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20 Golden Greats (also known as Buddy Holly Lives) is a greatest hits album by Buddy Holly & the Crickets first released in the United Kingdom by EMI on February 17, 1978. [1] The songs on the UK release were licensed to EMI by MCA Records , who released the album in North America .
It was subsequently recorded by Buddy Holly and the Crickets between June 29 and July 1, 1957, at Norman Petty Studios with Holly singing lead vocals and The Picks providing backing vocals. The song is in an A-A-B-A format with a 12-bar blues verse and an 8-bar bridge.
Buddy Holly [a] Buddy Holly, Don Guess: Reminiscing: 1963 "Because I Love You" Buddy Holly [a] Buddy Holly: Reminiscing: 1963 "Blue Days, Black Nights" (a.k.a. "Blue Days") Buddy Holly: Ben Hall: That'll Be the Day: 1956 "Blue Monday" Buddy Holly [a] Dave Bartholomew: Giant: 1969 "Blue Suede Shoes" Buddy Holly [a] Carl Perkins: Showcase: 1964 ...
In an interview with the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, Holly's eldest brother Larry Holley commented before hearing both this compilation and Down the Line: Rarities, "María [Elena Holly] told me I was definitely going to just break down and cry when I hear all these CDs, because they've cleaned them (the songs) all up and Buddy's music never has come across so pure before."
The "Chirping" Crickets is the debut album from the American rock and roll band the Crickets, led by Buddy Holly. It was the group's only album released during Holly's lifetime. In 2012, it was ranked number 420 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. [4] It also appears in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear ...
Down the Line: Rarities is a 2009 compilation album of American singer–songwriter and rock and roll pioneer Buddy Holly's alternate takes and demos.It includes the original undubbed "garage tapes" with The Crickets and the "Apartment Tapes", which were recorded in the months before his death.
Greatest Hits is a compilation album of songs taken from Buddy Holly's three original albums, The "Chirping" Crickets, Buddy Holly and That'll Be the Day, released in 1996 by MCA Records. It includes top ten hits " Peggy Sue " and " Oh, Boy! ", along with number-one hit " That'll Be the Day ".
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