Quotes
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[first lines]
Buddy Holly: Hey, Riley, we`re all plugged in and checked up... yeah, we`re ready.
Buddy Holly: [to Ray Bob] Riley wants to hear you at the mike - that`s the one right there; say somethin` into that mike.
Ray Bob Simmons: One, two, three, testing... one...
Buddy Holly: [to Riley] How`s that sound?
Riley Randolph: All right, that`s a good level, Buddy, hold it right there... Yeah, you better get ready, it`s about thirty seconds till eight.
[last lines]
Buddy Holly: Thank you, Clearlake! C`mon... we love you, we`ll see you next year.
Buddy Holly: Boo!
Maria Elena Holly: Oh you scared me half to death!
Buddy Holly: Where`re ya goin?
Maria Elena Holly: I`m working
Buddy Holly: Have you been getting anything special in the mail lately?
Maria Elena Holly: Yes and I don`t mean to be rude Buddy but I just don`t want to encourage you.
Buddy Holly: Why not?
Maria Elena Holly: There`s no point going into it, just take my word. I think you`re very sweet and thank you for the roses but now you`re about to ask me out and I...
Buddy Holly: Wait, just wait a minute, just wait a minute, let me explain one thing to you. I have never, ever chased after a girl before in my life and it feels funny to me. Now if you`re not gonna go out with me I wanna know why. You do like me don`t you?
Maria Elena Holly: Yeah, I`m fond of you.
Buddy Holly: Well then what`s the hold up?
Maria Elena Holly: My aunt.
Buddy Holly: Your aunt? Mrs Santiago in the publishing department? She doesn`t even know me!
Maria Elena Holly: It doesn`t matter. You are a musician. And under no circumstances am I allowed to go out with a musician. I`m sorry.
Buddy Holly: Well let me go talk to her.
Maria Elena Holly: It won`t do any good. That`s not her only objection and you know it.
Buddy Holly: Well what is the other objection?
Maria Elena Holly: I`m Puerto Rican. And you`re, you`re not.
Buddy Holly: So I`ll change my name to Chihuahua
Maria Elena Holly: My aunt is very concious of these things.
Buddy Holly: Are you kidding me with this stuff about your aunt? You`re not kidding? Maria I just went through this, with people who said a white act couldn`t play with a coloured tour, we got along fine, we`re still get along. I don`t even know where Puerto Rico is. I`ve gotta go back there, we`ll finish this later ok?
Trivia
The members of the Crickets had already sold their portrayal rights to the producer of a different Buddy Holly movie, so fictitious names had to be used for the Crickets here. Also, for story simplifcation, the three Crickets were reduced to two.
The actors did their own singing and played their own instruments live during the filming of the production numbers.
Gary Busey had previously been cast as Buddy Holly`s drummer, Jerry Allison, in a previous attempt at a Holly biopic titled "Three-Sided Coin". The film was cancelled by 20th Century Fox under pressure from producer Fred Bauer. So Busey had already an extensive knowledge about Buddy Holly from the screenplay for "Three-Sided Coin" written by Jerry Allison and Tom Drake and through conversations with Allison.
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* According to Gary Busey in the DVD commentary, the line that Charles Martin Smith says about "A fighter who strafes and trains..." during the drive to Nashville was just Smith accidentally blurting out loud something he was thinking, thus Busey and Stroud`s genuine reactions.
Also according to Busey and Director Steve Rash, the scene at the roller rink after the band`s first rock number in which the extras clapped and cheered was an unexpected reaction to their performance. As you can see in the film, Busey, Smith, and Stroud sort of lose their place and start nervously laughing.
In the opening sequence in which the roller rink manager tells the organ player "You`re gonna have to quit now, we`re goin` on the air." The over-dubbed voice of the manager is director Steve Rash.
As Gary Busey is about to sing "Mockingbird Hill", he looks down at a piece of paper taped to the top of his guitar. Busey had forgotten the lyrics to the song and wrote them down on that paper so he could remember them during his performance.
In the scene where Cindy Lou gets on the bus to go back to college, Busey was originally supposed to answer her question of "What am I gonna tell the kids at college?" with "Cindy Lou?...Kiss my ass!" But director Steve Rash didn`t like that line and so they came up with "Boola, Boola." instead. (According to DVD commentary)
Because of the film`s budget constraints, most all of the performances were done in one or two takes (According to director Rash) This let to some "happy accidents" of realism. For instance, Busey refers to handwritten lyrics on his guitar when singing "Mockingbird Hill", He flubs some of the song lyrics on the Ed Sullivan show performance of "Maybe, Baby", Buddy`s vibrant concert performance with Eddie Cochran was actually a "rehersal" that the director decided not to film again, and Busey`s guitar cord gets wrapped around his leg during the final concert.
According to Rock-N-Roll legend Little Richard, the Apollo theater performance by Buddy Holly and the Crickets in front of an all black audience is pretty accurate. Holly and his band were booked into the all black hall "sight unseen" because the owner thought they were black and the audience were shocked to see white performers on stage. But as in the movie, the audience embraced Buddy and his band.
Paul McCartney, who is a huge Buddy Holly fan (The Beatles were named in tribute to the Crickets), used to hold an annual "Buddy Holly Birthday Party" in New York and would always showcase this film during the party.
While teaching the two little boys to play guitar, Buddy sings, "...we`re gonna love Teddy Jack with all our might". Busey was a drummer with the stage name of Teddy Jack Eddy.
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