![]() The Heart of Rock & Soul: The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made. 1000 UK Number One Hits: The Stories Behind Every Number One Single Since 1952. ![]() KL Jon Kutner and Spencer Leigh (2005).A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs: Volume 2. Behind the Song: The Stories of 100 Great Pop & Rock Classics. HL Michael Heatley and Spencer Leigh (1998).The Billboard Book of Number One Hits (5th edition). AMG All Music Guide review by Bruce Eder.His career was short, but with “that mean guitar, firing off dangerous staccato bursts,” DM “endearing hiccup in Holly’s voice, the bouncy rockabilly beat, an intriguingly enigmatic story line” AMG the song “That’ll Be the Day” would live on as one of early rock and roll’s most classic tunes. Sadly, Holly was killed in a plane crash on 2/3/59, a tragedy often known as “the day the music died” because it also took the lives of fellow rock singers the Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens. After rejecting “The Beetles” because it sounded creepy and people would want to squish them AH they settled on The Crickets “because of their happy, chirping sound.” KL Later, the Beatles moniker re-surfaced for the Fab-Four – inspired by the Crickets, and especially “That’ll Be the Day,” since it was one of the first songs John Lennon learned. Holly, though wasn’t technically permitted to re-record the song so it was suggested it be released under a group name instead. TB While it was just a demo, Brunswick label chief Bob Thiele was sold and wanted to release it just as it was. re-recorded “That’ll Be the Day” on February 27, 1957. His contract with Decca expired so he went to Norman Petty, who’d impressed him with his production on Buddy Knox’s “Party Doll.” FB Holly and co. In January 1957, Holly’s career was going nowhere. Whenever a character would suggest something that wasn’t likely to happen, Wayne would sarcastically proclaim, “That’ll be the day.” SF One night at Jerry’s house, Buddy suggested that it would be nice if they could record a hit song, to which Jerry replied, “That’ll be the day.” SF They turned the title into a song in which Holly used the phrase “to declare his brash confidence that his girl would never leave him.” SS Buddy Holly and drummer Jerry Allison went to see the Western The Searchers. The idea for the song came about as the result of a John Wayne movie. NRR Bradley said, “That’s the worst song I’ve ever heard.” KL It had a more country-oriented vibe than the version that would become a hit. Among the songs was an early version of “That’ll Be the Day” which Holly recorded with guitarist Sonny Curtis, bassist Don Guest, and drummer Jerry Allison. Holly recorded a series of sessions for Decca throughout 1956 at producer Owen Bradley’s studio. He “gets counted as a pioneer of rock and roll, but…he didn’t turn up until the genre had become fairly well established in the charts.” AH He was “arguably the most important figure of this second wave.” AH Critic Dave Marsh called Holly’s band, the Crickets, “the first modern rock band” because they were a self-contained group comprised of a basic two-guitars, bass, and drum lineup DM led by “a self-contained writing, singing, playing machine who upped the ante even further by becoming the first rocker who really didn’t look like a rocker.” DT He knew what he wanted to do when he saw Elvis Presley live in 1955 and secured a contract with Decca Records by January 1956. ![]() Sales (in millions): 1.0 US, - UK, 1.0 world (includes US + UK)īuddy Holly was born Charles Hardin Holley in Lubbock, Texas in 1936. Peak: 1 1 US, 4 HP, 3 CB, 3 HR, 2 RB, 1 3 UK, 1 DF
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