Love that you can hear his wife working in the kitchen while he plays in the next room. These originals sound so much better than the later overdubbed versions.
I have lived with Buddy's music since shortly after his untimely death. I would like to thank and congratulate whoever put this discovery into the public domain. I think Buddy's unaccompanied performances here are magical, sincere, far more "honest" than the commercial versions. I absolutely love it. Thanks again. 29:4529:45
@@VanishedPNW listen to John Lennon, and Yoko,. With John playing Buddy, and the phone rings, effing scary. So simular to Buddy and Maria talking, when their phone rings!!
I agree. it's like a time portal. One friendly note, though: never, ever call Buddy's widow "Maria." She insisted upon being called by her full name of "Maria Elena." (I suppose she still does.) As far as I know, She and Sonny Curtis are the only members of Buddy's inner circle who remain. The first Crickets, the "new" Crickets, Peggy Sue, Buddy's brothers and sister...all are now gone. Wouldn't it be ironic if Maria Elena ended up the last one?
There will never be anyone on Buddy's level. But he was a sweetheart. A regular kind of guy but not a regular mind and heart. A regular, decent, warm young an with brilliance. He is eternal. ETERNAL. 🌹
@@TomClarkSouthLondon I agree with you. Buddy Holly was more talented than Elvis. If Buddy had lived longer, he probably would’ve been the King of Rock & Roll. If it wasn’t for Buddy Holly & the Crickets, the Beatles certainly wouldn’t have existed. Buddy Holly would’ve progressed better musically if not for his death 🎸
These recordings feel so intimate. They weren’t meant to be heard by the public. I like to listen to these when I’m alone in my room, feeling depressed. I feel so close to Buddy, as if I could touch him. He says everything is, and will be, ok. Life is life. You can’t change what you can’t control.
As a ,now, 80 year old Brit , who had started to play guitar in 1957, Buddy Holly was my inspiration to just make music. His death was( and still is) a physical blow, what a tragedy. I have spent an entire life making music , clubs, ballrooms, theatres, every sort of venue, a life making music, even now at my age I’m still getting together with like minded “ old folks”and doing what has driven me my entire life. Thank you Buddy for inspiring me and making my life a dream come true…… and I was lucky in love !!!!! Wow !
I'm 21 and have been a fan of Buddy since I was 5 I just prefer 50s music in general howdy from North Carolina born and raised in the south I'm a bass baritone singer but the funny thing is I have a little bit of the hiccup in my voice when I sing I've also been playing guitar since I was 6
The end of rock and roll...the birth of British pop and the sound of the 60's! From the Beatles to Bobby Vee, Tommy roe, peter and Gordon and the list goes on and on... his influence was simply unparalleled!
Well, said. You have 'hit the nail on its head'. He really was special. He still influences, young 'up and coming groups' today. And i don't see it diminishing!
You are right We have to be very thankful for what we have, But I mourn everyday for what would have been, as I have absolutely no doubt that Buddy would have kepy producing hit after hit. He was and is that good. I named my Youngest Baby Girl Holly, Buddy
00:00 Slippin' and Slidin' - Little Richard Cover 03:12 That’s what They Say - Original 05:05 Dearest - Original 07:00 What to Do? - Original 08:56 Learning the game - Original 10:32 That makes it Tough - Original 12:50 Peggy Sue Got Married - Original 14:40 Slippin' and Slidin' - Little Richard Cover 16:08 Love is Strange - Mickey & Sylvia Cover 17:50 Smokey Joe’s Café - The Robins Cover 20:05 Crying, Waiting, Hoping - Original 21:58 You're the one - Original 23:30 Wait for the sunshine, Nellie - Pop Standard written by Harry Von Tilzer and lyrics by Andrew B. Sterling 24:45 Untitled Instrumental - Original? 26:05 Slippin' and Slidin' - Little Richard Cover
Thank you for posting all the demos! When I think of Buddy Holly, instant joy comes to me and I just smile! He was such a positive force! Holly introduced the concept which was followed in the Sixties Pop/Rock bands of the Two Guitars, Bass and Drums. What am immense contribution to American music was made by this wonderful and highly esteemed man. REST IN ETERNAL PEACE ~ CHARLES HARDIN "BUDDY HOLLY" HOLLEY.
Me too. I want to shake his hand. I wrote a song about it 22 years ago for my tribute CD to him, If I Can Make it Up to Heaven (Buddy, Would You Shake My Hand)
You dont age in heaven and nore does God your what you tell your self and you don't hear God going on a bout age and a lot need too learn a bout age and has it say says heaven earth will be one a men,❤❤😢😊
Buddy Holly is surely the most important and influential artist of the Rock & Roll music era. To think that he died so tragically at the age of 22, there cannot be anyone that has composed so many fantastic hits at such a young age! A genius musician that will forever be missed! RIP Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, JP “The Big Bopper” Richardson. 💔💔💔
Forever 22! Buddy Holly was a gem. Buddy was definitely entering a new phase of song writing. These are his most pure and raw recordings. This is just Holly and his acoustic guitar.
