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is one of the greatest pop songs ever recorded.

Fact.

so he and we never had the benefit of G R O W T H. Most of his recordings are a little sparse cause he was in his infancy. Rock and roll was in it's infancy as well.

Holly was such a dork though. It's hard to imagine him being anything else with the benefit of more time. I think he would have become a huge songwriter like Burt Bacharach or Neil Diamond and kept morre in the background. Can't really see him with a big stack of Marshalls and a kick ass band.

Check out the simplicity of Crickets' set up- they sound the same here as they did playing down at the bowling alley in Lubbock.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQiIMuOKIzY

These were the songs of my childhood. They were dug out last christmas for singalongs with sister and we still know the words. Good fun.

http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/buddyholly/articles/story/25584431/the_last_days_of_buddy_holly

This too from Don McClean. He wrote this song about when he found out about Holly's death. He was 12 yrs. old, had a paper route (paper boy) in New York and when he cut the string on the bundle of newspapers he saw the article about the plane crash on the front page- pretty cool song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAsV5-Hv-7U

banging his (little richard's) girlfriend, then without saying a word, dropping his trousers and joining in is true.

That is all.

Once you've heard 'Oh Boy' you've heard them all.

Rock n Roll is great dance music but it's very similar. The best of them all is Chuck Berry, though. I find it funny that Elvis is given any sort of superlative descriptions regarding his 50s output. That said, post-revival stuff is about 100 times worse.

Whilst his songs aren't massively varied (he pretty much just uses 3 chords in different orders), they do what they do brilliantly well. Just awesome melodies over perfectly arranged simple songs.
If you're looking at this sort of thing it's also worth checking out Roy Orbison. He might not be as cool or as good lucking as Elvis et al, but his voice is amazing and his songs are all just that little bit slower than all the other rock and roll stuff and are really beautiful/tragic as a result.

although they're all pretty vital listening, if only a few times over (as said up there, there's not a great deal of variety there). Lots of nostlagia vaue for me, being 'eduacted' by my dad on the way to our hols about how great buddy holly was. Great times. Well Alright, Wishing, and Peggy Sue got married are other faves...

is a simple, but sweet song.

Definitely deserves props for being one of the first 'rock bands' as we know it today, and for being one of the first artists to write, produce, and play his own stuff.

Remember that he only really started recording in early 56, and died in Feb 59. 3 albums in 2 years, but enough extra stuff for new albums for the next ten years. Eat your heart out Biggie & 2-Pac.