It was enough to get an Oscar nomination....I remember Belushi was pissed because he thought he should have gotten the nomination for Animal House, and somehow felt Busey got his nom...!

I agree with you, Jim. Gary’s performance was brilliant, totally captured the beat and essence of Buddy’s. Regards.

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@@jimstanga6390 .....Simple.....Busey fucking nailed it!

No kidding, I was thinking that. This movie get any awards?

You think Tim Conway could have did it

Isn't that something praise God

Wonder what he learned that they wanted kept quiet.

You should see the musical play that featured Gus Macgregor as Buddy. He was way better than Gary Busey.

Gary Busey even used a legit Buddy Holly guitar which he later bought.

@@Rockyinlp that the money went to Buddy’s family

Charles absolutely DID NOT play the bass. Sorry. Don DID play the drums. Gary DID screw up the lyrics! Still was a great movie. Maria lost their baby due to a miscarriage after learning about the plane crash and Buddy's death.

@@bradb1474 You are right! He played the Drums dumbass.

@@bradb1474 Don was playing the drums, that's Charles playing the bass.

A radio station had a morning show and a guest would tell about drunk Gary Busey calling him to sing Buddy Holly songs

@@mikejohnson5491 WOW! That’s a cool story!

*Scott* I think Busey over acted. I have seen video of Buddy Holly and the Crickets on KZfaq and Buddy wasn't that hyperactive.

@For The Love Of Seattle You are probably right on that account although Busey probably couldn’t keep his own personality in check! I was very impressed with his singing though!

@@jetcitysinatra7300 I think Busey's performance was carefully choreographed and played. Buddy Holly could keep a crowd's attention due to the novelty of himself, the songs and the genre of rock 'n' roll itself (not to mention his flawless performance). Gary Busey was performing, albeit through the lens of a director's camera, for a 1978 audience. Maybe it would've been just as interesting if he mimicked Holly's stage performance, but I tend to believe that the moviegoers of 1978 might've found it a little lackluster. Seattle! I'm a Ballard man, myself!

Busey did a great job of impersonating Buddy Holly. I wish I could pull that off! What fun that would be 😊.

He's a great actor . Just hard to control😅

What’s wrong with being a fan of Gary Busey? Don’t listen to him Gary Busey I love you Gary Busey

Yes with him singing and acting, he was robbed.

Absolutely. Busey was incredible .

@@bryanrendleman2001 AMEN

@@vickydodson6849 Buddy was too clean for them to honor that high on their scale. Pushing social narratives that belittle or teardown families always win instead of conservative non drug using non drinking moral family men.

Word😎

Agreed..Nick Nolte couldn't have done it.

Buddy Holly died In...

Best work he ever did.

He dedicated his SOUL to that role & lost 50 plus pounds to transform into Buddy. Biggest Oscar snub in the history of the award, in my opinion.

Yes, he also played the guitar on every song! That's entertainment

And here I thought Randall you would think Gary’s role as “Mr. Joshua” in the Lethal Weapon series was his best!🤪

In walks Marshall Crenshaw

Shoulda got the Oscar, he was that good.

He is a great musician

And he did a great job LOL an amazing job he is The Lovable crazy uncle nowadays though

Busey's best

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Happy birthday

Happy birthday! Was that the 1st rock sing you heard? I ask because not everybody had heard of Elvis or Carl.

@@jeffsanders663 No... I knew about Carl Perkins through Elvis (Blue Moon of Kentucky). Elvis was already popular... especially with Hound Dawg and Don't Be Cruel, (my second fav) but the first Rock 'n Roll was Bill Haley and the Comets (Haley looked too old to be sporting that curl on his forehand) with Rock Around the Clock. After that there was an explosion of rock and roll...all different, ... Paul Anka was big too...list goes on and on... long time ago

Bonne anniversaire.

Happy birthday!

Agreed!! Just goes to show that music transcends any and all barriers. Love how the audience was shocked, and i suppose the house band too, when the curtain was drawn back and these 3 were on stage. Didn’t take long for the raw, powerful music to win them all over.

