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Universal's 2009 triple-disc set Memorial Collection and its two-CD companion, Down the Line: Rarities, effectively act as a substitution for a reissue of the six-LP 1979 box The Complete Buddy Holly, long a holy grail item among rock & roll fanatics. That set never materialized on CD for various legal and logistical reasons, so bootleggers stepped into the void, assembling a ten-disc set that went far beyond the original vinyl box, and then as the original recordings crept into public domain in Europe, year-by-year chronicles started to pop up over there. These satisfied the needs of completists in a way Universal's twin 2009 CD sets may never, as there are too many missing alternate takes, apartment tapes, and demos -- not to mention live cuts, which are virtually absent -- but for hardcore fans who are less obsessive, these two releases are far easier to absorb than the bootleg, which gets weighed down in historical minutia that obscure the big picture.
The big picture is what the 60-track Memorial Collection is all about: it's the master takes, including all the hit singles, bookended by rare recordings. At the front, it's three tracks from Holly's country/rockabilly duets with Bob Montgomery (one of which, "Soft Place in My Heart," also shows up on Down the Line); at the back, it's the guitar-and-vocal solo recordings Buddy cut at his New York City home in late 1958/early 1959, recordings that are dubbed "the Apartment Tapes" among fans. Here too there are some duplicates with Down the Line -- "Peggy Sue Got Married," "That Makes It Tough," "Learning the Game," "Dearest," "Crying, Waiting, Hoping," and "Smokey Joe's Café" show up in both places -- but again, the attraction of Memorial Collection is that it places all this music in context, so it's possible to hear Holly's development from a second half in a high lonesome close harmony duo to a hiccupping rockabilly cat enraptured by Elvis Presley to a rocker who synthesized Elvis and Chuck Berry, turning into a wildly inventive songwriter and record-maker whose legacy remains one of the greatest of American music in the 20th century.
Memorial Collection divides into three easy-to-digest parts: the first disc has Holly's earliest, wildest rock & roll, the second captures the Crickets in full flight, the third has his poppiest material. The earliest recordings on the first disc are enjoyably rough, but it's not until a July 22, 1956, session highlighted by "Rock Around with Ollie Vee" that Holly finally finds his voice. From there, the progression is startling: a few months later he cut "That'll Be the Day" and "I'm Looking for Someone to Love" at the same session, and a few months after that "Words of Love" ushered in a new sense of melodic delicacy and studio experimentation. "Words of Love" contained overdubbed harmonies -- one of the first, possibly the first example of this technique -- so it's the most explicit example of how Holly's singles sounded different, but after his earliest rock & roll his records were filled with subtle, interesting sonic textures deriving equally from arrangements and engineering. Because of its length, Memorial Collection reveals these details in a way single-disc hits compilations don't and it has a better flow than the previous standard-bearer for Holly CDs, the 1993 two-CD The Buddy Holly Collection, so it's not just educational, it's entertaining, too -- and that's especially true with all the alternate takes and rarities relegated to Down the Line, which fills in the details for scholars and obsessives, leaving this set for the serious listeners who want to delve into the richness of Holly's legacy without bothering with the loose ends and ephemera.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
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Buddy Holly, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Norman Petty, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Sonny Curtis, Fiddle, AssociatedPerformer - Bob Montgomery, Guitar, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Don Guess, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - The Fireballs, Unknown, Other
℗ 1995 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Buddy Holly, MainArtist - Norman Petty, Producer - Sonny Curtis, Fiddle, AssociatedPerformer - Bob Montgomery, Guitar, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Don Guess, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - The Fireballs, Unknown, Other
℗ 2008 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Buddy Holly, MainArtist - Norman Petty, Producer - Bob Montgomery, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2008 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Grady Martin, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Buddy Holly, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sonny Curtis, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Owen Bradley, Producer - Earl Bud Lee, ComposerLyricist - Jimmie Rogers Ainsworth, ComposerLyricist - Don Guess, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Doug Kirkham, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1958 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Grady Martin, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Buddy Holly, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Sonny Curtis, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Owen Bradley, Producer - Don Guess, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Faris Coursey, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Sue Parrish, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1956 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Grady Martin, Participant - Buddy Holly, Participant, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Sonny Curtis, Participant - Owen Bradley, Producer - Don Guess, Participant - Faris Coursey, Participant - Sue Parrish, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1975 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Grady Martin, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Buddy Holly, Guitar, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sonny Curtis, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Owen