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Buddy Holly - Hollybilly: Buddy Holly 1956 - The Complete Recordings Audio CD

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Title: Hollybilly: Buddy Holly 1956 - The Complete Recordings
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Release Date: 2007-01-30
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Baby, Won't You Come out Tonight? 2: Love Me (With Studio Chat) 3: Don't Come Back Knockin' 4: Midnight Shift 5: Blue Days, Black Nights 6: Rock Around with Ollie Vee [Fragment] 7: Rock Around with Ollie Vee [July 1956 Version] 8: Because I Love You 9: Changing All Those Changes [Clovis Demo Version] 10: I Guess I Was Just a Fool 11: It's Not My Fault 12: I'm Gonna Set My Foot Down 13: Rock-A-Bye Rock 14: Girl on My Mind 15: That'll Be the Day 16: Ting-A-Ling 17: I'm Changin' All Those Changes [Fragment] 18: I'm Changin' All Those Changes [Nashville Version] 19: Modern Don Juan 20: You Are My One Desire [False Start] 21: You Are My One Desire 22: Rock Around with Ollie Vee [November 1956 Version] 23: Hony Tonk [Undubbed Lubbock Demo] 24: Good Rockin' Tonight [Undubbed Lubbock Demo] 25: Brown-Eyed Handsome Man [Lubbock Demo] 26: Bo Diddley [Lubbock Demo] 27: Rip It Up [Undubbed Lubbock Demo] 28: Blue Monday [Undubbed Lubbock Demo] 29: Blue Suede Shoes [Undubbed Lubbock Demo] 30: Shake, Rattle & Roll [Undubbed Lubbock Demo] 31: Ain't Got No Home [Undubbed Lubbock Demo] 32: Holly Hop [Undubbed Lubbock Demo] 33: Bo Diddley [Undubbed Clovis Demo] 34: Brown-Eyed Handsome Man [Undubbed Clovis Demo] 35: Have You Ever Been Lonely? #1 [Undubbed Lubbock Demo] 36: Have You Ever Been Lonely? [Fragment] 37: Have You Ever Been Lonely? [Fragment] 38: Have You Ever Been Lonely? #2 [Undubbed Lubbock Demo] 39: Gone [Fragment] 40: Gone #1 [Undubbed Lubbock Demo] 41: Gone #2 [Undubbed Lubbock Demo]

The greatest rock star ever
Plenty of these come from rare acetates (that's all that exist in many cases) and the complete Owen Bradley sessions are here in great quality (it's a shame Bradley didn't have a clue as what to do with Holly). Admittedly, this set is for the completist, but Buddy Holly was magnificent both as a musician and a vocalist. The real treat is the Clovis demos (Norman Petty's studio truly must have been state-of-the-art) because those tracks, especially "Brown Eyed Handsome Man" really shine on their first ever undubbed debuts (it was overdubbed for a 60s release to "modernize" it. . . to call that unneccessary is an understatement). The sound quality varies greatly depending on the source material, but with the professional recordings (the Clovis demos and the Bradley sessions) I have never heard them sound better. Something tells me these sets from the El Toro label will be the Holy Grail of Buddy Holly recordings one day.


An essential addition to your Buddy Holly collection
On the present set, a new version of "Rock Around with Ollie Vee" (November, 1956) and some new demos from Clovis add to the listening pleasure. Nearly 50 years after his death, unheard Buddy Holly tracks still emerge despite the comprehensive, but now rare Vigotone bootleg set from the 1990s. Sound is generally good and often superior to the Vigotone set. While looking forward to El Toro's next Buddy Holly set for 1957 (and perhaps ones for 1958 and 1959?) two minor irritations, a lack of track sources and details to the extent known and a total running time of 77 mins that could've been put on a single CD at less cost.
As noted in a variety of web discussion sites - until Universal/MCA resolve the legal issues around Buddy Holly's recorded estate that began immediately after his untimely death and continue to this day - sources such as Vigotone, El Toro and the endless recompilations of the MCA recorded estate will have to do until the ultimate annotated box set with the total Lubbock, Clovis, New York and "Apartment" sources included appears. Hopefully this will happen before the CD format disappears and while Buddy's remaining fans still have their hearing!.


Hollybilly: Buddy Holly 1956 - The Complete Recordings
Buddy Holly is timeless. Great service; great CD.


Holly rocks
His singing was amazing, I loved his screams, and the way he played his guitar. Buddy Holly was a excellent artist. He wrote some amazing songs in his short life. His drummer, Jerry Allison was one of the best rock drummers in the early days and very underrated. Holly has plenty of greatest hit collections out but which one to get? I cant tell you. I do own all of his work expect one song. Anything that doesnt have the picks in it would be a great start.


Track Listing
Baby Won't You Come Out Tonight
2. For those who are dying to find out what is actually on this CD

Track Listings
Disc: 1
1. Love Me
3. Don't Come Back Knockin'
4. Midnight Shift
5. Blue Days Black Nights
6. Rock Around With Ollie Vee
7. Rock Around With Ollie Vee
8. Because I Love You
9. Changing All Those Changes
10. I Guess I Was Just A Fool
11. It's Not My Fault
12. I'm Gonna Set My Foot Down
13. Rock A Bye Rock
14. Girl On My Mind
15. That'll Be The Day
16. Ting A Ling
17. I'm Changin' All Those Changes
18. I'm Changin' All Those Changes
19. Modern Don Juan
Disc: 2
1. You Are My One Desire
2. You Are My One Desire (1)
3. Rock Around With Ollie Vee
4. Honky Tonk
5. Good Rockin' Tonight
6. Brown Eyed Handsome Man
7. Bo Diddley
8. Rip It Up
9. Blue Monday
10. Blue Suede Shoes
11. Shake Rattle And Roll
12. Ain't Got No Home
13. Holly Hop
14. Bo Diddley
15. Brown Eyed Handsome Man
16. Have You Ever Been Lonely
17. Have You Ever Been Lonely
18. Have You Ever Been Lonely
19. Have You Ever Been Lonely 2
20. Gone
21. Gone 1
22. Gone 2
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