Buddy Holly discography
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This article serves as a discography
for Buddy Holly
. Holly recorded under several names, and with several different backing bands. The key for the Artist Credit below is as follows: Buddy Holly (BH); The Crickets (C); Buddy Holly & The Crickets (BH+C); Buddy Holly & The Three Tunes (BH+TTT)
The Crickets
played on almost all of Holly's singles from 1957 to 1958.
Though Holly was killed in a plane crash on February 3, 1959, he had recorded prolifically during his lifetime, and many singles and albums of his material were released posthumously, beginning with "It Doesn't Matter Anymore" in 1959.
Please note that there are too many compilation album
s by Buddy Holly to list all of them.
The Crickets
played on almost all of Holly's singles from 1957 to 1958.
and the Crickets' "Someday (When I'm Gone From You)" was released in 1962, and charted for a single week at #99.
Discography
Discography is the study and listing of the details concerning sound recordings, often by specified artists or within identified musical genres...
for Buddy Holly
Buddy Holly
Charles Hardin Holley , known professionally as Buddy Holly, was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll...
. Holly recorded under several names, and with several different backing bands. The key for the Artist Credit below is as follows: Buddy Holly (BH); The Crickets (C); Buddy Holly & The Crickets (BH+C); Buddy Holly & The Three Tunes (BH+TTT)
The Crickets
The Crickets
The Crickets are a rock & roll band from Lubbock, Texas, formed by singer/songwriter Buddy Holly in the 1950s. Their first hit record was "That'll Be the Day", released in 1957....
played on almost all of Holly's singles from 1957 to 1958.
Though Holly was killed in a plane crash on February 3, 1959, he had recorded prolifically during his lifetime, and many singles and albums of his material were released posthumously, beginning with "It Doesn't Matter Anymore" in 1959.
Please note that there are too many compilation album
Compilation album
A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...
s by Buddy Holly to list all of them.
Studio albums
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| UK UK Albums Chart The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart... |
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| The "Chirping" Crickets | C |
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| Buddy Holly Buddy Holly (album) Buddy Holly is Buddy Holly's second album, released in February 1958. Approximately one year later, Holly was killed in a plane crash. It contains one of Holly's best known songs, "Peggy Sue".-Track listing:#"I'm Gonna Love You Too" Buddy Holly is Buddy Holly's second album, released in February... |
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Coral Records Coral Records was a Decca Records subsidiary formed in 1949. It recorded pop artists McGuire Sisters and Teresa Brewer, as well as rock and roller Buddy Holly.... (CRL 57210) |
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| That'll Be the Day That'll Be the Day (album) That’ll Be The Day is the third album from American rock and roll icon Buddy Holly. Decca, Holly’s first major record label, after failing to produce a hit single from Holly’s early recordings, packaged these 1956 tunes after he had some success with recordings from the Brunswick and Coral labels,... |
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Decca Records Decca Records began as a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis. Its U.S. label was established in late 1934; however, owing to World War II, the link with the British company was broken for several decades.... (DL 8707) |
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Compilation albums
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| US Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists... |
NZ Recording Industry Association of New Zealand The Recording Industry Association of New Zealand is a non-profit trade association of record producers, distributors and recording artists who sell music in New Zealand... |
UK UK Albums Chart The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart... |
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| The Buddy Holly Story The Buddy Holly Story (album) The Buddy Holly Story is the first posthumously released compilation album by American rock and roll musician Buddy Holly. The album was released on February 28, 1959 by the Coral record label less than a month after his death.... |
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| The Buddy Holly Story, Vol. 2 The Buddy Holly Story, Vol. 2 The Buddy Holly Story, Vol. 2 is the fifth album released by Buddy Holly, a sequel compilation to The Buddy Holly Story . The second album to be released posthumously, it is also the first of a series of Buddy Holly albums to feature overdubbing of unfinished tracks, including Holly's last... |
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| Reminiscing Reminiscing (Buddy Holly album) Reminiscing is a compilation album by American rock and roll icon Buddy Holly. The album was released as an LP record in both mono and stereo formats in February 1963 .... |
Stereophonic sound The term Stereophonic, commonly called stereo, sound refers to any method of sound reproduction in which an attempt is made to create an illusion of directionality and audible perspective... LP |
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| Showcase |
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| Holly in the Hills |
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| The Best of Buddy Holly |
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| Buddy Holly's Greatest Hits |
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| Giant |