I love how clear these recordings are. I appreciate them far more than the overdubbed releases. The industry did that to make them more commercially successful, which I sort of understand, given the times, but these are raw and pure. We have no idea what Buddy's intentions for these songs were. His lead guitar style was far different from those releases. He played a lot of open string leads. He may of had someone like Tommy Alsup play on them. Who knows, the Crickets may have gotten back together with him. They are treasures and if they were issued on an album as they are here I wouldn't hesitate to buy it!
Yes, these songs way to clear to be done on a regular tape recorder. even though it's just Buddy with his acoustic guitar, it sounds like it was studio recorded. It's amazing what he was able to do with A, D, and E chords. I only wish the Beatles had some of their unreleased demos and cover songs sound this good. I love their version of Crying Waiting Hoping.
Very interesting that you can hear someone frying up a meal in the background on the first song. I can picture Buddy sitting in a small dining room connected to a kitchen. He's got his tape recorder and acoustic, a note pad on the table jotting down fragments of lyric and sometimes singing stream of consciousness, just seeing what he can come up with. All while his lady cooks him a burger.
Yes that amazed me! Most likely these were recorded in Buddy and Maria Elena's apartment facing Washington Square in Greenwich Village, New York City. There's an article online (with the address of the building) talking about how Maria Elena visited the building in 2011 for the first time since she and Buddy lived there.
A truly inspirational human being. I love his music and pure character. I was 13 when he died and remember sobbing my eyes out. To this day I can visualise the exact emotion to this day. I was hard to wake up in the morning so I set up my record player to play "That'll be the Day " to wake me up. I had no trouble getting up after that!
Gone too soon. I’m 21 and I’m in an acapella group and am a mediocre guitar player, but Buddy was my first real inspiration to get into music when I first discovered him at the end of middle school. I’ve since visited the surf ballroom and the crash site, certainly a surreal experience. Really odd also to think that Buddy was only a year older than I am when he passed. We’ll never forget you Buddy.
My music loving 13 year old buddies and I lost our innocence on that dark day in February, 1959. One of those friends has passed, and the other plays drums in our rock band. Yes, we're old, but we have not hung up our rock'n'roll shoes. We were all big Buddy Holly fans, and that love for his music endures. These home recordings are precious. I still play Learning the Game.
rock n roll is a faith that searches out its congregation.. none of us really chose rock n roll. all we can ever do is choose to not waste time trying to fight the fire it lit in our souls. I hope this finds you all still rocking your hearts out 🖤
@@stiiimes Great post! Yes, still rockin'. I also post original tunes on TH-cam. Type in "Present at the Creation", followed by my last name, and you can hear my rock'n'roll story.
@@southernpride2003 can you honestly shut the fuck up. that's not even a comparison that should be made its entirely different times in history and genres of music.
This guy would of Been bigger than any other performer. I grew up to Buddy Holly and imagine what he would of done had he not been on that plane. Buddy is one of a kind
He was far ahead of his time. He was perfect for his time but far ahead. He was / is a precious gift to us. He makes us dream and believe in our dreams. He is never out of style. This beautiful young man still stirs hearts and minds and souls. Blessed is he.🙏💓🌻
Buddy Holly had so much left in the musical tank. I still can’t get over how ahead of his time he was. Only on this mortal coil for a brief period but his legacy and talent will never be forgotten. Good bless you BH!!❤️🙏🎸.x
I’m curious if Buddy would have evolved his music in the late 60s to keep up with the acts like Hendrix, Stones, and the Beatles. He would have been in his early 30s.
@@cggg5089 My guess is he might have moved towards the production side and worked with other artists making records and/or moved towards country music like Jerry Lee and Waylon did. He was such a big influence on so many groups with his short career I can't imagine his influence not continuing to grow in some way.
@@cggg5089 I along with many others hafe speculated. He is on tape saying he thinks Rock and Roll won't last but a couple of years more. THAT was 60 plus years ago. Buddy ROCKS!
I just ran across these. The simplicity of his voice doing 12 bar blues just sounds so pure. I’m going to sleep with this playing. Sure reminds me of Steven Stills jamming alone working on phrasing and various voicing. Imagine if they had been together…”Stills and Holly”
"You're the One" was written/recorded at Radio Station KDAV in Lubbock in the fall of '58. Buddy was in town visiting Waylon (among other people) and stopped in at the station. I think the legend is that Carl Bunch was also at the station and bet Buddy to write a song in under half an hour. The result was Buddy winning the bet and laying down the song on tape. The untitled instrumental from the apartment tapes is sometimes referred to as "Leave my woman alone" as it shares the same basic structure of that Ray Charles song.
I thought it was at Radio KLLL, when Jennings was a DJ there ? There's a video on You Tube, which may be wrong of course, that claims that. It says ' You're the One ' was his last song recorded; but I don't see how, as some of these, I thought, were recorded in the January of '59.
