Buddy Holly - For The First Time Anywhere '1983/1987

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 In 1956, an unknown singer named Buddy Holly signed with Decca Records and
traveled to Nashville to record. Two singles were released from those sessions.
Both were commercial failures. Soon therafter, Holly recorded again —
acting as his own producer — to show Decca (and others) exactly how he
wanted his music to sound. He used the studio of Norman Petty, who later became
his manager.

 Years later, overdubbed with vocal and musical backgrounds, these songs were
released. On this album, we hear for the first time anywhere, the original
unobscured versions. At the start of 1957, Holly, undaunted by his experiences
with Decca, returned to Pettys Clovis, New Mexico studio with a new group, soon
to be named The Crickets. In the two years that followed, they recorded songs
that have endured as the finest examples of rock n roll; Its So Easy; Peggy Sue.
Rave On, Maybe Baby; Oh Boy; Not Fade Away and Thatll Be The Day are a few of
the classics recorded by Holly and The Crickets before a plane crash took the
life of Holly on February 3, 1959, cutting short an extraordinarily prolific
career.

The songs on this album spotlight a Buddy Holly as he has never been heard
before. Baby, Wont You Come Out Tonight. Bo DiddleY, cis Not My Fault Im Gonna
Set My Foot Down, Changing All Those Changes: Rock-A-Bye Rock, Brown-Eyed
Handsome Man and Because I Love You are Holly in-studio productions with Norman
Petty simply acting as engineer. They are examples of Hollys rockabilly
influenced style at that time. Thats My Desire was recorded at Bell Sound in New
York City on the same day as Rave On: No one was entirely satisfied with it at
the time, but modern listening reveals a polished ballad. The version of Maybe
Baby included on this album is not the hit version. It is an earlier attempt,
recorded at Pettys studio shortly after Thatll Be The Day; and has the same feel
as Thatll Be The Day;

 It was abandoned though in favor of the more straightforward version which was
recorded six months later at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City. MCA Records
is proud to present these unreleased recordings of Buddy Holly. They are further
proof, that after all these years, the music and memory of Buddy Holly live on.
:: TRACKLIST ::

1 Rock-A-Bye Rock 2:21
2 Maybe Baby (1st Version) 1:56
3 Because I Love You 2:38
4 Im Gonna Set My Foot Down 2:16
5 Changing All Those Changes 1:39
6 Thats My Desire 2:22
7 Baby Wont You Come Out Tonight 1:56
8 Its Not My Fault 1:18
9 Brown-Eyed Handsome Man 2:02
10 Bo Diddley 2:21

All selections previously unreleased in this form.
Transferred from the original 1955-1958 Master Tapes.

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