Buddy Holly documentary

It
seems like Buddy Holly is indeed alive and well, in more ways than one (maybe
even more than Gary Busey these days). A little while ago, we wrote about the
new Jon Heder flick that
is in production titled ALIVE AND WELL based on Bradley Denton’s
excellent sci-fi  adventure novel Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede.
We’d also like to update you on a documentary chronicling Holly’s
last tour (The Winter Dance Party tour) in 1959, where he tragically died
along with Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper in a plane crash (LA BAMBA,
starring Lou Diamond Phillips told Valens’ story). The film, entitled, GOTTA
TRAVEL ON: THE WINTER DANCE PARTY ODYSSEY has been picking up steam and this
year alone has been mentioned in Rolling Stone magazine as well as being
featured on NBC
Nightly News.

The
producers, Sevan Garabedian (aka Indiana Sev and JoBlo’s brother!) and James
McCool (great last name!!), have found the only known photographs from the
trio’s final concert (photos taken just hours before they died) at the Surf
Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa on February 2nd, 1959. The film will also feature
interviews with all the surviving musicians from the tour, including Rock and
Roll Hall-Of-Famer Dion, The Belmonts, Frankie Sardo as well as musicians
Tommy Allsup and Carl Bunch, who backed Buddy on the tour. In-depth interviews
with emcees from the tour, fans from every show they played and the owners of
the charter service that Holly and Co. hired that night will also be on tap,
and it also promises to shed light on every aspect of the tour, from the after show get-togethers to the controversies surrounding the fatal plane crash. Bob Dylan, then Robert Zimmerman, saw one of the shows and made eye contact with Buddy Holly. Dylan has said it was a pivotal moment for
him. The timing seems pretty good
on all this, as the first ever Buddy
Holly box-set is also prepped for release on November 23rd. 

Having recently added Jim Berkenstadt as associate producer to the project, Garabedian
and McCool are presently seeking additional funding for their project and have
a complete proposal package available for anyone interested in being a part of
their film. Email them HERE for more
info…

Buddy
Holly and Waylon Jennings, two days before the tour began