Buddy Holly

300: Decapede, ‘Creston Gold’/Buddy Holly, ‘Peggy Sue’

The sweetest music you’ll never hear.

070: Buddy Holly, ‘That’ll Be the Day’

Buddy Holly’s great song and the night The Grateful Dead backed me singing it. Yeah, for real.

February 10, 2022 by jeff Personal Rock Rock and Roll Song Of the week 8

002: Buddy Holly, ‘Learning the Game’

Written and sung at 22 and a half, a month before he died. At that age, Lennon was recording ‘Love Me Do’ and Dylan had just finished his first album of original material.

July 8, 2021 by jeff Rock and Roll Song Of the week 5

155: Buddy Holly, ‘It Doesn’t Matter Anymore’

When the weather’s right, this song can still make me cry.

March 7, 2019 by jeff Rock and Roll Song Of the week 6

122: George Harrison (The Beatles), ‘You Know What to Do’ b/w Buddy Holly, ‘You’re the One’

So you thought (as I did) that you know every George Harrison/Beatles recording and every post-puberty Buddy Holly recording? Here are two you don’t know. And you just may have a hard time telling them apart.

October 25, 2018 by jeff Rock Rock and Roll Song Of the week 3

194: The Rolling Stones, ‘Not Fade Away’ (1964)

My buddies Vocal Line are going to back The Stones on stage in Copenhagen. While pretending to not be jealous, I remember The Stones as I saw them on their first tour of the US, in 1964. You can’t always get what you want, but that memory does Not Fade Away.

April 25, 2014 by jeff Rock Rock and Roll Song Of the week