Buddy Holly - From the Original Master Tapes
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Free Music Review: Lesson in Rock n Roll
Hit: 5 Stars
Don't you love the sound of the 60's. I love the Beatles songs, those 2.5 to 3.5 minutes Rock songs that keep you wanting for more. I think that's where the magic is, hook, line and sinker, you fall for the catchy beat and remain hungry for more. Everyone has their favourite Beatles track and anyone who doesn't like The Beatles are probably not in their right minds anyways. But we all know about them so we won't review them.
I was looking out for more such music. The celebration of youth and love of the 60's and I found it. It existed even before the 60's - Buddy Holly.
From the Wiki:
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Although his success lasted only a year and a half before his death in an airplane crash, Holly is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most influential creative force in early rock & roll." His works and innovations were copied by his contemporaries and later musicians, notably The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, and exerted a profound influence on popular music.
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Buddy Holly - The Original Master Tapes
This is a gem of a collection of 20 best songs of Buddy Holly. There are many wonderful love songs here.
My favourites are:
"Everyday" where the Lover is certain of finding his true love and "It's so easy" (to fall in love) where the sucker is celebrating falling head over heels in love.
Other Rock n Roll numbers include the recognizable "Peggy Sue", the swinging "Rock around with Ollie Vee", the upbeat lover singing about what you been missing in "Oh Boy". Also delightful is "That'll be the Day" where the lover convinces his girl about his love, "Not fade away" swinging upbeat song with the bop bops, "Rave On" reminding me of Elvis no less, the very breezy beachside like "Heartbeat" transporting to the surf and bikinis with its unique strings, and it all ends with the very emotional vocals in "True Love Ways".
This is a collector's item if not an essential lesson in Rock n Roll. It only goes understated what the genius of Buddy Holly could have achieved if he had a longer career though the spirited life burnt in furious glory and still shines.
Free Music Review: Golden Oldie
Hit: 4 Stars
Most all of Buddy's hits and a couple I hadn't heard before. Buddy Holly is one of the true Founders of Rock & Roll. I particularly like his rendition of True Love ways.Free Music Review: As Another Reviewer Says ... One Of The Best Single-Disc Releases
Hit: 4 Stars
This isn't nearly as good a compilation as another MCA CD on the market [the two-CD The Buddy Holly Collection] for a couple of reasons. First and foremost, there are neither liner notes nor discography, whereas the BH Collection gives you reams of information. That accounts for the 4 stars instead of 5.
Secondly [and admittedly a minor complaint] the tracks aren't numbered on the back so, if you're listening to the disc and want to jump to a certain track you have to reach for the jewel case and manually count the tracks to determine the one you want.
As for the contents, the sound - "digitally remastered from the original stereo and mono first generation masters" by Steve Hoffman of MCA is just fine - and the selections include most of his 11 charted Top 100 singles [not counting 1958's Real Wild Child, credited to "Ivan" - who was really Jerry Ivan Allison, with lead guitar by Buddy and backing vocals by The Roses].
For example, both sides of his first four hits are here: That'll Be The Day/I'm Lookin' For Someone To Love; Peggy Sue/Everday; Oh Boy/Not Fade Away, and Maybe Baby/Tell Me How. From there, however, it's a hit-and-miss affair because, while Rave On and Think It Over (his 5th and 6th hits) are included, the flipsides, Take Your Time and Fool's Paradise (which also charted at # 58 in 1958), are missing. Early In The Morning (# 32 in 1958 with The Helen Way Singers) is also omitted, along with the excellent, and VERY hard-to-find B-side, Now We're One.
Heartbeat [incredibly only a # 82 in January 1959] and its flipside, Well ... All Right, are here, but only the A-side of the song that was just charting when he died in February 1959 is included. It Doesn't Matter Anymore eventually went to # 13, but it would have been nice had they included Raining In My Heart, which also charted at # 88.
Oh well, it's not as if they advertised the CD as "The Best Of" and then left off some charted hits. It's a good collection of his music, but you'd be better served with the afore-mentioned Buddy Holly Collection since the ONLY song not in that set which is included here is Tell Me How.
Free Music Review: All in one
Hit: 5 Stars
This is a cheap Buddy Holly CD but has all of the hits on it sounding as good as ever. If you are a die-hard Buddy Holly fan then you may want more than just this, but this has all that you need from Buddy Holly including most if not all of his hits and songs.Free Music Review: This will do until the eagerly expected box set
Hit: 5 Stars
Buddy is one of the first musicians I ever heard and I was lucky there as it could have been someone who didn't write his own timeless songs , have an extremely distinctive guitar style and create pictures in the listener's mind .
Buddy is a great communicator and he was very fortunate to have people with him who grasped where he as coming from with his ideas . Some of the songs are co-written .
Paul McCartney owns the publishing rights for Buddy's music , so you are helping Paul with a bit of extra cash too , if that matters .
Buy this for the kids as they will still be singing the songs 30 years later - it's like that all over this world .
We'll always be listening , Buddy .