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Originally Posted by Jim Nasium
Way back in the dim and distant past, when I bought my first record player I rushed out and bought 2 LPs, "Hats Off To Del Shannon" & "The Night Has A Thousand Eyes" I was a fan of Bobby Vee, and indeed Del Shannon. Sorry to hear that Bobby has this awful condition.
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You ar so right Jim it is getting to be a dim and distant past. nevertheless I still recall that having left school in 1959 and moving to the wilds of Derby to begin my apprenticeship with Rolls Royce Linited and being a staunch fan of Buddy Holly (who had so tragically died a few months earlier) that one of my first actions now that I had earned a (very) little cash was to visit the main Derby Cooperative store and there splash out a heady 35 shillings on my very first LP (which I still have complete with its original clear plastic rapper)
(up until then my record collection comprised a few 78 RPM singles (mostly Buddy and the Crickets bought cheap when a local couple near my school had bought one of the early and expensive domestic tape recorders and having taped their record collection disposed of the vinyl oiginals
although to my lasting regret I never saw Buddy live but many years later I caught a wonderful show by Del Shannon at the Gardens disco/nightclub in nearby Yeovil, not long before he died.
On YouTube there are two short clips of Del, a few days before he took his own life, singing during his very last concert which was apparently in Fargo ND (Bobby Vee's hometown and the destination of Buddy's fatal last flight)
That's enough non GL stuff for now.
The reason I am replying is because I am delighted to hear that Bobby Vee has recorded Gord's song Walls on an album being released today the anniversary of The Day The Music Died
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Originally Posted by charlene
The album is set for release on Feb. 3, the 55th anniversary of the plane crash that killed rock 'n' roll pioneers Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson.
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Bobby Vee recorded two notable Holly related albums
Bobby Vee Meets The Crickets and
Bobby Vee sings Buddy Holly
This now makes three links that I know of between my two all time musical heroes Buddy and Gordon
1 Bobby Vee (as above)
2 Waylon Jennings
Waylon was the bass guitar player on Buddy's final tour and famously gave up his seat on the fatal flight to J.P.Richardson, who was suffering from a cold and complaining about how uncomfortable a long bus trip was for a man of his size. Holly jokingly told Jennings, "I hope your ol' bus freezes up!" Jennings replied, "Well, I hope your ol' plane crashes
Waylon had two connections to Gord
In 1967, he hit the US country top 10 with Gord's That's What You Get For Loving Me. from his 1966 album Leavin' Town.
in 1979 Waylon appeared alongside Gord and Harry Chapin at a benefit at Nassau County Coliseum in Long Island, NY.
3 Holly was signed to Decca in early 1956, recording demos and singles for the label in Nashville under the name Buddy Holly and the Three Tunes.
One of my friends who I made into a Lighthead once surprised me when she remarked that Gord's singing on Cotton Jenny included a fairly close approximation of Buddy's trademark "hiccupping" singing style
Some years ago I mentioned this to Gord. His response was that he and Terry Whelan as The Two Tones included some Holly songs in their repertoire. He then sang a few stanzas of It Doesn't Matter Anymore for me!!