Tuesday, February 03, 2009
Buddy Holly died FIFTY years ago
Today is a sad day on which we remember that plane crash at Clear Lake 1959_feb_03 by which Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper (JP Richardson) and Ritchie Valens died. FIFTY years ago.....
Read the complete story of what happened that day over here.
And you certainly will remember what Don McLean sang on his album American pie : the day the music died...!
Click the label Buddy Holly below and you can get ALL his recordings and more..
Read the complete story of what happened that day over here.
And you certainly will remember what Don McLean sang on his album American pie : the day the music died...!
Click the label Buddy Holly below and you can get ALL his recordings and more..
Labels: buddy holly
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Complete Buddy Holly 10
PC-100, # ten and so the last in the set of 10 by Purple Chick.
In the file is again complete recording info (date, place, artists and so on).
Collecting all ten albums will give ya about ten hours musical pleasure with Buddy Holly and his songs. I sure hope you will like this set.
If you like more Buddy Holly covers let me know. I believe I have one or two other compilation albums.
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Thursday, May 08, 2008
Complete Buddy Holly 09
I hadn't much time to post something over the last days. It's such a nice weather I prefer to work in my 'small' garden and for the first time in 30 years really enjoy just sitting in it simply watching the (hunting) birds, the ducks, the frogs, the rabbits, the trees, smelling the vegetables and flowers and so on.
Luckily I still have a few albums 'in stock'. Here's the first one.
Luckily I still have a few albums 'in stock'. Here's the first one.
PC-99, # nine in the set of 10 by Purple Chick.
In the file is again complete recording info (date, place, artists and so on).
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Sunday, April 27, 2008
Complete Buddy Holly 08
PC-98, # eight in the set of 10 by Purple Chick.
In the file is again complete recording info (date, place, artists and so on) about Buddy Holly and The Norman Petty Trio, Carolyn Hester, Harry Nilsson, Lou Giordano, Rick Tucker, Sonny Curtis & Waylon Jennings.
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Sunday, April 20, 2008
Complete Buddy Holly 07
Historical event : today 1961 failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US troops against Cuba. See my posts earlier this week.
PC-97, # seven in the set of 10 by Purple Chick.
In the file is again complete recording info (date, place, artists and so on).
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Monday, April 14, 2008
Complete Buddy Holly 06
PC-96, the sixth in the set of 10 by Purple Chick.
In the file is again complete recording info (date, place, artists and so on).
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Thursday, April 03, 2008
Complete Buddy Holly 05
PC-95, the fifth in the set of 10 by Purple Chick.
In the file is again complete recording info (date, place, artists and so on).
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Saturday, March 29, 2008
Complete Buddy Holly 04
PC-94, the fourth in the set of 10 by Purple Chick.
In the file is again complete recording info (date, place, artists and so on).
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Saturday, March 22, 2008
Complete Buddy Holly 03
PC-93, the third in the set of 10 by Purple Chick.
In the file is again complete recording info (date, place, artists and so on).
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Complete Buddy Holly 02
PC-92, the second in the set of 10 by Purple Chick.
In the file is again complete recording info (date, place, artists and so on).
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Complete Buddy Holly 01
PC-91, the first in a set of 10 by Purple Chick.
When you collect them all, in the weeks ahead, you will have at the end all you ever wished you'd had from Buddy Holly. In the file is complete recording info (date, place, artists and so on).
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Monday, February 04, 2008
Buddy Holly's posthumous last LP
Buddy Holly's posthumous last LP is called The Buddy Holly Story 1959.
This 12-track compilation album was rushed out within weeks of Buddy Holly's death.
It combines what previously had been credited as Crickets group-titles and Buddy Holly solo recordings, containing all eight of Holly and the Crickets' Top 40 hits, 1957-1959: That'll Be The Day, Peggy Sue, Oh, Boy!, Maybe Baby, Rave On, Think It Over, Early In The Morning, and It Doesn't Matter Anymore, plus the chart entries Heartbeat and Raining In My Heart and the classics Everyday and It's So Easy.
There is more great Buddy Holly, of course, but this is an excellent single-LP compilation.
Check the comments to get these nice stero-versions.
This 12-track compilation album was rushed out within weeks of Buddy Holly's death.It combines what previously had been credited as Crickets group-titles and Buddy Holly solo recordings, containing all eight of Holly and the Crickets' Top 40 hits, 1957-1959: That'll Be The Day, Peggy Sue, Oh, Boy!, Maybe Baby, Rave On, Think It Over, Early In The Morning, and It Doesn't Matter Anymore, plus the chart entries Heartbeat and Raining In My Heart and the classics Everyday and It's So Easy.
There is more great Buddy Holly, of course, but this is an excellent single-LP compilation.
Check the comments to get these nice stero-versions.
Labels: buddy holly
Sunday, February 03, 2008
Buddy Holly's end at Clear Lake 1959_feb_03
Today is a sad day on which we remember that plane crash at Clear Lake in 1959 by which Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper (JP Richardson) and Ritchie Valens died.
Here's a small video filmed just hours after that plane crash.
Note the name Buddy Holley on his grave...
Read the complete story of what happened that day over here.
And you certainly will remember what Don McLean sang on his album American pie : the day the music died...!
Here's a small video filmed just hours after that plane crash.
Note the name Buddy Holley on his grave...
Read the complete story of what happened that day over here.
And you certainly will remember what Don McLean sang on his album American pie : the day the music died...!
Labels: buddy holly
Friday, September 07, 2007
Today 1936 : Buddy Holly was born
If you don't know Buddy Holly you don't belong here : leave, PLEASE LEAVE !
