buddy holly

[bigideas]

I've had the 2 disc Buddy Holly Gold for a while now.

Having just seen Juno, I heard "Dearest" for the first time and loved it.

I'm looking around the internet and not finding what release this was from.

Holly is hard to research as he only released 2 (or 3?) records while he was alive and things kept coming out afterwards.

 

Has there not been a comprehensive box set with all his recordings?

 

If not, this really blows my mind as hardly any of his songs are over 3 minutes so you could probably put everything he recorded on a few discs and it still be cost effective. I guess all the different overdub versions would complicate it some.

 

Not forgeting how influential he was to rock n roll.

 

any help would be appreciated.

(maybe there's a Holly afficianado amongst us)

[Analogman]

Tape City

 

Buddy Holly Complete 10 disk set (v-2)(Purple Chick)

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Disc 1:

1. My Two Timin' Woman

2. I'll Just Pretend

3. Take There Shackles From My Heart

4. Footprints In The Snow

5. Gotta Get You Near Me Blues

6. Flower Of My Heart

7. Door To My Heart

8. I Gambled My Heart

9. Soft Placce In My Heart

10. Gotta Get You Near Me Blues

11. You And I Are Through

12. Memories

13. You And I Are Through

14. Baby It's Love

15. Memories

16. Queen Of The Ballroom

17. Baby Let's Play House

18. Down The Line

19. Baby Let's Play House

20. Down The Line

21. Moonlight Baby

22. I Guess I Was A Fool

23. Don't Come Back Knockin'

24. Love Me

25. Love Me

26. Don't Come Back Knockin'

27. Midnight Shift

28. Blue Days, Black Nights

29. Baby Won't You Come Out Tonight

30. I Guess I Was A Fool

31. It's Not My Fault

32. I'm Gonna Set My Foot Down

33. Changin' All Those Changes

34. Rock-A-Bye Rock

35. Because I Love You

 

Disc 2:

1. Baby Won't You Come Out Tonight

2. Because I Love You

3. Changin' All Those Changes

4. I'm Gonna Set My Foot Down

5. It's Not My Fault

6. Rock-A-Bye Rock

7. Rock Around With Ollie Vee

8. Rock Around With Ollie Vee

9. I'm Changin' All Those Changes

10. I'm Changin' All Those Changes

11. That'll Be The Day

12. Girl On My Mind

13. Ting-A-Ling

14. Rock Around With Ollie Vee

15. Modern Don Juan

16. You're My One Desire (false start)

17. You're My One Desire

18. Gone (ver 1)

19. Gone (ver 2)

20. Gone (ver 3)

21. Have You Ever Been Lonely (ver 1)

22. Have You Ever Been Lonely (ver 2)

23. Have You Ever Been Lonely (ver 3)

24. Have You Ever Been Lonely (ver 4)

25. Brown-Eyed Handsome Man

26. Good Rockin' Tonight

27. Rip It Up

28. Blue Monday

29. Honky Tonk

30. Blue Suede Shoes

31. Shake Rattle and Roll

32. Bo Diddley

33. Ain't Got No Home

34. Holly Hop

35. Gone

36. Rip It Up

37. Honky Tonk

38. Blue Suede Shoes

39. Shake Rattle and Roll

40. Have You Ever Been Lonely

41. Good Rockin' Tonight

42. Blue Monday

43. Ain't Got No Home

44. Holly Hop

 

Disc 3:

1. Brown-Eyed Handsome Man

2. Bo Diddley

3. Brown-Eyed Handsome Man

4. Bo Diddley

5. I'm Looking For Someone To Love

6. That'll Be The Day

7. Last Night

8. Maybe Baby

9. Words Of Love

10. Last Night

11. Maybe Baby

12. Words Of Love

13. Mailman Bring Me No More Blues

14. Mailman Bring Me No More Blues

15. Not Fade away

16. Not Fade Away

17. Everyday

18. Ready Teddy

19. Valley Of Tears

20. Tell Me How

21. Peggy Sue (alternate)

22. Peggy Sue (master)

23. Listen To Me

24. That'll be The Day - Bob Thiele

25. That'll Be The Day - Murray Deutch

26. That'll Be The Day - Bill Randall

27. Oh Boy (undubbed)

28. Oh Boy (master)

29. I'm Gonna Love You Too

30. Send Me Some Loving (undubbed)

31. It's Too Late (undubbed)

32. Send Me Some Loving (master)

33. It's Too Late (master)

34. Am Emtpy Cup (A Broken Date)

35. Rock Me My Baby

36. You've Got Love

37. Maybe Baby

38. That'll Be The Day (fragment)

39. That'll Be The Day

40. Peggy Sue

41. Interview with Ed Sullivan

 

Disc 4:

1. Little Baby

2. (You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care

3. Look At Me

4. Look At Me

5. Mona (rehearsal)

6. Mona (rehearsal)

7. Mona (rehearsal)

8. Mona (rehearsal)

9. Peggy Sue

10. Rave On

11. That's My Desire (rehearsal)

12. That's My Desire (take 1)

13. That's My Desire (take 2)

14. That's My Desire (take 3)

15. That's My Desire (take 3)

16. Oh Boy

17. Well All Right

18. Take Your Time (take 1)

19. Take Your Time (take 2)

20. Take Your Time (take 3)

21. Take Your Time (take 4)

22. Fool's Paradise (take 1)

23. Fool's Paradise (take 2)

24. Fool's Paradise (take 3)

25. Think It Over (take 1)

26. Think It Over (take 2)

27. Think It Over (take 3)

28. Think It Over (take 4)

29. Think It Over (take 5)

30. Fool's Paradise (take 3 - master)

31. Fool's Paradise (take 5 - master)

32. That'll Be The Day (fragment)

33. Everyday (fragment)

34. Drown In My Own Tears (fragment)

35. Hallelujah, I Love Her So (fragment)

36. That'll Be The Day

37. Peggy Sue

38. Oh Boy

39. Maybe Baby

40. Heartbeat

41. Lonesome Tears

42. It's So Easy

43. Love's Made A Fool Of You

44. Wishing

45. Love's Made A Fool Of You

46. Wishing

 

Disc 5:

1. Early In The Morning

2. Now We're One (fragment)

3. Now We're One

4. Everyday KLLL Jingle

5. Peggy Sue KLLL Jingle

6. Come Back Baby

7. Reminiscing

8. Reminiscing

9. True Love Ways (stereo)

10. It Doesn't MAtter Anymore (stereo)

11. Raining In My Heart (stereo)

12. Moondreams (stereo)

13. True Love Ways (mono)

14. It Doesn't Matter Anymore (mono)

15. Raining In My Heart (mono)

16. Moondreams (mono)

17. That's What They Say (version 1)

18. That's What They Say (version 2)

19. What To Do

20. Peggy Sue Got Married

21. That Makes It Tough

22. Crying, Waiting, Hoping

23. Learning The Game

24. You're The One

25. Wait 'Til The Sun Shines Nellie

26. Slippin' And Slidin' (slow #1)

27. Slippin' And Slidin' (slow #3)

28. Slippin' And Slidin' (slow #2)

29. Slippin' And Slidin' (fast)

30. Drown In My Own Tears (fragment)

31. Maria Elena

32. Dearest (version 1)

33. Dearest (version 2)

34. Love Is Strange

35. Smokey Joe's Cafe

36. Smokey Joe's Cafe (unedited)

37. Buddy's Guitar

 

Disc 6:

1. Peggy Sue Got Married

2. Crying, Waiting, Hoping

3. That's What They Say

4. What To Do

5. Learning The Game

6. That Makes It Tough

7. What To Do

8. Peggy Sue Got Married

9. Crying, Waiting, Hoping

10. That Makes It Tough

11. That's What They Say

12. Learning The Game

13. You're The One

14. Umm, Oh Yeah (Dearest)

15. Slippin' and Slidin' (slow #1)

16. Wait 'Til The Sun Shines Nellie

17. Wait 'Til The Sun Shines Nellie

18. Love Is Strange

19. Slippin' and Slidin' (fast)

20. Dearest

21. Smokey Joe's Cafe

22. Peggy Sue Got Married

23. Got To Get You Near Me Blues

24. Memories

25. Baby Let's Play House

26. Last Night

27. Oh Boy

28. Send Me Dome Loving

29. It's Too Late

30. That's My Desire

31. Fool's Paradise

32. Think It Over

33. Love's Made A Fool Of You

34. Wishing

 

