20 Golden Greats: Buddy Holly - Buddy Holly & The Chrickets

Advantages: It's Buddy Holly - Enough Said!
Disadvantages: Unfortunately, Buddy's guitar disappears behind the over dubbing

...Unfortunately after Buddy's death, his Manager, Norman Petty hired the Fireballs, who overdubbed much of the original guitar and music by Buddy & the Crickets. The result is that the original music is so far back in the mix, they might as well have not bothered! Buddy Holly was without doubt a musical genius, he was experiementing with elementary overdubbing before his untimely and tragic death. Therefore it is a great shame that Norman Petty treated his music this way. If you want to hear the real Buddy Holly, then there are available collections which have the original undubbed music on them, but you may have to shop around. Buddy's music is far too important and indeed, enjoyable to be treated this way, and you the listener deserve the real thing, rather than a heavily overdubbed version.... Read review

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Advantages: For any Buddy Holly Fan
Disadvantages: None unless you do not like Buddy Holly

...or travelling in your car, or when you are on the bus going to work etc, though be careful as do to the content you will end up singing out loud to everyone around you. This collection of songs is everything everybody remembers of Buddy Holly, Classics like Oh Boy, Peggy Sue, Rave On , Not Fade Away etc you can almost imagine how much heart this artist put into these songs because the tone words just go hand in hand with each other. Buddy Holly will always be heard and played world wide due to the effect his music has on us. This is a must for any devoted or new Buddy Holly fan of any age. Also this is excellent summer time tunes if your young and do not know who Buddy Holly is just ask mum and dad for their record you will be hooked. Here is the complete playlist for all:- 1. Peggy Sue 2. That'll Be The Day 3. Listen To Me 4... Read review

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Advantages: A good best of Buddy CD
Disadvantages: I really cannot think of any

...This album is the perfect introduction to Buddy Holly. It is a must have for any well rounded music collection. It has most of the well known and classic tracks such as "Oh Boy" and "Rave On" and "Heart Beat". To some the tracks may sound a bit dated they are of their time (The late 1950's) but the simple lyrics and Buddys unmistakable voice with his hallmark hic-up sound are timeless moving and very catchy. Buddy was a motivated and ambituous young man who had great vision. At the time that these records were produced Buddy was ahead of his time producing and writing the tracks aswell as singing and playing the instruments. The tracks are infectous the lyrics - as I have mentioned are quite simple but meaningful. If Buddys life was not cut short so very very young I am quite sure that he would have gone on to produce music... Read review

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