Buddy Holly was away ahead of his time. Imagine what he could have done if he hadn't got on that plane. The world was robbed of a musical genius. RIP Buddy
When The Apollo booked Buddy Holly and The Crickets they thought they were African American. When they showed up, they didn't want them to play. Buddy said I have a signed contract and I'm playing! He told the story to the audience before he began and told them I hope you like my music. He brought the house down! To think Buddy was only 22yrs old when he was killed. He was a genius and way ahead of his time. True story.
What they didn't show was the first two days at the Apollo. Niki Sullivan(Buddy's guitar player), is quoted as saying: But some things were incorrect: the first two days that we played the Apollo, we were booed. The third day, Buddy said, ‘Let’s do Bo Diddley,’ and from that moment on we were a hit.” source:www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/the-truth-behind-the-buddy-holly-story-49546/
Southern white boys rock Harlem blacks in 1950's America. If it hadn't actually happened, it would be almost science fiction. Music has the force to knock down some pretty powerful walls.
Southern White Boys? Hell, they are from Lubbock Texas .... that ain't anywhere NEAR Southern. Appreciate the music, stop trying to label everyone. His biggest influence is Western Swing, a form of Western .... before anyone thought of it as C&W.
@@EthosF4ded White Boy in the 50 's Performing to a Non White audience....!...Black Folk were more appreciative Bout Music back then..The Fact Holly Sang that night grew a Great Appreciation And started a new Relationship between those...WOKE
@@RicoChrisRageyea when white boys like Pat Boone and Elvis were singing milk toast versions and making money off of the true R & B greats like Big Joe Turner , Little Richard and Fats Domino.
@@EthosF4ded Not answering for Kevin Cooper, but for myself. I love movies and love epic scenes, and when I do find them - I play them over and over. I've probably watch THIS SCENE more than 100 times in my life ... vs. "the 'You Can't Handle the Truth' scene ( from A Few Good Men ), the "I'll Make it Scene (from Hoosiers), the "Is This Heaven?" Scene (from Field of Dreams), etc. THIS scene from the Buddy Holly Story is EPIC and will stand the test of time!
The night Buddy Holly and the Crickets rocked the Apollo , history being made on August 16th 1957 by the first white rock act to ever play at the Apollo Theatre.
For my money, that was the best biopic ever made, with an Oscar winning performance by Busey. A Texas boy paying homage to a musician whose music defined a generation, as if the spirit of Holly lived again through his performance. This was, I think most will agree, the shining moment of Busey's career, and for those of us who were there when it happened, when we turned on our radios one day and first heard that magical sound, it brings back all the sweetness and innocence of those years, of our youth, with heartbreaking clarity. It is the music that we love best, and even though we have grown old, the music never has.
I am now 21, will be 22 in December. at that age buddy died .. He has achieved more than I ever achieve.. Simple music and lyrics yet soo good. Great acting from Gary Busey btw
If anyone ever got screwed out of an Oscar it was Gary Busey--He did all the music and didn't pantomime any of it and did some great acting also. I always felt bad for him because before he could do it again he had the motorcycle accident. I also loved the part he played in Under Siege!!! He did Buddy proud with this performance. Thanks Gary!!!!!!
I am sorry that I am a bit late Rick but you are so right. Gary is a great actor and should have cleaned up all the awards that were going. I am a fan of Gary and I am glad we share the same birthday. June 29th.
My sister Sharon and I saw this movie back in college in the late 70s and immediately went out afterwards and bought the LP ...played it for ever ...still reminds me of my sister who is no longer with me ...still love this album !!!
Gary Busey did a excellent job portraying Buddy Holly His acting and singing was just awesome He definitely deserved an Oscar and an Academy Award for this landmark achievement Thanks Gary
Been lots of impersonators over the years, but Gary Busey in this is the best I've ever seen... fantastic energy. Even starting on the wrong verse, most likely just as Buddy did given the circumstances.
Gary Busey was phenomenal in this. He totally deserved his Oscar nomination for this role and who cares if he's playing a tele instead of a strat? He kills it
Buddy Holly, yet another great musical artist from the South.....this guy wrote his own lyrics and music....the brilliance, even genius is how little accompaniment was required with only a bass and drums along with Buddy's superior lead guitar skills....as Don McClean sang, when Buddy left us, it was the day the music died.
