Fact #10376
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Short story:
The Crickets [including Buddy Holly], record That'll Be The Day in Clovis, New Mexico, USA, with producer Norman Petty. The title of the song is derived from John Wayne's catchphrase in the movie The Searchers [which will later also inspire the name of a popular Liverpool band of the 1960s]. Although recorded as a demo, at a cost of $60, this version will in due course be released by Brunswick Records as a single.
Full article:
Sonny Curtis (of The Crickets) : Buddy and Jerry Allison had seen a movie called The Searchers with John Wayne. If you've seen that movie, you'll know that John Wayne is always saying, 'That'll be the day.' Buddy and J.A. got the idea for the title from that.
Norman Petty (producer) : On That'll Be The Day Jerry was actually playing pretty loose, you know, good drums. It was a very interpretative type drum, not like any r'n'b or country drum sound that had been done before. He did a lot of really neat percussion things and he and Buddy developed a style of filling in for each other.
When Jerry wasn't filling in, Buddy'd do it with his guitar, 'cause they were the motivating forces. They had done a lot of things, just the two of them.
So I think that in That'll Be The Day Jerry is more laid back and we had everybody in at the same time. We did feel that it was going to be a demo. We weren't really trying for isolation. We were trying for as good a balance as we could get with that many people in the studio.
I don't really recall how many people had come over to help on the session. Buddy had his friends and they in turn had friends and the building was packed with people and friends. So to this day I really can't tell you how many people were actually singing.
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Norman Petty (producer) : On That'll Be The Day Jerry was actually playing pretty loose, you know, good drums. It was a very interpretative type drum, not like any r'n'b or country drum sound that had been done before. He did a lot of really neat percussion things and he and Buddy developed a style of filling in for each other.
When Jerry wasn't filling in, Buddy'd do it with his guitar, 'cause they were the motivating forces. They had done a lot of things, just the two of them.
So I think that in That'll Be The Day Jerry is more laid back and we had everybody in at the same time. We did feel that it was going to be a demo. We weren't really trying for isolation. We were trying for as good a balance as we could get with that many people in the studio.
I don't really recall how many people had come over to help on the session. Buddy had his friends and they in turn had friends and the building was packed with people and friends. So to this day I really can't tell you how many people were actually singing.
(Source : not known)