"That'll be the day" (1942)

[Sam Clements]

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Subject: "That'll be the day" (1942)


> That'll Be the Day
> Buddy Holly & The Crickets
>
> Well, that'll be the day, when you say goodbye
> Yes, that'll be the day, when you make me cry
> You say you're gonna leave, you know it's a lie
> 'Cause that'll be the day when I die
>
>    That'll be the day.
>    The famous Buddy Holly song is from 1957.  It's said that Holly took
the
> line from the John Ford-directed John Wayne film THE SEARCHERS (1956).
We'll
> search a little further.

Of course, the writer of that song perhaps DID take it from the movie.  Not
much to say that it wasn't.

Sam Clements