It's So Easy! (The Crickets song)

Background The song was recorded by Buddy Holly and the Crickets from June to August 1958 at Norman Petty Recording Studios in Clovis, New Mexico. Holly lip-synched to recordings of "It's So Easy!" and his song "Heartbeat" on the television program American Bandstand on October 28, 1958. The Crickets recorded "It's So Easy!" for Brunswick Records, which released it as a 45-rpm single in 1958 but it did not chart. The B-side was "Lonesome Tears". Tommy Allsup played the lead guitar parts on both recordings. ==Linda Ronstadt version==

| header = 45 RPM side label | type = single | cover = It's So Easy Linda Ronstadt Asylum 45.jpg | border = | alt = | caption = U.S. release by Linda Ronstadt }} }} Background Linda Ronstadt recorded "It's So Easy" in 1977 for her album Simple Dreams, produced by Peter Asher. Her recording was released as a single by Asylum Records in the autumn of that year. It hit the Billboard Top Five on the Hot 100 simultaneously with her recording of "Blue Bayou". It also reached No. 9 in Canada and No. 11 on the UK Singles Chart. Ronstadt's version was used in the 2005 film Brokeback Mountain. ==Chart performance==

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The following musicians recorded cover versions of the song: Bobby Vee (on the 1963 album I Remember Buddy Holly), the Astronauts (on their 1964 album Everything is A-OK!), Jimmy Gilmer and Waylon Jennings in 1964, Tommy Allsup on the album The Buddy Holly Songbook in 1964, Skeeter Davis (on her 1967 album Skeeter Davis Sings Buddy Holly), the Trashmen (on their 1964 album ''Surfin' Bird), Connie Francis (on her 1996 album With Love to Buddy), Phil Ochs in 1974 in a live medley, Hank Marvin (on his 1996 album Hank Plays Holly), Mike Berry and The Outlaws (on the 1998 album Rock 'n' Roll Daze), Denny Laine of Wings in a medley in 1977, Waylon Jennings with The Crickets in a medley on his 1978 album I've Always Been Crazy, P. J. Proby (on his 2003 album Memories), Hot Tuna (on their 1976 album Hoppkorv), Chris Spedding (on the 1989 compilation Every Day is a Holly Day''), Zooey Deschanel and Paul McCartney in 2011, and Ian Gillan of Deep Purple in 2018. The Beatles performed the song at the 1969 Let It Be sessions. According to Mark Lewisohn in The Complete Beatles Chronicle, The Beatles – first as The Quarrymen – performed “It’s So Easy” regularly in live performances between 1958 and 1962. Gary Busey (portraying Buddy Holly) performed the song in the 1978 film The Buddy Holly Story. ==References==