We were hungry and wanted some hamburgers, so we went in and sat down. They had a three-piece colored band playing. Buddy went up and started talking to them, and they knew from how he talked that he was a musician. One of them said, "Hey man, why don't you play one! He played 'Sexy Ways,' and everyone looked up. Somebody made a phone call and people started coming in, and it wasn't long until that place was packed.
They wouldn't let him quit. That place was dead when we got there, but it was rocking when we left. But where Presley was at ease singing to and about women, Holly romanced with an unfathomable resolve that spoke more to male experience. A defining feature of Holly's appeal was almost invisible, and perhaps best observed from the stage. Here's Holly's friend and touring companion, Phil Everly: Young girls would fill the audience in the early shows.
As it progressed to the evening, it filled up with men and if you were getting a lot of girl reaction, like screams and things, it would start to wane. You had to really deliver when the men got there, because they weren't so anxious to do any screaming for you. But Buddy Holly was an exception -- He would go over more on those evenings when there was a bigger male audience.
Reconciling Holly's look to his sound was something of a puzzle. His visual impression was overwhelmed by those thick horn-rimmed glasses, your basic "geek" billboard across any teenager's forehead. Holly tried contact lenses to escape the "four-eyes" stigma, but found them uncomfortable. So Holly simply shifted into reverse. He changed from the thin plastic and metal frames to thick all-black frames with pronounced curves purchased for him in Mexico by his Lubbock optician, say Goldrosen and Beecher, page Allison coaxed Holly's new look: "I said to him, 'If you're going to wear glasses, then really make it obvious that you're wearing your glasses.
Picture that line smoothed into a self-conscious style and it goes limp. Coy on the surface, his glottal ticks and baby-talk seemed to toy with more substantial ideas "Ah, ha, ha-ha-ha-ha, ha-ha-ha- ha Like Dylan, whose vocal mannerisms he anticipated, Holly the songwriter was his own best interpreter - everything "straight," "square," and "innocent" in his sound became ironic.
Against his onrushing acoustic guitar, the "uh-oh"s and "Sue-hoo-hoo, ooh-ooh-hoo-hoo-hoo"s ring out like melismatic pebbles skipping water. If he caught Peggy's attention, it's because he became purely beguiling in his pursuit; if she went on acting like he didn't exist and the song never decides , he repeated her name beneath his breath as the next best thing to holding her in his arms.
This keen understanding of visual cues, and of sound as symbol, worked even when some of his hits got remade as pop crossover tracks with strings. Instead of sinking down into them, he made them cower, defied them where others caved.
After his death, Buddy Holly's tape recorder was located in his apartment building. On this tape, there were 14 full songs that Buddy Holly recorded. The songs were, in general, very clear and very personal. Most were just Buddy Holly and his acoustic guitar. These songs were truly Buddy Holly's last songs.
The original tapes were given to two producers, Jack Hansen and Norman Petty. Both producers used the recordings and overdubbed them with a full band so the songs would be more radio-friendly. These versions of the songs were released to the public, and some of the songs even became hits. But the original raw recordings Buddy Holly made in his apartment never saw an official release.
It is very hard to find the original, raw, recordings of the tapes. They can be found on various fan-made bootleg CDs. To the general public, however, the songs are vastly unknown.
When I originally found out about these recordings, I immediately started looking for them. It surprised me how long it took to actually find the original recordings that Buddy Holly recorded himself.
Once I finally found the recordings online, I decided to make this website so other Buddy Holly fans can gain easy access to what I think are Holly's best recordings. Share these with your friends, and download them all you want. These songs should not be hidden from the public for as long as they have been. For many years, these were known only in adulterated versions, over-dubbed with a cheap rock-and-roll band and chintzy backing vocals. All the songs display a sophistication of personal expression — especially cynical resignation —unheard of in a teenage context in Buddy was 22 and a half when he recorded this, and when he died.
But for me, the stories and the loss and the legend are of secondary importance. Tags: acoustic , apartment tapes , Buddy Holly , Learning the Game. Bob Dylan turned 22 on May 24,
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