The Big Bopper

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Jiles Perry Richardson

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1930 - 1959

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Born Jiles Perry Richardson Jr., JP Richardson was known as The Big Bopper to his listeners on KTRM in Beaumont, Texas, where he worked as a disc jockey.

Jape, as he preferred to be called, also wrote songs and his most famous was Chantilly Lace, which was the third most played song on radio stations in 1958.

While on tour in the midwest the winter of 1959, The Big Bopper died in the same small plane crash that also killed Buddy Holly and Richie Valens.

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 Chantilly Lace1958
 Hellooo Baby!: The Best Of The Big Bopper, 1954-19591989
 

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 Chantilly Lace1958
 

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