![]() Actor Lashana Lynch (“No Time To Die”) is 36. Actor Jaleel White (“Family Matters”) is 47. Actor Kirk Acevedo (ah-seh-VAY’-doh) (“Fringe,” “Oz”) is 52. Actor Elizabeth Marvel (“Homeland,” “House of Cards”) is 54. Actor Michael Vartan (VAR’-tan) (“Alias”) is 55. Actor Fisher Stevens (TV’s “Early Edition,” film’s “Short Circuit”) is 60. Drummer Mike Bordin (Faith No More) is 61. Drummer Charlie Benante (beh-NAHN’-tay) of Anthrax is 61. Actor Michael Rispoli (“The Rum Diary,” “To Die For”) is 63. Guitarist Charlie Burchill of Simple Minds is 64. 1 hit from the previous year credited to the Crickets, That'll Be the Day, plus McCartney's own Elvis-inspired song. Actor William Fichtner (FIHK’-ner) (“Mom,” “Invasion”) is 67. TV personality Bill Nye (“Bill Nye the Science Guy”) is 68. Buddy Hollys Thatll Be The Day is Named The Greatest Texas Classic (2012) Hollys song, recorded in February 1957, took its title and hook from John. Today’s Birthdays: Director Kathryn Bigelow (“The Hurt Locker”) is 72. It beat the previous record-holder, Don McLean’s “American Pie,” which is eight minutes and 42 seconds. It became the longest number-one hit, at ten minutes and 13 seconds. In 2021, the Taylor Swift song “All Too Well” hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. In 1995, The Beatles’ “Anthology One” set a record for first-week album sales, selling 1.2 million copies. In 1985, actor Amy Irving married filmmaker Steven Spielberg. In 1980, the sitcom “Bosom Buddies,” starring Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari (skoh-LAHR’-ee), premiered on ABC. In 1970, George Harrison’s “All Things Must Pass” album was released. Portions of the first two concerts were released on the album “Get Yer Ya-Yas Out.” In 1969, the Rolling Stones opened a four-night stand at New York’s Madison Square Garden. In 1967, The Beatles’ “Magical Mystery Tour” album was released in North America. It contained the singles “That’ll Be the Day,” ″Maybe Baby,” and “Not Fade Away.” 27, 1957, the album “The Chirping Crickets” by Buddy Holly and the Crickets was released. Denton, TX: Texas State Historical Association, 2012. Jasinski, Gary Hartman, Casey Monahan, and Ann T. For those looking to dig deeper, Lubbock’s Buddy Holly Center is well worth a road trip to learn a bit more. It is hard to overestimate Holly’s influence in rock and roll, even among Texas music historians prone to such things. The Rolling Stones’ 1964 cover was their first top-ten UK hit, as well as their first American single. ![]() “Not Fade Away,” too, skipped across the Atlantic. Petty attributed the record to “The Crickets” rather than “Buddy Holly” because they were officially still under contract with Decca.Īs early as 1958, “That’ll Be the Day” was the song that Liverpool’s Quarrymen (soon to be the Beatles) chose to record when they first had access to studio equipment. Their first Petty-produced single “That’ll Be the Day” came out in May 1957. They got their first shot at recording with Owen Bradley at Decca in Nashville, but only found the sound they wanted in the Clovis, New Mexico studio of the independent-minded Norman and Vi Petty. Buddy Holly & The Crickets performing 'Thatll Be The Day' on the Ed Sullivan Show on December 1, 1957. On October 27, 1957, Buddy Holly and the Crickets released their second single, “Oh, Boy” backed with “Not Fade Away.” The young band of Buddy Holly, Jerry Allison, Joe Mauldin, and Niki Sullivan had taken inspiration from Elvis Presley’s Lubbock tour dates in 1955, and set out to be the next stars of rock ‘n’ roll. By Jason Mellard / Center for Texas Music History at Texas State TWITMH #26: Buddy Holly and the Crickets released their second single
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