Hey Buddy
Happy birthday, Rivers Cuomo. He's the leader of Weezer, which has been making good music for almost two decades now. My favorite song of his is one that's not especially representative, "Buddy Holly." In fact, he was thinking of leaving it off the album.
It's got one of the most memorable videos ever, from Spike Jonze. They did the song on a re-created Arnold's set from Happy Days and mixed it with old footage from the show.
The video is more ingenious than people realize. The song puts Buddy Holly and Mary Tyler Moore right next to each other. Except Buddy died before anyone had heard of her. He's really a 50s figure while she's best known from the 1970s. So what does the video do? Shot in the 90s, it utlizes a 70s show set in the 50s. Perfect.
posted by LAGuy @ 12:03 AM
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This is my favorite Weezer song too. In my mind, the Mary Tyler Moore reference is her role as Laura Petrie in the Dick Van Dyke Show, which would at least get her to the 60s.
"Oh Rob!"
Is that Shelley Long standing by the phone?
Her age is right but I see no evidence of Shelley Long appearing on Happy Days. She and Henry Winkler made a good team in Night Shift, though.
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