Buddy Holly

INCLUDES 10 BONUS TRACKS

This collector’s release contains Buddy Holly’s magnificent but lesserknown third album, That’ll Be the Day, originally released by the Decca label in 1958. This CD contains 11 songs which were recorded in 1956 (including the original and slower version of the title track), before Holly signed with the Brunswick label. In addition to the original masterpiece, this remastered release also contains 10 bonus tracks, among them the 1957 version of “That’ll Be the Day,” as well as hard to find recordings from the same period.

PERSONNEL:

BUDDY HOLLY, lead vocals and guitar on all tracks, plus:
Grady Martin, Harold Bradley, or Sonny Curtis (guitar),
Don Guess (bass), Floyd Cramer (piano), Jerry Allison (drums),
Elbert R. “Dutch” McMillan (alto saxophone), among others.

Recorded in Nashville, in 1956.

INCLUDES 16-PAGE BOOKLET

TRACKS:

01. You Are My One Desire
02. Blue Days – Black Nights
03. Modern Don Juan
04. Rock Around with Ollie Vee
05. Ting-A-Ling
06. Girl on My Mind
07. That’ll Be the Day — first version (1956)
08. Love Me
09. I’m Changing All Those Changes
10. Don’t Come Back Knockin’
11. Midnight Shift
BONUS TRACKS
12. Take Your Time
13. Early in the Morning
14. Think it Over
15. Learning the Game
16. It’s So Easy
17. Rock Me Baby
18. Now We’re One
19. Real Wild Child - lead vocal by Jerry Allison
20. Rock Around with Ollie Vee (alternate take)
21. That’ll Be the Day - 1957 version

TOTAL TIME: 46:23