Disc 7:

1. I Saw The Moon Cry Last Night

2. I Hear The Lord Callin' For Me

3. All From Loving You

4. Rose Of Monterey

5. Because You Love Me

6. I'll Miss My Heart

7. Queen Of The Ballroom

8. This Bottle

9. Dallas Boogie

10. One In A Million

11. Go Boy Go

12. Gone

13. Go Boy Go

14. Gone

15. The Golden Rocket

16. I Overlooked An Orchid

17. A Whole Lot Of Lovin' (take 1)

18. A Whole Lot Of Lovin' (take 2)

19. A Whole Lot Of Lovin' (take 3)

20. A Whole Lot Of Lovin' (take 3 - dubbed master)

21. It's A Wonderful Feeling

22. Starlight

23. Believe Me

24. By The Mission Wall

25. A Man From Texas

26. Broken Promises

27. Humble Heart

28. Look To The Future

29. Honey Honey

30. Sugartime (version 1)

31. Sugartime (version 2)

32. One Faded Rose (version 1)

33. One Faded Rose (version 2)

 

Disc 8:

1. Moondreams (album version)

2. Moondreams (single version)

3. Moondreams (alternate version)

4. Don't Do Me This Way

5. Patty Baby

6. Don't Do Me This Way

7. Real Wild Child (take 1)

8. Real Wild Child (take 2)

9. Oh You Beautiful Doll (take 1)

10. Oh You Beautiful Doll (take 2)

11. Oh You Beautiful Doll (take 2 - dubbed master)

12. Scarlet Ribbons

13. Wreck Of The Old '97

14. I Sent You Roses

15. What a' You Gonna Do?

16. When Sin Stops (take 1 - instr)

17. When Sin Stops (take 2 - instr)

18. When Sin Stops (take 3 - instr)

19. When Sin Stops (take 4 - vocal)

20. When Sin Stops (take 5 - vocal)

21. When Sin Stops (take 6 - vocal)

22. When Sin Stops (take 2 - dubbed master)

23. Jole Blon

24. Stay Close To Me (false start)

25. Stay Close To Me

26. Don't Cha Know

27. More and More

28. When You Are Lonely

29. My Best Friend (my baby's coming home)

30. My Baby's Coming Home (dubbed)

31. I Know I'll Have The Blues Again

32. Monetta

33. A Whole Lot Of Lovin'

34. Moondreams #1 - Norman Petty Trio

35. Moondreams #2 - Norman Petty Trio

36. Oh, You Beautiful Doll - Ivan

37. When Sin Stops - Waylon Jennings

 

Disc 9:

1. The Paul Cohen Phone Call

2. Bill Randle WERE Promo

3. Bill Randle WERE Promo

4. Don Passerby Promo

5. Don Passerby Promo

6. Don Passerby Promo

7. Don Passerby Promo

8. Red Robinson Promo

9. Red Robison Interview

10. Freeman Hover Interview

11. Freeman Hover Promo

12. Dale Lowery Interview

13. Pat Barton Interview

14. Bob Chesney Interview

15. Bob Chesney / WTRL Promo

16. KSYD Wichita Falls Promo

17. Dick Arlen WACK Promo

18. Alan Freed Interview

19. Ronnie King Interview

20. Dick Clark Interview

21. Big Bopper Winter Dance Party

22. Richie Valens Winter Dance Party

23. Buddy Holly Winter Dance Party

24. Newscast about the Plane Crash

25. WNOE Plane Crash Newscast

26. Newscast about the Plane Crash

27. Ella and Lawrence Holly

28. Norman Petty Defends Himself

29. Raining In My Heart (1959)

30. True Love Ways (1967)

31. It Doesn't Matter Anymore (1967)

32. What To Do (1967)

33. Learning The Game (1967)

34. Not Fade Away (complete alternate)

35. Peggy Sue Got Married

36. Crying, Waiting, Hoping

37. Wait Til The Sun Shines Nellie - Bing Crosby

38. Slippin' and Slidin' - Little Richard

39. Dearest - Mickey and Sylvia

40. Love Is Strange - Mickey and Sylvia

41. Smokey Joe's Cafe - The Robins

42. Leave My Woman Alone - Ray Charles

 

