"Three Stars" is a song written by Tommy Dee in 1959, as a tribute to Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. Richardson (The Big Bopper), who died in a plane crash earlier that year.
The lyrics suggested the three "stars" represent the three musicians that died in the crash.
A year after Eddie Cochran recorded the song, he died in a car accident on his way to an airport.
Although recorded in 1959, Cochran's version was not released until 1966 as a UK single and for the first time in the US on the album Legendary Masters Series.
Cochran audibly breaks into sobs in his recording, most notably in the second verse.