@@wayneturpen592 It helped that the band was playing original songs and not stealing stuff from Berry and the other African American rock n rollers of the time.

​@glenchapman3899 that would not have went over well if they were covering black artists works.

Oh definitely. I have seen footage of white performers covering Berry and other black artists at the time, and the songs are terrible

And nothing builds them like gangsta rap….. if you don’t think so then imagine a white klan member singing the same songs.

He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.

He was recognized + should've won the Oscar for it. Plus, who could forget his scary Mr. Joshua in the first Lethal Weapon flick? Unfortunately after his motorcycle accident people saw his erratic behaviour as goofy. Sadly, Gary became fodder for stand-up comics and that pretty much made him unhirable for serious projects but Kathryn Bigelow took a chance in the early '90s with a small but crucial role in her Point Break action flick w/ Keanu and Swayze and was perfect. but then he had that

A real scandal.

He won at least 3 awards and got quite a few nominations for his brilliant work in this role.

@@vincentbarbeau3031 and like a lot of scandals, untrue.

He'll yeah

Hell yeah 😎

Its a movie

@@earlycuyler2295 And here was me thinking it was actually happening...

Never heard the crowd went wild. But Buddy Holly and the band got sued and lost because there was already an R&B Cricket group (who had hits). That's when the name change came. And they weren't the first white act in there either.

Hoy es solo BASURA!!

Wow

No-one nurtured Buddy Holley; he was self-created -- like most of the early rock n rollers back then, he was an original and one-off. In his own small way he was a corn-fed genius; witness his fame and appreciation for his songs this past seventy years and into the future.

?level of talent far too scarce? Quite. No mo buddy holly at Apollo!

That's a Joke....since they all clamored for CARL PERKIN'S records.......................

There wouldn't ANY of them,no so -called"rock n' roll without Black Americans music first and foremost-

Those of you at KZfaq just HATE the truth obviously-

@@tkso.philly3879 nope. Sorry.

@@isorokudono Thanks for the appology trooper.Because you know it's been said;"RYTHEM and Blues had a baby,and they call it ,Rock 'n Roll"- Black music was forbidden by white parents from their children..And when white kids started mimicking Black RYTHEM and Blues,it was THEN termed,Rock and roll.Elvis Presley met Little Richard behind stage and said;" Hey' I done met the King". You ought to know better-

It's the best of all of them

​@@sharonzinzer3806Yeah,Gary does a better rendition of Buddy than Buddy ever managed...

Actually Gary Busey played a good roll in the movie with Jeff bridges Last American hero

Should've won an Oscar, that's why you know that shytt is rigged.

Definitely need to put "Under Seige" on that list. He was amazing in that movie!

Great in The Firm and Lethal Weapon as the Joshua man too

Should have heard what the Beatles reaction was when they were told to play to a segregated audience, the Beatles absolutely refused to play to a segregated audience, and threatened to leave the show unless it was changed.

Great performance as an actor. Well done.

@@ericdee6802 Beatles?

Music and love are both international and interracial languages.

@@ericdee6802 music does not need a passport only an Audience that app reaches

Don Stroud really could play the drums.

Led Zeppelin too.

HE, MORE CHUCK BERRY, LITTLE RICHARD AND JERRY LEE, ARE THE PIONEERS THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT, THANKS TO THEM THE BEATLES CAME

Had he lived longer buddy Holly would have been king of rock n rol l with his talent and song writing ability he had lots of people and bands following him people who love talent still listen to buddy today thank you buddy ❤️👍💙

@@randymurray1509 Absolutely.

@Duke Marshall I think you are right. I don't think this can be said of any other icon of that era in quite the same way. He played out the blueprint for the sixties in a handful of utterly classic songs.

