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Buddy Holly - Memorial Collection
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| Commemorating the 50th anniversary of 22-year-old Buddy Holly's death in a plane crash, this 60-track anthology offers monster hits and raw early versions from rock's hiccup-voiced auteur. Holly's "That'll Be the Day" offers DIY Elvis swagger, and his soothing single "Words of Love" features not only one of rock's earliest overdubbed harmony vocals but also the softly chiming guitars that would ignite both the Byrds' folk rock and the jangling indie pop of the Eighties and beyond. Holly paved the way for other seemingly ordinary kids to write their own songs — and become extraordinary....full text |
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Memorial Collection: 97/100 Down the Line: Rarities: 78/100 Major piece of rock’s DNA finally digitized For those of you late to the party, Charles Hardin “Buddy” Holley—his first records misspelled his name “Holly,” so he went with the error—was a bundle of contradictions born in 1936 in Lubbock, Texas, who managed to squeeze out a bunch of classic tunes before dying in a famous plane crash at age 22. His posthumous career has been marked by artistic desecration (the overdubbing of unfinished recordings), a biographical film with a vicious agenda, almost religious adulation (while touring England, he influenced much of the British Invasion’s music, not to mention inspiring a certain band to name itself The Beatles, after his band The Crickets) and a seeming inability (whether by his record company or the executors of his estate) to return his seminal catalogue of original recordings to print after a magnificent six-LP box set some decades back. It’d be nice to have that set on shiny silver discs, but let’s count our blessings with the five we have here. The Memorial Collection is pretty much everything a normal fan needs: three CDs, in chronological order, from the early recordings of Buddy & Bob (Montgomery) to the Crickets’ various incarnations to the solo recordings made in New York and, finally, a judicious selection from “the apartment tapes,” made in Buddy’s living room at 11 5th Avenue in New York, with his new bride Maria Elena present. Down the Line: Rarities, as advertised, is two discs of material for fanatics and scholars—from a home recording of a Hank Snow song laid to tape before Holly’s voice had changed to the entire Buddy & Bob oeuvre, recordings of the Crickets from the Hollys’ garage (home of the cricket that—after ruining countless attempts at recording rehearsals—gave the band its name), outtakes of released material and, finally, the entire apartment tapes, which includes a version of “Wait til the Sun Shines, Nellie,” recorded at his mom’s request, and Maria Elena (who was Puerto Rican) counting to 10 in Spanish. Here, too, are two slow, solo-with-guitar takes of “Slippin’ and Slidin’,” interpretations of the song that are simultaneously sexy, dangerous and tender....full text |
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| Prefixmag |
| February 3, 1959 is "the day the music died," and works by Buddy Holly remain the most sought after of the musicians lost on that fateful day. In tribute to its fiftieth anniversary, Geffen is releasing Memorial Collection, which is a three-CD, 60-song set of rare Holly recordings. It includes early undubbed recordings with Holly's first collaborator, Bob Montgomery, as well as selections from the famous "Apartment Tapes." The anniversary is also being remembered with a sister project to Memorial Collection entitled Down the Line: The Rarities....full text |
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