Bradley, Producer - Ben Hall, ComposerLyricist - Don Guess, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Faris Coursey, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1956 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Buddy Holly, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Norman Petty, Producer - Jerry Allison, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Sonny Curtis, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Don Guess, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1983 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Buddy Holly, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Norman Petty, Producer - Jerry Allison, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Sonny Curtis, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Don Guess, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1983 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Buddy Holly, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Norman Petty, Producer - Jerry Allison, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Sonny Curtis, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Don Guess, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1983 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Buddy Holly, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Norman Petty, Producer
℗ 1983 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Buddy Holly, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jerry Allison, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Sonny Curtis, ComposerLyricist - Bob Montgomery, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Owen Bradley, Producer - Don Guess, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1957 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Buddy Holly, Guitar, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jerry Allison, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Sonny Curtis, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Owen Bradley, Producer - Don Guess, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1958 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Buddy Holly, MainArtist - AHMET ERTEGUN, ComposerLyricist - Jerry Allison, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Sonny Curtis, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Owen Bradley, Producer - Don Guess, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1958 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Boots Randolph, Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Grady Martin, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Buddy Holly, MainArtist - Owen Bradley, Producer - Don Guess, ComposerLyricist - Jack Neil, ComposerLyricist - Faris Coursey, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1956 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Buddy Holly, MainArtist - Norman Petty, Producer - Jerry Allison, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Ella Holley, ComposerLyricist - The Fireballs, Unknown, Other
℗ 2008 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Buddy Holly, MainArtist - Norman Petty, Producer - Jerry Allison, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Chuck Berry, ComposerLyricist - Sonny Curtis, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Joe B Mauldin, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Don Guess, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1983 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Niki Sullivan, Guitar, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Buddy Holly, Guitar, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Norman Petty, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Jerry Allison, Drums, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - The Crickets, MainArtist - Larry Welborn, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Gary Tollett, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Ramona Tollett, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1959 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Niki Sullivan, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Buddy Holly, Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Norman Petty, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Buddy Holly & The Crickets, MainArtist - Jerry Allison, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - June Clark, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Larry Welborn, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Gary Tollet, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Romana Tollet, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1957 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Ruth Roberts, ComposerLyricist - Buddy Holly, Guitar, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Norman Petty, Producer - Jerry Allison, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Bill Katz, ComposerLyricist - S. Clayton, ComposerLyricist - Joe B Mauldin, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Vi Petty, Celesta, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1957 UMG Recordings, Inc.
DISC 2
Buddy Holly, Guitar, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Norman Petty, Producer - Jerry Allison, Drums, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Joe B Mauldin, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1957 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Niki Sullivan, Guitar, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Buddy Holly, Guitar, Vocals, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Norman Petty, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Buddy Holly & The Crickets, MainArtist - Jerry Allison, Percussion, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Joe B Mauldin, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1957 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Buddy Holly, Guitar, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Norman Petty, Producer, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Jerry Allison, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - The Crickets, MainArtist - Joe B Mauldin, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1959 UMG Recordings, Inc.