Agreed

Dont know how you work that out he wrote a few decent songs but his voice no loads of others better

@@glenharrison4311 bizarre comment. How many white rock singers have technically pure singing voices anyway? Probably less than five in the entire history of rock music. A "few songs"? C'mon, get real. Learn some history. He was a great, great song writer - no question about that. No Buddy Holly, no Beatles.

@@glenharrison4311 lol please stop 😂

Agreed

James Esselman in addition he lost 25 pounds for the role. That's dedication to your craft.

@@ikemancil3850 Hi Ike...That movie made Busey's career. All his other roles will never compare to his Buddy Holly portrayal

Do you actually realize what you have said

I believe it was Chuck Berry that said something to somebody ( another musician - probably ) - a Beatle ? that they ( musicians ? ) were ( my words - now ) , doing more to break down social barriers than ... the politicians ?... in Washington . Whatever it was he said , that breaking down of social barriers had been going on in music circles for quite some time .

@@pegasusgalaxy68 What ? ... They could'nt help but listen .

It's a movie. No documentation if they did what was in the movie.

Elvis and Buddy were instrumental in breaking down those barriers in the South in the early to mid 50's.❤

I never understood the ignorance of skin color, A persons attitude and behavior is whats important

Had we only known this during Viet Nam we would not have had such a difficult time. USN veteran

Me too. I’m from Lubbock Texas

It definitely brings tears to my eyes. Buddy is one of my all time favorites. I was born in 1965. The show Happy Days brought most of this great music to my life. I think this may have been one of the first movies I saw at a theater. Gary Busey was phenomenal as Buddy. This particular scene was done so well. They really represented the racial part very well.The people were able to tune themselves in to the music instead of just seeing white. Wonderful.

Liverpool UK, I'm shaking with emotion and in floods of tears 😢 😭

It's really awesome to see actors multitask AND with great ability. I love when casting goes so right!

So that's is that bloke's name, Charles Martin Smith... :P

@@glassmanorangjitra Yes, that's the bloke's name. He also appeared in "American Graffiti" and "Never Cry Wolf", as well as numerous television shows.

"Stunningly Beautiful people"???!!!...I just see regular looking people and hopefully one day you'll see that, too...FYI, talking about us, minorities, like we are all so different than you is strange. Plus, you claiming everyone one of us is "stunning looking" is you being fake. We do have some unattractive looking people too, just like Whites do. Just be real bc nobody respects a kiss-ass or someone who's self-hating

@@thismothafuckasaid7304 she thinks it makes her a good person to say people are beautiful when she really thinks they're ugly. You see the same comments on videos about fat women or deformed people.

Keep in mind that is a Hollywood inserted line.

@@TurboMountTV But! Still a good one on Hollywood's part. Makes you kinda wish he really said it 😂

@@StrangeScaryNewEngland ... don't know if the line was a Holly line or a Hollywood line, but don't worry, The Puppy Channel doesn't know either.

@@sas6561........Alright!.......Damn good one man!!

kinda like when they put Charlie prides picture on the third album.

Gary Bussey has earned more money than any other Star 🌟

He's a Trumptard.

@@Unclemoparman How's Joe working out for you? Sad day for America

@UCxRzcN3WIZ32AY3SE01-T3w and you’re a fool for judging people for their political beliefs

Man you can not escape even for a minute. What Buddy Holly playing at the Apollo, has to do with 2020 politics?

How about that.....---

Exactly

@Mark Rondson There's nothing new under the sun.Life is a cycle,what goes around comes around.What today's young people lack is respect and consideration for others.The best promises we had for better future are dead.Murdered...JFK and RFK.And it WAS NOT coincidence-

Then there's that one person that brings it up...

Rock has been one of the most political musical genres since forever

Surf Ballroom Clear Lake Iowa

@@jasonhite8388 Yep, good catch. I had the opportunity to interview Dion in Reno in the early 2000s. He's the Last Man Standing, (the Killer aside;-)

Wasn’t had the performance(s) at the Surf but my family did drive out in the country to see the plane crash. I was not quite 11yo, but the memory has sure stick with me... seeing a small ball of wreckage way out in a corn field over 60years ago.

