Buddy Holly and the weekend

It is almost Whit Bank Holiday so as we're likely to get rain I've sorted a couple of discs to play between getting the lego out and listening to the bank holiday specials on Boom Radio.

You might recall me mentioning about having to use pen, paper and cheque to send for a speciality cd on Rollercoaster Records and it came the other day.

What it is is the first Buddy Holly album credited for label reasons to the Crickets but using modern A.I. remixed from mono in stereo so well you'd never know it wasn't recorded that way with full seperation covering songs like That'll Be The Day, Oh! Boy and Not Fade Way and a version also in stereo that removed the ill advised background vocals by the rather square Picks producer Norman Petty added.

It sounds amazing.

That two on One cd came out in 2000 and adds the original mono Chirping Crickets to his second album attributed to him alone "Buddy Holly" from 1958 that featured Rave On, Listen To Me, Everyday and Peggy Sue.

Although various albums were issued since his death in 1959 from sessions that were too incomplete or earlier recordings often overdubbing new backing really these are the only two studio albums you need.

As we said way back in 1978 when the 20 Golden Greats compilation of hits was issued that webought back then Buddy Holly Lives, his music influencing british rock.