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 50th 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.”
An intersting collection, but, while this may be new for USA, almost all of these tracks, and many more rarities, have already been issued in England. Everything except the instrumental & Maria Elena talking in the apartment track. What we still need is a complete CD set of the comprehensive 1979 Vinyl Box Set of 120 recordings with the additional material found subsequently. Only when all have been remastered will Buddy Holly fans be stisfied !!!
Eric Gaiger
Mr. Gaiger is correct. I have the 1979 LP set but it's an extreme rarity these days, why has it never been issued on CD?
An intersting collection, but, while this may be new for USA, almost all of these tracks, and many more rarities, have already been issued in England. Everything except the instrumental & Maria Elena talking in the apartment track. What we still need is a complete CD set of the comprehensive 1979 Vinyl Box Set of 120 recordings with the additional material found subsequently. Only when all have been remastered will Buddy Holly fans be stisfied !!!
Eric Gaiger
Mr. Gaiger is correct. I have the 1979 LP set but it's an extreme rarity these days, why has it never been issued on CD?
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