Hybrid Mono SACD!
Remastered By Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio From The Original Analog Master Tapes!
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The Crickets’ The Chirping Crickets Plus Buddy in his solo album debut!Two albums – 24 tracks – on one Hybrid Mono SACD!
Country, rockabillly and R&B fused into epochal rock ‘n’ roll
This is a musical duo to be reckoned with. For this Hybrid SACD we’ve includedtwo of the greatest albums in the Buddy Holly canon for a can’t-miss package forrock ‘n’ roll history buffs and music fans of all stripes.
One of rock’s greatest albums is the debut album by the Crickets and the onlyone featuring Buddy Holly released during his lifetime. The Chirping Cricketscontains the group’s number one single “That’ll Be the Day” and its TopTen hit “Oh, Boy!.” Other Crickets classics include “Not Fade Away,Maybe Baby,” and “I’m Lookin’ for Someone to Love.”
Three months after the release of The Chirping Crickets came the self-titled1958 classic. It was Buddy’s last album released prior to the plane crash inIowa that struck him down in 1959 at age 22. The album Buddy Holly features theTop Ten smash “Peggy Sue” plus several songs that went on to bestandards: “I’m Gonna Love You Too,” “Listen To Me,” “Everyday,” “Words ofLove,” and “Rave On.”
These are among the best rock ‘n’ roll songs of the 1950s or ever, making thisSACD a collectible of truly historic and memorable tunes “ranking withElvis Presley and Meet the Beatles,” writes AllMusic.
Born Charles Hardin Holley on September 7, 1936, in Lubbock, Texas, Holly wasnicknamed “Buddy” by his mother. She felt that his given name was too big forher little boy. “Holly,” the altered form of his last name, would later resultfrom a misspelling in his first recording contract. Holly learned to play pianoand fiddle at an early age, while his older brothers taught him the basics ofguitar.
In early 1956, Holly and his band began recording demos and singles in Nashvilleunder the name Buddy Holly and the Three Tunes, but the group’s lineup was laterrevised and dubbed The Crickets. Holly wrote and recorded his breakthrough hit,”That’ll Be the Day,” with The Crickets in 1957. The song’s title and refrainare a reference to a line uttered by John Wayne in the 1956 film “TheSearchers.” Between August 1957 and August 1958, Holly and the Crickets chartedseven different Top 40 singles.
Composer and singer John Fogerty, of Creedence Clearwater Revival fame, inductedBuddy Holly into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame at the 1986 Hall of Fameinduction ceremony. What Buddy Holly meant to him, Fogerty said, was destinycalling. Fogerty, 12, bought “That’ll Be The Day” and soon began dreaming offorming his own combo, like the group of musicians The Crickets he saw onthe album cover. And in Liverpool, England, “the same thing was going on withfour other guys. They named their group The Beatles, because Buddy Holly’s groupwas called The Crickets.
“We are, each of us, made up of the people we love and the people we admire,”Fogerty, said. “We take those reflections, and hopefully, grow.”
“Amazing largesse from the label: … the albums had too-short runningtimes to issue as separate SACDs, so (AP) created the most desirable two-on-onerock ‘n’ roll SACD ever. This is the essence of Buddy Holly and The Crickets,two of the three albums released during his lifetime and containing ‘Oh Boy!,”Not Fade Away,’ ‘Rave On,’ ‘Words Of Love,’ ‘That’ll Be The Day,’ ‘I’m GonnaLove You Too,’ ‘Everyday’ and 17 others that didn’t just inspire but empoweredthe entire British Invasion, from The Beatles to The Hollies to The Searchers toThe Stones. This pair of milestones from 1957-8 is as responsible as any body ofwork for shaping the path music followed from then onwards. Utterlymagnificent.” Sound Quality: 95% Ken Kessler, Hi Fi News, April2018
Holly’s talented life was cut short in a plane crash on Feb. 3, 1959, that alsoclaimed the lives of Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson. ThisSACD is a tribute to what was, and what might have been a lengthy pioneeringmusical career.
Features:
Super Audio CD
SACD Mono SACD Layer
This Hybrid SACD contains a ‘Red Book’ CD Layer which is playable on mostconventional CD Players!
Remastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio from the original analog mastertapes!
Selections:
1. Oh, Boy!
2. Not Fade Away
3. You’ve Got Love
4. Maybe Baby
5. It’s Too Late
6. Tell Me How
7. That’ll Be The Day
8. I’m Lookin’ For Someone To Love
9. An Empty Cup (And A Broken Date)
10. Send Me Some Lovin’
11. Last Night
12. Rock Me My Baby
13. I’m Gonna Love You Too
14. Peggy Sue
15. Look At Me
16. Listen To Me
17. Valley Of Tears
19. Everyday
20. Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues
21. Words Of Love
22. You’re So Square (Baby I Don’t Care)
23. Rave On!
24. Little Baby
