BUDDY HOLLY "Rock around with Ollie Vee" Brunswick-45
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RARE ORIGINAL BRUNSWICK PRESSING IN GOOD PLUS CONDITION 45 TOP SIDE "ROCK AROUND WITH OLLIE VEE" IN VERY GOOD PLUS CONDITION ORIGINAL WRITTEN BY SONNY CURTIS AND THE B SIDE MIDNIGHT SHIFT WHICH I PREFER HAS SOME SMALL WEAR TO THE LABEL ( NO WRITING)ON THE B SIDE THE RARE ORIGINAL TRI-CENTRE..........THERE WAS ONLY ONE BUDDY HOLLY....... RECORD NUMBER 45-05800.... YOU KNOW HOW RARE THIS IS...........
Buddy Holly
Buddy Holly
Buddy Holly in concert Background information Birth name Charles Hardin Holley Born September 7, 1936(1936-09-07),
Lubbock, Texas U.S. Died February 3, 1959 (aged 22),
Clear Lake, Iowa, U.S. Genre(s) Rock and roll, Rockabilly Occupation(s) Singer-songwriter, Guitarist Instrument(s) Vocals, Guitar, Piano, Fiddle, Violin Years active 1949 – 1959 Label(s) Decca Associated acts The Crickets Website BuddyHolly.com Notable instrument(s) Fender Stratocaster Charles Hardin Holley, known professionally as Buddy Holly (September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959)[1] was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll. The change of spelling of "Holley" to "Holly" came about because of an error in a contract he was asked to sign, listing him as Buddy Holly.[1] That spelling was then adopted for his professional career.
Although his success lasted only a year and a half before his death in an airplane crash, Holly is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most influential creative force in early rock and roll."[2] His works and innovations were copied by his contemporaries and later musicians, notably The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, and exerted a profound influence on popular music. In 2004, Rolling Stone Magazine ranked Holly #13 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.[3]
Biography
Charles Hardin Holley was born in Lubbock, Texas[1] to Lawrence Odell Holley and Ella Pauline Drake on Labor Day, in 1936. The Holleys were a musical family and as a young boy Holley learned to play piano, guitar and violin (his brothers oiled the strings so much that no one could hear him play.) He was always known as Buddy to his family. In 1949 Buddy made a recording of Hank Snow's 'My Two-Timin' Woman' on a wire recorder "borrowed" by a friend who worked in a music shop (not, as is often reported, a home tape recorder)[citation needed], his first known recording.[4] During the fall of that year he met Bob Montgomery in Hutchinson Junior High School. They shared a common interest in music and soon teamed up as the duo "Buddy and Bob." Initially influenced by bluegrass music, they sang harmony duets at local clubs and high school talent shows. In Lubbock, Holly attended Hutchinson Junior High School, which has a mural honoring him, and Lubbock High School, which has numerous features to honor the late musician. His musical interests grew throughout high school while singing in the Lubbock High School Choir.[5]
Holly turned to rock music after seeing Elvis Presley sing live in Lubbock in early 1955. A few months later, he appeared on the same bill with Presley, also in Lubbock. Holly's transition to rock continued when he opened for Bill Haley & His Comets at a local rock show organized by Eddie Crandall, who was also the manager for Marty Robbins. As a result of this performance, Holly was offered a contract with Decca Records to work alone, which he accepted. According to the Amburn book (p. 45), his public name changed from "Holley" to "Holly" on 8 February 1956, when he signed the Decca contract. Among the tracks recorded for Decca was an early version of "That'll Be The Day", which took its title from a phrase that John Wayne's character said repeatedly in the 1956 film, The Searchers.[6]
Back in Lubbock, Holly formed his own band, although at that time it had no name and would only later be called The Crickets and began recording at Norman Petty's studios in Clovis, New Mexico. Norman had music industry contacts and believing that "That'll Be the Day" would be a hit single, he contacted publishers and labels. Coral Records, a subsidiary of Decca, signed The Crickets. Soon after, they signed Holly as a solo artist. This put Holly in the unusual position of having two record contracts at the same time. Before "That'll Be The Day" had its nationwide release, Holly played lead guitar on the single "Starlight", recorded in April 1957, featuring Jack Huddle. The initial, unsuccessful version of "That'll Be The Day" played more slowly and about half an octave higher than the hit version.
Holly managed to bridge some of the racial divide that marked rock n' roll music. While Elvis made black music more acceptable to whites, Holly won over an all-black audience when the Crickets were booked at New York's Apollo Theater (though, unlike the immediate response depicted in the 1978 movie The Buddy Holly Story, it actually took several performances for his talents to be appreciated).After the release of several highly successful songs in 1958, Holly and the Crickets toured Australia in January and later the United Kingdom.[7]
That same year, he met Maria Elena Santiago (born 1935 in San Juan, Puerto Rico) while she was working as a receptionist for Peer-Southern Music, a New York music publisher. According to a romanticised version of the truth encouraged by Maria Elena, he proposed to her on their very first date. She initially thought he was kidding, but they were married in Lubbock on 15 August 1958, less than two months after they met. "I'd never had a boyfriend in my life. I'd never been on a date before. But when I saw Buddy, it was like magic. We had something special: love at first sight," Maria told the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal on the occasion of what would have been the Hollys' fiftieth wedding anniversary. She resides in Dallas.[8]
Maria traveled on some of the tours, doing everything from the laundry to equipment set-up to ensuring the group got paid.
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