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| Buddy Holly: A Rock & Roll Collection Buddy Holly: A Rock & Roll Collection Buddy Holly: A Rock & Roll Collection is a two-disc compilation album of songs by Buddy Holly.-Tracks:Disc 1#Rave On#Tell Me How#Peggy Sue Got Married#Slippin' And Slidin'#Oh Boy!#Not Fade Away#Bo Diddley#What to Do#Heartbeat#Well..... |
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| 20 Golden Greats 20 Golden Greats 20 Golden Greats is a greatest hits album by American Buddy Holly & the Crickets first released in the United Kingdom by EMI on February 17, 1978. The songs on the UK release were licensed to EMI by MCA Records, who released the album in North America... |
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EMI Records EMI Records is the flagship record label founded by the EMI company in 1972 and launched in January 1973 as the successor to its Columbia label. The EMI label was launched worldwide... (EMTV 8) |
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| The Complete Buddy Holly | BH |
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| Love Songs |
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| The Great Buddy Holly The Great Buddy Holly The Great Buddy Holly is a compilation album of songs by Buddy Holly.-Tracks:#You Are My Desire#Blue Days-Black Night#Modern Don Juan#Rock Around with Ollie Vee#Girl on My Mind#That'll Be the Day#Love Me#I'm Changing All Those Changes... |
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| For the First Time Anywhere |
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| From the Original Master Tapes |
Compact Disc The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,... |
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| True Love Ways |
Telstar Records Telstar Records was a record label founded in 1982 by Sean O'Brien and Neil Palmer with a government loan of £120,000. It was founded as a specialist compilation marketing label and had hits with a range of compilation franchises such as the Deep Heat, Kaos Theory and 100% ranges... (STAR 2339) |
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| Words of Love | BH+C |
PolyGram PolyGram was the name of the major label recording company started by Philips from as a holding company for its music interests in 1945. In 1999 it was sold to Seagram and merged into Universal Music Group.-Hollandsche Decca Distributie , 1929-1950:... (TV 5144872) |
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| Greatest Hits Greatest Hits (Buddy Holly album) Greatest Hits by Buddy Holly is a collection released in 1996 by MCA records. The songs were taken from Holly's three original albums, The "Chirping" Crickets, Buddy Holly and That'll Be the Day... |
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| The Very Best of Buddy Holly |
Dino Entertainment Dino Entertainment was a firm specializing in the compilation market of the late 1980s and early 1990s, releasing records such as the That Loving Feeling and Energy Rush range of CDs, in competition with Telstar Records, Stylus and K-Tel.... (DINCD 133) |
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| The Very Best of Buddy Holly & the Crickets | BH+C |
Compact Cassette The Compact Cassette, often referred to as audio cassette, cassette tape, cassette, or simply tape, is a magnetic tape sound recording format. It was designed originally for dictation, but improvements in fidelity led the Compact Cassette to supplant the Stereo 8-track cartridge and reel-to-reel... |
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| Not Fade Away | BH |
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| Down the Line: Rarities Down the Line: Rarities Down the Line: Rarities is a 2009 compilation album of American singer–songwriter and rock and roll pioneer Buddy Holly's alternate takes and demos, including the original undubbed "garage tapes" with The Crickets and the "Apartment Tapes" recorded in the months before his death... |
Geffen Records Geffen Records is an American record label, owned by Universal Music Group, and operated as one third of UMG's Interscope-Geffen-A&M label group.-Beginnings:... (B0011675-02) Double album A double album is an audio album which spans two units of the primary medium in which it is sold, typically records and compact discs.... CD |
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Singles
Buddy Holly released singles under several names, and with several different backing bands. The key for the Artist Credit below is as follows: The Crickets (C); Buddy Holly (BH); Buddy Holly & The Crickets (BH+C)The Crickets
The Crickets
The Crickets are a rock & roll band from Lubbock, Texas, formed by singer/songwriter Buddy Holly in the 1950s. Their first hit record was "That'll Be the Day", released in 1957....
played on almost all of Holly's singles from 1957 to 1958.
| Year | Title | Artist Credit | Chart positions | ||
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| US Hot Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday... |
US R&B Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, is a chart released weekly by Billboard in the United States.The chart, initiated in 1942, is used to track the success of popular music songs in urban, or primarily African American, venues. Dominated over the years at various times by jazz, rhythm and blues, doo-wop, soul,... |
UK UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ... |
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| 1956 | "Blue Days, Black Nights" | BH | — | — | — |
| "Modern Don Juan" | — | — | — | ||
| 1957 | "That'll Be the Day That'll Be the Day "That'll Be the Day" is a song written by Buddy Holly and Jerry Allison and recorded by various artists including The Crickets and Linda Ronstadt. It was also the first song to be recorded by The Quarrymen, the skiffle group that subsequently became The Beatles... " |
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| "Words of Love Words of Love "Words of Love" is a song written by Buddy Holly and recorded by him on April 8, 1957. Holly harmonized for himself, by tape-recording each part and combining them. The song was not a notable hit for Holly, although it is regarded as one of his important recordings, and is available in most... " |