Disc 10:

1. My Two Timin' Woman - Hank Snow

2. I'll Just Pretend - Flatt and Scruggs and the Stanley Brothers

3. Take These Shackles From My Heart - Pee Wee King

4. Footprints In The Snow - Bill Monroe and his Bluegrass Boys

5. Baby, Let's Play House - Elvis Presley, Scotty and Bill

6. Blue Days, Black Nights - Ben Hall, Weldon Myrick, Dena Hall

7. I Foprgot To Remember To Forget - Elvis Presley, Scotty and Bill

8. Ting A Ling - The Clovers

9. Gone - Ferlin Husky

10. Have You Ever Been Lonely? - Ernest Tubb

11. Brown-Eyed Handsome Man - Chuck Berry

12. Good Rockin' Tonight - Elvis Presley

13. Rip It Up - Little Richard

14. Blue Monday - Fats Domino

15. Honky Tonk (Part 1) - Bill Doggett

16. Blue Suede Shoes - Elvis Presley

17. Shake Rattle and Roll - Elvis Presley

18. Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley

19. Ain't Got No Home - Clarence "Frogman" Henry

20. Ready Teddy - Little Richard

21. Valley Of Tears - Fats Domino

22. All Of My Love - Sonny West

23. Send Me Sone Lovin' - Little Richard

24. It's Too Late - Chuck Willis

25. An Empty Cup - Roy Orbison and the Teen Kings

26. (You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care - Elvis Presley

27. Mona - Bo Diddley

28. Rave On - Sonny West

29. That's My Desire - Frankie Lane

30. Drown In My Own Tears - Ray Charles

31. Hallelujah I Love Her So - Ray Charles

32. Early In The Morning - Bobby Darin

33. Now We're One - Bobby Darin

[LouieB]

I've had the 2 disc Buddy Holly Gold for a while now.

Having just seen Juno, I heard "Dearest" for the first time and loved it.

I'm looking around the internet and not finding what release this was from.

Holly is hard to research as he only released 2 (or 3?) records while he was alive and things kept coming out afterwards.

 

Has there not been a comprehensive box set with all his recordings?

 

If not, this really blows my mind as hardly any of his songs are over 3 minutes so you could probably put everything he recorded on a few discs and it still be cost effective. I guess all the different overdub versions would complicate it some.

A few years back when the Buddy Holly story with Gary Busey was made, Holly got alot of PR. There was also a box set on 6 LPs on MCA which I have that has his entire (supposedly for the time) recorded out put. Nice book too. Actually I didn't buy it in those days, it seemed so extravigant. The Greatest Hits LP at the time was a big seller and I was content with that. A couple years ago this set showed up for $25 bucks and I snapped it up.

 

Oh and the reason his songs are all 3 minutes....thats how long singles were and no one thought you could make a song for longer than that anyway. And his entire recording career was only 18 months long. The list of stuff that Analogman put up must be really EVERYTHING he recorded, since it includes outtakes and fragments. Frankly the basic 24 greatest hits are pretty much all anyone really needs I would think.

 

LouieB

[Analogman]

Information on the above - sorry I missed posting it:

 

When Buddy Holly died, his record label Coral released in the following month, The Buddy Holly Story, a collection that reflected his music of fast-tempo singles and love songs. Holly died in a tragic plane crash Feb 3, 1959, 47 years ago. He was a recording artist for only the last three years of his life. In that short period, he and his band The Crickets managed only three albums - The Chirping Crickets [Nov 1957], Buddy Holly [Mar 1958] and That

[LouieB]

As always, the Brits dig American roots music such as rockabilly more than Americans.

