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REAR VIEW MIRROR:
Every week, Rich Terfry looks back in our Rear-view Mirror at a great song from the good ol’ days. This week, Buddy Holly and "Peggy Sue."
Some time in 1957, Buddy Holly wrote a song called "Cindy Lou", which was about his niece. The name of the song was later changed as a favor to his drummer, Jerry Allison.
Listen to Rich tell you how "Cindy Lou" became "Peggy Sue"
When Buddy Holly and the Crickets were in the studio to record "Cindy Lou", drummer Jerry Allison was having trouble nailing the beat. He was also playing too loudly for the recording engineer's liking. The engineer's solution was set up Allison's kit in the reception area, outside the studio. It was a less-than-ideal arrangement for Allison and he was a bit embarrassed, but Holly made a deal with him. Buddy told his drummer that if he went along with it, he'd change the name of the song to "Peggy Sue" for Allison's girlfriend, knowing the two had been fighting and that Allison was in the doghouse.
When they got back to recording, Allison continued to struggle with his performance. Perhaps only half-joking, the studio engineer told Allison that if he didn't get the beat right on the next take, the name would be changed back to "Cindy Lou". Allison asked for a time-out so he could practice a new approach to his performance.
When it was time to roll again, Jerry Allison played the beat in a completely different way than he had been playing it up to that point. It totally transformed the song. Luckily for him, Buddy Holly loved the new sound. It was lucky for Holly too. When the song was released in September in 1957, it shot to #3 on the charts.
As for Jerry Allison and his girlfriend, well, the song did the trick. Not only did it get Allison out of the doghouse, he and his girlfriend decided to get married. Their love story inspired Buddy Holly and so he recorded a demo of a sequel song called "Peggy Sue Got Married" in December of 1958. Two months later, before Holly could get into a studio to finish the song, he was killed in a plane crash at the age of 22.
Here's a song regarded as one of the greatest pop songs in history and one which many critics have called Buddy Holly's greatest work - this is "Peggy Sue" on Rear View Mirror.
Here are some other great editions of Rear-view Mirror:
George Harrison - "My Sweet Lord"
Lynyrd Skynyrd - "Sweet Home Alabama"
Bobbie Gentry - "Ode to Billie Joe"
The Beach Boys - "Never Learn Not to Love"
The Kinks - "You Really Got Me"
Al Green - "Let's Stay Together"
Simon and Garfunkel - "The Boxer"
Smokey Robinson and the Miracles - "Tracks of my Tears"
Elvis Presley - "Heartbreak Hotel"
Bruce Cockburn - "Lovers In A Dangerous Time"
Bob Dylan & Jimi Hendrix - "All Along The Watchtower"
Phil Spector and the Ronnettes - "Be My Baby"
Os Mutantes - "Ando Meio Desligado"
The Diamonds - "Little Darlin"
Captain Beefheart - "Yellow Brick Road"
Elton John - "Bennie and the Jets"
Hank Williams - "Long Gone Lonesome Blues"
R.E.M. - "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?"
Tom Waits - "Jockey Full of Bourbon"
Neil Diamond - "Sweet Caroline"
Buffalo Springfield - "For What It's Worth"
Five Man Electrical Band - "Signs"
Band Aid - "Do They Know It's Christmas"
Bob Dylan - "Tangled Up In Blue"
The Beatles - "Norwegian Wood"
The Pursuit of Happiness - "I'm An Adult Now"
Bruce Springsteen - "Born To Run"
Big Joe Turner - "Shake Rattle and Roll"
Martha and the Muffins - "Echo Beach"
Wilson Pickett - "In The Midnight Hour"
The Band - "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down"
Fleetwood Mac - "Go Your Own Way"
The Animals - "House of the Rising Sun"
Ian and Sylvia - "Four Strong Winds"
James Brown - "Please Please Please"
John Cougar Mellencamp - "Pink Houses'"
The Ramones - "I Wanna Be Sedated"
The Guess Who - "American Woman"
U2 - "I Still Have't Found What I'm Looking For"
Janis Joplin - "Me and Bobby McGee"
Gordon Lightfoot - "If You Could Read My Mind"
The Byrds - "Eight Miles High"
Simon and Garfunkel - "The Sound of Silence"
Bill Haley and his Comets - "Rock Around The Clock"
The Velvet Underground - "I'm Waiting For The Man"
Johnny Cash - "Folsom Prison Blues"
Bobby Fuller - "I Fought The Law"
Joy Division - "Love Will Tear Us Apart"
Booker T and the MGs - "Green Onions"
Neil Young - "Rockin' in the Free World"
The Left Banke - "Walk Away Renee"
Lou Reed - "Walk On The Wild Side"
James Taylor - "Fire And Rain"
The Clash - "Should I Stay or Should I Go"
Marvin Gaye - "Sexual Healing"
Radiohead - "Paranoid Android"
The Animals - "We Gotta Get Out of this Place"
Dusty Springfield - "Son of a Preacher Man"
Screamin' Jay Hawkins - "I Put A Spell On You"
Mott The Hoople - "All the Young Dudes"
New York Dolls - "Personality Crisis"
George Jones - "He Stopped Loving Her Today"
Bruce Springsteen - "Born in the USA"
The Beatles - "With A Little Help From My Friends"
James Brown - "Hot (I Need to be loved loved loved)"
Inner Circle - "Tenement Yard"
Ray Charles - "I Don't Need No Doctor"
Curtis Mayfield - "Freddy's Dead"
Gang Starr - "Beyond Comprehension"
Aretha Franklin - "Rocksteady"
Creedence Clearwater Revival - "Have You Ever Seen the Rain'
Howlin' Wolf - "Smokestack Lightning"
Bobby Womack - "Across 110th Street"
Foggy Hogtown Boys - "Man of Constant Sorrow"
Pink Floyd - "Wish You Were Here"
Neil Young - "Cortez The Killer"
Bob Dylan - "Subterranean Homesick Blues"
Elvis Costello - "Watching the Detectives"
Jimmy Cliff - "The Harder They Come"
The Verve - "Bittersweet Symphony"
Roberta Flack - "Killing Me Softly with his Song"
Rolling Stones - "Beast of Burden"
Glen Campbell - "Wichita Lineman"