American Songwriter

On This Day in 1972, Jerry Lee Lewis Turns a Flirty Telephone Call Into a No. 1 Hit With “Chantilly Lace”

The landscape of rock music shifted forever in July 1957, when Jerry Lee Lewis made his TV debut on The Steve Allen Show. For more than seven decades, the Louisiana-born rockabilly pioneer churned out ...
The Beaumont Enterprise

This day in history: Big hit from the Big Bopper

January 15, 1959: On this day, the smash hit single "Chantilly Lace" by Beaumont native J.P. Richardson Jr., aka The Big Bopper, found itself outside of the Billboard Top 40, for the first time in 22 ...