Buddy Holly & The Crickets – That’ll Be The Day

That’ll Be The Day is a single from the album with the same title from 1957. This Buddy Holly single charted #1 in US and UK.

Holly had been kicking around his home town in Lubbock, Texas trying to write a hit song for his small rockabilly band since he had attended an Elvis Presley gig at his High School some time in 1955. His band in those days consisted of him on lead vocals and guitar, Jerry Allison on the drums and Joe B. Maudlin on upright bass. He and Jerry decided to get together and go see The Searchers, a Western movie staring John Wayne. In the movie, Wayne keeps replying, “That’ll be the day,” every time another character in the film predicts or proclaims something will happen when he felt it was not likely to happen. The phrase stuck in Jerry’s mind, and when they were hanging out at Jerry’s house one night, Buddy looked at Jerry and said that it sure would be nice if they could record a hit song. Jerry replied with, “That’ll be the day,” imitating John Wayne in the film.

Holly and his band The Three Tunes recorded this in Nashville in 1956, but Decca records didn’t like the result and refused to release it. A year later, Holly re-recorded it with The Crickets in a studio in Clovis, New Mexico owned by his new producer, Norman Petty. Backup vocalists were brought in and the key was lowered to fit Holly’s voice a little better. This version became a huge hit and made Holly a star that summer.

This was Holly’s first hit, but it was credited to The Crickets, Holly’s band. They worked with two record labels, with one releasing Holly’s songs as The Crickets and the other as Buddy Holly. Both labels were subsidiaries of Decca Records.

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“That’ll Be the Day” a fost compus de by Buddy Holly și Jerry Allison. Prima dată a fost înregistrat de Buddy Holly and the Three Tunes în 1956 și re-înregistrat în 1957 cu noul său grup, the Crickets. În 1957, discul s-a vândut în peste 1 milion de exemplare (Gold Certified).

El a avut prima apariție la o televiziune locală în 1952, iar în anul următor a format grupul “Buddy and Bob” cu prietenul său Bob Montgomery. În 1955, după ce a cântat în deschidere pentru Elvis Presley, el a decis să urmeze o carieră în muzică. El a deschis pentru Presley de trei ori în acel an.
Atunci și-a schimbat stilul de la country & western în întregime pentru a rock and roll. În Octombrie a acelui an, când a deschis pentru Bill Haley a fost văzut de un producător din Nashville, și a semnat un contract cu Decca Records.

Well that’ll be the day when you say goodbye
Yes that’ll be the day when you make me cry
You say you’re gonna leave you know it’s a lie cause that’ll be the day when I die

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