@@heathstjohn6775 My bad. You are correct. This was recorded at KLLL during the fall of '58. You are also correct that Buddy's last recordings were in his apartment in December of '58. Possibly early January '59... as Buddy was a late addition to the Winter Dance Party. So, he may have spent at least the first week of January still at home.
@@That_AMC_Guy So much to wonder about. So much never to be known. So many lives, right now, somewhere, everywhere, unmet, beginning, ending. *: Have you heard the recording of Holly and Maria'-Elana in the Greenwich apartment ?: if not, type in ' Buddy Holly phone call '. (But don't trouble, I'm afraid, with phone number something-48687, as the apartment number you hear Maria-Elana mentioneing at the beginning, is...disconnected). Thanks. (Do you like this ?: a forgotten r ' n ' r artist, still alive...but singing a 1958 hit of his...but forty-years later, in 1998 ! I don't know who's playing the guitar Holly should have gasped ! at: shall do, soon, as I've ordered it from Discogs ! Is there anything you don't like about it ? th-cam.com/video/2WUHHD6sMeQ/w-d-xo.htmlsi=j_lU6-mSkJukcecf
Buddy was a big Ray Charles fan and wanted to work with him, possibly on an album. The instrumental on the Apartment Tapes may have been preparing for that in some way.
@@DanaRobertson-w9h The facts say otherwise. Sonny Curtis remarked, Buddy Holly was astounded by Presley. Holly soon went on ‘an Elvis kick.’ It was conventional on these country shows for singers to remain rooted to the spot as they performed. After watching Elvis, Holly was soon all over the stage. In the studio, too, Elvis influenced Holly. Holly set about recreating the Sun sound for himself. His early rockabilly style, combining Elvis and Scotty Moore, is apparent on his five Decca single releases from his 1956 recording sessions (Friedlander 1996:54). As Holly himself said, 'without Elvis, none of us would have made it.' But because Elvis was the biggest and the best, he is there for the rest to keep sniping at. There is no comparison. As to who shook their legs first, give me a break. Elvis was certainly before Holly, but Hank Williams was before both. An they all moved in church.
I love how that last verse of "Slippin'" was SO different than the other two. I am a LONG time Buddy Holly fan (I can remember hearing "Peggy Sue" on my Red Rocket" transistor radio when it was originally on the charts! For a time, a LONG time, there was nothing "Buddy Holly" anywhere. Not in the record stores. Nor on radio. Nowhere. Nothing. Then the world finally discovered him all over again. This is the best string of anything Holly has ever done. This needs to be on a CD, plain and simple. And Buddy was really grooving on that Magnatone tremolo! And that second version of "Slippin'" ... holy cow, how could he have done it so differently??
Really very good. Buddy had a great songwriting talent, a unique vocal style and a distinctive rhythm guitar technique. There are people with special talents and Buddy Holly was, undoubtedly one of those people.
I'm amazed at how good these sound compared to my LP box set of The Complete Buddy Holly, even though most of it sounds very good, it's amazing how far technology has come, sounds like it could've been recorded yesterday.
Great art is both timely...and timeless. Hard to think of anyone in rock history who, in such a short period, created a more timeless legacy of great art than Buddy. Few have equalled his brilliance, none surpassed it. Rave on.
@@khaaleliilighntingcoronado9009 Hi, good to receive a return comment from another Buddy fan. I hadn't received one for a while, and today it's eerie, but in a good way, of course. When you entered your comment, I had just arrived home after having attended a concert by a Buddy re-enactor, a local boy. Still in high school, he must have been all of 16 years old. He played a guitar that looked just like Buddy's and wore a suit and bow tie the way Buddy used to do. (His dad served as his sound tech.) What were the chances? I feel almost as if Buddy has arranged all this because he knows the extent of my fandom.
Along with the Everly Brothers and some of Elvis’ tracks, THIS is where country-rock and folk-rock truly begin. Even after his tragic death, Buddy continues to have an impact on acoustic (read: non-synthesized) music to this day.
Listening to this doesn't feel like im listening corny 50's music. It's unique and has extremely catchy melodies. And the lyrics are genuinely relatable. Unlike most "relatable music" that just has cliche relatable lyrics. These lyrics perfectly captures how it feels to love someone who doesn't love you back anymore and I've never heard anything else that did better job. It boggles my mind that this is 60 years old.
I'm fascinated by his posthumous releases. The released version of Love Is Strange I like particularly. Kinda sad that that's all they could do with him gone. Same thing when the Beatles took John Lennon's home recordings and made new songs. These were recorded much better than those. Jimi Hendrix left behind a bunch of recordings that were controversially finished after his death. I imagine other artists had that treatment done to the stuff they left behind. The last Queen album was well made with Freddie's recordings. I understand he actually approved of them doing this before he died.
He really was before his time I love his music really talented a top notch guitarist and Sanger thanks to my grandma all ways played his records but when she died I never stopped listening to them he was one of the best
What a pioneer of music .he put so many different kinds of instruments to his music.such a vision and fantastic voice and clever arrangements.thanks buddy gone but never forgotten
Waylon talks about "Slippin' and Slidin'" in his book. He says Buddy recorded it really slow as he wanted to speed up to sound similar to the Chipmunks.
