Seventy-eight Top 10 hits on that chart between 1955 and ... written by J.P. Richardson, the Big Bopper himself. “White Lightning” had entered the country chart fully two months earlier ...

Read more: Big Bopper's family wants statue ... but his big hits made him stand alone as one of the top singers of the '50s. Songs like "Venus In Blue Jeans," and "Go, Jimmy, Go," began defining ...