Women Behind the Songs: 'Peggy Sue'

I've always heard that the original name was "Cindy Lou" in reference to Buddy's Niece, but he changed it as a favor to Jerry for changing his drumming to the beat Buddy liked better.

What?!! you have to be a helpeless romantic to join a band?

This book is so inaccurate; the inaccuracies are also proveable. One proof is the booklet included in The Complete Buddy Holly set. It contains actual photos, letters, Buddy's notes from his looseleaf from late 1957. The song "Cindy Lou" is on the list..not "Peggy Sue". I have some of the original photos and letters to me from Jerry in 1957, and the copy of a letter from Buddy to his parents which tells a differnt story. By the way, I am the Yvonne Hall so hatefully described in her book. With his mom and mine being the close friends they were, I would not have had to ask if they were really married..I knew..probably almost as soon as she did. I certainly did not need an introduction or get acquainted session since we had been in plane geometry together and sat across the aisle from each other. I was not pining away for Jerry as she implied. I, too, was getting married the next year. Jerry and I have remained friends, however, through the years. I will be glad to discuss all of this with her face to face anytime she would like. She could have written a beautiful book, but chose instead to write trash. I have written a letter to her which I will send to other before her for obvious reasons.

I was secretly fallin in love with a Peggy Sue from Toronto. We gone out dine once with a friend when she was about 18, and I was 7 yrs of her senior. To this date, I am still thinkin of her. I suppose that I should have told her...

I went to school with her. As I remember her family sent her to California to get her away from the group. I guess she made her way back to them.

I was named after this song. It has always had a special place in my heart and even more now that I am older and can appreciate Buddy Holly and his talent. I'd like to meet the woman whom the song was written for. I'm sure she would have some interesting stories about Buddy Holly.

BUDDY HOLLY!! What can I say? He was and always will be one of the greatest rockers to come out of the 50's. He was way ahead of his time. Rock was so good back then. Now, we have a lot of garbage.

Peggy Sue owns a restaurant on Route 66 called Peggy Sue's. She did take her name and run with it but I bet she has a lot to write about.

Kinda strange to see this lady attacked for being a nobody with a boring life by people with so little going on there's time to read and write about her.

Someone who knows I'm too boring to feel superior

Married to Buddy Holly's drummer? Sounds interesting. She may just have some interesting things to write about.