![]() The annotation is surprisingly sketchy concerning That'll Be the Day, concentrating far more on Holly's life story, and the original notes from Remember tell listeners more about that album's contents than do the new notes for the CD. The later songs, from Remember, are better crafted and more sophisticated, as well as encompassing some of Holly's best songs, including "Learning the Game" and "Peggy Sue Got Married," but those are all available elsewhere, and as the context of their inclusion on Remembering was mere happenstance, they're nothing more than handy bonus tracks here - rather more impressive among those later cuts is "Real Wild Child," a frantically paced rockabilly number credited to Ivan and sung by Crickets drummer Jerry Allison, featuring Holly on guitar and backing vocals. Those 11 sides, which never sounded better than they do here, make this CD a must-own release for anyone with more than the most casual interest in Holly's work or in early rock & roll if the alternate take of "Rock Around With Ollie Vee" were here, the CD would be perfect as a document of its subject and period. Those tracks, though a fair distance from the music that made Holly famous, are good, solid, occasionally inspired rock & roll, with a decided rockabilly and country flavor they're as instructive about how the producers at the major labels - in this case, Owen Bradley and his assistants at Decca's Nashville studio - and young artists like Holly, without a lot of studio time under his belt, were finding their way around rock & roll recording. Curiously, it is the first 11 songs here, from That'll Be the Day - which is usually dismissed by critics as not sufficiently representative of Holly's real sound - that make this CD an important release, very close to essential listening. That'll Be the Day, released in April of 1958, was Decca Records' first attempt to give a boost to the available Buddy Holly material, assembling 11 of the songs that he'd cut for the label during his four unsuccessful Nashville sessions of 1956 into an LP, issued one month after the Buddy Holly album was issued Remember, released in 1971, was the last posthumous compilation of Holly's work assembled by British MCA, gathering together the last of his officially released singles, B-sides, and more. Learn more at Patreon.This disc is an interesting pairing, combining the contents of two LPs from opposite ends of the efforts to tap into Buddy Holly's catalog. There are a bunch of exclusive perks only for patrons: playlists, newsletters, downloads, discussions, polls - hell, tell us what song you would like to hear covered and we will make it happen. Cover Me is now on Patreon! If you love cover songs, we hope you will consider supporting us there with a small monthly subscription. Buddy Holly The Buddy Holly Collection Disc 1Partial AlbumLabel: MCA Records MCAD2-10883Format: 2 x CD, Compilation, RemasteredCountry: USReleased: 1993G. As a special bonus, you can fast forward again to the 36 minute 35 second mark to hear Cee-Lo Green‘s version of “(You’re So Square) Baby, I Don’t Care.” To check out the track, go to the KCRW site here (the May 7th show), and fast-forward to the 6 minute mark in the show. They juxtapose a country stomp, start-stop verse with a vastly slowed down and atmospheric, harmonized chorus. The band do nothing less than completely deconstruct the song, playing up the dark undertone to the lyric hidden under the poppy rock and roll of the original. On her KCRW show this past weekend, DJ Liza Richardson gave us a sneak peek at Modest Mouse‘s version of “That’ll Be The Day.” You’ve heard about the upcoming tribute album and listened to the Black Keys’ cover of “Dearest,” now another song from Rave On Buddy Holly has surfaced.
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