This is how I imagine how they really must have sounded. They really captured the energy and rawness of a young band. You can’t fake that. Great actors all.
The movie, and Gary Busey, are still in my memory. I think it's his best performance, and isn't that what an Oscar represents? The Tribute Groups also did a wonderful job about 10 years ago covering lots of Buddy's songs.
Best musical sequence in the movie; it was a great idea to film them performing live instead of pre-recording and lip synching. Great energy. Busey does Buddy Holly proud.
I loved this evocation of Buddy Holly - who died when I was 12 years old. Gary Busey captured Buddy perfectly (one or two unmusical moments - but we can overlook those!). The whole performance was brilliantly evocative of Buddy. Thank you, Gary!
My mum showed me this film when i was about 10 (to this day i still dont know why she did), after this scene that was it! i wanted to be a musician. So you can say whatever about it not being a true account and whatnot (the film was made for only 1 million dollars which is paultry for a major studio production so sacrifices had to be made obviosly) but it gave some australian kid (now an adult) a direction to go with his life. Thats why this is one of my fave films, it shows the power of music.
I saw this movie in college in 1978. I noticed then that these three actors were really playing these instruments and were singing the vocals. This was the magic to make this movie so powerful to those who revered Buddy Holly & The Crickets.
If they sang the vocals it was more than the Crickets did on the original versions. Buddy and the Crickets were on tour while the vocals were being dubbed on by the Pickering Brothers.
only some lead parts are dubbed rhythm guitar is all gary he was a accomplished musician way before this movie he's a drummer the over dubbed guitar parts are played by the guy that plays eddie cochran later in the movie
Yes, those three actors are the ones making this great music. This was a daring directorial choice that paid off in spades. When making a movie about a music legend, you have to decide what best serves the story: miming to the recordings the audience knows and expects, or to bring the energy of making the music live on the set? There's probably not a one-size-fits-all answer here. The choice for the Buddy Holly Story was perfect. Gary, Charles, and Don became a band for this movie and their energy is real and enjoyable.
Buddy Holly was born, lived his life and died before I was born and I've always felt my generation was cheated out of our opportunity to enjoy the music he could have made had he lived. I was born in 1961 and I still wonder what further musical innovations he would have developed over a LONG career... such a shame.
John, Buddy was one of the 1st musicians to implement overdubbing in the recording studio. He was always thinking outside the proverbial box. Creative genius taken way to early.
Great movie about perhaps the greatest rock singer of them all. In reality it was a more gradual process of winning over the audience for Buddy Holly but he got there in the end. Gary Busey is often treated like comic relief these days which is unfair. The man had a brain trauma. But in the day, he played a great role in this movie of Buddy Holly's story.
This is probably an accurate portrayal of buddy's on-stage persona. They kept it pretty neat and tidy for television performance.....had to make rock n' roll presentable to parents. There is some 8mm home movie camera footage of him and he got pretty rowdy by the day's standard and had a lot of energy.
I once road on a airplane with Gary Busey in the spring of 2016. We were heading from Dallas to Little Rock. He told us to take pictures and call the tabloids.
This just demonstrates the power that music has to overcome the barriers artificially separating us. These songs still resonate 60 years later, showing just how finely crafted they were. Beautiful.
The songs are: Oh, Boy!, It's So Easy and Rave On. That was a great set of songs for this scene and Rave On made a great conclusion to the scene. Gary did an awesome job of portraying Buddy Holly.
This is brilliant, Gary busy was absolute equal parts primal thespian and crazy person .. and Charles st Martin and Don stroud ...yall know this was filmed live and their actually playing
Perfect imitation ... not only does he actually sound like Buddy Holly, he looks like him, has the same mannerisms. I agree Gary Busey SHOULD have won the oscar! However, him not winning does not distract from the "perfect" impersonation of Butty Holly - Excellent Performance!!!!
The three of them, Gary, Don and Charlie did their own playing for this movie. It brought such a real energy to the performance, much more so than miming to recordings of Buddy.
I love to watch this. And Gary Busey should have received a Oscar for this performance. All three of them were so good in this. And to really be playing and singing too, well that is special to. TY. And TY Gary for all your movies from a Coffeyville, Ks old woman.
