420 - Buddy Holly and the Crickets - The "Chirping" Crickets - Tom Kenny
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EPISODE SUMMARY:
It’s a sad truth of the world that the stars that shine the brightest often don’t burn for very long. But that may be what makes singular artists like Buddy Holly so special. Though we were robbed of whatever musical heights he might have ascended to after he died at the tender age of 23, his impact on the direction of rock ‘n roll specifically, as seen through his own work and that of his first group The Crickets, is still felt today. The band’s debut album The “Chirping” Crickets first reached the ears of celebrated voice actor Tom Kenny nearly twenty years after its release in 1957. And The Cricket’s youthful exuberance and sheer joy for life can still be felt in all of Tom’s much beloved characters, including Heffer Wolfe from Rocko’s Modern Life, the Ice King from Adventure Time and international fan favorite Spongebob Squarepants.
Links Tom shared with us:
Buddy Holly calls his Record Label
Little Richard Minute hosted by Tom Kenny
SHOW NOTES:
00:15 – Intro
04:30 – An old music soul
08:30 – The freedom of early broadcasting
11:45 – Music that gets you through
16:30 – The Man vs. the Myth
23:00 – A place you absolutely must escape
38:15 – Making a career out of making funny voices
57:00 – More power in death than in life
1:04:45 – Celebrity Eskimo brothers
1:08:30 – Facts!
1:13:15 – Empowering skinny dorks everywhere
1:15:30 – What might have been…
1:18:00 – Outro