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Buddy Holly — That'll Be The Day
Album: From The Original Masters
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Released: 1958
Length: 2:14
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Well, that'll be the day when you say goodbye
Yes, that'll be the day when you make me cry
You say you gonna leave, you know it's a lie
'Cause that'll be the day when I die

Well, you give me all your lovin' and your turtle dovin'
All your hugs and kisses and your money, too
Well, you know you love me, baby
Still you tell me, maybe
That some day, well, I'll be blue

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

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

Well, when Cupid shot his dart
He shot it at your heart
So if we ever part and I leave you
You say you told me, an' you told me boldly
That someday, well, I'll be blue

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

Well that'll be the day, ooh hoo
That'll be the day, ooh hoo
That'll be the day, ooh hoo
That'll be the day
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Somehow that original album cover art looks distinctly AI-generated. 
Posted 5 months ago by aeous    [ Reply ]
Why cant they make music like this anymore?
Posted 7 months ago by Johnwayne    [ Reply ]
He died the next year.
Posted 2 years ago by Stefen    [ Reply ]
 njswede wrote:

Masterful song progression: "American Pie" and then "That'll be the day (when I die)" by Buddy Holly! 



Too soon!
Posted 2 years ago by ShockwaveRider    [ Reply ]
I see by the bio in the right column that he died ten years before he as born.  That's another good reason to be famous.
Posted 2 years ago by Stefen    [ Reply ]
What happened to Buddy Holly´s Wikipedia entry? Born September 7, 1969 Lubbock, Texas, U.S.. At this wrong birth date he still was more then 10 years dead!? What seems to be correct is his date of death on February 3, 1959 (aged 22). That let´s us now, that his year of birth must be 1937!
Posted 2 years ago by philonair    [ Reply ]
Nowadays he goes by the alias 'James Hoffmann' and makes YouTube videos about coffee.
Posted 2 years ago by jhalfmoon    [ Reply ]
My job has me traveling to random locations throughout the country. I was walking into a restaurant in yet another small town and noticed a little homage to Buddy Holly and the plane crash.  "Oh, so this is what happened in Clear Lake, Iowa..." Which, by the way is a pretty nice little town just west of Mason City with a few railroad bridges nearby that are diligently inspected ever year. Listen closely and you may hear RP playing in the hyrail truck as it drives between bridges...
Posted 3 years ago by forthbrdge    [ Reply ]
Nice mix Bill. Pie followed by Holly. Nice touch. Brings up a smile.
Posted 4 years ago by mgfitz    [ Reply ]
Masterful song progression: "American Pie" and then "That'll be the day (when I die)" by Buddy Holly! 
Posted 5 years ago by njswede    [ Reply ]
Sooooooooooooooooooooooo good.
Posted 5 years ago by BCarn    [ Reply ]
Come on, folks; it's Buddy freakin' Holly!
You might as well criticize the oxygen in the air...
Posted 5 years ago by meatmike    [ Reply ]
American Pie followed by That'll be the Day.   That is why we all love Radio Paradise so much!!!
Posted 5 years ago by Big_Daddy    [ Reply ]
 Stefen wrote:

ditto
 

ditto ditto
Posted 5 years ago by kaosregolari    [ Reply ]
Terrific set on RP the last few hours.
Posted 5 years ago by westslope    [ Reply ]
 LaurieinTucson wrote:
what a segueway
 
ditto
Posted 5 years ago by Stefen    [ Reply ]
what a segueway
Posted 5 years ago by LaurieinTucson    [ Reply ]
 pinem wrote:
I remember this song as one of the first songs that caught my attention as a ten yr old; gives me 'American Bandstand' flashbacks.

 
I might have been 8 or 9, otherwise similar here. I wore that record out (The Buddy Holly Story)

This is a 10 for me. .
 
And thanks for playing it, BnR! I figured that would be the day, when you played American Pie too.  Long Live RP!  

