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| *''Buddy Holly: a Biography'' |
*Amburn, Ellis (1995). ''Buddy Holly: a Biography''. St. Martins Press. ISBN 031214558 | ||
| *''The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll'' |
*] (1976). ''The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll''. Random House. ISBN 0394732383 | ||
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"Peggy Sue" is a rock and roll song written by Buddy Holly, and originally performed and recorded by Buddy Holly and the Crickets in early July of 1957.
As explained in the Amburn book, page 78, the song was originally called "Cindy Lou", and was named for Buddy's niece, the daughter of his sister Pat Holley Kaiter. The title was later changed to "Peggy Sue" in reference to Crickets drummer Jerry Allison's girlfriend (and future wife), Peggy Sue Gerron, with whom he had recently had a temporary breakup.
Appropriately, Allison played a prominent role in the production of the song, playing paradiddles on the drums throughout the song, the drums' sound rhythmically fading in and out as a result of real-time engineering techniques by the producer, Norm Petty. Many music critics regard this as Holly's all-time best recording.
The song went to #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1957.
Sequel
Holly wrote a poignant sequel called "Peggy Sue Got Married", and recorded a demo or practice version in his New York City apartment on December 5, 1958, accompanied only by himself on guitar. The tape was discovered after his untimely death, and was "enhanced" for commercial release, by adding background vocals and an electric guitar track that drowned out Holly's own playing (and almost his voice as well). The rarely-heard original version was released on a vinyl collection called "The Complete Buddy Holly", and was later used over the opening credits of the 1986 Kathleen Turner film Peggy Sue Got Married.
Other references
- The Beatles were admirers of Holly and the Crickets. In addition to their straightforward remake of Holly's song "Words of Love", some analysts (such as Jonathan Cott in The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll, page 81), have suggested that one of their early songs, "P.S. I Love You", is a subtle reference to this song.
- In "Old", Paul Simon indicates his age by singing "First time I heard Peggy Sue/I was 12 years old./Russians up in rocket ships /and the war was Cold.
- In an episode of Quantum Leap, young Buddy Holly, working as a Texas farm boy, invents the song as a homage to a piglet, calling it Piggy Suet. Sam Beckett corrects him into using Peggy Sue instead.
- In Blink 182's album "Cheshire Cat" one of the songs is named "Peggy Sue".The song is also featured on a live album entitled "The Mark, Tom, and Travis Show: The Enema Strikes Back".
- In Myslovitz's album "Miłość w czasach popkultury" one of the songs is named "Peggy Sue nie wyszła za mąż" ( Peggy Sue did not get married).
References
- Amburn, Ellis (1995). Buddy Holly: a Biography. St. Martins Press. ISBN 031214558
- Rolling Stone Press (1976). The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll. Random House. ISBN 0394732383