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Buddy Holly - Memorial Collection Audio CD

A fair review of the Buddy Holly "Memorial Collection" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Buddy Holly reviews here, or go back to the Buddy Holly tabs.

Buddy Holly Band: Buddy Holly
Title: Memorial Collection
Rating:
Release Date: 2009-02-10
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Down the Line [Undubbed][#] - Buddy & Bob 2: Soft Place in My Heart [Undubbed][#] - Buddy & Bob 3: You and I Are Through [#] - Buddy & Bob 4: Midnight Shift 5: Love Me 6: Don't Come Back Knockin' 7: Blue Days, Black Nights 8: Baby, Won't You Come Out Tonight 9: I'm Gonna Set My Foot Down 10: Changing All Those Changes 11: Rock-A-Bye Rock 12: Rock Around with Ollie Vee 13: Girl on My Mind 14: Ting-A-Ling 15: Modern Don Juan 16: Holly Hop [Undubbed][#] 17: Brown-Eyed Handsome Man [Undubbed] 18: That'll Be the Day 19: I'm Looking for Someone to Love 20: Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues 21: Words of Love 22: Not Fade Away 23: Everyday 24: Ready Teddy 25: Tell Me How 26: Oh Boy! 27: Listen to Me 28: Peggy Sue 29: I'm Gonna Love You Too 30: It's Too Late 31: Maybe Baby 32: You've Got Love 33: Rock Me My Baby 34: Look at Me 35: You're So Square (Baby I Don't Care) 36: Little Baby 37: Rave On 38: Well... All Right 39: Take Your Time 40: Fool's Paradise 41: Think It Over 42: Heartbeat 43: It's So Easy 44: Lonesome Tears 45: Love's Made a Fool of You 46: Wishing 47: Early in the Morning 48: Now We're One 49: Reminiscing 50: True Love Ways 51: It Doesn't Matter Anymore 52: Raining in My Heart 53: What to Do [#] 54: Peggy Sue Got Married 55: That Makes It Tough 56: Crying, Waiting, Hoping [#] 57: Learning the Game 58: You're the One 59: Smokey Joe's Caf� [#] 60: Dearest

A Grand Release
Generally these old recordings have never sounded better. This 3 CD Buddy Holly collection CD with is in many ways a great release. Even the very early 1955-56 recordings sound really good.

The music is obviously great and the songs come chronological order, giving a good opportunity to get an impression of Holly's musical development through his, unfortunately, short career.

Holly was with his group the Crickets during 1957 frequent visitors in the studio and after their breakthrough with "That'll Be the Day" and the successors "Oh Boy" and "Peggy Sue", the group had actually recorded enough material to release two albums. The record company Coral decided to release two albums: one as a Buddy Holly solo album, and a second as a band-release with Buddy Holly and the Crickets. In fact it is the same people who are involved on the two albums and it is probably more or less a coincidence whether the songs ended up on one or the other album.

This CD release is missing only a few tracks from the two excellent albums. Actually three albums with Buddy Holly were released in the course of 1958; the third "That'll Be the Day" consisted of earlier recordings, made with different musical line-ups. This too, certainly was a solid release, and also from this album most songs can be found on this new release.

Holly's last studio recordings, most of which ended up on the singles released during 1958-59, along with his home recordings from December 58 and January 1959, show that Holly was in a rapid musical development, and that his songwriting talent had only just begun to shine.

These "apartment" songs are among Holly's most beautiful recordings, and even without the well-known overdubs, songs like "Learning the Game," "What to Do," "Dearest" and "Crying, Waiting, hoping" are at least as strong as the studio recordings.

The accompanying booklet is very informative, especially in terms of the musicians involved in the individual recordings.

Only very few of Holly's best recordings are missing. Personally I would have like to see "Bo Diddley", "Come Back Baby", "Love is Strange", "Wait Till the Sun Shines Nellie" and "Gone" included too.

All in all a grand release that can be warmly recommended.


GREATEST HITS OF BUDDY HOLLY & THE CRICKETS
The remastering is great, the song selection is top-notch. This is a wonderful collection for Buddy Holly fans. Some rarities here as well as all the bug hits (pun intended). Buy this today if you love Buddy Holly and early rock and roll.


It's real good
It's a good balance. It has the hits, demos and early recordings. Although I have always loved Buddy's music, I have never owned an album or CD of his. I think this gives me the the best overall picture of his work with some depth. It also helped turn my 11 year old son on to Buddy's music. Enjoyable historical collection of an influential artist.


Great CD
Was a great deal for around $20. CD has a lot of great songs on it, all in one collection.


Let's get one thing clear..
A few of the other reviewers rave about the set and mention how, "Buddy wrote this one with Norman Petty. First off, this gets 5 stars!! it's wonderful!! It's Buddy!! Also, the Down The Line Rarities collection is a must have too!! But I feel the need to set the record straight on something. " WRONG WRONG WRONG!!! Norman Petty was a charlatan, a huckster. . . the guy could not write his way out of a paper bag!! Buddy, like so many of the early, young, rock n roll artists was 'duped' into signing away his somgwriting talents to phonies like Petty. Petty got his sleazy name all over Buddy's songs and he didn't write a word or a note of the music!! So just remember, whenever you see a Buddy song with Norman Petty's name on it. . . disregard!!! Petty didn't write any of it! 'Nuff said. . . . . .


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