The schedule for the Winter Dance Party was crazy. A freezing bus, 100s of miles of snow covered roads and criss-crossing back and forth around the mid-west. The flight from Clear Lake to Fargo always sounded like it was destined to end badly and I have to wonder if tired minds weren't at work when they made that call. These guys forever left us with the burning question of what might have been.
Incredible, somehow I had never heard these even after searching for everything Buddy Holly recorded a year or so ago. Reminds me of Lennon's home recordings, or I should say Lennon's home recording remind me of this, which is fitting seeing Buddy was a huge influence. Often wonder what sort of music Buddy would have recorded going into the 60's. I don't think he would have ever sat on his laurels.. He'd have been innovative for a long time. Damn I wish we had more of his music.
I'm only 38, but had these ( apartment tapes) through the BH memorial society 20 years ago. I still play them at least twice a week, religiously! Enjoy!
It was his great grasp of melody that had us all mesmerised and that so influenced so many others all these many years...look at the many who revered his talent...they all wanted to get that melody into their song writing...Paul McCarthey, Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty....etc., etc...
According to Waylon Jennings and others, Buddy was about to transition to production rather than composing. He offered to work with Ritchie Valens after the tour. He just had to get some money together to get some studio time or start his own production operation.
Buddy… the reason the first guitar I pick up is my ‘57 2-tone ‘burst Strat. I still remember that feeling of hopelessness, going to school, the day the news of the plane crash was broadcast in the UK. The pre-eminent singer/songwriter of Rock’n’Roll, the blueprint for all the talent who subsequently stood on his shoulders.
I think learning the game was one of the greatest songs he wrote. Peggy sue got married is also catchy as hell. These later recordings show the potential he has because he grew a lot as a songwriter here.
Love that you can hear his wife working in the kitchen while he plays in the next room. These originals sound so much better than the later overdubbed versions.
Absolutely do, they are Gems.
Wow!! I heard her start to wash the dishes as soon as I read this!!!!
I have lived with Buddy's music since shortly after his untimely death. I would like to thank and congratulate whoever put this discovery into the public domain. I think Buddy's unaccompanied performances here are magical, sincere, far more "honest" than the commercial versions. I absolutely love it. Thanks again. 29:45 29:45
Ich empfinde auch so .
I love how Maria is doing dishes in the background.
Isn't that the coolest? I think it really adds to the overall recording. The intimacy is really cool.
@@VanishedPNW listen to John Lennon, and Yoko,. With John playing Buddy, and the phone rings, effing scary. So simular to Buddy and Maria talking, when their phone rings!!
Yeah, my thoughts too lol.. I picked up on the clinking of dishes & running water too... Gret to hear the original, even if it was an early draft.
I agree. it's like a time portal. One friendly note, though: never, ever call Buddy's widow "Maria." She insisted upon being called by her full name of "Maria Elena." (I suppose she still does.) As far as I know, She and Sonny Curtis are the only members of Buddy's inner circle who remain. The first Crickets, the "new" Crickets, Peggy Sue, Buddy's brothers and sister...all are now gone. Wouldn't it be ironic if Maria Elena ended up the last one?
Well the Beatles loved Buddy so much so Paul like me thought the world had ended when the pane crashed.
Is there anyone cooler or more talented than Buddy? I feel sorry for people that don’t know.
There will never be anyone on Buddy's level. But he was a sweetheart. A regular kind of guy but not a regular mind and heart. A regular, decent, warm young an with brilliance. He is eternal. ETERNAL. 🌹
Elvis
*I KNOW!* 👍
@@ronnierice9815 you don’t know do you! 😒🤨🥱
@@TomClarkSouthLondon I agree with you. Buddy Holly was more talented than Elvis. If Buddy had lived longer, he probably would’ve been the King of Rock & Roll. If it wasn’t for Buddy Holly & the Crickets, the Beatles certainly wouldn’t have existed. Buddy Holly would’ve progressed better musically if not for his death 🎸
These recordings feel so intimate. They weren’t meant to be heard by the public. I like to listen to these when I’m alone in my room, feeling depressed. I feel so close to Buddy, as if I could touch him. He says everything is, and will be, ok. Life is life. You can’t change what you can’t control.
As a ,now, 80 year old Brit , who had started to play guitar in 1957, Buddy Holly was my inspiration to just make music. His death was( and still is) a physical blow, what a tragedy. I have spent an entire life making music , clubs, ballrooms, theatres, every sort of venue, a life making music, even now at my age I’m still getting together with like minded “ old folks”and doing what has driven me my entire life. Thank you Buddy for inspiring me and making my life a dream come true…… and I was lucky in love !!!!! Wow !
