The Big Bopper’s Son Had His Grave Opened To Learn What Happened The Day The Music Died

The Big Bopper’s Son Had His Grave Opened To Learn What Happened The Day The Music Died

J.P. Richardson was born on October 24, 1930, in Sabine Pass, Texas, which means he would have turned 96 this Saturday. Most of us knew him by the booming “Hello, baby!” that opened “Chantilly Lace,” and by the terrible night in February 1959 when he died in an Iowa cornfield alongside Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens. He was 28 years old, and his wife was expecting a baby. That child was a boy, Jay Perry Richardson, born that spring. Nearly half …