Hollyville U.K.

Now that's what I call a classic understatement made by a unique talent that blessed us with his wonderful easy to sing melodies and his powerful stage presence. I still always get the same thrill when I play a CD of Buddy's that I got with every first time playing of a new Buddy Holly release! The best birthday present I ever had was when my beautiful wife Pauline bought me "The Complete Buddy Holly" ..........We all had to wait for the Beatles before anything near to his genius was repeated.
 
 

I was being my normal boring self one day in Blackpool, England, diving into every CD and Record Arcade when my wife Pauline pulled this one out of the CD rack which was labelled "60's Male Singers" and I noticed on the rear of the CD case 33 tracks some of which were marked Demo and Take 1 etc.... I just had to have this to add to my collection..... Track 13 is an unreleased take of "Peggy Sue" and there are 4 versions of "Slippin' and Slidin'"..... 3 versions of "Take Your Time".... 2 versions of "Fools Paradise".... 3 versions of "Think It Over" and some rare studio chat. However the quality of  about 4 tracks is certainly not great!

  Bobby Peeples helped Buddy record some of his early songs and was responsible for introducing Niki Sullivan to the then unknown Buddy. Joe B. also worked as a shoe shine boy outside a barber shop next to the recording studio where Peeples worked. Some of his recordings have survived and a few were overdubbed skilfully by Petty. The rest were either lost even before Buddy's death or rejected by Petty in favour of better alternative recordings.
 
 

Now this photo is very strange because it looks like a shot taken at a telerecording session for a BBC-TV show "Off The Record" but all the background has mysteriously disappeared. The recording, needless to say has gone the same way as the background indeed the only physical evidence of Buddy's visit to the U.K. is a few seconds of audio from the "Sunday night at the London Palladium" show, and a few 8mm short film-clips shot by Petty. All I can say is thank God for Ed Sullivan and all the various other U.S. people that had the foresight to record and save for posterity most Buddy's video performances.

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