“Brown Eyed Handsome Man” #3 Country 2/7/1970

A Top 5 country hit this week for Waylon Jennings was a remake of Chuck Berry’s 1956 B-side of “Too Much Monkey Business.” Buddy Holly also recorded the song, though his version was released posthumously several years after his untimely 1959 passing. Waylon joined fellow West Texan Buddy’s band (the Crickets) only 10 days before The Day The Music Died and gave up his seat on the small plane that night to a flu-stricken J.P. Richardson, the Big Bopper. Very interesting read.