 

I was shocked to see the 6 LP set for so cheap.

 

LouieB

[Golden Smoghead]

As always, the Brits dig American roots music such as rockabilly more than Americans.

What's funny is that even this is not new -- did you know that there was a banjo craze in the UK back in the 19th century, based on American influences? From the wikipedia article (I cannot find the better explanation I saw elsewhere recently):

 

The modern banjo was popularized by the American minstrel performer Joel Sweeney in the 1830s. Banjos were introduced in Britain in the 1840s by Sweeney's group, the American Virginia Minstrels, and became very popular in music halls.

[bigideas]

Oh and the reason his songs are all 3 minutes....thats how long singles were and no one thought you could make a song for longer than that anyway. And his entire recording career was only 18 months long. Frankly the basic 24 greatest hits are pretty much all anyone really needs I would think.

 

LouieB

 

yeah, i know that was the length of songs at the time - my point of pointing that out was the case for a CD release.

 

i was fairly content with my 2 CD Gold until i heard Dearest and realized just how much i love his voice, despite the fact that was a cover and a simplistic recording of just him and guitar.

 

now after reading through the great

www.buddyhollyonline.com

i see that Dearest was one of the songs he demoed in his apartment shortly before he died.

 

as far as i know, Dearest, has never officially been released on CD, but it has been on vinyl.

now i wonder, when the Juno people wanted to get the song what they sourced the song from?

are there still the original tapes to draw from 50 years later?

or do they take the song from vinyl?

 

something tells me maybe the complete CD box set will be released next year to coincide with the 50th anniversary of his death.

 

but man, listening to his music, seeing those pics on the website (which they've disabled the Copy function) of him performing just prior to his death, i have to say i got a little glassy eyed. i mean, what would he have been writing just 10 years later at 32 during the Summer of Love? would music have been in a totally different place? it's not inconceivable to think his career could have kept expanding exponentially through the early/mid 60's and the Beatles may not have had the effect they did. even if they did still make a huge impact, they're music could have been different as who's to know where Holly would have went in those extra 4 or 5 years? would they be heavily influenced by that like they were the stuff he did in a year and a half several years earlier? it's crazy to think about.

 

i see there are some comprehensive releases by some label called El Toro. so far they've done 56 and 57.

[LouieB]

Chances are by the "summer of love" Buddy would have been an oldies act just like nearly all his contemporaries.....rock and roll went through some pretty severe changes in the meantime, and despite his genius he may not have made the transition.

 

You are probably correct. A major retrospective on CD is probably in order. Holly has fallen out of the limelight in the past couple decades and maybe someone will pump him back up.

 

LouieB

[Analogman]

Artwork for the above set.

[bigideas]

At Best Buy the other day I noticed two new Buddy compilations.

 

One called 'Memorial' which is called a Best Buy exclusive - I think it just means they have it a while before everyone else.

 

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp;js...p;type=category

 

Another called "Down The Line - The Rarities"

 

I haven't been able to pin down the big difference. It almost seems that Memorial just includes all the most well known stuff with some of the rarities/unreleased/undubbed stuff, while Rarities pretty much contains only the latter and more complete; i.e. all of the Apartment Tracks (seems to be the exact listing of the Purple Chick collection).

 

From what I've read Rarities has both the Apartment Tapes and Garage Tapes undubbed.

 

If anyone has seen an article comparing the two and could link them, that'd be great!

 

P.S. After this post I was able to track down that 6 LP set on eBay for next to nothing and the set was in great condition.

[LouieB]

P.S. After this post I was able to track down that 6 LP set on eBay for next to nothing and the set was in great condition.

There is really not much demand for Buddy these days. Fifty years is a long time and there hasn't been anything to spark interest in his work of late. With the 50th anniversary coming up this may change. I guess there is a big old concert planned for Clearlake, Iowa.

 

LouieB

[Analogman]

There is an article about that in the new issue of Rolling Stone - which I was surprised to see.

