Love Songs - Buddy Holly

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. Everyday... Read review

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...this CD doesn't have my all-time favourite Buddy Holly song "Listen To Me" (the one with a beautiful shimmering guitar backing) it does have 12 exceptional tracks. Younger listeners brought up in this age where multilayered production and bottom-end engineering in the studio can cover up a multitude of a band's sins will hear these spare, simple recordings and laugh. For me their very simplicity is endearing. Take the song Everyday, which consists of a little percussion, some chimes and Holly hiccoughing the lyrics. So simple a school band could do it. Think It Over, with its "ba ba ba" backing and charming lyrics "think it over what you just said, think it over in your pretty little head, are you sure I am not the one, is this love real or only fun?" The one song that does have something approaching a sophisticated... Read review

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

...have had a lot to contribute to the music of today. As it is he was a great influence on the Beatles (You can see the influence in their early tracks). Without the Beatles who knows - no Oasis definately - but who else. As it is there is a definate and strong link between Buddy and the music of today so which self respecting music fan would not have this CD as part of their collection? 12 wonderful tracks from the balads of "Maybe Baby" and "Raining in my Heart" to the fast moving "Its so Easy" and "Peggy Sue" and all for around £5 - you cant go wrong! At Buddy Hollys funeral the vicar said that he was going to hell (Rock and Roll was the devils music). I am sure he is somewhere much more comfortable looking down on us all. When listening to some of the songs you are almost moved to tears especially when you think how young he was and how... Read review

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