That'll Be the Day
| "That'll Be the Day" | ||||
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1957 U.S. 45 rpm (Brunswick 9-55009) | ||||
| Single by the Crickets | ||||
| from the album The "Chirping" Crickets | ||||
| B-side | "I'm Looking for Someone to Love" | |||
| Released | July 1957 | |||
| Recorded | 1957 | |||
| Studio | Norman Petty Recording Studio, Clovis, New Mexico | |||
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| Length | 2:16 | |||
| Label | Brunswick U.S. single 55009; Coral Records, UK single Q.72279; Coral Records BS-1578, Australian 78 single, BSP45-1578, 45 single | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Jerry Allison, Buddy Holly, Norman Petty | |||
| Producer(s) | Norman Petty | |||
| The Crickets singles chronology | ||||
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"That'll Be the Day" is a song written by Buddy Holly and Jerry Allison. It was first recorded by Buddy Holly and the Three Tunes in 1956 and was re-recorded in 1957 by Holly and his new band, the Crickets. Buddy Holly and the Three Tunes' version was released several months after the Crickets' version, which achieved widespread success. Holly's producer, Norman Petty, was credited as a co-writer, although he did not contribute to the composition.
Many other versions have been recorded. It was the first song recorded (as a demonstration disc) by the Quarrymen, a skiffle group from Liverpool that evolved into the Beatles.
The song appeared in the 1973 George Lucas film American Graffiti and was on the MCA Records soundtrack album 41 Original Hits from the Soundtrack of American Graffiti with dialogue by Wolfman Jack, which was certified triple platinum by the RIAA and which peaked at #10 on the Billboard 200 album chart.
The 1957 recording was certified gold (for over a million US sales) by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in 1969. It was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998. It was placed in the National Recording Registry, a list of sound recordings that "are culturally, historically, or aesthetically important, and/or inform or reflect life in the United States", in 2005.