|
The Best Of Buddy Holly
|
| Price: | £4.99 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Delivery on orders over £15. Details |
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
Dispatched from and sold by Amazon.co.uk
13 new or used available from £1.74
Average customer review:
Track Listing
- That'll Be The Day
- Oh Boy - The Crickets
- Peggy Sue
- Rave On
- Peggy Sue Got Married
- True Love Ways
- Brown Eyed Handsome Man
- Words Of Love
- It Doesn't Matter Anymore
- Love Is Strange
- Raining In My Heart
- You're The One
- Not Fade Away - The Crickets
- Everyday
- Fool's Paradise - The Crickets
- Valley Of Tears
- Heartbeat
- Maybe Baby - The Crickets
- Crying, Waiting, Hoping
- Early In The Morning
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #5244 in Music
- Released on: 1999-03-20
- Number of discs: 1
- Running time: 45 minutes
Customer Reviews
BRILLIANT!!
This is a great CD, I LOVE it. It has all the fab Holly songs on it with the exception of a particular favourite of mine - 'Cut across Shorty' a B side, i know, but should have been 'A' in my opinion. Oh well, you can't have everything I suppose. Anyway, I recommend this CD to anyone who enjoys great music.I know I do and this is my idea of perfection.
NEARLY 50 YEARS ON AND STILL FANTASTIC!
I first heard Buddy as a young kid in the early 80s and loved the songs but what I find remarkable these days is that all these songs were recorded within a two year period when Buddy was in his early 20's.
As near perfect as any greatest hits package could be but with two minor flaws- the demo versions of Blue Suede Shoes and Shake Rattle & Roll are fine for a box set collection but they are stuck haphazardly in the middle of this Cd. It's frustrating as the likes of "Tell Me How", "Moondreams", "Looking For Someone to Love" and "Rock Around With Ollie Vee" are omitted to acccomodate them. In any case there are better versions of these songs by other artists out there.
Aside from this minor quibble, the quality and variety of the tracks is astonishing. Holly was equally adept at rockers like "That'll Be The Day" and ballads like "True Love Ways".
His influence on other musicians is immense and his death was a shattering loss to the music industry. But the music lives on, the Buddy musical continues to tour worldwide bringing the great man's music to those like myself who were born many years after his premature death at 22.
Quite simply this CD is essential for any music lover.
Not Fade Away
I'm old enough to remember when Buddy Holly was alive, on tour and performing in Britain. I was 13 when "That'll Be The Day" was a hit in late 1957 and my first two LPs were "The Chirping Crickets" and Holly's only solo album, bought from a shop in West Ealing, London that allowed customers to buy LPs on a weekly instalment basis - at 30 shillings each LPs were expensive in the late 1950s! So I grew up with the Holly hits that followed in 1958 - "Oh Boy!", "Peggy Sue", "Maybe Baby" etc etc - what a fabulous canon of songs Holly wrote and left us, and what influence he wielded postumously, far greater than Presley or Jerry Lee Lewis, equalled perhaps only by Chuck Berry.
