Celebrating Buddy Holly's 90th Birthday - Buddy Holly - The Stereo Versions

 Charles Hardin Holley (September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959), known professionally by his stage name Buddy Holly, was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist who was a central and pioneering figure of rock and roll. He was born to a musical family in Lubbock, Texas, during the Great Depression, and learned to play guitar and sing alongside his two siblings.

Holly made his first appearance on local television in 1952, and the following year he formed the group Buddy and Bob with his friend Bob Montgomery. In 1955, after opening once for Elvis Presley, Holly decided to pursue a music career. He played with Presley three times that year, and his band's style shifted from country and western to rock and roll. In October that year, when Holly opened for Bill Haley & His Comets, he was spotted by Nashville scout Eddie Crandall, who helped him get a contract with Decca Records.

Holly's recording sessions at Decca were produced by Owen Bradley, who had become famous for producing orchestrated country hits for stars like Patsy Cline. Unhappy with Bradley's musical style and control in the studio, Holly went to producer Norman Petty in Clovis, New Mexico, and recorded a demo of "That'll Be the Day", among other songs. Petty became the band's manager and sent the demo to Brunswick Records, which released it as a single credited to the Crickets, a name chosen by the band to subvert Decca's contract limitations. In September 1957, as the band toured, "That'll Be the Day" topped the US and UK singles charts. Its success was followed in October by another major hit, "Peggy Sue".

The album The "Chirping" Crickets, released in November 1957, reached number five on the UK Albums Chart. Holly made his second appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show in January 1958 and soon after toured Australia and then the UK. In early 1959, he assembled a new band, consisting of Waylon Jennings (bass), Tommy Allsup (guitar), and Carl Bunch (drums), and embarked on a tour of the midwestern US. After a show in Clear Lake, Iowa, Holly chartered an airplane to travel to his next show in Moorhead, Minnesota. Soon after takeoff, the plane crashed, killing Holly, Ritchie Valens, the Big Bopper, and pilot Roger Peterson in a crash later referred to by Don McLean as "The Day the Music Died" in his song "American Pie".

During his short career, Holly wrote and recorded many songs. He is often regarded as the artist who defined the traditional rock-and-roll line-up of two guitars, bass, and drums. Holly was a major influence on later popular music artists, including Bob Dylan, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, the Hollies, Elvis Costello, and Elton John. Holly was among the first artists inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, in 1986. Rolling Stone magazine ranked him number 13 in its list of 100 Greatest Artists in 2010.

This is a 35 track compilation of stereo remixes of his rock and roll, rockabilly and country recordings.

1 Brown Eyed Handsome Man - Buddy Holly

2 Bo Diddley - Buddy Holly

3 Baby Won't You Come Out Tonight? - Buddy Holly

4 Wait Till The Sun Shines Nellie - Buddy Holly

5 Reminiscing - Buddy Holly

6 It Doesn't Matter Any More - Buddy Holly

7 I'm Gonna Set My Foot Down - Buddy Holly

8 Rock-A-Bye Rock - Buddy Holly

9 It's Not My Fault - Buddy Holly

10 Because I Love You - Buddy Holly

11 Learning The Game - Buddy Holly

12 What To Do - Buddy Holly

13 True Love Ways - Buddy Holly

14 Ummm, Oh Yeah (Dearest) - Buddy Holly

15 That's What They Say - Buddy Holly

16 Peggy Sue Got Married - Buddy Holly

17 Slippin' And Slidin' - Buddy Holly

18 Smokey Joe's Cafe - Buddy Holly

19 Have You Ever Been Lonely - Buddy Holly

20 Gone - Buddy Holly

21 Changing All Those Changes - Buddy Holly

22 Good Rockin' Tonight - Buddy Holly

23 Ain't Got No Home - Buddy Holly

24 Blue Monday - Buddy Holly

25 Rip It Up - Buddy Holly

26 Blue Suede Shoes - Buddy Holly

27 Shake, Rattle And Roll - Buddy Holly

28 You're The One - Buddy Holly

29 Love Is Strange - Buddy Holly

30 Raining In My Heart - Buddy Holly

31 Moondreams - Buddy Holly

32 That Makes It Tough - Buddy Holly

33 Crying, Waiting, Hoping - Buddy Holly

34 Honky Tonk - Buddy Holly

35 Holly Hop - Buddy Holly

Buddy Holly - The Stereo Versions

Janis Martin – The Female Elvis: Complete Recordings 1956-60

 

Janis Darlene Martin (March 27, 1940 – September 3, 2007) was an American rockabilly and country music singer. She was one of the few women working in the male-dominated rock and roll music field during the 1950s and one of country music's early female innovators. Martin was nicknamed the Female Elvis for her dance moves on stage, similar to those of Elvis Presley.