(and my mental segue has Fats Domino's "Blueberry Hill" playing next) 
Posted 6 years ago by lizardking    [ Reply ]
 SheRidesABeemer wrote:
world class segue American Pie to That'll Be the Day{#Bananajam}

 

And singin' "This'll be the day that I die" (Don McLean)

Well, that'll be the day when you say goodbye (Buddy Holly)

Posted 6 years ago by justin4kick    [ Reply ]
 SheRidesABeemer wrote:
world class segue American Pie to That'll Be the Day{#Bananajam}

 
Indeed!
Posted 6 years ago by SeriousLee    [ Reply ]
Are you going to play the Big Bopper next
Posted 6 years ago by Baketown    [ Reply ]
The day Buddy Holly's "That'll Be The Day" followed Don McLean's "America Pie". McLean was 13 when Holly first appeared in his firmament.
Posted 6 years ago by gmichaelt    [ Reply ]
world class segue American Pie to That'll Be the Day{#Bananajam}
Posted 6 years ago by SheRidesABeemer    [ Reply ]
 senorcerveza wrote:
Still great after all these years.  Rock on, Buddy!

 
yep, yep, yep!!
Posted 9 years ago by Skydog    [ Reply ]
Still great after all these years.  Rock on, Buddy!
Posted 9 years ago by senorcerveza    [ Reply ]
I remember this song as one of the first songs that caught my attention as a ten yr old; gives me 'American Bandstand' flashbacks.
Posted 9 years ago by pinem    [ Reply ]
It's old, ergo it has to be godlike? Just crap for me, sorry.
Posted 10 years ago by pankman    [ Reply ]
The comments on this page make me want to hurl and jump off the nearest cliff...

(please, no "school of rock") 
Posted 10 years ago by rdo    [ Reply ]

Posted 11 years ago by melzabutch    [ Reply ]
I appreciate Buddy more and more as the years pass.  Really wish talents like his and too many others' weren't taken so young.
Posted 11 years ago by bachbeet    [ Reply ]
How is this not Godlike? {#Notworthy}
Posted 11 years ago by gatorade    [ Reply ]
 That_SOB wrote:


  Your comment is akin to saying " I don't like Henry Ford nor his inventions...... "  
I guess there will always be those who "Rave On." 
 
No it's not.
Posted 11 years ago by freddyfender    [ Reply ]
This was the first single to hit UK in '57 and was one of the records that turned me on to rock n roll. RIP Buddy.

Posted 11 years ago by Pedro1874    [ Reply ]
 gjr wrote:
the ORIGINAL Beatle!!!{#Bananajam}
 
Absolutely!  The Beatles modelled themselves (initially) after The Crickets!  Buddy Holly, the founder of the 'nerd rocker' look. ;)
Posted 12 years ago by Kanuffen    [ Reply ]
the ORIGINAL Beatle!!!{#Bananajam}
Posted 12 years ago by gjr    [ Reply ]
 terrapin52 wrote:
I love Buddy Holly's cover of this Linda Ronstadt song.  Just kidding!

  



It's on this Linda record, which came out in '76.  The album cover made everybody's Bicentennial bashes just a little bit better...


Posted 12 years ago by treatment_bound    [ Reply ]
 kingart wrote:
In this our time, this song is trite and banal. In it's 1958 time, it was groundbreaking. Buddy Holly is one of the original masters of rock and roll. If you underestimate his influence on any number of paradigm-shifting music acts of the 60s or 70s—like, you know, minor bands like The Beatles, or The Who, or Elvis (both Presley and Costello, OK?)—then you don't know music and you need aural surgery. As a matter of fact, some of your comments expose that you don't know very much. A 2? Have you got a friggin' pulse?
And the title, btw, you geniuses who disparage, is a wry allusion to a line repeated by Ethan Edwards (that would be the character of John Wayne) in the classic 1956 western, The Searchers: that'll be the day. 
 
       so just wash your mouth out, junior!

Posted 13 years ago by maxmox    [ Reply ]
I love Buddy Holly's cover of this Linda Ronstadt song.  Just kidding!  {#Tongue}
Posted 13 years ago by terrapin52    [ Reply ]
In this our time, this song is trite and banal. In it's 1958 time, it was groundbreaking. Buddy Holly is one of the original masters of rock and roll. If you underestimate his influence on any number of paradigm-shifting music acts of the 60s or 70s—like, you know, minor bands like The Beatles, or The Who, or Elvis (both Presley and Costello, OK?)—then you don't know music and you need aural surgery. As a matter of fact, some of your comments expose that you don't know very much. A 2? Have you got a friggin' pulse?
And the title, btw, you geniuses who disparage, is a wry allusion to a line repeated by Ethan Edwards (that would be the character of John Wayne) in the classic 1956 western, The Searchers: that'll be the day. 
Posted 13 years ago by kingart    [ Reply ]
 freddyfender wrote:


I had rated this a 2; but after reading your comment, I switched it to a 1.
 