When I listen to a BH song in my home, it feels like he’s almost in the room. I’ve never felt that with any other artist
@@PMexPAT Funny thing is, I’m only 16
Couldnt put it better myself i find these last recordings hauntingly beautiful in a way his songs resonate through the soul and mind i miss you Buddy
I'm 21 and have been a fan of Buddy since I was 5 I just prefer 50s music in general howdy from North Carolina born and raised in the south I'm a bass baritone singer but the funny thing is I have a little bit of the hiccup in my voice when I sing I've also been playing guitar since I was 6
The end of rock and roll...the birth of British pop and the sound of the 60's! From the Beatles to Bobby Vee, Tommy roe, peter and Gordon and the list goes on and on... his influence was simply unparalleled!
Well, said. You have 'hit the nail on its head'. He really was special. He still influences, young 'up and coming groups' today. And i don't see it diminishing!
Well said
Dude, any more cliches to list?
Add the Rolling Stones and Grateful Dead
Dude, too many to waste your time dude.
Everything Buddy Holly did sounds so fresh and relevant
We all mourn for what might have been. But so thankful for what we have. RIP Buddy.
Absolutely. He is always there for us. Always a ight for us. Buddy is that great. He is a sweet, dear, warm, knowledgeable Sage. An amazing man.
You are right We have to be very thankful for what we have, But I mourn everyday for what would have been, as I have absolutely no doubt that Buddy would have kepy producing hit after hit. He was and is that good. I named my Youngest Baby Girl Holly, Buddy
Buddy would have loved The Beatles. Their version of "Words Of Love "is one of my favourites.
The original slower version of "Maybe Baby" sounds like a Beatles song. Check it out.
A timeless genius, taken from us so young, his home recordings sound so fresh and new, like he is singing next door to us.
That guy was about to be on another level, above best.
00:00 Slippin' and Slidin' - Little Richard Cover
03:12 That’s what They Say - Original
05:05 Dearest - Original
07:00 What to Do? - Original
08:56 Learning the game - Original
10:32 That makes it Tough - Original
12:50 Peggy Sue Got Married - Original
14:40 Slippin' and Slidin' - Little Richard Cover
16:08 Love is Strange - Mickey & Sylvia Cover
17:50 Smokey Joe’s Café - The Robins Cover
20:05 Crying, Waiting, Hoping - Original
21:58 You're the one - Original
23:30 Wait for the sunshine, Nellie - Pop Standard written by Harry Von Tilzer and lyrics by Andrew B. Sterling
24:45 Untitled Instrumental - Original?
26:05 Slippin' and Slidin' - Little Richard Cover
Thank you for posting all the demos!
When I think of Buddy Holly, instant joy comes to me and I just smile!
He was such a positive force!
Holly introduced the concept which was followed in the Sixties Pop/Rock bands of the Two Guitars, Bass and Drums.
What am immense contribution to American music was made by this wonderful and highly esteemed man.
REST IN ETERNAL PEACE ~
CHARLES HARDIN "BUDDY HOLLY" HOLLEY.
thank you!
Not all heroes wear capes....
@@80blkflg whatever that means….
@@raulmacias1311 This Music Is Good Medicine
Can't wait to meet ole Buddy up in heaven and see what he's been up too
Me too. I want to shake his hand. I wrote a song about it 22 years ago for my tribute CD to him, If I Can Make it Up to Heaven (Buddy, Would You Shake My Hand)
You dont age in heaven and nore does God your what you tell your self and you don't hear God going on a bout age and a lot need too learn a bout age and has it say says heaven earth will be one a men,❤❤😢😊
The intro to slippin and a sliding is exactly the intro to Loverly Rita on Sgt Pepper. McCartney never forgot his roots.
Buddy Holly is surely the most important and influential artist of the Rock & Roll music era.
To think that he died so tragically at the age of 22, there cannot be anyone that has composed so many fantastic hits at such a young age!
A genius musician that will forever be missed!
RIP Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, JP “The Big Bopper” Richardson. 💔💔💔
Yeah he's more important than Elvis lmaooo. fuckin clown
He’s certainly one of them but I think a certain artist from tupelo Mississippi called Elvis Presley is far more well known and influential
Only because he lived longer. Elvis didn't write his own music, Buddy could do it all!
I'll never deny Buddy Holly was very talented but Elvis was on another level
Pound for pound, The best ever.
Forever 22! Buddy Holly was a gem. Buddy was definitely entering a new phase of song writing. These are his most pure and raw recordings. This is just Holly and his acoustic guitar.
You are right, but the singles produced, with overdubs by Norman Petty, were awful.
He was so talented. He had such excellent pitch, timing, feel, and inflection. Definitely taken from us way too soon.
HE IS EXCELLENT !!!!
I love how clear these recordings are. I appreciate them far more than the overdubbed releases. The industry did that to make them more commercially successful, which I sort of understand, given the times, but these are raw and pure. We have no idea what Buddy's intentions for these songs were. His lead guitar style was far different from those releases. He played a lot of open string leads. He may of had someone like Tommy Alsup play on them. Who knows, the Crickets may have gotten back together with him. They are treasures and if they were issued on an album as they are here I wouldn't hesitate to buy it!
