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Songs Written by Buddy Holly: Not Fade Away, Peggy Sue, That'll Be the Day, True Love Ways, Crying, Waiting, Hoping, Words of Love, Everyday
Paperback. Books LLC 2010-05-26.
ISBN 9781156975503
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Not Fade Away, Peggy Sue, That'll Be the Day, True Love Ways, Crying, Waiting, Hoping, Words of Love, Everyday, Peggy Sue Got Married, Maybe Baby, Christmas Time Is Here Again. Excerpt: "Not Fade Away" is a song credited to Buddy Holly (originally under his first and middle names, Charles Hardin) and Norman Petty (although Petty's co-writing credit is most likely a formality) and first recorded by Holly's band The Crickets in Clovis, New Mexico, on May 29, 1957. The song's rhythm pattern is one of the classic examples of the Bo Diddley beat, which itself was an update of the so-called "hambone" rhythm, or "patted juba" from Western Africa; Crickets drummer Jerry Allison pounded out the beat on a cardboard box. Allison, Holly's best friend, also claims to have written part of the lyrics, though his name never appeared in the songwriting credits. The only other person on the recording was rhythm guitarist Nikki Sullivan, who didn't play but simply chanted, along with Holly and Allison, the song's overdubbed background vocals. Along with the familiar Take 2 of "Not Fade Away, " there exists a Take 1 whose first verse is missing; it has been released with the first part of Take 1 spliced onto it. Originally released as the B-side to the hit "Oh, Boy!", "Not Fade Away" was also included on the album The "Chirping" Crickets. It was also the last song Buddy Holly ever performed, the night before his fatal plane crash. In 2004, this song was ranked number 107 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest songs of all time. However, The Crickets' recording never charted as a single. In 1964, The Rolling Stones' cover of "Not Fade Away", with its strong emphasis on the Bo Diddley beat, became a major hit in Britain and served as the A-side of t... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1215367
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