  Your comment is akin to saying " I don't like Henry Ford nor his inventions...... "  
I guess there will always be those who "Rave On." 
Posted 13 years ago by That_SOB    [ Reply ]
milehighYinzer wrote:
What 6 people would rate Buddy Holy a 1? Seriously, you deserve to be punished to be deaf for rating Buddy Holy a 1.

I had rated this a 2; but after reading your comment, I switched it to a 1.

 

I am with you.....this is a very annoying song....excellent rating.  :)


Posted 13 years ago by sbegf    [ Reply ]
 milehighYinzer wrote:
What 6 people would rate Buddy Holy a 1? Seriously, you deserve to be punished to be deaf for rating Buddy Holy a 1.
 

I had rated this a 2; but after reading your comment, I switched it to a 1.
Posted 13 years ago by freddyfender    [ Reply ]
Absolutely brilliant!!! {#Sunny}
Posted 13 years ago by WayUpNorth    [ Reply ]
I made a comment on one of the other Holly song pages re Paul McCartney's Buddy Holly documentary "The Real Buddy Holly Story"—mostly compiled to correct the factual errors in "The Buddy Holly Story" movie (Gary Busey, 1978). The documentary concentrates on the Lubbock, Clovis, and Nashville bands and interviews all of the surviving Crickets, some of whom were ignored in the movies, as was Norman Petty, their Clovis-based manager. If you're a Holly aficionado, the documentary is essential.
Posted 14 years ago by WonderLizard    [ Reply ]

...nice...


Posted 15 years ago by mandolin    [ Reply ]
10 for a sad anniversary.  Still sounds fresh.
Posted 15 years ago by CamLwalk    [ Reply ]
50 years ago today—the saddest day.
Posted 15 years ago by WonderLizard    [ Reply ]
 brighthue wrote:
Excellent remastering.
 
Indeed. And it helps that they had such great masters to begin with. Many of the recordings from the 50s blow away the 60s/70s multitrack stuff in terms of sound quality. Not until very late in the days of analog multitrack could the per-track specs on those recorders begin to match what the old 30 ips Ampexes could do.
Posted 15 years ago by William    [ Reply ]
cool song I first discovered on the "American Graffiti" soundtrack when I was a kid.   I used to love to air guitar on the bridge.

I can still hear Wolfman Jack on the intro..."Who's this on the Wolfman Telephone"?

Posted 16 years ago by treatment_bound    [ Reply ]
 Pyro wrote:
I hold total reverence for what Buddy did and it would have been interesting to see how he would have grown, musically.

However, I guess I'm just a tad too young to really LIKE this. And how many times I've heard it!!

*Pyro dons flame suit*
 

Well, that's a totally legitimate response, in my opinion. If you don't care for it, you just don't — can't really criticize that. And you're not running around going, "Man, this sucks! Buddy Holly is overrated!" like a lot of others here.

But I'm (no offense) quite a bit younger than you and I adore Buddy Holly — have since I was in my 20s. So I don't think it really has anything to do with being too young to like it.


