Can't we all just get along?
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Last updated: Dec 1 2007
In the beginning, there was Buddy. And Buddy said, "Oh Boy", and it was good.
The sections of this document are divided in accordance with MCA Records' The Complete Buddy Holly, a six-album compilation containing every song that The Great Myopic One ever recorded. I have never been able to hear these songs as the generic musings of a generational spokesperson; rather, each one suggests to my mind a concrete situation in which Our Hero finds himself hopelessly entangled. Together they comprise a saga in which Buddy, like some strange Eisenhower-era Odysseus, moves from trial to trial in his search for True Love and the perfect prom date.
Disclaimer: This page (to my knowledge, the first original-content Buddy Holly page) has been up continually since July 1995. HTML has come a long way since then. So, in honor of Bob of the Subgenius, please cut us some SLACK. We may be low on graphics, but that just means the sarcasm loads faster.
1) Lubbock, Texas: Western And Bop
2) Nashville, Tennessee: Changing All Those Changes
3) Clovis, New Mexico: Buddy Holly & The Crickets
4) Clovis, New Mexico-And On To New York
5) New York, N.Y.: Planning For The Future
There is a sixth volume to this set, "The Collectors' Buddy Holly" (songs by other artists featuring Buddy on guitar, songs recorded at home, interviews, etc.), but I never listen to it because it makes me depressed (except for Waylon Jennings singing When Sin Stops Love Begins ).
CDs and Cassettes No longer have that 45 RPM record player? Here are a few standard modern-equipment-friendly Buddy Holly recordings.
Buddy Holly In Popular Culture Just how deeply is the Great Myopic One embedded in our collective psyche? A growing compendium of other stuff concerning The Big B.H., additions most welcome.
Books, Magazines, Societies, and Other Stuff (disclaimer: not always up to date). Stop staring at that damn monitor for a while, eh?
The Buddy Impersonators Page Boy, you just can't get enough, can you?
The Stuff to Buy page has been taken down, due to some unfriendly e-mails I recently received from lawyers representing a to-remain-unnamed person's Estate. These folks felt that my page "damaged" various individuals because prices I had listed for some photos (posted in 1999) had since gone out of date. Since I have neither the time nor the energy to maintain CNN-quality, up-to-the-moment satellite surveillance of every merchant selling Bud shots, anyone looking for Hollyana will have to look elsewhere. I won't even post any links to licensed, reputable Buddy merchandise sellers here, for fear of giving these lawyers new targets to hassle. My apologies to the many innocent and appreciative people whose wares were also on this list, and who might have benefited from the publicity. God bless the American legal system.
For similar reasons of accuracy, I have also taken down the More Buddy Web Sites page and the Events page, which have been useful only for historical reasons for the couple of years. Most of the listed sites have since upgraded to more accessible pastures. However, a raw web search of the phrase "Buddy Holly" is the more interesting approach anyway--in addition to the "real" sites, you can turn up some pretty strange and interesting stuff!
*EXCLUSIVE!!* Buddy Columns from Lubbock Magazine's "Not Fade Away" section by Peggy Sue Gerron (from the song, dum-dum), music historian Bill Griggs, C. J. Schoenrock (official Buddy Holly editor), and Yours Truly. Okay, they're not quite as exclusive as those Weekly World News photos of Bigfoot and Bat Boy meeting with President Clinton, but they're close...
Just for fun:
The Morbid Obsessive-Compulsive Department. Birthdays, death-days, weird coincidences, and Indian burial mounds shaped like Fender Stratocasters. It's all true, I swear!
Norm Petty's Advice to the Crickets. Forty years later, still damn good advice to live by.
p.s. Thanks to Web Review magazine for the dubious honor of including this page in their October 13, 1995 segment on "Students With Obsessions." It's nice to know I'm officially crazy. And to Texas Monthly Magazine for choosing this site as one of their "100 Best Texas Web Sites." Their comment: "Isn't it comforting when an obsession finds a safe and useful outlet?"
Can't we all just get along?
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