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The Essential Buddy Holly by Buddy Holly released in 2014. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
Jun 19, 2016 · Buddy Hollys entire career spanned a mere 4 years before his tragic death in an aircrash at the age of just 22. Many have mused on what could have been. This 3CD set shows, conclusively, what was.
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The Essential Buddy Holly. Label: Delta Leisure Group Plc – 60425. Format: 3 x CD, Compilation. Country: Europe. Released: 2014.
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From his first hit, 1957's "That'll Be the Day," he was stripping the new music down to its barest essentials: vocals, guitars, and drums. That minimalism makes his music sound timeless, and proved enormously influential. (The Beatles even named themselves in honor of Holly's band The Crickets.)
- 10 Learning The Game
- 9 Rock Around with Ollie Vee
- 8 Words of Love
- 7 Not Fade Away
- 6 OH, Boy!
- 5 It’S So Easy!
- 4 Maybe Baby
- 3 Rave on
- 2 Peggy Sue
- 1 That’Ll Be The Day
In the autumn of 1958, big changes were underway for Holly’s career as he split with The Crickets and producer Norman Petty. Holly’s departure from The Crickets was amicable, but that was not the case with Petty. After an argument in November over money and other issues, Holly ended his business relationship with Petty and began a legal battle to r...
Between January and November 1956, Buddy Holly made three trips to Nashville, Tennessee to record for Decca Records at Owen Bradley’s studio. Holly was given a fairly free hand in the studio regarding both material and arrangements. He recorded a number of rockers, capturing the same rockabilly excitement of Elvis Presley’s Sun recordings. Therein ...
In 1957 multi-track recording (the ability to record multiple “tracks” featuring different instruments or vocals) was still in its infancy. Although a few multi-track recorders were available, Norman Petty was still working with single-track machines in his studio in Clovis, New Mexico, making overdubbing a complicated procedure involving recording...
Not Fade Away was recorded just two days after the release of That’ll Be The Dayand demonstrated that the Crickets weren’t waiting for success to find them. Instead, they were forging ahead with every recording, both creatively and technically. Built around a “Bo Diddley beat,” the driving rhythm was produced by Jerry Allison drumming on a cardboar...
There were never set rules of what constituted a “Crickets” record and a “Buddy Holly” record. The distinction was left up to label head Bob Thiele: Norman Petty sent him finished masters and Thiele decided which recordings were to be released on Brunswick (by The Crickets) and which were to be on Coral (by Buddy Holly). Thiele eventually decided t...
The Crickets were on the road for most of March and April 1958, and returned to Clovis in May where they cut the power-packed rocker It’s So Easy! The song features an unusual melodic pattern with each verse feeding directly into the chorus in a manner later copied by The Beatles for such songs as Tell Me Why and When I Get Home. It also features s...
Maybe Baby, certainly one of Buddy Holly’s greatest songs, was actually co-written with his mother. Ella Holley was a diehard country music fan and part-time songwriter. While most of her songs were too serious for her son’s tastes, a few lines from an unfinished song became the inspiration for this classic rocker. Ella insisted her son take full c...
One of Buddy Holly’s most exciting and dynamic records, Rave On was written by Sonny West and Bill Tilghman (the same composers of Oh, Boy!). West recorded his Rave On! in November 1957 at Norman Petty’s studio and the title exclamation was inspired by the chorus of Carl Perkins’ rockabilly anthem Dixie Fried. Petty was able to sell the master to J...
Peggy Sueis a masterpiece of rock’n’roll minimalism with just a simple arrangement of drums, guitar and vocals. In less than two and a half minutes, Buddy Holly created rock’n’roll pyrotechnics that have not faded one iota in their power to dazzle listeners and entrance music lovers across six decades. Holly originally wrote the song as Cindy Lou, ...
Buddy Holly’s first and greatest hit, That’ll Be The Day, originated with another pop culture icon, John Wayne. The star of the 1956 John Ford-directed Western epic The Searchers, Wayne portrayed Ethan Edwards, a hard and bitter man who embarks on a multi-year quest to find his niece after she is kidnapped by hostile Indians. Throughout the film, W...
An 18-month career that changed the sound of rock to come.
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