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From the Original Master Tapes

Buddy Holly - From the Original Master Tapes Audio CD

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Band: Buddy Holly
Title: From the Original Master Tapes
Rating:

Release Date: 1990-10-25
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: That'll Be the Day 2: Oh, Boy! 3: Not Fade Away 4: Tell Me How 5: Maybe Baby 6: Everyday 7: Rock Around With Ollie Vee 8: It's So Easy 9: I'm Lookin' for Someone to Love 10: Peggy Sue 11: I'm Gonna Love You Too 12: Words of Love 13: Rave On 14: Well...All Right 15: Listen to Me 16: Think It Over 17: Heartbeat 18: Reminiscing 19: It Doesn't Matter Anymore 20: True Love Ways

Essential Holly.
I was particularly interested in early rock 'n' roll and this "Buddy Holly: From the Original Master Tapes" fit my needs perfectly. I originally purchased this CD in the mid 80s when earlier popular music was being rereleased in CD format. I'm amazed in looking over the number of Buddy Holly compilations currently available. I'm not familiar with them and can't make a comparison. However, let me indicate that I've been very satisfied with this disc and see no need to pursue the matter further. If I wanted anything else regarding Buddy Holly, I might get a copy of "The Buddy Holly Story" on DVD. It's quite an excellent movie and depicts his life and the 50s time period quite well.

I was a fan of Buddy Holly and the Crickets and had a number of their songs on 45 rpm records, which are now in bad shape from playing too often on an inadequate record player. It's great to have a compilation album such as this available. To me, it contains the essentials of Holly's music. I particularly liked some of the earlier stuff, such as "That'll Be The Day," "Oh, Boy," "Maybe Baby," "It's So Easy" and "Peggy Sue. " When he started coming out with his more advanced stuff, including some with string backgrounds, my interest faded away. The early stuff was the greatest, in my opinion.

This is a good quality recording. The sound is excellent. It's out of print, but good quality new and used copies are still available.

Gary Peterson.

Lesson in Rock n Roll
I love the Beatles songs, those 2. Don't you love the sound of the 60's. 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.

Here let us look into:
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.
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Golden Oldie
Buddy Holly is one of the true Founders of Rock & Roll. Most all of Buddy's hits and a couple I hadn't heard before. I particularly like his rendition of True Love ways.

As Another Reviewer Says ... One Of The Best Single-Disc Releases
First and foremost, there are neither liner notes nor discography, whereas the BH Collection gives you reams of information. 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. 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.
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All in one
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. This is a cheap Buddy Holly CD but has all of the hits on it sounding as good as ever.

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