Posted 16 years ago by holborne    [ Reply ]
I hold total reverence for what Buddy did and it would have been interesting to see how he would have grown, musically. However, I guess I'm just a tad too young to really LIKE this. And how many times I've heard it!! *Pyro dons flame suit*
Posted 17 years ago by Pyro    [ Reply ]
ocsike wrote:
Because I have a very own taste of music, and I don't make silly comments on others'. And I just don't like his songs at all. But I like Wagner's operas... would your most highness rate that as music?
uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, just because you like one form of music, you can't open your mind up to somebody that influenced almost all forms of music after him.
Posted 17 years ago by milehighYinzer    [ Reply ]
earthbased wrote:
He only recorded for 18 months due to his death in a plane crash. How many hits did he have in this period of time? 10?
Makes one wonder where he would have gone with his music if his life had not been cut so short.
Posted 17 years ago by steeler    [ Reply ]
What 6 people would rate Buddy Holy a 1? Seriously, you deserve to be punished to be deaf for rating Buddy Holy a 1.
Posted 17 years ago by milehighYinzer    [ Reply ]
Buddy was the man!
Posted 17 years ago by lionirons    [ Reply ]
Buddy Holly died almost a year before I was born, but when my oldest boy was about two, (he's 28 now) he would say "that's Buddy Holly!" every time he heard any of his songs, so I smile whenever I hear any Buddy Holly. My boy still loves music.
Posted 17 years ago by TeddiB    [ Reply ]
Yeah Buddy looks more 80's than Elvis Costello.celadonstone wrote:
Great song. That cover IS unusual--Holly could do an ad for Old Navy's polarfleece sale in that getup...
Posted 17 years ago by akstephens    [ Reply ]
Great song. That cover IS unusual--Holly could do an ad for Old Navy's polarfleece sale in that getup...
Posted 17 years ago by celadonstone    [ Reply ]
Wow. Crisp n clean R&R classic.
Posted 17 years ago by Amazon    [ Reply ]
- purity -
Posted 17 years ago by denmom    [ Reply ]
shimmy shakin' in my chair
Posted 17 years ago by araujokrl    [ Reply ]
looking at that cover I can't help but think "are we not men?"
Posted 17 years ago by electronicshaman    [ Reply ]
"Pure perfection from Lubbock, Texas." (The only time in my life I have used this sentence.)
Posted 18 years ago by dionysius    [ Reply ]
You didn't know he was a cross dresser? highwindows wrote:
Buddy & the song still have this extra-ordinary freshness & attack! (Just a slight shame that the graphic artist let loose on the album cover makes it look as if Buddy is wearing a skirt!)
Posted 18 years ago by mikecrawler77    [ Reply ]
How I love music from the 50's. Keep it coming!
Posted 18 years ago by cattgirl813    [ Reply ]
Buddy & the song still have this extra-ordinary freshness & attack! (Just a slight shame that the graphic artist let loose on the album cover makes it look as if Buddy is wearing a skirt!)
Posted 18 years ago by highwindows    [ Reply ]
pciskowski wrote:
Who would rate this a 1? Why bother to listen to music if you think this is a 1?
About what song could you not make that comment? But you'r right--this is surely not a 1. 'Cuz it's a 2.
Posted 18 years ago by Xeric    [ Reply ]
This is gettin' pretty close to the roots of R&R.
Posted 18 years ago by Stefen    [ Reply ]
Buddy Holly was always part of my Dad's compilation tapes that he used to play in the car while we were on holiday.
Posted 18 years ago by jah_blessed    [ Reply ]
pciskowski wrote:
Who would rate this a 1? Why bother to listen to music if you think this is a 1?
Because I have a very own taste of music, and I don't make silly comments on others'. And I just don't like his songs at all. But I like Wagner's operas... would your most highness rate that as music?
Posted 18 years ago by ocsike    [ Reply ]
Great dance music
Posted 18 years ago by Painted_Turtle    [ Reply ]
Excellent remastering.
Posted 18 years ago by brighthue    [ Reply ]
He only recorded for 18 months due to his death in a plane crash. How many hits did he have in this period of time? 10?
Posted 18 years ago by earthbased    [ Reply ]
Hannio wrote:
I didn't listen to Buddy Holly when I was young. My loss.
But presumably you listen to him now, which means you can look back when you're 94 and say "I listened to Buddy Holly when I was young." Ain't temporal perspective a hoot?
Posted 19 years ago by drover    [ Reply ]
pciskowski wrote:
Who would rate this a 1? Why bother to listen to music if you think this is a 1?
AMEN!
Posted 19 years ago by BjornPhrei    [ Reply ]
WonderLizard wrote:
Roverfish wrote:
Bill, you've given me an idea for a sequence: Don McLean's "American Pie" after Ritchie Valens, Big Bopper, and Buddy Holly.
