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A favorite of the fictional Sparrows, Buddy Holly was a favorite of a pretty wide spectrum of people. John Lennon had a Buddy Holly poster\u00a0in his bedroom at Mendips in Liverpool. British Prime Minister (and successor to Margaret Thatcher) John Major wore heavy\u00a0black rim\u00a0glasses in honor of the Lubbock flash. Cream covered Well…All Right<\/em>. The Beatles mirrored the line up of Buddy Holly’s band The Crickets and became pretty much the\u00a0second\u00a0members of a band\u00a0in rock and roll history\u00a0to have individual identities.<\/p>\n

Although Words of Love<\/em> was #1 in the hearts of the Sparrows, #2 would be Peggy Sue<\/em>. The story of the song is fairly well-known. Buddy wrote it as “Cindy Lou” and\u00a0visualized the appropriate drum beat as being what is known as paradiddles. It’s a drumming pattern that a drummer taking lessons would learn early on. Jerry Allison, the Crickets’ stellar drummer, was embarrassed to play such an elementary beat and only agreed to when Buddy changed the name of the song to Peggy Sue<\/em>, Allison’s steady girlfriend. Norman Petty, the band’s producer, suggested the song needed a chorus and came up with the absurdly simple yet incomparable “pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty Peggy Sue” based around an F chord\u00a0smack in the middle of a A,D,E song.(The Rolling Stones went\u00a0two “prettys” farther in 1979’s\u00a0Beast of Burden<\/em>.)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And Petty didn’t stop there. He close-miked Buddy’s steady, down, down, down strum on the Fender Stratocaster\u00a0guitar so it\u00a0shows up on the recording as an intimate\u00a0purring, so the recording\u00a0becomes in and of itself an indelible part of the performance. (Another amazing coincidence…the fictional\u00a0Sparrows’s fictional\u00a0producers do the same darn thing!)\u00a0 Petty\u00a0set it up so\u00a0Allison was\u00a0playing in a separate room, away\u00a0from the vocals and guitars.\u00a0Then he\u00a0modulated the drumming, bringing it\u00a0in and out of the mix, so the drums roll through the song like waves washing up on a beach.\u00a0But the effect in the song was mysterious and theatrical.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0It was like waves on a beach at night or rain spattering on a windshield.\u00a0Buddy’s normal west Texas panhandle\u00a0singing voice\u00a0gets tinny and effeminate on two of the verses,\u00a0namely the two verses that end with\u00a0his elongated enunciation of “Peggy Sue.” He draws out\u00a0Peggy Sue,\u00a0stretching out the\u00a0three syllables in the\u00a0name to twelve hicuppy syllables. Maybe thirteen.\u00a0It only happens twice. Nobody else does it quite like Buddy.<\/p>\n

In any hit parade, this song is marching just behind the flags.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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