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| "Rock Around with Ollie Vee" | — | — | — | ||
| "Peggy Sue" (B side = "Everyday Everyday (Buddy Holly song) "Everyday" is a song written by Buddy Holly and Norman Petty, recorded by Buddy Holly and the Crickets on May 29, 1957 and released on September 20, 1957 as the B-side to "Peggy Sue". On the original single the Crickets are not mentioned, but it is known that Holly plays acoustic guitar; drummer... ") |
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| "Oh Boy! Oh, Boy! (song) "Oh, Boy!" is a song originally performed by Buddy Holly's band The Crickets. It was written by Sonny West and Bill Tilghman; the band's manager Norman Petty added his name as co-composer. The song was recorded between June 29 and July 1, 1957, at Petty Studios in Clovis, New Mexico, with Holly... " |
C | 10 | 15 | 3 | |
| 1958 | "Love Me Love Me Love Me may refer to:*"Love Me" , a 1954 song by Leiber and Stoller, made popular by Elvis Presley*"Love Me" , a song by the Bee Gees, made popular by Yvonne Elliman in 1976... " |
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| "I'm Gonna Love You Too I'm Gonna Love You Too "I'm Gonna Love You Too" is a song written by Joe B. Mauldin, Niki Sullivan and Norman Petty, originally recorded by Buddy Holly in 1957. It was recorded 20 years later by American New Wave band Blondie and released as the first single from their multi-platinum 1978 album Parallel Lines.-Song... " |
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| "Maybe Baby Maybe Baby (song) "Maybe Baby" was originally recorded by The Crickets in 1957. It was written by Norman Petty and Buddy Holly and reached 17th in the US charts but 4th in the UK charts - see Buddy Holly discography... " |
C | 17 | 8 | 4 | |
| "Rave On Rave On "Rave On" is a 1958 song written by Sonny West, Bill Tilghman and Norman Petty, first recorded by Sonny West . It was also recorded by Buddy Holly, and was one of his last hits during his lifetime... " |
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| "Think It Over" | C | 27 | 9 | 11 | |
| "Girl On My Mind" | BH | — | — | — | |
| "Early in the Morning Early in the Morning (Bobby Darin song) "Early in the Morning" is a song written by Bobby Darin and Woody Harris. It was released as single in 1958, and covered by Buddy Holly the same year.... " |
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| "It’s So Easy" | C | — | — | — | |
| "Heartbeat Heartbeat (Buddy Holly song) "Heartbeat" is a rockabilly song written by Bob Montgomery and Norman Petty and recorded originally by Buddy Holly in 1958. The B side of the single was "Well..... " |
BH | 82 | 4 | 30 | |
| 1959 | "It Doesn't Matter Anymore It Doesn't Matter Anymore "It Doesn't Matter Anymore" is a pop ballad written by Paul Anka and recorded by Buddy Holly in 1958. The song reached #13 as a posthumous hit on the Billboard Hot 100 charts in early 1959 shortly after Holly was killed in a plane crash on February 3, 1959. The single was a two-sided hit, backed... " |
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| "Peggy Sue Got Married Peggy Sue Got Married (song) "Peggy Sue Got Married" is a song written and sung by Buddy Holly. It was released in 1959 as a 45-rpm single with "Crying, Waiting, Hoping". It refers to his song hit "Peggy Sue". It was one of the first sequels of the rock era... " |
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| 1960 | "True Love Ways True Love Ways "True Love Ways" is a song co-written by Buddy Holly and Norman Petty and recorded with the Ray Ellis orchestra in October 1958, four months before the singer's death. It was first released on the posthumous "The Buddy Holly Story, Vol. 2"... " |
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| 1962 | "Reminiscing" | 68 | — | 17 | |
| 1963 | "Brown Eyed Handsome Man Brown Eyed Handsome Man "Brown Eyed Handsome Man" is a rock and roll song by Chuck Berry, which was originally released by Chess Records in September 1956 as the B-side to "Too Much Monkey Business". It was also included on Berry's 1957 debut album After School Session... " |
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| "Bo Diddley Bo Diddley (song) "Bo Diddley" is a rhythm and blues song first recorded and sung by Bo Diddley at the Universal Recording Studio in Chicago and released on the Chess Records subsidiary, Checker Records in 1955. It became an immediate hit single that stayed on the R&B charts for a total of 18 weeks, 2 of those weeks... " |
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| 1965 | "What to Do" | — | — | — | |
| 1969 | "Love is Strange Love Is Strange "Love Is Strange" was a crossover hit by American rhythm and blues duet Mickey & Sylvia, which was released in late November 1956 by the Groove record label.The song was based on a guitar riff by Jody Williams. The co-writers of the song are of some dispute... " |
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- 1.Denotes a release that charted on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 SinglesBubbling Under Hot 100 SinglesThe Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States. It lists the top 25 singles below number 100 that have not yet charted on the Billboard Hot 100. Sometimes, however, singles halt their progress on this chart, and never appear on the Hot 100...
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Guest appearance
Buddy Holly also played lead guitar on "Real Wild Child" by Ivan; "Ivan" was a pseudonym for the Crickets' drummer, Jerry Allison. The 1958 single reached #68 on the U.S. chart. Bobby VeeBobby Vee
Robert Thomas Velline , known as Bobby Vee, is an American pop music singer. According to Billboard magazine, Vee has had 38 Hot 100 chart hits, 10 of which hit the Top 20.-Career:...
and the Crickets' "Someday (When I'm Gone From You)" was released in 1962, and charted for a single week at #99.