Music Deaths: Jerry Naylor, Former Member of Crickets

JERRY NAYLOR, 80

Died 5 December 2019

Rock and Roll, Country singer.  Member and lead vocalist of the Crickets from 1961 to 1964.  The Crickets were Buddy Holly's back-up band.  He joined two years after Buddy Holly's death.
The Crickets had much more success in Britain than the U.S.

Their first hit while he was lead singer was "Don't Ever Change", a Carole King/Gerry Goffin song, that went to #5 in Britain.  It was the very first song that the Beatles performed live on the BBC in 1963.