Did Buddy Holly graduate high school?
[edit] Early life Charles Hardin Holley was born in Lubbock, Texas to Lawrence Odell Holley and Ella Pauline Drake on Labor Day, 1936. The Holleys were a musical family and as a young boy Holley learned to play piano, guitar, and fiddle. He was always known as Buddy to his family. In 1949, Buddy made a recording of Hank Snow’s “My Two Timin’ Woman” on a wire recorder “borrowed” by a friend who worked in a music shop[citation needed], his first known recording.[5] During the fall of that year, he met Bob Montgomery at Hutchinson Junior High School. They shared a common interest in music and soon teamed up as “Buddy and Bob”. Initially influenced by bluegrass music, they sang harmony duets at local clubs and high school talent shows. In Lubbock, Holly attended Hutchinson Junior High School, which has a mural honoring him, and Lubbock High School, which has numerous features to honor the late musician. His musical interests grew throughout high school while singing in the Lubbock High Sch
Yes he graduated from Lubbock High School. http://www.lubbockonline.com/stories/082… When asked about Lubbock High’s most famous graduate, Burt Nelson said it was a little after his time. (Nelson graduated in 1948). “Buddy Holly was definitely not our kind of music,” he said. “We didn’t dance to anything that wasn’t Glenn Miller and Tommy Dorsey.
