"Buddy Holly"
Single by Weezer
from the album Weezer (The Blue Album)
Released	September 7, 1994
Format	CD
Recorded	August-September, 1993 at Electric Lady Studios, New York City
Genre	Alternative rock, Power Pop
Length	2:39
Label	DGC
Producer(s)	Ric Ocasek
Peak chart positions
#17 US Billboard Hot 100 #2 US Modern Rock Tracks #34 US Mainstream Rock Tracks #12 UK Singles Chart
Weezer singles chronology
"Undone (The Sweater Song)" (1994)	"Buddy Holly" (1995)	"Say It Ain't So" (1995)
Weezer (The Blue Album) track listing
"My Name Is Jonas" "No One Else" "The World has Turned and Left Me Here" "Buddy Holly" "Undone - The Sweater Song" "Surf Wax America" "Say It Ain't So" "In the Garage" "Holiday" "Only in Dreams"

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Music video

"Buddy Holly" music video

The music video for "Buddy Holly" was directed by Spike Jonze. It portrayed Weezer performing at the original Arnold's Drive-In diner from the popular '70s television show, Happy Days. The video combined contemporary footage of the band with clips from the show. Happy Days cast member Al Molinaro made a cameo appearance in the video. Al makes in a plug for his home town, Kenosha, Wisconsin, in the introduction. The video also features brief cameos by some members of the band That Dog as dancers at Arnold's. Image File history File links This is a screenshot of a copyrighted website, video game graphic, computer program graphic, television broadcast, or film. ... Image File history File links This is a screenshot of a copyrighted website, video game graphic, computer program graphic, television broadcast, or film. ... A music video is a short film or video that accompanies a complete piece of music, most commonly a song. ... Spike Jonze (born Adam Spiegel on October 22, 1969), is a American director of offbeat music videos and commercials, and an Academy Award-nominated director and producer in film and television, most notably the 1999 film Being John Malkovich and the 2002 film Adaptation. ... A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... Happy Days is a popular American television sitcom that originally aired between 1974 and 1984 on the ABC television network. ... Al Molinaro was born on June 24, 1919 in Kenosha, Wisconsin. ... Nickname: K-town Keno Kenowhere Location of Kenosha within Wisconsin Coordinates: Country United States State Wisconsin Counties Kenosha Settled 1836 Government  - Mayor John M. Antaramian Population  - City 96,845  - Density  3,795. ... Official language(s) None Capital Madison Largest city Milwaukee Area  Ranked 23rd  - Total 65,498 sq mi (169,790 km²)  - Width 260 miles (420 km)  - Length 310 miles (500 km)  - % water 17  - Latitude 42°30N to 47°3N  - Longitude 86°49W to 92°54W Population  Ranked... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ...

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Looking "just like Buddy Holly"

Rivers Cuomo is known for wearing thick-rimmed glasses, as did Buddy Holly. Weezer are often considered to be pioneers of fashion in the geek world, as one of its standards is the wearing of square glasses like Cuomo's. Ironically, Cuomo was not wearing his signature glasses in the video for the song. Weezer also inspired a small flourish of 'geek chic' fashion, making it popular to wear articles of clothing usually associated with geekdom, such as sweater vests. Oddly enough, as popular as this song was when it was released, the fashion trend that the song, and Weezer, inspired did not take effect until several years later. Rivers Cuomo (born June 13, 1970), is the lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter of the rock band Weezer. ...

Song Development

Rivers Cuomo has stated in one of his MySpace blogs from 2006 that he remembers questioning whether or not to include this song on The Blue Album. He almost kept it off the final track list, but encouragement from producer Ric Ocasek soon changed his mind. In the book 'River's Edge', Ocasek is quoted as saying, "I remember at one point he was hesitant to do 'Buddy Holly' and I was like, 'Rives, we can talk about it. Do it anyway, and if you don't like it when it's done, we won't use it. But I think you should try. You did write it and it is a great song.'" Cuomo said that he felt the song was "too cheesy" and didn't know if the song represented the sound he was going for with the band's music. He has since concluded that he is glad that he did change his mind about the song because it is one of his favorite songs to play and sing live. Rivers Cuomo (born June 13, 1970), is the lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter of the rock band Weezer. ... MySpace is a social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos. ... The Blue Album is the title of three notable albums: The Blue Album by 311 The Blue Album the debut by Weezer The Beatles 1967-1970 by The Beatles (a greatest hits double-LP released in 1973, known as The Blue Album because of its cover) This is a disambiguation... Ric Ocasek (born Richard Otcasek on March 23, 1949, in Baltimore, Maryland) is the former vocalist and frontman for The Cars and a producer for several other groups, including Bad Brains and Suicide. ...

An early demo of "Buddy Holly" recorded by Cuomo in 1993 has a much different feel, as the song is played at a much slower tempo than the version that appears on the album.

Accolades

Information from AcclaimedMusic.com

• #497 in the List of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
• #364 Blender's Top 500 Songs of the 80s-00s
• #52 Kerrang!'s 100 Greatest Singles of All-Time
• #101 The Movement's The 100 (+300) Greatest Songs of All Time
• #50 The Movement's The 77 Best Singles of the 90s

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Trivia

• The two people on the cover are Rivers Cuomo and a childhood friend he wished to contact, to no avail, after using this photograph for the single.
• The song describes a platonic relationship that Rivers had in high school with a young-looking Asian girl (thus, "your tongue is twisted/your eyes are slit"). The duo were frequently made fun of, yet the song describes how he "doesn't care what they say about us anyway."
• Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine covered this as a Lounge style on his 2002 album "Tuxicity".
• The single was released on what would have been Buddy Holly's 58th birthday, had he not been killed in a plane crash along with fellow rock pioneers Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper on February 3, 1959, referred to as The Day The Music Died in Don McLean's American Pie, a song in which Buddy Holly is alluded to as a cultural touchstone.
• Scottish band Biffy Clyro covered this song for a CD of covers given away with Kerrang! magazine in June 2006
• The video was distributed in AVI format on Windows 95 CDs as bonus content, to demonstrate the ability of the new Windows Media Player. The Windows 95 OSR/2 CD included a MPEG version of the video in addition to the AVI version.
• This single appears on the British Now 31.
• Mary Tyler Moore is perhaps referenced because Sonny Curtis (of Buddy Holly's band The Crickets) wrote and performed the theme song for The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

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Personnel

• Rivers Cuomo – lead guitar, lead vocals
• Patrick Wilson – percussion
• Brian Bell – rhythm guitar
• Matt Sharp – bass guitar
• Ric Ocasek – producer

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External links

• Buddy Holly Lyrics
• Buddy Holly video