John S. Marascalco, ComposerLyricist - Niki Sullivan, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Buddy Holly, Guitar, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Norman Petty, Producer - Jerry Allison, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Joe B Mauldin, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Vi Petty, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Alexander Robert Blackwell, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1958 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Niki Sullivan, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Buddy Holly, Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Norman Petty, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Buddy Holly & The Crickets, MainArtist - Jerry Allison, Drums, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Joe B Mauldin, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - The Picks, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1957 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Sonny West, ComposerLyricist - Niki Sullivan, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Buddy Holly, Guitar, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Norman Petty, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Jerry Allison, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - The Crickets, MainArtist - Bill Tilghman, ComposerLyricist - Joe B Mauldin, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - The Picks, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1959 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Buddy Holly, Guitar, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Norman Petty, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Jerry Allison, Drums, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Joe B Mauldin, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1958 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Buddy Holly, Guitar, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Norman Petty, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Jerry Allison, Drums, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - The Crickets, MainArtist - Joe B Mauldin, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1959 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Niki Sullivan, ComposerLyricist - Buddy Holly, Guitar, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Norman Petty, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Jerry Allison, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Joe B Mauldin, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1958 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Buddy Holly, Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Norman Petty, Producer - Chuck Willis, ComposerLyricist - Buddy Holly & The Crickets, MainArtist - Jerry Allison, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Joe B Mauldin, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - The Picks, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1957 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Buddy Holly, Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Norman Petty, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Buddy Holly & The Crickets, MainArtist - Jerry Allison, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Joe B Mauldin, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - The Picks, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1957 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Johnny Wilson, ComposerLyricist - Niki Sullivan, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Buddy Holly, Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Norman Petty, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Buddy Holly & The Crickets, MainArtist - Jerry Allison, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - ROY ORBISON, ComposerLyricist - Joe B Mauldin, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - The Picks, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1957 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Niki Sullivan, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Buddy Holly, Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Norman Petty, Producer - Buddy Holly & The Crickets, MainArtist - Jerry Allison, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Joe B Mauldin, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Susan Heather, ComposerLyricist - Shorty Long, ComposerLyricist - The Picks, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1957 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Buddy Holly, Guitar, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Norman Petty, Producer, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Jerry Allison, Drums, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Joe B Mauldin, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Vi Petty, Piano, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1958 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Buddy Holly, Guitar, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Norman Petty, Producer - Jerry Leiber, ComposerLyricist - Mike Stoller, ComposerLyricist - Jerry Allison, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Joe B Mauldin, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1958 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Buddy Holly, Guitar, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Norman Petty, Producer, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Unknown, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Jerry Allison, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Joe B Mauldin, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Arthur Kendall, ComposerLyricist - C.W. Kendall, Piano, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1958 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Sonny West, ComposerLyricist - Buddy Holly, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Norman Petty, Producer, Piano, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Al Caiola, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Jerry Allison, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - The Crickets, MainArtist - Bob Thiele, Producer - Bill Tilghman, ComposerLyricist - Joe B Mauldin, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Robert Harter, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Donald Armone, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - William Marine, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Robert Bollinger, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Merril Ostrus, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Abby Hoffer, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1959 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Buddy Holly, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Norman Petty, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Jerry Allison, Drums, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Joe B Mauldin, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1958 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Buddy Holly, Guitar, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Norman Petty, Producer, Organ, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Jerry Allison, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Joe B Mauldin, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1958 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Niki Sullivan, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Horace Linsley, ComposerLyricist - Buddy Holly, Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Norman Petty, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Buddy Holly & The Crickets, MainArtist - Jerry Allison, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Joe B Mauldin, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Sonny Leglaire, ComposerLyricist - The Roses, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Vi Petty, Piano, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1958 UMG Recordings, Inc.
DISC 3