 

And as usual -

 

Buddy Holly not fading away, 50 years after death

updated 5:55 p.m. CT, Mon., Jan. 26, 2009

 

LOS ANGELES - By Dean Goodman

 

One snowy night 50 years ago, Buddy Holly took off on a small plane and died a few minutes later when it crashed in an Iowa field.

 

A tragic icon was born, but so was a half-century of litigation and finger-pointing. The latest legal showdown has been going on for 15 years as Holly's family chases alleged unpaid royalties from his Universal Music Group label.

 

"They've cheated us," Holly's older brother Larry told Reuters. Universal won the initial case, he said, but the family is appealing. He later declined to elaborate, suspecting that he was speaking to "an agent" for the label. A Universal official did not reply to a request for comment.

 

But the parties have made up, at least temporarily, to collaborate on a pair of multi-disc CD sets that will be released on January 27, a week before the anniversary of the February 3, 1959, crash that also claimed Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson.

 

The three-CD "Memorial Collection" boasts all of Holly's hits -- including "That'll Be The Day," "Not Fade Away," "Peggy Sue" and "Rave On"-- as well as seven recordings previously unreleased in the United States.

 

The two-CD "Down The Line - Rarities" features home recordings dating back to when Holly was 14, widely bootlegged undubbed versions, alternate takes and informal solo tapes.

 

Some of the recordings -- such as "Think It Over" and "Fool's Paradise" -- have been stripped of overdubs that were added by Norman Petty, arguably the No. 1 villain in the Buddy Holly story.

 

Petty was an independent producer who owned the Clovis, N.M., studio where Holly and his band the Crickets recorded most of their tunes between 1956 and 1958. In addition to taking control of Holly's career and finances, he added his name to the songwriting credits -- a dubious but not uncommon practice in those days.

 

"I'D RATHER SEE YOU DEAD"

 

After Holly suffered disappointing sales for such tunes as "Rave On" and "It's so Easy," he grew resentful of Petty's control. The cash-strapped musician and his new wife, Maria Elena, visited Petty at the studio to end their partnership, and seek his unpaid royalties.

 

In an interview with Reuters, Maria Elena Holly, recounted that Petty told his young protege, "You know what, Buddy? I'm gonna say this to you. I'd rather see you dead than to give you the money now."

 

Holly almost punched Petty, but his wife's cooler head prevailed, and they returned to their new apartment in New York where they borrowed money from Maria Elena's aunt. In a financial bind, Holly reluctantly joined the lineup of the "Winter Dance Party" tour of small towns in the frozen upper Midwest, leaving his pregnant bride at home.

 

The troupe traversed vast stretches in an old, unheated bus. For Holly, the discomfort was exacerbated by his legal problems with Petty.

 

After the 11th show, at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa, on February 2, he decided to take a small plane rather than reboard the bus for an overnight trip to the next venue 400 miles away in Moorhead, Minnesota.

 

The single-engine, four-seat Beechcraft Bonanza was no match for the developing blizzard, making it about four miles before crashing in a corn field and tossing its famous stars out into the snow. All died instantly, with Holly's skull split open and his chest crushed. He was just 22.

 

Maria Elena, who miscarried after learning of her husband's death, stopped short of saying Petty "killed" Holly, but said, "He had something to do with his accident."

 

Larry Holley (the "e" was dropped by Buddy for his stage name) was less equivocal.

 

"Man, that guy. I hope he's in hell right now. I imagine he is." (Petty died in 1984)

 

THE BUDDY HOLLY BUSINESS

 

After Holly died, his family split the estate with Maria Elena. For the most part, the two camps get along fine now, although there were problems in the past, said Holley.

 

Tax bills forced the family to sell down their interest in Holly's catalog to Paul McCartney's publishing company, but they still make "a good living" from royalties, said Holley. McCartney's MPL Communications also scooped up Petty's ownership stake in Holly's compositions.

 

Maria Elena kept her share, and has spent her life overseeing the Buddy Holly business. She briefly remarried and had three children, but her husband "realized that my heart was not there. It was still with Buddy."

