Buddy Holly And The Crickets - That'll Be The Day (Live '57)

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John1948TwoC | November 28, 2009

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Charles Hardin Holley (September 7, 1936 February 3, 1959), known professionally as Buddy Holly, was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll. Although his success lasted only a year and a half before his death in an airplane crash, Holly is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most influential creative force in early rock and roll." His works and innovations inspired and influenced both his contemporaries and later musicians, notably The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The Rolling Stones, and Bob Dylan, and exerted a profound influence on popular music.

Holly was in the first group of inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986.[3] In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked Holly #13 among "The Fifty Greatest Artists of All Time."

Charles Hardin Holley was born in Lubbock, Texas to Lawrence Odell Holley and Ella Pauline Drake Holley on Labor Day, 1936. The Holleys were a musical family, and as a young boy Holley learned to play piano, guitar, and fiddle. "[H]is singing won a talent contest at age five." He was always known as Buddy to his family. In 1949, Buddy made a recording of Hank Snow's "My Two Timin' Woman" on a wire recorder "borrowed" by a friend who worked in a music shop[citation needed], his first known recording.

During the fall of that year, he met Bob Montgomery at Hutchinson Junior High School. They shared a common interest in music and soon teamed up as "Buddy and Bob". Initially influenced by bluegrass music, they sang harmony duets at local clubs and high school talent shows. In Lubbock, Holly attended Hutchinson Junior High School, which has a mural honoring him, and Lubbock High School, which has numerous features to honor the late musician. His musical interests grew throughout high school while singing in the Lubbock High School Choir.

Seeing Elvis Presley sing live in Lubbock in early 1955 was a turning point for Holly. He began to incorporate a more rockabilly style of sound into his music, which further evolved into rock music. On October 15, he opened on the same bill with Presley, also in Lubbock, catching the eye of a Nashville talent scout. Holly's transition to rock continued when he opened for Bill Haley & His Comets at a local rock show organized by Eddie Crandall, who was also the manager for Marty Robbins.

As a result of this performance, on February 8, 1956, Decca Records signed him to a contract, on which his last name was misspelled as "Holly". That spelling was then adopted for his professional career. Holly formed his own band, though at that time it had no name. It would later be called the Crickets, consisting of Holly (lead guitar and vocalist), Niki Sullivan (guitar), Joe B. Mauldin (bass) and Jerry Allison (drums).

That year, he went to Nashville for three recording sessions with producer Owen Bradley. However, he chafed under a restrictive atmosphere that allowed him little input. Among the tracks he recorded was an early version of "That'll Be The Day", which took its title from a phrase that John Wayne's character says repeatedly in the 1956 film, The Searchers. (This initial version of the song played more slowly and about half an octave higher than the later hit version.) However, Decca chose to release two other singles, "Blue Days, Black Nights" and "Modern Don Juan", which failed to make an impression. On January 22, 1957, Decca informed Holly that his contract would not be renewed, but insisted he not record the same songs for anyone else for five years.

Norman Petty Recording Studios in Clovis, New MexicoHolly got Norman Petty to manage the group, and the band began recording at Petty's studios in Clovis, New Mexico. Petty started contacting music publishers and labels. Brunswick Records, a subsidiary of Decca, signed the Crickets on March 19. Soon after, Holly signed on as a solo artist with another Decca subsidiary, Coral Records. This put him in the unusual position of having two record contracts at the same time.

On May 27, "That'll Be The Day" was released as a single, credited to the Crickets to try to bypass Decca's legal rights. When it became a hit, Decca decided to overlook this. The song topped the US "Best Sellers in Stores" chart on September 23 and the UK Singles Chart for three weeks, beginning November 1. The Crickets performed it and another hit, "Peggy Sue", on The Ed Sullivan Show on December 1.

You can read the rest of this bio at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Holly

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  • 1 week ago

    @08stratguy AMEN!!!!!! Elvis was only famous because he was a pretty boy! Think of all the other talent around then...... Buddy Holy, Chuck Berry etc. Elvis falls short of both of them!!

    richardmorrison78 1 week ago
  • 1 week ago 2

    @richardmorrison78 That's just ridiculous. You compare Elvis to two giants and name them as superior. That may or may not be true. Opinions do vary. But to use that as an argument for Elvis having NO talent is crazy. There really is no need to tear someone down just because you prefer someone else. Buddy was great! Why not just leave it at that?

    John1948TwoC 1 week ago 2
  • 4 weeks ago

    This is the talent that Elvis Presley wished for.

    08stratguy 4 weeks ago
  • 4 weeks ago 5

    @08stratguy Oh pleeaassseeee. Can't you say something nice about Buddy without having to try to tear someone else down. And with such a ridiculous statement. I really don't think Elvis ever worried much about a lack of talent.

    John1948TwoC 4 weeks ago 5
  • 1 month ago 10

    Yes, but Elvis could NOT write music to save his life. Holly was the true creative genius of that period - writing or co-writing almost all of his material. Listen to "Well..All Right" and ""Love's Made of fool of You." You hear modern chord changes in there - way ahead of its time. Clearly the Beatles picked up on this.

    PicnicHikeMusic 1 month ago 10
  • 1 month ago 4

    @PicnicHikeMusic The creative genius? What about Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Eddie Cochran, Fats Domino ????

    John1948TwoC 1 month ago 4

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  • 5 months ago 22

    GREAT SONG! and great quality film of 1957!

    Greenbeatriver 5 months ago 22
  • 6 months ago 17

    Buddy Holly & Jerry Allison wrote this song the day after seeing the classic John Wayne film "The Searchers." In the movie, Wayne continually scoffs "That'll be the day!" whenever he disagrees with someone. The story goes that Holly said to Allison, "Let's write a song," & Allison said, "That'll be the day!" Buddy said, "Yeah, that sounds like a good idea." The rest is history.

    heb1114 6 months ago 17
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