1959 BUDDY HOLLY 78 PEGGY SUE GOT MARRIED M-
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A NEAR MINT / REALLY EXCELLENT COPY OF THIS GREAT POSTHOUMOUS BUDDY HOLLY UK CHART HIT 78 FROM SEPTEMBER 1959
ULTRA RARE !!
PEGGY SUE GOT MARRIED
b/w CRYING, WAITING, HOPING
TWO GREAT SIDES!!
Buddy Holly played rock and roll for only two short years, but the wealth of material he recorded in that time made a major and lasting impact on popular music. Holly was an innovator who wrote his own material and was among the first to exploit such advanced studio techniques as double-tracking. He pioneered and popularized the now-standard rock-band lineup of two guitars, bass and drums with the Crickets and Holly’s catalog of songs includes such standards of the rock and roll canon as “Rave On,” “Peggy Sue,” “That’ll Be the Day,” Oh Boy!” and “Maybe Baby.” Though Holly lacked the arresting sexuality of Elvis Presley, he nonetheless cut an engaging, charismatic figure with his trademark horn-rimmed glasses and vocal hiccup. His creative self-reliance and energetic, inspired craftsmanship prefigured the coming wave of rock and rollers in the Sixties. Holly was a professed influence on the Beatles and Hollies (both of whom derived their names from his). Even the Rolling Stones had their first major British hit with a cover of Holly’s “Not Fade Away.” He died 51 years ago in a plane with the Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens... These two sides were released after his death .
Peggy Sue Got Married - Buddy Holly
Peggy Sue Got Married" is a song written and sung by Buddy Holly. It was released in 1959 with "Crying, Waiting, Hoping". It refers to his song hit "Peggy Sue". It was one of the first sequels of the rock era. Buddy Holly recorded the vocal, accompanying himself on guitar, on December 8, 1958 in apartment 4H of "The Brevoort", Fifth Avenue, Studio musicians recorded backup vocals and instrumentals on June 30, 1959 at Coral Records' Studio A in New York City.
After Holly's death on February 3, 1959, his home recordings of his last six compositions were turned over to record producer Jack Hansen. Hansen hired studio musicians and a backup vocal group, the Ray Charles Singers, to augment Holly's vocal and guitar. The idea was to match the established sound of Buddy Holly and the Crickets as closely as possible.
"Crying, Waiting, Hoping" is technically the most successful of the six overdubs; it turned out so well that it was originally intended as the "A" side of a single. Holly wrote and recorded the song with pauses ("Cryin'... waitin'... hopin'... you'll come back"). Hansen ingeniously turned the solo into call-and-response verses, so the backup singers fill in the pauses with an "echo" of each word.
Buddy Holly's original, undubbed home recording was used as theme music in the film Peggy Sue Got Married.
DISC DETAILS:
UK CORAL Q 72376 10" 78rpm
ENTERED UK CHARTS 11 SEPT. 1959 HIGHEST #13 WEEKS IN CHART = 10
SIDE 1 :- PEGGY SUE GOT MARRIED
SIDE 2:- CRYING, WAITING, HOPING
CONDITION = M- / Ex+ Disc is really excellent - near mint but B Side label has some spindle marks (see scan) HERE'S YOUR CHANCE TO GRAB THIS MEGA RARE BUDDY HOLLY 78 DON'T MISS IT - BID NOW!!
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