Before she was six, Martin was already singing and playing the guitar, inspired by Eddy Arnold and Hank Williams. Over the years, this resulted in statewide contests with over 200 contestants, which she won. As a result, Janis was asked to play on the same bill as Cowboy Copas and Sunshine Sue. When she was in her mid-teens, she was appearing with country singers including Arnold, Hank Snow, The Browns and Jim Reeves. She soon claimed she was tired of country music and began a rock and roll career.

At age 15, Martin signed with RCA Victor in March 1956, just two months after Elvis Presley joined the label. She recorded "Will You Willyum" on March 8, 1956, backed by her own composition "Drugstore Rock 'n Roll".

The song became the biggest hit of her career, selling 750,000 records. Soon Martin was performing on American Bandstand, The Today Show and Tonight Starring Steve Allen. She also appeared on Jubilee USA, and the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee, becoming one of the younger performers to ever appear. Billboard named her Most Promising Female Vocalist that year.

Drugstore Rock 'n' Roll 2:07

Will You, Willyum 1:56

Love And Kisses 2:00

My Boy Elvis 2:09

Cracker Jack 2:06

Bang Bang 1:58

Ooby Dooby 1:48

Barefoot Baby 2:22

Good Love 2:09

Little Bit 2:11

Two Long Years 2:25

All Right, Baby 1:36

Billy Boy, My Billy Boy 2:08

Let's Elope Baby 2:04

Love Me, Love 2:06

Love Me To Pieces 2:07

William 2:07

Here Today And Gone Tomorrow 2:07

Teen Street 1:53

Hard Times Ahead 2:17

Cry Guitar 2:28

Just Squeeze Me (But Don't Tease Me) 1:47

One More Year To Go 2:21

Blues Keep Calling 2:23

Please Be My Love 2:12

I Don't Hurt Anymore 2:06

Half Loved 2:10

My Confession 2:03

I'll Never Be Free 2:01

Love Me, Love (Cha Cha) 2:02

Janis Martin – The Female Elvis

Juke Joint Boogie - Country and Rockabilly Classics

 

1 Johnny Seay– Blue Moon Of Kentucky 1:52

2 Ben Hewitt– Border City Call Girl 2:38

3 Janis Martin – Hard Time Ahead 2:16

4 Benny Barnes– Happy Little Bluebird 2:35

5 Skeets McDonald– Big Family Trouble 2:49

6 Rusty York– The Girl Can't Help It 2:11

7 Tom Tall & Ginny Wright– Boom Boom Boomerang 2:09

8 Tommy Blake– Shake Around (2) 2:23

9 Boots Randolph– Greenback Dollar 2:20

10 Red Foley– Plantation Boogie 2:18

11 Sanford Clark– The Fool ('66) 2:36

12 Dave Rich– Tuggin' On My Heart Strings 2:08

13 Bobby Williamson– A Little Bit Of This 2:13

14 Charline Arthur– I Heard About You 2:10

15 Howard Crockett– If You'll Let Me 2:11

16 Dean Reed– Pistolero 2:09

17 Bonnie Guitar– Mister Fire Eyes (2) 2:24

18 Jimmie Skinner– Born To Be Wild 2:33

19 Glen Glenn– It Rains Rain 2:28

20 Newton Bros*– Rock & Roll Lullabye 1:44

21 Homer & Jethro*– Houn' Dawg (1) 2:00

22 Jack Guthrie– This Troubled Mind Of Mine 2:34

23 Jimmy Work– Crazy Moon 2:34

24 Tommy Collins– Whatcha Gonna Do Now 2:41

25 'Nita, Rita & Ruby– Rock Love 1:59

26 Tibby Edwards– C'es Si Tout 1:49

27 Johnny Bond– All I Can Do Is Cry 1:54

28 Margaret Elliott– This Wallflower's Gonna Bloom 1:44

29 Roy Hall– Don't Stop Now 2:36

30 Freddie Hart– Juke Joint Boogie 2:18

31 Eddie Cletro– First Class Second Hand Woman 2:48

32 Orval Prophet– Goodbye Katie, Bar The Door 2:25

33 Bill Haley– Candy And Women 2:45

 Juke Joint Boogie

Onie Wheeler – Onie's Bop

 

Onie Wheeler (November 10, 1921 – May 26, 1984) was an American country and bluegrass musician.