Yes, these songs way to clear to be done on a regular tape recorder. even though it's just Buddy with his acoustic guitar, it sounds like it was studio recorded. It's amazing what he was able to do with A, D, and E chords. I only wish the Beatles had some of their unreleased demos and cover songs sound this good. I love their version of Crying Waiting Hoping.
Got em all on a 6 LP set of all versions, lucky me, and brilliant.
I am with the comment from Terence Tuttle. Nothing but Buddy and his guitar. This is what he would have wanted. 👍👏🏻🎸
Buddy's music is timeless and he is the reason that I picked up a guitar. I love these songs, just him and his guitar 🎸😍
@@ericsmallwood2009 What is that set of LPs called? Thank you
What A Talent ! He is Never Forgotten!
Very interesting that you can hear someone frying up a meal in the background on the first song. I can picture Buddy sitting in a small dining room connected to a kitchen. He's got his tape recorder and acoustic, a note pad on the table jotting down fragments of lyric and sometimes singing stream of consciousness, just seeing what he can come up with.
All while his lady cooks him a burger.
Yes that amazed me! Most likely these were recorded in Buddy and Maria Elena's apartment facing Washington Square in Greenwich Village, New York City. There's an article online (with the address of the building) talking about how Maria Elena visited the building in 2011 for the first time since she and Buddy lived there.
@@seeburg10 I 😢😂
A truly inspirational human being. I love his music and pure character. I was 13 when he died and remember sobbing my eyes out. To this day I can visualise the exact emotion to this day. I was hard to wake up in the morning so I set up my record player to play "That'll be the Day " to wake me up. I had no trouble getting up after that!
Buddy Holly paved the way for a lot of great artists.
You are never gonna die😍
❤🤗
Na he definitely died. Even saying that he died is under statement. He absolutely obliterated 💀. But I understand what your saying.
Gone too soon. I’m 21 and I’m in an acapella group and am a mediocre guitar player, but Buddy was my first real inspiration to get into music when I first discovered him at the end of middle school. I’ve since visited the surf ballroom and the crash site, certainly a surreal experience. Really odd also to think that Buddy was only a year older than I am when he passed. We’ll never forget you Buddy.
My music loving 13 year old buddies and I lost our innocence on that dark day in February, 1959. One of those friends has passed, and the other plays drums in our rock band. Yes, we're old, but we have not hung up our rock'n'roll shoes. We were all big Buddy Holly fans, and that love for his music endures. These home recordings are precious. I still play Learning the Game.
rock n roll is a faith that searches out its congregation.. none of us really chose rock n roll. all we can ever do is choose to not waste time trying to fight the fire it lit in our souls.
I hope this finds you all still rocking your hearts out 🖤
A true Legend
@@stiiimes Great post! Yes, still rockin'. I also post original tunes on TH-cam. Type in "Present at the Creation", followed by my last name, and you can hear my rock'n'roll story.
The man invented modern music
Oh come on now don't insult Buddy like that he has more talent in his pinky than rappers have
@@southernpride2003That’s not at all what they were referring to
@@southernpride2003 can you honestly shut the fuck up. that's not even a comparison that should be made its entirely different times in history and genres of music.
This man was unique.nobody else like him.pure gifted talent
This guy would of Been bigger than any other performer. I grew up to Buddy Holly and imagine what he would of done had he not been on that plane. Buddy is one of a kind
He was far ahead of his time. He was perfect for his time but far ahead. He was / is a precious gift to us. He makes us dream and believe in our dreams. He is never out of style. This beautiful young man still stirs hearts and minds and souls. Blessed is he.🙏💓🌻
Prolific songwriter his songs never age and always sound as fresh today as they did way back then absolute legend
Buddy Holly had so much left in the musical tank. I still can’t get over how ahead of his time he was. Only on this mortal coil for a brief period but his legacy and talent will never be forgotten.
Good bless you BH!!❤️🙏🎸.x
I’m curious if Buddy would have evolved his music in the late 60s to keep up with the acts like Hendrix, Stones, and the Beatles. He would have been in his early 30s.
@@cggg5089 My guess is he might have moved towards the production side and worked with other artists making records and/or moved towards country music like Jerry Lee and Waylon did. He was such a big influence on so many groups with his short career I can't imagine his influence not continuing to grow in some way.
@@cggg5089 I along with many others hafe speculated. He is on tape saying he thinks Rock and Roll won't last but a couple of years more. THAT was 60 plus years ago. Buddy ROCKS!
Good stuff! Buddy was a music making machine.
I just ran across these. The simplicity of his voice doing 12 bar blues just sounds so pure. I’m going to sleep with this playing. Sure reminds me of Steven Stills jamming alone working on phrasing and various voicing. Imagine if they had been together…”Stills and Holly”
The blues in that makes it tough …. I can’t stop listening to it
"You're the One" was written/recorded at Radio Station KDAV in Lubbock in the fall of '58. Buddy was in town visiting Waylon (among other people) and stopped in at the station. I think the legend is that Carl Bunch was also at the station and bet Buddy to write a song in under half an hour. The result was Buddy winning the bet and laying down the song on tape.
