Australian singles chart:
That’ll Be The Day entered the Kent charts on 5 October 1957 and peaked at #2. It was #19 on the Top 100 of 1957.
Album:
The song is on the album The “Chirping” Crickets which charted in Australia in 1958.
Songwriters:
Jerry Allison, Buddy Holly, Norman Petty
Producer:
Norman Petty
Record label of Australian release:
Brunswick
Wikipedia:
In June 1956, Buddy Holly along with his older brother Larry as well as Jerry Allison and Sonny Curtis went to see the film The Searchers starring John Wayne, in which Wayne repeatedly used the phrase “that’ll be the day”. This line of dialogue inspired the young musicians.
That’ll Be the Day was first recorded by Buddy Holly and the Three Tunes later that year and was re-recorded in 1957 by Holly and his new band, the Crickets. The 1957 recording 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.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That’ll_Be_the_Day
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