Recording Artist To Play At Legion Youth Dances Here
From Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, Morning Edition
Thursday, November 22, 1956
Buddy Holly, 20-year-old Lubbock musician signed to a five-year contract with Decca Records will begin a year’s contract to play at the American Legion Youth Center, 2nd St. and College Ave., by playing for an after-game Thanksgiving dance there tonight.
Holly has just returned from Nashville, Tenn. where he recorded two songs, which will be released early in December and which he will pre view locally at the dance.
The song on one side of the record, ‘My One Desire’, was written by Don Guess, bass fiddle player in Holly’s orchestra, and the other, ‘Modem Don Juan’, was written by Guess and Jerry Allison [sic], who also plays with Holly’s group.
Also in Nashville, Holly attended the four-day National Disc Jockey Festival. He was there two weeks.
The Youth Center Committee of the George S. Berry American Legion Post has announced new rules for the Youth Center, as well as the organization of a youth board to help enforce them. The youth board members, mostly from Tom S. Lubbock and Monterey High Schools, will be designated by arm bands they are to wear.
The rules include the required presentation of membership cards for admittance to dances, no leaving and returning to the dance without paying for re-admittance, neatness in boy’s dress and the banning of slacks, peddle pushers or blue jeans on girls attending the dances.
Membership cards to the Youth Center are given free with application blanks which must be filled out.
The Thanksgiving dance, as well as others sponsored by the organization, will be chaperoned by members of the George S. Berry Post of the American Legion. Parents and other interested adults are invited to attend as observers.