The untitled instrumental from the apartment tapes is sometimes referred to as "Leave my woman alone" as it shares the same basic structure of that Ray Charles song.
I thought it was at Radio KLLL, when Jennings was a DJ there ?
There's a video on You Tube, which may be wrong of course, that claims that. It says ' You're the One ' was his last song recorded; but I don't see how, as some of these, I thought, were recorded in the January of '59.
@@heathstjohn6775 My bad. You are correct. This was recorded at KLLL during the fall of '58. You are also correct that Buddy's last recordings were in his apartment in December of '58. Possibly early January '59... as Buddy was a late addition to the Winter Dance Party. So, he may have spent at least the first week of January still at home.
@@That_AMC_Guy So much to wonder about. So much never to be known. So many lives, right now, somewhere, everywhere, unmet, beginning, ending.
*: Have you heard the recording of Holly and Maria'-Elana in the Greenwich apartment ?: if not, type in ' Buddy Holly phone call '. (But don't trouble, I'm afraid, with phone number something-48687, as the apartment number you hear Maria-Elana mentioneing at the beginning, is...disconnected).
Thanks.
(Do you like this ?: a forgotten r ' n ' r artist, still alive...but singing a 1958 hit of his...but forty-years later, in 1998 !
I don't know who's playing the guitar Holly should have gasped ! at: shall do, soon, as I've ordered it from Discogs !
Is there anything you don't like about it ?
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Buddy was a big Ray Charles fan and wanted to work with him, possibly on an album. The instrumental on the Apartment Tapes may have been preparing for that in some way.
My biggest regret is that the Beatles never got to meet him, Elvis was an influence but Buddy was bigger.
According to Paul McCartney, Elvis is still the person he would like to meet with. And he already did that before.
Buddy Holly IS The True KING of Rock'n' Roll 💓🎶💯 Everyone emulated Buddy, and he was the first to shake a leg performing.
@@DanaRobertson-w9h The facts say otherwise. Sonny Curtis remarked, Buddy Holly was astounded by Presley. Holly soon went on ‘an Elvis kick.’ It was conventional on these country shows for singers to remain rooted to the spot as they performed. After watching Elvis, Holly was soon all over the stage. In the studio, too, Elvis influenced Holly. Holly set about recreating the Sun sound for himself. His early rockabilly style, combining Elvis and Scotty Moore, is apparent on his five Decca single releases from his 1956 recording sessions (Friedlander 1996:54). As Holly himself said, 'without Elvis, none of us would have made it.' But because Elvis was the biggest and the best, he is there for the rest to keep sniping at. There is no comparison. As to who shook their legs first, give me a break. Elvis was certainly before Holly, but Hank Williams was before both. An they all moved in church.
These songs are amazing! Buddy rocks!!
No music required, the voice alone is spectacular 😮
The recording is so clear and warm. Love it.
Buddy was doing some guitar licks that were ahead of their time
I love how that last verse of "Slippin'" was SO different than the other two. I am a LONG time Buddy Holly fan (I can remember hearing "Peggy Sue" on my Red Rocket" transistor radio when it was originally on the charts! For a time, a LONG time, there was nothing "Buddy Holly" anywhere. Not in the record stores. Nor on radio. Nowhere. Nothing. Then the world finally discovered him all over again. This is the best string of anything Holly has ever done. This needs to be on a CD, plain and simple. And Buddy was really grooving on that Magnatone tremolo! And that second version of "Slippin'" ... holy cow, how could he have done it so differently??
This young man was the personification of perfection!!
Great songs, by a great rock pioneer.
Really very good. Buddy had a great songwriting talent, a unique vocal style and a distinctive rhythm guitar technique. There are people with special talents and Buddy Holly was, undoubtedly one of those people.
I'm amazed at how good these sound compared to my LP box set of The Complete Buddy Holly, even though most of it sounds very good, it's amazing how far technology has come, sounds like it could've been recorded yesterday.
So with the comment from eddyrocks. These sound great! Thanks, Buddy. 👏🏻👍
I remember hearing these many years ago, and thought "that makes it tough" stood out.
Great art is both timely...and timeless. Hard to think of anyone in rock history who, in such a short period, created a more timeless legacy of great art than Buddy. Few have equalled his brilliance, none surpassed it. Rave on.
I hadn't heard these before and I love them, PURE Buddy Holly
Amazing!
What great songs from Buddy.
The Great Buddy Holly! What might have been!
There are no words for this. I’m just glad I found it. Thanks Buddy for the music and the passion.
I love this guy!
Buddy is my absolute favorite.
Love that " Smokey Joe's Cafe "
So thankful he made these recordings
Oh, to be a fly on the wall during the recording of the apartment tapes!
Best believe that fly was tapping his antenna and legs to this
@@khaaleliilighntingcoronado9009 Hi, good to receive a return comment from another Buddy fan. I hadn't received one for a while, and today it's eerie, but in a good way, of course. When you entered your comment, I had just arrived home after having attended a concert by a Buddy re-enactor, a local boy. Still in high school, he must have been all of 16 years old. He played a guitar that looked just like Buddy's and wore a suit and bow tie the way Buddy used to do. (His dad served as his sound tech.) What were the chances? I feel almost as if Buddy has arranged all this because he knows the extent of my fandom.
