“Everyday” by Buddy Holly

"Everyday" first slipped out on September 20, 1957, on the flip side of "Peggy Sue", and later found a place on the 1958 album Buddy Holly. Holly wrote it with his producer Norman Petty and cut it with the Crickets on May 29, 1957, at Petty's studio in Clovis, New Mexico, though the original single never gave the band a credit.

The charm is in how little it needs. Holly strums acoustic guitar, Joe B. Mauldin thumps an upright bass and Jerry Allison keeps time by slapping his knees, while Vi Petty, Norman's wife, plays the celesta that gives the whole thing its music-box twinkle. Rolling Stone later put it at 238 on its list of the 500 greatest songs of all time.

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