 

The Puerto Rican native has earned a reputation for being fiercely protective. She refused to let Holly's hometown of Lubbock, Texas, use his name for its walk of fame and annual music festival, but says she is on good terms with the city now.

 

"I trademarked that name already," she said. "People want to use it without compensation and I feel that was Buddy's bread and butter and the legacy left to us. I'm the guardian of that legacy. "

[stooka]

I bought the 3 cd memorial collection yesterday. I love it!

[Analogman]

I always thought this was cool:

 

Appropriately, Allison played a prominent role in the production of the song, playing paradiddles on the drums throughout the song, the drums' sound rhythmically fading in and out as a result of real-time engineering techniques by the producer, Norm Petty.

 

One of my favorites:

 

Rave On

[bigideas]

Appropriately, Allison played a prominent role in the production of the song, playing paradiddles on the drums throughout the song, the drums' sound rhythmically fading in and out as a result of real-time engineering techniques by the producer, Norm Petty.

 

Is that describing Peggy Sue?

 

I ended up getting the Rarities set. Standing at the store holding both it seemed every song marked as unreleased on Memorial was included on Rarities plus some.

 

So basically it seems Memorial has bits of the Apt and Garage tapes sprinkled in with the hits or more well known Buddy songs.

 

Rarities has the complete Apt/Garage tapes and some undubbed/different takes.

 

The weirdest being a couple minutes of the tape running while Buddy and Elena are talking.

 

I kinda wish I could be in Lubbock today.

[LouieB]

I kinda wish I could be in Lubbock today.

What is happening in Lubbock?? All the action seems to be in Clearlake Iowa.

 

LouieB

 

I also enjoyed this commentary in the Trib this morning.

 

Countless musical roads lead to Buddy Holly

By Cory Franklin

February 3, 2009

 

Fifty years ago today, the plane carrying Buddy Holly and two other rockers crashed in a Clear Lake, Iowa, cornfield after a concert.

 

More fascinating than the crash details that will undoubtedly be recounted elsewhere today is how Holly, from obscure Lubbock, Texas, and a performer for just three years, exerted such a significant posthumous influence on contemporary culture. Other popular musicians

[calvino]

http://expectingrain.com/

 

Today, the Expecting Rain site has a decent comprehensive collection of links on The Day the Music Died.

[bigideas]

What is happening in Lubbock??

 

http://www.ci.lubbock.tx.us/newsPage.aspx?ID=2530

 

Texas Monthly had several articles on Holly and one talks about the center they have there with a huge pair of glasses like his outside and inside the real glasses (it said a group in Lubbock paid his widow $80,000 for them) and other artifacts like guitars, etc.

[LouieB]

Panel discussions and receptions?? At least there is music in Clear Lake...

 

LouieB

[tugmoose]

I'm poppin' in "The Buddy Holly Story." Now if I could only find that Don McLean single, the one that you flip over halfway through (I just heard that "American Pie" was not the name of the plane).

 

Featuring Stymie!

 

[poppydawn]

I just saw that two remastered Buddy Holly set came out last week. One is 3 disc, 60 song "memorial collection". The other is a 2-disc rarities set called "Down the Line".

[bigideas]

I just saw that two remastered Buddy Holly set came out last week. One is 3 disc, 60 song "memorial collection". The other is a 2-disc rarities set called "Down the Line".

 

yes, that is why i brought back the thread. read the last page.

 

re: Lubbock - I live in Texas, so that would be a lot more feasible - still too far though.

I wasn't aware of the big concert, so yes, that would definitely be a lot better in dreamworld.

[poppydawn]

yes, that is why i brought back the thread. read the last page.

 

Nah. I'm not that interested in the topic, aside from making what appears to be a paltry attempt to share some information. But thanks for the suggestion.

[Analogman]

The BBC has some sort of radio play about the crash.

 

Docudrama that sets out to establish what may have happened in the final fateful hour before the plane carrying Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper crashed.

[calvino]

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/reco...e-line-rarities

 

A Pitchfork review of The Memorial Collection and Down the Line.