Buddy Holly, Guitar, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Norman Petty, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Jerry Allison, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - The Crickets, MainArtist - Charles Hardin, ComposerLyricist - Joe B Mauldin, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - The Roses, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Vi Petty, Piano, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1959 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Buddy Holly, Guitar, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Norman Petty, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Jerry Allison, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - The Crickets, MainArtist - Bob Montgomery, ComposerLyricist - Tommy Allsup, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - George Atwood, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1959 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Buddy Holly, Guitar, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Norman Petty, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Jerry Allison, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - The Crickets, MainArtist - Joe B Mauldin, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Tommy Allsup, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - The Roses, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1959 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Buddy Holly, Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Norman Petty, Producer - Buddy Holly & The Crickets, MainArtist - Jerry Allison, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Joe B Mauldin, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Tommy Allsup, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - The Roses, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1958 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Buddy Holly, ComposerLyricist - Norman Petty, Producer - The Crickets, MainArtist - Bob Montgomery, ComposerLyricist - Tommy Allsup, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - George Atwood, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Bo Clarke, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1959 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Buddy Holly, Guitar, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Norman Petty, Producer - Bob Montgomery, ComposerLyricist - Tommy Allsup, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - George Atwood, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Bo Clarke, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1963 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Buddy Holly, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - George Barnes, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Bobby Darin, ComposerLyricist - Panama Francis, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Sam Taylor, Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - The Crickets, MainArtist - Woody Harris, ComposerLyricist - Phillip Kraus, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Dick Jacobs, Producer - Al Chernet, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Ernest Hayes, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Sanford Bloch, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Helen Way Singers, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1959 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Buddy Holly, Guitar, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Unknown, Bass Guitar, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Bobby Darin, ComposerLyricist - Panama Francis, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Dick Jacobs, Producer - Sam (The Man) Taylor and His Orchestra, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Helen Way Singers, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1958 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Buddy Holly, Guitar, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Norman Petty, Producer - King Curtis, Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Jerry Allison, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Joe B Mauldin, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1962 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Paul Winter, Violin, AssociatedPerformer - Buddy Holly, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Norman Petty, ComposerLyricist - Al Caiola, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Dick Jacobs, Conductor, Producer - Ernest Hayes, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Leo Kruczek, Violin, AssociatedPerformer - Irving Spice, Violin, AssociatedPerformer - Julius Held, Violin, AssociatedPerformer - Abraham Richman, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Leonard Posner, Violin, AssociatedPerformer - Sanford Bloch, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Clifford Leman, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Ray Free, Violin, AssociatedPerformer - Doris Johnson, Harp, AssociatedPerformer - Sylvia Shulman, Violin, AssociatedPerformer - Herbert Bourne, Violin, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1960 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Albumbeschreibung
Universal's 2009 triple-disc set Memorial Collection and its two-CD companion, Down the Line: Rarities, effectively act as a substitution for a reissue of the six-LP 1979 box The Complete Buddy Holly, long a holy grail item among rock & roll fanatics. That set never materialized on CD for various legal and logistical reasons, so bootleggers stepped into the void, assembling a ten-disc set that went far beyond the original vinyl box, and then as the original recordings crept into public domain in Europe, year-by-year chronicles started to pop up over there. These satisfied the needs of completists in a way Universal's twin 2009 CD sets may never, as there are too many missing alternate takes, apartment tapes, and demos -- not to mention live cuts, which are virtually absent -- but for hardcore fans who are less obsessive, these two releases are far easier to absorb than the bootleg, which gets weighed down in historical minutia that obscure the big picture.
The big picture is what the 60-track Memorial Collection is all about: it's the master takes, including all the hit singles, bookended by rare recordings. At the front, it's three tracks from Holly's country/rockabilly duets with Bob Montgomery (one of which, "Soft Place in My Heart," also shows up on Down the Line); at the back, it's the guitar-and-vocal solo recordings Buddy cut at his New York City home in late 1958/early 1959, recordings that are dubbed "the Apartment Tapes" among fans. Here too there are some duplicates with Down the Line -- "Peggy Sue Got Married," "That Makes It Tough," "Learning the Game," "Dearest," "Crying, Waiting, Hoping," and "Smokey Joe's Café" show up in both places -- but again, the attraction of Memorial Collection is that it places all this music in context, so it's possible to hear Holly's development from a second half in a high lonesome close harmony duo to a hiccupping rockabilly cat enraptured by Elvis Presley to a rocker who synthesized Elvis and Chuck Berry, turning into a wildly inventive songwriter and record-maker whose legacy remains one of the greatest of American music in the 20th century.
Memorial Collection divides into three easy-to-digest parts: the first disc has Holly's earliest, wildest rock & roll, the second captures the Crickets in full flight, the third has his poppiest material. The earliest recordings on the first disc are enjoyably rough, but it's not until a July 22, 1956, session highlighted by "Rock Around with Ollie Vee" that Holly finally finds his voice. From there, the progression is startling: a few months later he cut "That'll Be the Day" and "I'm Looking for Someone to Love" at the same session, and a few months after that "Words of Love" ushered in a new sense of melodic delicacy and studio experimentation. "Words of Love" contained overdubbed harmonies -- one of the first, possibly the first example of this technique -- so it's the most explicit example of how Holly's singles sounded different, but after his earliest rock & roll his records were filled with subtle, interesting sonic textures deriving equally from arrangements and engineering. Because of its length, Memorial Collection reveals these details in a way single-disc hits compilations don't and it has a better flow than the previous standard-bearer for Holly CDs, the 1993 two-CD The Buddy Holly Collection, so it's not just educational, it's entertaining, too -- and that's especially true with all the alternate takes and rarities relegated to Down the Line, which fills in the details for scholars and obsessives, leaving this set for the serious listeners who want to delve into the richness of Holly's legacy without bothering with the loose ends and ephemera.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
Informationen zu dem Album
- 3 Disc(s) - 60 Track(s)
- Gesamte Laufzeit: 02:04:25
- Künstler: Buddy Holly
- Komponist: Various Composers
- Label: Geffen
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock
© 2009 UMG Recordings, Inc. This Compilation ℗ 2009 UMG Recordings, Inc.
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