Singer and songwriter Advertisement featured in Cashbox magazine, 13 December 1958 Richardson is credited for creating the first music video in 1958, and recorded an early example himself. He performed for a total of five days, two hours, and eight minutes from a remote setup in the lobby of the Jefferson Theatre in downtown Beaumont, playing 1,821 records and taking showers during 5-minute newscasts. In May 1957, Richardson broke the record for continuous on-air broadcasting by 8 minutes. His new radio show ran from 3:00 to 6:00 p.m., and he soon became the station's program director. Richardson had seen college students doing a dance called The Bop, and he decided to call himself "The Big Bopper". One of the station's sponsors wanted Richardson for a new time slot, and suggested an idea for a show. In March 1957, following his discharge as a corporal, Richardson returned to KTRM radio, where he held down the "Dishwashers' Serenade" shift from 11 a.m. Richardson spent the rest of his two-year service as a radar instructor at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas. In March 1955, he was drafted into the United States Army and did his basic training at Fort Ord, California.
Richardson married Adrianne Joy Fryou on April 18, 1952, and their daughter Debra Joy was born in December 1953, soon after Richardson was promoted to supervisor of announcers at KTRM. He was hired by the station full-time in 1949 and quit college. Richardson worked part-time at Beaumont, Texas radio station KTRM (now KZZB). Richardson later was a radio disc jockey while at Lamar College, where he studied prelaw and was a member of the band and chorus. Richardson graduated from Beaumont High School in 1947 and played on the "Royal Purple" American football team as a defensive lineman, wearing number 85.
The family soon moved to Beaumont, Texas. Richardson was born on October 24, 1930, in Sabine Pass, Texas, the oldest son of oil-field worker Jiles Perry Richardson (1905–84) and his wife Elise (Stalsby) Richardson (1909–83). Richardson was killed in an airplane crash in Clear Lake, Iowa, in 1959, along with fellow musicians Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens, and the pilot, Roger Peterson. His best-known compositions include " Chantilly Lace," " Running Bear", and " White Lightning", the latter of which became George Jones' first number-one hit in 1959. (Octo– February 3, 1959), better known by his stage name The Big Bopper, was an American musician and disc jockey.
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