THIS ITEM IS A PRE-ORDER. WE EXPECT IT TO SHIP ON OR BEFORE THE NOVEMBER 23RD RELEASE DATE. He had a brief three-year professional recording career, but Buddy Holly left the music world a vast recorded legacy of 203 tracks - all of them on the limited edition six-CD Hip-O Select box set Not Fade Away: The Complete Studio Recordings and More. The tracks range from his earliest recordings to demos with Bob Montgomery; from his earliest recordings with The Crickets to his first studio    [ read more ]

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February 3, 2009 marks the 50th anniversary of "The Day the Music Died," the anniversary of the crash of the flight that took the lives of '50s rockers Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper. Finally, the vault of rare Buddy Holly tracks will be opened wide for this multi-disc set. Memorial Collection is the defining package for all Buddy fans new and old. It features 60 classic Buddy Holly tracks, all the hits including: "Oh Boy!" and "That'll Be the Day," rare undubbed early recordings, a   [ read more ]

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February 3, 2009 marks the 50th anniversary of "The Day the Music Died," the crash of the flight that took the lives of '50s rockers Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper. Finally, the vault of rare Buddy Holly tracks will be opened wide for this multi-disc set. Geffen has released a two CD, 59-song set of rarities that will include a recording by Buddy at age 14 and three more previously unreleased, undubbed recordings with fellow classmate Bob Montgomery. This package, entitled Down the Line/   [ read more ]

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Given the reluctance of MCA to release a CD version of the complete Buddy Holly recordings (due to either legal issues or a skepticism of its commercial worth), the double-disc 1993 set The Buddy Holly Collection stands as the most comprehensive and greatest CD-era retrospective of the legendary rock & roller. Though it contains all the big hits, this is not the place to turn if you're only looking for "That'll Be the Day," "Not Fade Away," "Everyday," "Oh Boy!," "Peggy Sue," {&"M   [ read more ]

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This disc is an interesting pairing, combining the contents of two LPs from opposite ends of the efforts to tap into Buddy Holly's catalog. That'll Be the Day, released in April of 1958, was Decca Records' first attempt to give a boost to the available Buddy Holly material, assembling 11 of the songs that he'd cut for the label during his four unsuccessful Nashville sessions of 1956 into an LP, issued one month after the Buddy Holly album was issued; Remember, released in 1971, was the las   [ read more ]

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Oh boy -- that's the first reaction to seeing this British import turn up. RCA/BMG got around to remastering Elvis Presley's original albums at the end of the 1990s, but MCA/Universal, which owns Buddy Holly's legacy, has shown no such interest in the late Texas rock & roll legend's music. So, instead, it's fallen to Beat Goes On (BGO), the U.K. outfit. BGO combined the two albums that Buddy Holly saw released in his lifetime and slapped them onto one CD, remastered in 24-bit digital   [ read more ]

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When Buddy Holly & the Crickets broke through nationally in 1957, they were marketed by Decca Records as two different acts whose records were released on two different Decca subsidiaries -- Brunswick for Crickets records, Coral for Holly records. But there was no real musical distinction between the two, except perhaps that the "Crickets" sides had more prominent backup vocals. Nevertheless, coming three months after The "Chirping" Crickets, this was the debut album credited to {   [ read more ]

CD $9.45

Things can get a bit confusing in the Buddy Holly discography since he released material both as a solo artist and with his backup band the Crickets during his lifetime. Contrary to popular belief, members of the Crickets did not sing harmony for Holly. That task fell to the Picks (John Pickering, Bill Pickering, and Bob Lapham), although they were not credited at the time. Some 30 years later, in the mid-'80s, a reconstituted Picks sang new harmony over Holly master tapes and    [ read more ]

CD $16.13

CD $7.58

It's taken 46 years for Buddy Holly's debut LP to finally get treated with some real respect by its U.S. label -- in England, where they've treated Holly like a rock & roll god for 50 years, there's been an upgraded version of The "Chirping" Crickets out since 2000 on the BGO label, and this U.S. reissue sounds even better than that one did, albeit only slightly. The album originally appeared in November of 1957, at a time when rock & roll LPs were still a relative novelty and good ones fe   [ read more ]

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CD $13.28

In recent decades, both Reminiscing and Showcase have enjoyed less than stellar reputations among Buddy Holly fans and '50s rock purists, as both albums were made up of the products of producer Norman Petty's posthumous redubbing of Holly's unfinished demos. Apart from the bizarre inclusion of "Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie" -- a B-side chosen by Petty for the single of the title track -- Reminiscing is a very solid album, and was essential to the maintaining of Holly's memory,   [ read more ]

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