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Everyday

Everyday

In his short career, Buddy Holly only released about fifty songs. But his influence on Rock and and Roll has been enormous. He was a proflic and multi-talented artist who left behind dozens of manuscripts and session recordings. In fact, Coral Records, his label, continued to release "new" Holly recordings for ten years following his death in 1959, with the last being Giant in 1969.

Numerous artitsts have spolken fo Holly's influence. Dan McClean said, "Buddy Holly and the Crickets were the template for all the rock bands that followed." John Lennon and Paul McCartney had only recenlty met and begun their musical collaboration when they heard Holly for the first time when he appeared on Sunday Night at the London Palladium. The two studied his music and deliberately immitated his style when they launched the Beatles--named in an insectoid homage to Holly's band, The Crickets. Eric Clapton has said that after first seeing Holly perform with his Fendr, "I thought I'd died and gone to heaven ... it was like seeing an instrument from outer space and I said to myself: 'That's the future – that's what I want." Elton John was so impressed with Holly that he started wearing Holly's signature horn-rimmed glasses even though John didn't need them.

Probably his most famous song is "Peggy Sue," but I've chosen the "B" side of that release, "Everyday," for my Soundtrack. It's a gentle ballad expressing hope for the fulfillment of an incipient romance. In the vocals, harmonys, and cadences you can hear John Denver, Bobby Vee, Johnny Darren, Paul Simon, and Bob Dylan. Indeed, Denver and Vee released their own versions of the song, as did Phil Ochs, James Taylor, and Don McLean. Other groups such as Pearl Jam and Deep Purple have performed the song in concert.

Holly's life inspired a Hollywood bio-pic, The Buddy Holly Story, for which Gary Busey was nominated for the Academy Award for playing the eponymous songwriter. However, others felt the movie contained innaccuracies, and Paul McCartney funded a documentary entitled The Buddy Holly Story.

A clever fictional rerpesentation of Holly appears in the Quantum Leap episode, "How the Tess Was Won." Season one episode five If you're alert, you'll figure which character is supposed to be Holly, although it's not revealed until the very end.

                                                 
Holly singing the song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMezwtB1oCU

                                                 
Lyrics
https://genius.com/Buddy-holly-everyday-lyrics

                                                 
John Denver's version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJilVITrMf0

                                                 
James Taylor's version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-2o_vGMYaw

                                                 
Dave McLean's American Pie, an ode to Holly's death--the day the music died.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRpiBpDy7MQ


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