Mike Berry with the Outlaws - Tribute To Buddy Holly
Posted on 02/04/2015 8:13:52 AM PST by iowamark
Most people know him only from the one song. Too bad, he wrote some beautiful music. Empty Chairs will always remind me of the first girl I really fell for hard.
I’m guessing that Buddy Holly and his contemporaries would be quite pleased at how big rock became.
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I think “American Pie” is one of the worst songs ever - way too long, pretentious, forced rhymes. As George Costanza might say, “It’s got it all.”
For me “Monkey Man” is the ultimate Rolling Stones tune.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNY8eYmzdH4
Buddy had a hard enough time convincing his first label that even “That’ll Be The Day” could be a hit.
Here he is on the phone being told “no, no, nope no, AND DON’T YOU THINK OF DOING ANYTHING WITH THOSE SONGS FOR 5 YEARS!!!” Couldn’t buy them back because ‘well we MAY do something with them” “we are dropping your contract...”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiGlIQE1AXI
Psst, that's how it got between the first young rock stars (Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis, etc.) being either dead, prosecuted, drafted, or otherwise knocked out and retired and the Beatles "coming up".
Bobby Vee, Bobby Vinton, Bobby Darin, Bobby this and Bobby that (as Jerry Lee Lewis put it).
There are rock and roll acts today but they can't get promoted by the majors or by radio.
The suits ushered in the return of late-80s style boy bands and girl singers to push the grunge/indie thing off the charts. "That fad is OVER!"
Good point.
Not so much dying out as losing their old audiences. The crowd that started listening to rockabilly are starting to disappear and haven’t paid attention to new music for a long time.
I’ve got pretty wide ranging musical tastes but the my first favorite heavy metal will will eventually fade too despite still filling stadiums with people 30 years my junior.
As far as rock going away, I’m not so sure despite the crap like hiphop and rap that gets airplay these days. Kids find a way to listen to more alternative stuff than top 40s crap. Black Sabbath wasn’t getting much airplay in the 80s but I still ended up with all of their music.
Buddy Holly was a huge influence on Sir Paul McCartney. Just listen to a lot of the first Beatles stuff and you will hear a lot of rockabilly in there. I think that “I’ll Follow The Sun” sounds a lot like stuff that Buddy Holly and the Crickets sang.
A sad day a long time ago.
Waylon Jennings ?
And the Waylors!
Mike Berry with the Outlaws - Tribute To Buddy Holly
And Joe B. Mauldin died yesterday.
Note: this topic is from . Thanks iowamark. I've been watching or listening to Dion talk about it, almost done, I've got the HD version running but this one is about a minute longer for some reason.
"The True Buddy Holly Story" Rockhall of Fame History*
and btw, after Buddy Holly, Sonny Curtis of the Crickets wrote an iconic R&R song you *may* have heard in some other form:
The Crickets - I Fought The Law - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hw846vx_uk
This came as a pleasant surprise:
WHITE LIGHTNING The Big Bopper 1959 ... - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NMklxiE6xw
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