Buddy Holly is an always will be the King of Rock an Roll. He made and his group an him sang his songs. I was delivering a morning paper on Feb4 , 1959 on my birthday, the headlines said" Rock an Roll , Buddy Holly, Richey Vallens and the Big Bopper die in plane crash in clear lake Iowa. That was the end of Rock an Roll!

😥

Crazy as he is, I still think he's funny and talented.

Helmet!

Yes, his Mom & Dad thought he was very talented. Seriously, I've always enjoyed his acting.

Severe brain damage made him odd and crazy.

Valins

@@michaelsachs8729 - always keep an eye on that built in spell check.

Hello Suzie, How are you doing?

Definitely! If Elvis Presley was the king of rock and roll, then guys like Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Bill Haley, and Carl Perkins were its fathers.

Hello suzie, I see happiness all around all around you, can I please share from it?

Ha Buddy rocked the world, imagine the outcome if he lived.

@@scottkenny6770 I've wondered about this. I think I read one review of Buddy's final studio recordings (True Love Ways, Raining in My Heart, It Doesn't Matter Anymore), and the reviewer said that Buddy was done at that point, as far as creativity, and he was destined to become one of those early 60s crooners like Bobby Vinton, putting out sappy, orchestrated ballads. I disagree, though. Buddy seemed to really take advantage of the studio. I like Buddy's final studio recordings. I think, with time, maybe by 1963 or 64, Buddy would have recorded the early 60s equivalent of Sgt. Pepper, an album that would have been technically and musically groundbreaking for its time. Buddy would have probably been one of the few 50s artists to have major success in the 60s.

@@thehighllama8101 I agree with you. He was brilliant as his own producer and arranger and his songwriting speaks for itself. If you dig deep in to his catalogue he did some amazing stuff. The early Beatles (Hamburg) were practically a Buddy Holly cover band...before Lennon/McCartney became fully confident in their own songwriting. Once his commercial success, fame, reputation, bankability were asssured (which he was still striving for as he was being ripped off of royalties, etc and then died!!) I believe he would have been liberated to experiment far more, much the same way Brian Wilson did. Wilson gradually drifted from the Beach Boys, started to resent just shitting out short 2-3 minute pop hits and ballads (as brilliant as they are, the harmonies, etc), eschewed touring (guys like Glen Campbell filling in on the road for him) and desired more studio time, really digging down into composing, arranging, playing all of the instruments...and voila Pet Sounds.

We owe the existence of the Beatles to Buddy Holly and the Crickets, indirectly anyway. John Lennon despaired that a bespectacled kid like him could become a successful rock-and-roll star - until he saw Buddy Holly. The guys in the Beatles so loved Buddy and the Crickets that they based their name on them! So, not only the great and timeless music Buddy and the guys created, but their effect on subsequent performers. Whenever my wife and I take a road trip in the car, it is a given that Buddy's music is going with us. Nothing even needs to be said. We just love it.

He wasn't a nerd. Only his look was. He was quite a rebel. He got into trouble smoked drank special brew and was quite promiscuous

Well deserved too

he got totally jobbed. shoulda won that hands down.

@@barrylefkowitz3697 👍

He should have one not easy to sound like Mr.Holly

Double fun fact: Don Stroud played the drums and was a professional level surfer, and Charles Martin Smith played the bass...

brother.. time goes by to damn quick lol

@@stevewixom9311 I always say Steve, time waits for no-one! Thanks!

@@stevewixom9311 Damn right it does! I remember asking a guy at work who had reached retirement at 65 after 20 years service. He told me the years had flown by and I said, "blimey don't say that as i'm only 45 myself". He was right.....i'm 70 now and my son was saying he can't wait until he retires......he's 45 so I told him what the old guy at work had said to me.

Nice story thanks !