Oh, dear. I heard this done a long, long time ago on some classic rock station. Not so much morbid as garish and kitschy. Sorry, I don't like to rain on someone else's parade, but, Bill, please...no.
Garish and kitschy? Those are some of my finest traits! ;-) Hey, that it's been done before doesn't discount the idea. There are looser strings running around RP, why not this one? Excellent tune.
Posted 19 years ago by Roverfish    [ Reply ]
Who would rate this a 1? Why bother to listen to music if you think this is a 1?
Posted 19 years ago by pciskowski    [ Reply ]
I didn't listen to Buddy Holly when I was young. My loss.
Posted 19 years ago by Hannio    [ Reply ]
The tip of the iceberg that is the dearth of early rock-and-roll at RP -- slighted, disregarded, sidestepped, or simply overlooked.
Posted 19 years ago by lester    [ Reply ]
It's clear the innocence Buddy Holly's songs represent, is long gone.
Posted 19 years ago by Johray63    [ Reply ]
Roverfish wrote:
Bill, you've given me an idea for a sequence: Don McLean's "American Pie" after Ritchie Valens, Big Bopper, and Buddy Holly.
Oh, dear. I heard this done a long, long time ago on some classic rock station. Not so much morbid as garish and kitschy. Sorry, I don't like to rain on someone else's parade, but, Bill, please...no.
Posted 19 years ago by WonderLizard    [ Reply ]
Wow, haven't heard this in years. Takes me back to my childhood.
Posted 19 years ago by BKardon    [ Reply ]
:sunny.gif:
Posted 19 years ago by Danny_G    [ Reply ]
Bill, you've given me an idea for a sequence: Don McLean's "American Pie" after Ritchie Valens, Big Bopper, and Buddy Holly. By the way, a great analysis of the lyrics to McLean's song are at https://www.rareexception.com/Garden/Pie.php . Great tune.
Posted 19 years ago by Roverfish    [ Reply ]
JokesandJokesandJokes wrote:
Yeah! Whiny little bastards! When I was their age, I have to walk 45 miles to school in my bare feet, then work a full time job in the evenings just to support my alcoholic parents!!
Ohh, we used to dream of having alcoholic parents.
Posted 19 years ago by xkolibuul    [ Reply ]
yeah! Buddy!
Posted 19 years ago by stacadette    [ Reply ]
OK, this is going to far back now...
Posted 19 years ago by damien    [ Reply ]
JokesandJokesandJokes wrote:
Yeah! Whiny little bastards! When I was their age, I have to walk 45 miles to school in my bare feet, then work a full time job in the evenings just to support my alcoholic parents!!
You forgot to add that it was uphill both ways
Posted 20 years ago by indypaul    [ Reply ]
One of the originators of R&R! ORIGINATORS!!!
Posted 20 years ago by trekhead    [ Reply ]
drH wrote:
Probably the same dork changed it to a 1 out of spite. Children these days have no respect for their ancestors...
Yeah! Whiny little bastards! When I was their age, I have to walk 45 miles to school in my bare feet, then work a full time job in the evenings just to support my alcoholic parents!!
Posted 20 years ago by JokesandJokesandJokes    [ Reply ]
drH wrote:
Probably the same dork changed it to a 1 out of spite. Children these days have no respect for their ancestors...
Posted 20 years ago by Angloray    [ Reply ]
Gregorama wrote:
Lubbock's pride and Joy! Great to hear some fairly rootsy rock on RP. Would like to hear some more music with historic roots for rock, like Robert Johnson, Louis Jordan, Ike Turner and others whose accomplishments lead us to today's incarnations of rock & roll. Does anyone agree with this view? Maybe I need to upload some of it...
Wholeheartedly agree! More roots, more pioneers!
Posted 20 years ago by Jimmy86    [ Reply ]
Lubbock's pride and Joy! Great to hear some fairly rootsy rock on RP. Would like to hear some more music with historic roots for rock, like Robert Johnson, Louis Jordan, Ike Turner and others whose accomplishments lead us to today's incarnations of rock & roll. Does anyone agree with this view? Maybe I need to upload some of it...
Posted 20 years ago by Gregorama    [ Reply ]
Gotta love Buddy Holly, i wonder were Elvis would of been ranked as best musician if Buddy had lived longer?
Posted 20 years ago by thelionsduck    [ Reply ]
TheLoneIguana wrote:
What malcontent gave this a "2"? Sheesh.
Probably the same dork changed it to a 1 out of spite. Children these days have no respect for their ancestors...
Posted 20 years ago by drH    [ Reply ]
Rock in its infancy. Cool! Still amazed that anyone could assign this a 1. Sigh. :roll:
Posted 20 years ago by bev    [ Reply ]
Love them Crickets!
Posted 21 years ago by Mkopps    [ Reply ]
LOVE IT!!!!
Posted 21 years ago by newwavegurly    [ Reply ]
What malcontent gave this a "2"? Sheesh.
Posted 21 years ago by TheLoneIguana    [ Reply ]
Buddy Holly is king. This reminds me of my childhood stuck in the car with my parents...good choice DJ
Posted 21 years ago by DavidCarrico    [ Reply ]