Buddy Holly Down the Line: The Rarities

• My Two-Timin' Woman
• Footprints In the Snow - Buddy & Bob
• Flower Of My Heart* - Buddy & Bob
• Door To My Heart* - Buddy & Bob
• Soft Place In My Heart - Buddy & Bob
• Gotta Get You Near Me Blues - Buddy & Bob
• I Gambled My Heart* - Buddy & Bob
• You And I Are Through - Buddy & Bob
• Down The Line - Buddy & Bob
• Baby, Let's Play House
• Moonlight Baby a/k/a Baby, Won't You Come Out Tonight
• I Guess I Was Just A Fool
• Don't Come Back Knockin'
• Love Me Buddy Holly & The Crickets
• Gone
• Gone (alternate take)
• Have You Ever Been Lonely (alternate take)
• Have You Ever Been Lonely
• Brown-Eyed Handsome Man
• Good Rockin' Tonight
• Rip It Up
• Blue Monday
• Honky Tonk
• Blue Suede Shoes
• Shake Rattle And Roll (partial)
• Bo Diddley
• Ain't Got No Home
• Holly Hop
• Last Night (undubbed)
• Not Fade Away (alternate overdub)
• Peggy Sue (alternate take)
• Oh Boy (undubbed)
• That's My Desire (two false starts plus undubbed master)
• Take Your Time (false start & partially undubbed take)
• Fool's Paradise (alternate take undubbed)
• Fool's Paradise (undubbed master)
• Fool's Paradise (alternate #2 undubbed)
• Think It Over (false start & rehearsal take)
• Think It Over (undubbed alternate)
• Think It Over (undubbed master)
• Love's Made A Fool Of You (undubbed)
• That'll Be The Day (greetings to Bob Thiele)
• That'll Be The Day (greetings to Murray Deutsch)
• That's What They Say (w/fragment)
• What To Do
• Peggy Sue Got Married
• That Makes It Tough
• Crying, Waiting, Hoping
• Learning The Game
• Wait Till The Sun Shines Nellie
• Slippin' And Slidin' (slow version #1)
• Slippin' And Slidin' (slow version #2)
• Slippin' And Slidin' (fast version)
• Buddy & Maria Elena talking in an apartment
• Dearest (fragment)
• Dearest
• Untitled Instrumental (a/k/a Buddy's Guitar/listed as a Tremolo Instrumental")
• Love Is Strange
• Smokey Joe's Café

As all fans of early rock know, even the late, great Mr. Holly’s table scraps are worth savoring. The Rolling Stones, Beatles and others weren’t no fools when it came to citing the Texas troubadour as a main influence, after all. For the 50^th anniversary of the rock pioneer’s death at age 22 (yes, 22), Geffen Records has compiled a 59-song two-disc set of start-to-finish rarities and unreleased works. Some of the highlights that should have fans doing backflips include early tracks Holly cut with Bob Montgomery (as Buddy & Bob) as well as the undubbed final recordings Holly made at home before just before his death. The collection is said to have been compiled with the cooperation of Holly’s widow, Maria Elena, which is probably how Geffen got their hands on the cut titled “Buddy & Maria Elena Talking in an Apartment.”

Abstract by Tony Sclafani