Buddy Holly (USA)
Hollybilly - Complete 1956 Recordings

©El Toro Records 2007

Buddy Holly has come to be known as one of the foremost performers and innovators of the first wave of rock 'n' rollers in the 1950s.

Among the very first inductees into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame in January 1986, along with Elvis, Jerry Lee, Fats Domino, Chuck Berry, Little Richard and Ray Charles, Buddy Holly has come to be known as one of the foremost performers and innovators of the first wave of rock 'n' rollers in the 1950s, even though his actual recording career lasted less than three years before being cut short by his death in an horrific plane crash. Perhaps revered even more in Europe than in his home country, singer-songwritermusician- producer Buddy inspired The Beatles and the Rolling Stones and their like much more than even Elvis ever could.

This compilation features the complete 1956 recordings of Buddy Holly - his first as a solo artist - and includes all the surviving masters from his three Nashville sessions for US Decca, together with his first demo sessions cut at Norman Petty's state-of-the-art recording studio in Clovis, New Mexico, and home recordings from Lubbock.
In addition to Buddy and his usual cohorts, such as Jerry Allison, Sonny Curtis and Don Guess, the tracks also include the accompaniment of the famed Nashville "A" Team, boasting Floyd Cramer, Harold Bradley and the always superb Grady Martin.

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1. Baby, Won't You Come Out Tonight?
2. Love Me (with studio chat)
3. Don't Come Back Knockin'
4. Midnight Shift
5. Blue Days, Black Nights
6. Rock Around With Ollie Vee (fragment)
7. Rock Around With Ollie Vee (July 1956 version)
8. Because I Love You
9. Changing All Those Changes (Clovis demo version)
10. I Guess I Was Just a Fool
11. It's not my Fault
12. I'm Gonna Set my Foot Down
13. Rock-a-Bye Rock
14. Girl on my Mind
15. That'll be the day
16. Ting-A-Ling
17. I'm Changin' All Those Changes (fragment)
18. I'm Changin' All Those Changes (Nashville Version)
19. Modern Don Juan
20. You Are My One Desire (false start)
21. You Are My One Desire
22. Rock Around Ollive Vee (November 1956 version)
23. Honky Tonk (undubbed Lubbock demo)
24. Good Rockin' Tonight (undubbed Lubbock demo)
25. Brown-Eyed Handsome Man (undubbed Lubbock demo)
26. Bo Diddley (undubbed Lubbock demo)
27. Rip It Up (undubbed Lubbock demo)
28. Blue Monday (undubbed Lubbock demo)
29. Blue Suede Shoes (undubbed Lubbock demo)
30. Shake, Rattle & Roll (undubbed Lubbock demo)
31. Ain't Got no Home (undubbed Lubbock demo)
32. Holly Hop (undubbed Lubbock demo)
33. Bo Diddley (undubbed Clovis demo)
34. Brown-Eyed Handsome Man (undubbed Clovis demo)
35. Have You Ever Been Lonely? #1(undubbed Lubbock demo)
36. Have You Ever Been Lonely? (fragment)
37. Have You Ever Been Lonely? (fragment)
38. Have You Ever Been Lonely? #2 (undubbed Lubbock demo)
39. Gone (fragment)
40. Gone #1 (undubbed Lubbock demo)
41. Gone #2 (undubbed Lubbock demo)