Buddy Holly & The Crickets - Not Fade Away: Buddy Holly 1957 : the Complete Rec
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Artist: Buddy Holly & The CricketsEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2008-03-11
Music Label: El Toro
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- I'm Lookin' For Someone To Love - Buddy Holly
- That'll Be the Day - Buddy Holly
- Last Night - Buddy Holly
- Maybe Baby - Buddy Holly
- Last Night - Buddy Holly
- Words Of Love - Buddy Holly
- Words Of Love - Buddy Holly
- Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues - Buddy Holly
- Not Fade Away - Buddy Holly
- Not Fade Away - Buddy Holly
- Everyday - Buddy Holly
- Ready Teddy - Buddy Holly
- Valley Of Tears - Buddy Holly
- Tell Me How - Buddy Holly
- Buddy's Hone Call To Paul Cohen OF Decca Records - Buddy Holly
- Go Boy GGone - Gary Dale
- Gone - Gary Dale
- Go Boy Go - Gary Dale
- The Golden Rocket - Gary Dale
- Gone - Gary Dale
- I Overlooked An Orchid - Gary Dale
- On My Mind Again - Billy Walker
- Viva La Matador - Billy Walker
- A Whole Lot Of Lovin - Jim Robinson
- A Whole Lot Of Lovin - Jim Robinson
- A Whole Lot Of Lovin - Jim Robinson
- A Whole Lot Of Lovin' - Jim Robinson
- It's a Wonderful Feeling - Jim Robinson
- Starlight - Jack Huddle
- Believe Me - Jack Huddle
- Starlight - Jack Huddle
- Believe Me - Jack Huddle
- Peggy Sue - Buddy Holly
- Peggy Sue - Buddy Holly
- Listen To Me - Buddy Holly
- That'll Be the Day - Buddy Holly
- That'll Be the Day - Buddy Holly
- Oh, Boy! - Buddy Holly
- Oh, Boy! - Buddy Holly
- That'll Be the Day - Buddy Holly
- I'm Gonna Love You Too - Buddy Holly
- Send Me Some Lovin' - Buddy Holly
- It's Too Late - Buddy Holly
- Send Me Some Lovin' - Buddy Holly
- It's Too Late - Buddy Holly
- Man From Texas - Jim Robinson
- Honey, Honey - Gary Dale
- Look To the Future - Gary Dale
- By the Missio Wall - Fred Crawford
- Wreck Of the Old '97 - Carolyn Hester
- Scarlet Ribbons - Carolyn Hester
- Sugartime - Charlie Phillips
- One Faded Rose - Charlie Phillips
- One Faded Rose - Charlie Phillips
- Sugartime - Charlie Phillips
- One Faded Rose - Charlie Phillips
- Humble Heart - Sherry Davis
- Borken Promises - Sherry Davis
- Moondreams - Norman Petty Trio
- Moondreams - Norman Petty Trio
- Moondreams - Norman Petty Trio
- You've Got Love - Buddy Holly
- Maybe Baby - Buddy Holly
- An Empty Cup (And a Broken Date) - Buddy Holly
- Rock Me, My Baby - Buddy Holly
- That'll Be the Day - Buddy Holly
- That'll Be the Day - Buddy Holly
- Peggy Sue - Buddy Holly
- Interview With Ed Sullivan - Buddy Holly
- Little Baby - Buddy Holly
- You're So Square (Baby I Don't Care) - Buddy Holly
- Look At Me - Buddy Holly
- Mona - Buddy Holly
- Mona - Buddy Holly
- Mona - Buddy Holly
- Mona - Buddy Holly
- Peggy Sue - Buddy Holly
- Don't Do Me This Way! - Rick Tucker
- Patty Baby - Rick Tucker & the Picks
- Don't Do Me This Way! - Rick Tucker & the Picks
- Promotional Spot For Bill Randle #1 - Bill Randle
- Promotional Spot For Bill Randle #2 - Bill Randle
- Promotional Spot For Don Passerby #1 - Don Passerby
- Promotional Spot For Don Passerby #2 - Don Passerby
- Promotional Spot For Don Passerby #3 - Don Passerby
- Promotional Spot For Don Passerby #4 - Don Passerby
- Interview With Red Robinson - Red Robinson
- Promotional Spot For Red Robinson - Buddy Holly
- Interview With Freeman Hoover - Freeman Hoover
- Promotional Spot For Interview With Freeman Hoover - Freeman Hoover
- Interview With Dale Lowery - Dale Lowery
Music reviews of Not Fade Away: Buddy Holly 1957 : the Complete Rec
Music Review: EXTRAORDINARY LOOK AT HOLLY AT WORK IN 1957
Rating: 5 Stars
For starters this 3 disk set includes all Buddy Holly's studio recordings for 1957 -- the complete "Chirpin' Crickets" sessions and singles like "Peggy Sue."