Wheeler was born in Senath, Missouri, United States, and learned to play guitar and harmonica as a child. After serving in World War II, he started working in radio, appearing on stations in Missouri, Arkansas, Michigan, and Kentucky. In 1950, he formed The Ozark Cowboys, along with Ernest Thompson, A.J. Nelson and Doyle Nelson.

The Ozark Cowboys went to Nashville in 1953 and signed to Columbia Records. Their initial releases were not hits, though Lefty Frizzell took the Wheeler-penned "Run 'Em Off" to the Top Ten of the U.S. country chart.

Wheeler signed as a solo artist to Sun Records in 1957 and went on tour with Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, and Carl Perkins. After a short time living in California, he returned to Nashville and recorded for several more labels in the 1960s. Later, he toured with George Jones in the mid-1960s and later that decade with Roy Acuff.

His biggest success was the 1973 hit "John's Been Shucking My Corn," though the achievements of his daughter Karen would eclipse his own in the decade. He bought a guitar shop in Nashville in the late 1970s, and played at the Grand Ole Opry at times with Acuff.

This collection is his recordings on Columbia and Sun Records

1 Jump Right Out Of This Jukebox

2 Tell 'Em Off

3 I Wanna Hold My Baby

4 Onie's Bop

5 A Booger Gonna Getcha

6 Going Back To The City

7 Long Gone

8 Steppin' Out

9 I'll Love You For A Lifetime

10 A Beggar For Your Love

11 Walkin' Shoes (Take 2)

12 That's All

13 Cut It Out

14 That's What I Like

15 She Wiggled And Giggled

16 I'm Satisfied With My Dreams

17 No, I Don't Guess I Will

18 Would You Like To Wear A Crown?

19 I Saw Mother With God Last Night

20 My Home Is Not A Home At All

21 Little Mama

22 Hazel

23 Closing Time

24 I Tried And I Tried

25 I'll Swear You Don't Love Me

26 Love Me Like You Used To Do

27 When We All Get There

28 Mother Prays Loud In Her Sleep

29 A Million Years In Glory

30 Run 'Em Off

31 Bonaparte's Retreat

Onie's Bop

Let Me Slide - Sage & Sand Vol. 2 - various artists

 

1 Jimmy Patton– Let Me Slide

2 Rusty York– Sadie Mae

3 Joannie King– O.K. Doll

4 Whitey Pullen– Moonshine Liquer

5 Harley Gabbard & Aubrey Holt– Hey Baby

6 Whitey Pullen– Everybody's Rockin'

7 Jimmy Patton– I'm Not Shuckin'

8 Larry Thornton– Honkytonk Queen

9 Doye O'Dell– If The Devil Want To Talk

10 Bobby Lile– Knockin' My Head

11 Jackie DeShannon– Trouble

12 Lonnie Barron– Teenage Queen

13 Casey Clark – Lost John

14 Goldie Fields– Blue Diamonds & Pink Pearls

15 Al Muniz– My Heart's Running Over

16 Whitey Pullen– Tight Slacks

17 Eveleyle Harlene*– I've Got The Blues

18 Whitey Pullen– You'll Get Yours Someday

19 Danny Richards*– Better To Be Save

20 Tex Atchison– Tennessee Hound Dogs

21 Al Muniz– Walkin' By Myself

22 Whitey Knight– Big Glass Of Wine

23 Whitey Pullen– Waltz Of Steel Guitar

24 Bob Newman & The Georgia Crackers– Sunday Down In Tennessee

25 Goldie Fields– Climbing This Mountain

26 Oscar Heart– Little Black Book

27 Sterling Blythe– It's Too Late For Cryin'

28 Eddie Dean– Impatient Blues

29 Goldie Fields– What Do You Do With A Memory

30 Lonnie Barron– Don't Doubt My Love

Let Me Slide - Sage & Sand Vol. 2