That'll Be The Day

We've all heard of Buddy Holly and the Crickets, but before that, there was Buddy Holly and the Three Tunes, and in 1956 they recorded this song for Decca Records.

That'll be the day when you say goodbye.

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.

Well, you give me all your loving and your tender love.

All your hugs and kisses and your money too.

Well, you know you love me, baby, still you tell me maybe.

Bye-bye, Miss American Pie.

Buddy Holly was born Charles Harden Holly in Lubbock, Texas, recorded That'll Be the Day and Peggy Sue.

J.P. Richardson, now I did not know this, I found out something about him, was born in Sabine, is it Sabine Pass? Sabine, Sabine?

Sabine.

Also, amid the rising world tensions, President FDR proclaimed a, quote, "...unlimited national emergency during a radio address from the White House." In 1942, Doris Dorian Miller, a cook aboard the USS West Virginia, became the first African-American to receive the Navy Cross for displaying extraordinary courage and disregard for his own personal safety during Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.

In 1957, the single That'll Be the Day by Buddy Hollies' group The Crickets was released by Brunswick Records.

In 1968, the U.S.

Supreme Court in the United States v. O'Brien upheld the conviction of David O'Brien for destroying his draft card outside of a Boston courthouse, ruling that the act was not protected by freedom of speech.

I'm William Cooper, and this is the Hour of the Time.

[on hold music] 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.

Well, you seem to cause me love and then you seem to turn and love me.

So I ought to hug and kiss you and you want me to.

Well, you know you love me, baby, but do you feel me? Maybe that someday we're all through.

Well, that'll be the day when you say goodbye.

He starts getting a bit naughty, but yeah.

I've seen That'll Be The Day probably two or three times and I've seen Stardust at least one but I haven't seen That'll Be The Day probably for at least 10 years and maybe a bit longer for Stardust.

I think the assessment is right that there's a social realism sort of Ken Lodge element and influence with regards to the sort of grittiness of the life and also being a bit more in the stream of consciousness way that a lot of Ken Loach and Mike Lee films are where there's a conclusion isn't always necessarily clear as a conclusion and I think the style of which you know whether it's just the production values or whether it was intentionally meant to be a bit greasy but also feeling like old world in a sense that capturing the 50s particularly in That Will Be The Day I think is quite indicative of these films I don't think they're necessarily a perfectly made films, but I think they capture the essence of rock and roll, particularly in its early sense, and then the second film, The Excess, and almost the changing reality that comes in with Excess and Fame.

So I think the film's a slightly different style between the two of them, and I think that's right in capturing the mood for them, but how much of that was intentional and how much of that is just different directors and their production values and amount of money being made available is different.

I was going to ask you this question Stephen and also to Scott because only since I've been listening to Real Britannia over the last decade or so that I became aware of the term kitchen sink drama.

It was either Kung Fu Fighting or Rock On.

Wow, that's a choice.

So I'd seen That Will Be The Day before about similar sort of timeframe to Steve about 10 years ago.

And then in 1999, the Buddy Holly Center opened in Lubbock and it's housed in a historic railway depot and contains a huge collection of Buddy Holly memorabilia, including his Fender Stratocaster, And as we said, the actual glasses he was wearing when the plane crashed.

Fun fact, they've also moved Jerry Ellison's childhood home onto the property, so that's the house where Jerry and Buddy wrote That'll Be the Day, which means that it has been preserved as part of the site as well.

The center isn't exclusively about Buddy, though.

It also includes a fine art gallery and exhibitions celebrating the wider musical and artistic history of Lubbock and overall West Texas, and I'm sure Buddy Holly would have absolutely loved that.