I love your story Joe, thank you for sharing.

it should but now its just DOOOF DOOF stuff this is music

That's interesting you say that. I've seen Carl Perkins once comment on something Chuck Berry had said. Carl said, "Chuck Berry once said to me, 'You know, I think our music is doing just as much as our leaders in Washington to break down the barriers.' And you know what? He was right."

@@paladin313 'My Girl' and 'She Loves You' changed more heads than 'Ohio'!

It used to, we're going backward as a people.

I've read all the comments and totally agree ... that as a nation... we "are" going backwards to a time when blacks and whites are divided again. What I am curious about is ... why this year 2020? Why is this year that's not even over yet ... any different that the years before. Is it just because it's an election year? I do not have an answer... but as for myself... I have never looked at the color of a person's skin as a negative. We are all human beings and we are all in the same situation with the Pandemic. Well, I'm going to continue my relationships with my black and Hispanic friends as I always have. I care about them as much as I do my family!

The extras for this scene and the roller rink were horrible. They really hammed it up. And Afros at the Apollo in the 1950s?

That's Don Stroud on drums. He's impressive. A solid character actor, usually playing the 'heavy". He was the deranged criminal in Coogan's Bluff, with Clint Eastwood, in the 70s. And many more. He's still with us, too!

Sorry for writing you, just out of curiosity your page come up on my suggested friend lists so I was just wondering if I knew you from somewhere?

@@jessicawiley5797 No, I don't believe we've met. I knew a Bonnie Wiley 45 years ago?

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Did he Die??

@@bootiedude Not then; he passed several years later...

You had a little brush with rock' n roll history. Stories like yours are precious gems.

@@nemo227 I couldn't agree more! Sometimes 'life' gives you a little smile!

Gary was a fantastic actor before his wrecked his motorcycle.

Too true!

Are you sure about that? Buddy and the Crickets too played brown sunburst Stratocasters. Gary Busey is playing a Telecaster.

Ditto~!!!

Music is the universal language. It brings all of us together.

Gary Holder I had the privilège and good fortune of seeing Buddy performance live at the Lubbock skating rink, when I was in grade school. This was before hé was fameuse. M'y 2 cousins went to highschool with Bjuddy..

"They call me Terry the Tiger."

I thought that was him.

And playing a standup bass that's bigger than he is!

I was just 17 when he died and cried my eyes out for him! He changed rock and roll positively for every artist When I spent basic in Lackland in 64 my knowledge of him was a great ice breaker for me as a outsider from the north!

Charles Martín Smith...greatest nerd in film history.

Elvis and Johnny Cash came to Lubbock touring and I believe Buddy Holley played here in Lubbock High School auditorium yes. I’m from Lubbock Texas. I believe Elvis played more times in Lubbock than any other city in the 50s

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@@roknroller The Sam Cooke tour is fiction, made up for the movie, just like the Buddy is the genius producer of the songs. Buddy was great, a part of the great American songbook. But the movie is highly fictionalized, was disliked by the Holley family (that was the actual spelling of Buddy’s last name) and the Crickets. Also I believe someone added additional guitar to the songs on the soundtrack. Good movie. Not history.

@@samuelmorado70 Don't Mess with TEXAS! I saw Jerry Lee, as a child, at a local fair in Ft. Worth in 1959. Never forgot (even as a child), his intensely on the Ivory's! Good times....

Ditto~!!!

Wow. What a great story and wonderful memories. To have seen buddy holly in his lifetime

@@michaelfebbert737 He came to Bristol in England where I lived and my mother took me to see him. He was Electric, even as a 9 year old I knew I'd seen something special and I never looked back and have enjoyed being in various Bands.

raybede that must have been brilliant . I was only 6 when he died but I remember his music on the radio in real time . Grew up with tons of music in our house .saw many great acts from a pretty early age but I would have loved to to have seen seen Buddy . Love from Da Bronx

@@rossdemarco1206 Yes I was very lucky and also had a mother who thought it would be a good idea to take me to the concert. I suppose that is what you call a life changing moment (even at 9!) Love from the UK