That just for starters...
Intermingled chronologically are a surprising number of rare or previously unreleased demos versions, mostly of studio quality. Here is an alternate take of "Peggy Sue" plus demos of "Words of Love," "Last Night, "Send Me Some Lovin'", "Not Fade Away" and others.
A high point for me is a sound check of the echo chamber in Petty's studio.
Buddy created this chamber by tiling up (with broken bathroom tile from his father's tile business) an upstairs store room in the filling station next door owned by Norman Petty's father. They ran a line to this room (now a "chamber"), then installed an input speaker and output mic in there; the sound that returned to the studio had that ringing fullness that inspires people to sing in the shower.
For the echo test Buddy performs Bo Diddly's "Mona"; his off-mike vocal is only a whisper, but his Stratocaster rings with startling clarity.
(For the curious, that's drummer Jerry Alison doing his own test, saying "Beeee...Oooooo" in a deep voice like a fog horn. He's imitating a popular deodorant commercial on TV back then (BO = body odor). A young man snappily dressed in suit and tie steps onto an elevator, where a pretty girl at first takes notice of him. Then like a voice from the heavens comes "Beeee...Ooooo!". She frowns and turns away, leaving the guy disappointed and mystified.)
Buddy recorded "That'll Be the Day" in February of 1957. After Norman placed it at Brunswick records, he and the Crickets recorded two brief reworded versions expressing thanks to Bob Thiele and Murray Deutche of Brunswick -- both included here.
During the long spell between finishing "That'll Be the Day" in February and its breakout in September, Buddy worked as a session musician at Petty's studio. His firery guitar backing is exciting and unmistakable on a number of these recordings by various artists; happily, most are quite good and an interesting insight in the West Texas music scene of that period.
After the breakout of "That'll Be the Day," Buddy toured extensively and recorded stations breaks and plugs for a number of stations playing his hits. A number of these are included here, along with interviews with Buddy, and some live performances.
The fragments from Buddy's life in 1957 to be found here are tragically few compared to what has been lost. In the studio, once Norman Petty got a finished take he would clip it from a reel, and use the reel with its false starts, studio talk, and alternate takes as junker tape to be recorded over. We do have a pitifully few scraps found at the tails or between songs from reels by other artists in Petty's vault. Similarly, the demos Buddy made were mostly discarded. And disc jockeys had so many station plugs by stars that mostly these and interviews were lost or discarded when no longer timely. But amazingly a few precious fragments have have survived and are used here to document the year Buddy Holly emerged as a major star.
Overall, I would recommend this package to anybody and everybody. For Holly fans it is simply priceless. For those new to Holly, it is a unique insight into his appealing personality -- shy and unassuming, but bursting with enthusiasm and the sheer love of being alive.
He was really here for a only short while, and some years back now...
Listening to these three disks gives you the feeling of having spent a little time with him back then, in the studio and on the road.
What a great trip that is...
Description of Not Fade Away: Buddy Holly 1957 : the Complete Rec
2008 three CD set. This 90 track collection features every known 1957 Buddy Holly recording , the hits of which were issued alternately as by The Crickets ("That'll Be The Day", "Oh Boy", "Maybe Baby") and as by Buddy Holly ("Words Of Love", "Peggy Sue", "Listen To Me"). Also here are the album tracks of the period, alternate takes, demos, airshots and more. As well as all of the 1957 recordings marketed as by both The Crickets and as by Buddy Holly, this three CD set also includes a wealth of tracks on which Buddy and his friends backed other Country, Pop and Rock 'N' Roll singers in the Clovis studio - such as the first (?) recordings by future folk star Carolyn Hester - along with the soundtracks from TV shows, on-air interviews and amusingly-tailored promo jingles to massage the egos of various music industry figures. El Toro.Pop CDs
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