Anyone else can stay.... :-)
Bruce Eder of AllMusicGuide writes in his Buddy's biograpy
Born in Lubbock, TX, on September 7, 1936, Charles Hardin "Buddy" Holley (he later dropped the "e") was the youngest of four children. A natural musician from a musical family, he was proficient on guitar, banjo, and mandolin by age 15 and was working as part of a duo with his boyhood friend Bob Montgomery, with whom he had also started writing songs. By the mid-'50s, Buddy & Bob, as they billed themselves, were playing what they called "western and bop"; Holly, in particular, was listening to a lot of blues and R&B and finding it compatible with country music. He was among those young Southern men who heard and saw Elvis perform in the days when the latter was signed to Sam Phillips' Sun Records — indeed, Buddy & Bob played as an opening act for Elvis when he played the area around Lubbock in early 1955, and Holly saw the future direction of his life and career.
>>snip>>
With a new wife — who was pregnant — and no settlement coming in from Petty, Holly decided to earn some quick money by signing to play the Winter Dance Party package tour of the Midwest. It was on that tour that Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. "Big Bopper" Richardson were killed in a plane crash, on February 3, 1959.
Two external links to read more about Buddy Holly.
http://buddyholly.user.fr/
http://www.rockabilly.nl/reviews/buddyhollygottaroll.htm
Back in 1978 I became the proud owner of a 6LP box containing all of Buddy's recordings. How wrong that turned out to be nowadays.
Lately I made a 3GB DVD for a friend with literally all Buddy's recorded works.
To remember Buddy Holly today I offer ya the first LP of my 6LP box.
This album contains some of Buddy's earliest recordings and therefore were not considered of a high enough quality for general release until much later when Norman Petty was running out of further items that were suitable for release. However when given a hearing they represent a growing talent that was to attain stardom just a couple or so years later.
To me the nice thing is you don't hear the obvious songs like Peggy Sue, Peggy Sue got married, That'll be the day, Heartbeat & It Doesn't Matter Anymore.
Instead there are (acetate !) recordings like Flower Of My Heart, Door To My Heart, Queen Of The Ballroom & Baby Let's Play House.
In the text file I put additional info to every song of this LP !
I have to admit that, although I have those 6LP's and ripped them in 1999, this particular rip is made last year by my 'australian friend aussi'. So credits go to him.
To be continued in the comments......
Anyone else can stay.... :-)
Bruce Eder of AllMusicGuide writes in his Buddy's biograpy
Born in Lubbock, TX, on September 7, 1936, Charles Hardin "Buddy" Holley (he later dropped the "e") was the youngest of four children. A natural musician from a musical family, he was proficient on guitar, banjo, and mandolin by age 15 and was working as part of a duo with his boyhood friend Bob Montgomery, with whom he had also started writing songs. By the mid-'50s, Buddy & Bob, as they billed themselves, were playing what they called "western and bop"; Holly, in particular, was listening to a lot of blues and R&B and finding it compatible with country music. He was among those young Southern men who heard and saw Elvis perform in the days when the latter was signed to Sam Phillips' Sun Records — indeed, Buddy & Bob played as an opening act for Elvis when he played the area around Lubbock in early 1955, and Holly saw the future direction of his life and career.
>>snip>>
With a new wife — who was pregnant — and no settlement coming in from Petty, Holly decided to earn some quick money by signing to play the Winter Dance Party package tour of the Midwest. It was on that tour that Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. "Big Bopper" Richardson were killed in a plane crash, on February 3, 1959.
Two external links to read more about Buddy Holly.
http://buddyholly.user.fr/
http://www.rockabilly.nl/reviews/buddyhollygottaroll.htm
Back in 1978 I became the proud owner of a 6LP box containing all of Buddy's recordings. How wrong that turned out to be nowadays.Lately I made a 3GB DVD for a friend with literally all Buddy's recorded works.
To remember Buddy Holly today I offer ya the first LP of my 6LP box.
This album contains some of Buddy's earliest recordings and therefore were not considered of a high enough quality for general release until much later when Norman Petty was running out of further items that were suitable for release. However when given a hearing they represent a growing talent that was to attain stardom just a couple or so years later.
To me the nice thing is you don't hear the obvious songs like Peggy Sue, Peggy Sue got married, That'll be the day, Heartbeat & It Doesn't Matter Anymore.
Instead there are (acetate !) recordings like Flower Of My Heart, Door To My Heart, Queen Of The Ballroom & Baby Let's Play House.
In the text file I put additional info to every song of this LP !
I have to admit that, although I have those 6LP's and ripped them in 1999, this particular rip is made last year by my 'australian friend aussi'. So credits go to him.
To be continued in the comments......
Labels: buddy holly
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Some Buddy covers
In the Don McLean's post a few days ago I told ya about the great booklet of the 6LP box by Buddy Holly. To be true I'm already quite some time (read years ..) busy with a Buddy Holly project to put all his songs together.I must have at the moment 350-400 on various sources.
How sadly did Buddy die in a plane crash together with Ritchie Valens and JP Richardson (The big Bopper).
Here's one of the Newscasts about that crash. I have also a short videotape of the accident. Looked at it again last week and was wondering how things should have been if not ..... Memories.
Of course Buddy's been covered a lot. Look in the comments to listen to a few.
I have to thank http://rideyourpony-twighlightzone.blogspot.com/ for this !
EDIT 2008_10_19
The mp3's of this event only got 5 downloaders as of today... So I deleted this broadcasts.
EDIT 2008_10_19
The mp3's of this event only got 5 downloaders as of today... So I deleted this broadcasts.
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