“Maybe Baby” by Buddy Holly

Buddy Holly wrote "Maybe Baby" with producer Norman Petty and cut it with the Crickets in 1957; Brunswick released it in January 1958 under the Crickets' name alone. It's rock and roll at its leanest and brightest, and it did the job on both sides of the Atlantic, making the top 40 in America, Britain and Canada.

It found a second life in 1973, when George Lucas put it in American Graffiti, and it rode along on the film's soundtrack album, 41 Original Hits from the Soundtrack of American Graffiti.

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