Lubbock Saving House Where Buddy Holly's Band Formed

LUBBOCK (CBSDFW.COM/AP) -- The Lubbock home where Buddy Holly and childhood friend Jerry Allison co-wrote "That'll Be The Day" is being moved to a site that memorializes the famed 1950s rock and roll pioneer.

The director of museums and special events for Lubbock's Buddy Holly Center, Brooke Witcher, says a group called Civic Lubbock Inc., is paying for the project to move the home to the center's property.

Allison was the only person to play drums for Holly's group, The Crickets. Allison, now in Nashville, Tenn., told the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal the group was formed and practiced in the house.

Civic Lubbock officials say it's the closest they'll get to Holly's actual home. His house unknowingly became used at a hog farm and eventually burned.

Holly was a native of Lubbock.  He is widely considered one of the most influential figures in the early development of rock and roll.

Holly died in an Iowa plane crash in 1959 which also killed early rock stars Richie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson.  Don McLean immortalized the famous crash in his song "The Day The Music Died."

Copyright 2012 by CBS Local. The Associated Press contributed to this report.