Buddy Holly Interview With Alan Freed

WNEW Tv Studio, 205 East 67th Street, New York, N.Y.

Broadcast By WNEW - TV.

October 2, 1958

Alan Freed: The one and only… Buddy Holly. Buddy Holly! Hey!

Audience: [Cheers and applause]

Alan Freed: Buddy Holly. Hey, Buddy.

Buddy Holly: How ya Alan?

Alan Freed: How are you?

Buddy Holly: Fine.

Alan Freed: Good to see you, old Buddy, again. Ahh, where are the other fellas?

Buddy Holly: They're running around somewhere, Alan.

Alan Freed: They are?

Buddy Holly: Uh-huh.

Alan Freed: Gee, last time I saw you, I guess I haven't seen you since our tour have I? ["Alan Freed's Big Beat Show" 28 March to 10 May 1958]

Buddy Holly: About, ahh, in April, wasn't it?

Alan Freed: I think somewhere around there.

Buddy Holly: A good while, uh-huh?

Alan Freed: Yes, it has been. What have you been doing and where have you been?

Buddy Holly: Well, we haven't been working all summer, Alan. We've just been kinda loafing and taking it easy and running around some. Enjoying the, uh, what we hadn't enjoyed for the whole year previous, you know, with all the work going on.

Alan Freed: Oh boy, you worked hard that year, Buddy.

Buddy Holly: So, uh, we're getting ready to start in with some new work now.

Alan Freed: You're going on tour again?

Buddy Holly: I think so, uh-huh.

Alan Freed: Buddy, we had a lot of fun. We did a lot of flying.

Buddy Holly: Yeah, we sure did. [Laughs] You know I was just into town the other day in Cincinnati. You remember when we landed there and, uh, the helicopter had crashed that day that we got in there?

Alan Freed: That's right.

Buddy Holly: And, uh, we took the ride in there from the airport. It reminded me of when we landed there.

Alan Freed: We… Buddy we played… I think we rode every kind of airplane there was imaginable.

Buddy Holly: [Laughs] Uh-huh, we sure did.

Alan Freed: Those DC3s were really something.

Buddy Holly: Ah, the one with the oomp-oomp! [Mimics racketing motion and laughs]

Alan Freed: Oh boy, oh boy. Without the seat belts we'd have been right through the top, that's for sure.

Buddy Holly: We sure would.

Alan Freed: Buddy, we've had a lot of fun together and I hope we're going to have a lot of fun together in the future too, because you're just a wonderful guy. And say hullo to Joe.

Buddy Holly: Okay.

Alan Freed: Joe Buy… is it Joe…

Buddy Holly: [Laughs] Joe Buy…

Alan Freed: Joe Buy-us!

Buddy Holly: Uh-huh.

Alan Freed: 'Cos he was always…

Buddy Holly: That jerk over there with Joe [garbled]…

Alan Freed: …No, Joe at the [garbled] as they call it with the bass fiddle. And we called him Joe Buy-us because he always was saying, "Buy us a Coke?"

[Some words were garbled as Buddy and Alan spoke at the same time.]

Buddy Holly: Mm-hh. "Buy us something."

Alan Freed: "Buy us some… buy us a candy bar?" Well, we had a lot of fun together and, Buddy, let's get together soon, and thank you so much for being with us on WNEW.

Buddy Holly: Thank you, Alan, it's been my pleasure. Thank you.

Alan Freed: Thank you very much.

Audience: [Cheers and applause]

Alan Freed: Okay, Buddy Holly, and that's his brand new Brunswick record, "It's So Easy" and a wonderful record it is. Now it's time for station identification. We'll be back with part two, so you stick around.

End Of Interview.

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