3 Rabbit Band

3 Rabbit Band

Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Buddy Holly


"It Doesn't Matter Anymore" is a pop ballad written by Paul Anka and recorded by Buddy Holly in 1958. The song reached #13 as a posthumous hit on the Billboard Hot 100 charts in early 1959 shortly after Holly was killed in a plane crash on February 3, 1959. The single was a two-sided hit, backed with "Raining In My Heart". "It Doesn't Matter Anymore" was Holly's last US Top 20 hit and featured the orchestral backing of Dick Jacobs.

                                                          
                                                                                                                        
 "Rave On" is a 1958 song written by Sonny West, Bill Tilghman and Norman Petty, first recorded by Sonny West (released February 1958, Atlantic 45-1174). It was also recorded by Buddy Holly, and was one of his last hits during his lifetime. The song as sung by Holly is ranked #155 on Rolling Stones magazine's 2004 list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time. The song is based on the 1956 Sun Records recording "Dixie Fried" by Carl Perkins and uses the refrain "rave on" from that song.


"Peggy Sue" was originally called "Cindy Lou", and was named for Buddy's niece, the daughter of his sister Pat Holley Kaiter. The title was later changed to "Peggy Sue" in reference to Crickets drummer Jerry Allison's girlfriend (and future wife), Peggy Sue Gerron, with whom he had recently had a temporary breakup.
Appropriately, Allison played a prominent role in the production of the song, playing para-diddles on the drums throughout the song, the drums' sound rhythmically fading in and out as a result of real-time engineering techniques by the producer, Norm Petty. Many music critics regard this as Holly's all-time best recording.
The song went to #3 on the Billboard Top 100 chart in 1957. The song is currently ranked as the 100th greatest song of all time, as well as the third best song of 1957, by Acclaimed Music.
Initially only Allison and Petty were listed as the song's authors. At Allison's insistence, Holly was credited as a co-writer after his death.






 "Maybe Baby" was originally recorded by The Crickets (with Buddy Holly) in 1957. It was written by Norman Petty and Buddy Holly and reached 17th in the US charts but 4th in the UK charts (where Holly toured that year). The rather simple lyrics are augmented by a characteristic twangy percussive rockabilly accompaniment.



                 "Think It Over" (Jerry Allison, Buddy Holly, Norman Petty), #27 US, 1958




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