holly died St age 22 on feb. 3.1959. When his private plane crashed in a Corn Field in Clear Lake Iowa. He was a Naylor 47, said. Anybody who can accomplish so much in such a Short time would have to be. He was distinctive sounding and played the guitar differently irom anyone else. He had a sense of rhythm and was a combination of Blue grass rhythm and blues gospel and country. You put All this together end you come up with an incredible Al the Lime of his death Holly had enjoyed a highly successful recording career jammed into two years beside than be the Day he had tails with Peggy sue. Maybe baby it s so easy rave on and of boy. Naylor who still sings professionally said that lube the Day was one of those Genius songs. It has Hooks and eaten phrases All through it. It s a whole song of written magic. It a he remembers Holly As temperamental High Strung head Strong. He was Moody kidding one minute and quiet the next. At the time of his death. Holly was t playing with his Lubbock. Texas band. Instead he had moved to new York City Wim his Bride Maria Elena. He went to Mew York to Experiment Maylor said he wanted to stretch out and produce his own cords and i behave Rio wanted to do Molion pictures i will always behave that if he had l Ved. The cric Kols would have Golten Back together ant clone very Welt " killed Wilh Holly in a heavy snowstorm were two other performers. Tho big bopper Richardson and Ritchie Valens and Tho Pilot 21 year old Roger Peterson the plane was going to Fargo. . For a concert in Moorhead Minn his last concert was in Clear Lake. Iowa. Country Star Waylon Jennings played for Holly and was scheduled to to on Iho flight bul gave up his seat because tie was not feeling Good alter Holly s death. The crickets reunited and performed from 1960 to 1965 Naylor Sang Lead. I had a Tough Lime with it he said i ended up in 1964 having a coronary from the stress you feel Ike you re cheating someone else a lot of people criticized my singing and said i was capitalizing on him it was the worst time of my career and 11 almost Cost me my Moat of the other crickets Are Shuli around and involved in the music business in some fashion. I would love a reunion Naylor said we be talked about it bul it has l happened i be Hoard rumours Naylor who sings a tribute Medley to Holly during his performances said Gary Busey did a marvelous Job portraying a Singer in the movie the buddy Holly Story he scared me to death when he Pul the glasses on he said. He became buddy Holly for that moment he fooled me. But Only about 10 percent of it was True. The real Story of buddy Holly and the crickets has not been Singer Don Mclean s 1972 hit american pie. To about the plane crash Wilh its references to the Day the music died and widowed Bride " ii was Good Well written and a tribute to a great a photo Stock n Roll Pioneer buddy Holly men Naylor Aid. I think it was dedicated to the crickets after leaving the crickets. Naylor appeared on the old shindig to show. He had a pop hit bul for love which earned him four grammy nominations in 1970. He records mostly country music and also produces Docu dramas for the . Government on such topics As teen age suicide. I want to dance for As Long As i can by Mary Campbell associated press of Fosse choreographed Sweel Charity or Gwen Verdon Lor its 1966 opening. Twenty years later it looks As if n was created for Ann Reinking. Reinking is dancing up a storm As the replacement Star in the revival of the Broadway hit. They re tha same dance Steps that Verdon did bul with some embellishments for Reinking. Reinking says Fosse loosened a couple of things up Lor me so 1 could show off Little things. I do grand jets at the end of i m a brass Sand Reinking Learned those big leaps in Early Ballet training in her native Seattle. He knows i have Good extensions and Bac bends she says. So he put in High kicks and i hip Back in there s gotta be something better than this. His work just looks Good on me. T have an Affinity for in. I think that s Why i work at Home with his choreography it ices really Good and his choreography s not dated. It s More comple now bul it s very distinctive. When you see a Bob Fosse dance you know it Debbie Allen played Charity Hope Valentine Lor the revival s first six months at the us Skol theater then fell logo Back to Fame. Reinking is following her Lor six months through next april 28. When Reinking was learning the part Verdon coached her in the mornings and Fosse coached her m the afternoons. Having Gwen Leach me the show was like having Slanova Leach you Giatto Reinking says i think it was her Best role. She was at her consummate Best then just Reinking has replaced stars on Broadway before following Donna Mckechnie in a chorus line and replacing Verdon in Chicago. She was in the original Broadway cast of goo time Charley and dance and went on to the films All that jazz Annie and Micki and Maud. Reinking was approached when the Sweel Charity revival was being cast. I had other commitments she says. I was doing a one woman show. Everything works out Lor the Best. I think i m More ready to do it her role in Sweet Charity is physically demanding but Reinking says sometimes i have More stamina when i have a two show Day. Energy begets Energy at times " she trios to Kep in shape Alt the time. Ii you get Loo out of shape it is very painful to get it Back. It s not Worth it Reinking says the hardest thing is dancing and singing in the same song. You talk sing dance sing. Move in if my friends could sea a now. " she says. It s hard to keep your breath in Good control. Sometimes at the end of in i just want to die. Bul the Structure evil is wonderful. It s like a giant scene. You Don t see anywhere that it Breaks ii All flows. In seems very natural. Sometimes i hear singing in friends and realize someone in the first couple of rows is singing along and having a great time. It s list t it Ana blinking not att to Knag with Tor Good tank toddy heart that 0 cast of Swett Charity gave a. Monday january 26, 1987 for four year Reinking has been married to millionaire businessman Herbert Allen whom she met on a Blind Dale i guess because i did t care whether i impressed his Guy or not i was myself and we wound up having a lot of Tun. One thing led to because he in t a performer she Bays i Call him a after she leaves the show in april Shell Lake a stepdaughter who s graduating from College and her australian school chum to Australia. I have four stepchildren she says they Call a the fifth after that Shell Star in a remake of the Judy Holiday comedy it should happen to you for to she might return to Williamstown ms., where she appeared in Maxim Gorky and Tennessee Williams plays last summer she also choreographed a musical about Alice Roosevelt Longworth staging a Ball in heaven. Bul dramatic acting and choreographing Don t mean she s retiring from roofing the dancer says i want to dance for As Long As i the stars and stripes Page 17
