Bought a tear too my eyes remembering my upbringing in the 50s. Sisters bopping around our home, eldest brother a aspiring Teddy boy, soon to be curtailed by a spell in the Royal Navy, in my eyes my Nelson , sadly all gone now , but wonderful how music can evoke wonderful memories.
massive buddy holly fan ever since i was a young child, i remember when i was little and my nan playing a record, and i asked my nan who is that playing. she smiled and said buddy holly. and i said play more nan. loved the guy since. shame he only lasted 3 as a pro rock singer. but his music will always live on.
I can't say enough how great Buddy was. All the nuances of his melodies, harmonies, down strokes. If you pay attention this guy was ahead of his time. It was pop, rock, rock a billy, blues, and so on.
If I could go back in time it would be that February day and stop that plane.
Long live Buddy. Your music never died.
You cannot use enough adjectives about Buddy Holly. He was the “Mozart” of Rock and Roll. But also I hate that Richie Valens is too often overlooked. You talk about someone who made SOMETHING from nowhere. I really would have like to have seen where he would have taken music. Whatever “it” is they both had it!
This is one of the songs that Holly recorded in his New York apartment in January of 1959, just him singing into a tape recorder and playing guitar. The backing vocals were added much later...after he died, in fact.