So many good songs with nice conversations with Buddy and Maria Elena. Thanks. 👏🏻
Just wonderful 👍👍👍
Along with the Everly Brothers and some of Elvis’ tracks, THIS is where country-rock and folk-rock truly begin.
Even after his tragic death, Buddy continues to have an impact on acoustic (read: non-synthesized) music to this day.
Listening to this doesn't feel like im listening corny 50's music. It's unique and has extremely catchy melodies. And the lyrics are genuinely relatable. Unlike most "relatable music" that just has cliche relatable lyrics. These lyrics perfectly captures how it feels to love someone who doesn't love you back anymore and I've never heard anything else that did better job. It boggles my mind that this is 60 years old.
This is awesome
Absolutely fantastic!
Thanks for sharing these recordings , Buddy was so good , he didn’t need a band , what a loss
This is amazing.❤
a true class act
Thank you !❤❤❤😎
Right on!!!..
I'm fascinated by his posthumous releases. The released version of Love Is Strange I like particularly. Kinda sad that that's all they could do with him gone. Same thing when the Beatles took John Lennon's home recordings and made new songs. These were recorded much better than those. Jimi Hendrix left behind a bunch of recordings that were controversially finished after his death. I imagine other artists had that treatment done to the stuff they left behind. The last Queen album was well made with Freddie's recordings. I understand he actually approved of them doing this before he died.
He really was before his time I love his music really talented a top notch guitarist and Sanger thanks to my grandma all ways played his records but when she died I never stopped listening to them he was one of the best
What a pioneer of music .he put so many different kinds of instruments to his music.such a vision and fantastic voice and clever arrangements.thanks buddy gone but never forgotten
Theses recordings were brilliant. I’ve loved them for years
Learning the Game is m favorite Buddy Holly Song.
You made me happy I woke up this morning. I can live another day musically satisfied. Thank you.
Oh lord, this is special ❤
A much-loved BUDDY for life!..
Waylon talks about "Slippin' and Slidin'" in his book. He says Buddy recorded it really slow as he wanted to speed up to sound similar to the Chipmunks.
Soooo iconic, I just love everything about buddy Holly ❤❤❤❤❤❤
The schedule for the Winter Dance Party was crazy. A freezing bus, 100s of miles of snow covered roads and criss-crossing back and forth around the mid-west. The flight from Clear Lake to Fargo always sounded like it was destined to end badly and I have to wonder if tired minds weren't at work when they made that call. These guys forever left us with the burning question of what might have been.
Buddy is one of the greatest musicians and songwriters ever and he will live on forever!
Many thanks for posting. Only found this after listening to Leo Kottke,s "Learning the game" rendition 🙂
Incredible, somehow I had never heard these even after searching for everything Buddy Holly recorded a year or so ago. Reminds me of Lennon's home recordings, or I should say Lennon's home recording remind me of this, which is fitting seeing Buddy was a huge influence.
Often wonder what sort of music Buddy would have recorded going into the 60's. I don't think he would have ever sat on his laurels.. He'd have been innovative for a long time. Damn I wish we had more of his music.
Absolutely wonderful - thank you.
Such pure talent! Arthur Topee
😅😅😅😅😅
So simple ,but so meaningful nobody has done so well , great Guy
...pure gold ...Buddy was magic 🫶🏻
This is the best of Buddy. Incredible sound where has this been?
I'm only 38, but had these ( apartment tapes) through the BH memorial society 20 years ago. I still play them at least twice a week, religiously! Enjoy!
It was his great grasp of melody that had us all mesmerised and that so influenced so many others all these many years...look at the many who revered his talent...they all wanted to get that melody into their song writing...Paul McCarthey, Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty....etc., etc...
Seems he’s holding back, just to be courteous to his neighbors. So we here his True Tone.
Greeeeat love buddy
BEST RECORDING
Very good! 👍🎸
Truly Enjoy this list song. Thanks
Buddy be smashing it!
Genius
The best that ever was
Fantastic,thanks for sharing
According to Waylon Jennings and others, Buddy was about to transition to production rather than composing. He offered to work with Ritchie Valens after the tour. He just had to get some money together to get some studio time or start his own production operation.
Effing hell!! Brilliant! Brilliant!! He breakes my heart! He is speciall so effing speciall
Buddy… the reason the first guitar I pick up is my ‘57 2-tone ‘burst Strat. I still remember that feeling of hopelessness, going to school, the day the news of the plane crash was broadcast in the UK.
The pre-eminent singer/songwriter of Rock’n’Roll, the blueprint for all the talent who subsequently stood on his shoulders.
I think learning the game was one of the greatest songs he wrote. Peggy sue got married is also catchy as hell. These later recordings show the potential he has because he grew a lot as a songwriter here.
Effing hell!! Pure class!!!
Awsomeness