"It's So Easy," the original Buddy Holly version, has the sound of the era with the stamp of Charles Hardin Holley (Buddy) on it--the being-recorded-in-an-empty-room vibe with the rock-and-roll shuffle to the beat, and emotionally specific lyrics sung with optimism and verve.
The Linda Ronstadt cover version has fuller-sounding instrumentals, partly because of advances in recording technology, and partly from pure stylistic variations. A powerful blues influence gives an insistent "drag" at the bottom of the sound, with the melody declaring itself and the rhythm pulling on you like an undertow.
1970s-flavored pop-rock.
"It's so easy, it's so easy, Yeaahh-eah-eahh, so doggone easy..."
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On You Tube, find "That'll Be The Day" by Buddy Holly and <PLAY>.
(The upload by Buddy Holly - topic has good sound.)
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"That'll Be The Day" was written by Buddy Holly and Jerry Allison.
------------------------- [excerpt from Songfacts website] ---------------------------- Buddy Holly had been kicking around his home town of Lubbock, Texas, trying to write a hit song for his small rockabilly band, ever since he had attended an Elvis Presley gig at his high school sometime in 1955.
His band in those days consisted of him on lead vocals and guitar, Jerry Allison on the drums, and Joe B. Maudlin on upright bass.
He and Jerry decided to get together and go see The Searchers, a Western movie starring John Wayne. In the movie, Wayne keeps replying, "That'll be the day," every time another character in the film predicts or proclaims something will happen when he felt it was not likely to happen.
The phrase stuck in Jerry's mind, and when they were hanging out at Jerry's house one night, Buddy looked at Jerry and said that it sure would be nice if they could record a hit song. Jerry replied with, "That'll be the day," imitating John Wayne in the film.
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