Is there a way to buy the complete Buddy Holly on CD? Ideally a boxed set, but, if not, which separate releases would cover his entire discography with the least duplication?
Sadly that's long out of print and 2nd hand prices are insane. I'm glad I got a copy as a birthday present when it was still easily available. It really deserves a reissue.
Needledrop or listen to the LPs for me...from what I've read the mastering on the CDs isn't all that great.
You don't need the complete in my opinion and I'm a HUGE Buddy fan. Just get these two and IMO you've got everything you really need. Buddy Holly - Down The Line: Rarities Buddy Holly - Memorial Collection
I managed to get a copy of this set in 2010 before prices went up. It's essential only if you want alternate takes, undubbed masters (i.e. no added background vocals) and all the later overdubbed versions from 1959 to '69.
I'm not sure if it has all of them. Probably not quite all of them, but the two of them together can be had for really cheap and IMO gives you everything essential he ever did and then some!
Get The Complete Buddy Holly (1979) 6LP box set on vinyl & burn your own... It includes everything Buddy recorded in chronological order... I also own the Analogue Production albums & CDs of The Chirpin Crickets & Buddy Holly...beautiful sound You also need the SH mastered 2LP Legend & For The First Time Anywhere but you can get these on CD remember.. Legend on CD is titled From The Original Master Tapes... All of these are the best sound for Buddy Holly available
I like these two a lot, but I think the Jack Hansen and Norman Petty/Fireballs posthumous overdubs are great as well...not everyone would agree with me on that though...
I've loved Buddy since my early teens! If you want to try some of this out before you buy. Every collection mentioned here is on Spotify. I was just listening to the 200+ song complete collection and Spotify's version sounded great! Now for my claim to fame, two years ago I was asked to perform a '50s rocker for a middle school performance where at was working. They were thinking Elvis, but he was kind of over done and folks usually made him into a charicature, so I suggested Buddy instead and they went for it. You have all these kind of shy embarrassed kids performing their numbers. Then I come out and just explode into Not Fade Away! It was so much fun, when I sang the first notes of "I'm gonna tell you how it's gonna be!" The crowd was visably going whoa and everybody sat up on their seats! I think it helped that I did the whole shy Buddy thing first and talked about coming from Lubbock, Texas, then they didn't expect me to take the roof off the place. Man, that was fun! I was blessed to be that guy once, Buddy got to be that guy Everyday!
Going slightly off topic, but the Jack Hansen tapes were remixed and remastered in 2011, on a release called "That Makes It Sound So Much Better". Rollercoaster Records So maybe if the Petty/Fireballs tracks can be gathered together on one disc, that would be the entire box out on CD?
A few year's back I purchased a dubious boxset entitled "THE BUDDY I KNEW" Which consisted 6 c.d.'s of everything from apartment demos to d.j. promo announcements to "THAT'LL BE THE DAY"....this set also includes radio reports the morning after the tragic plane crash!!the sound quality is great overall!I have the complete hippo-deluxe boxset...and an English import of the M.C.A. 6l.p. boxset!!no turntable...but I intend to digitize this vinyl set in future.I love buddy holly!!!
Hopefully a controversial gray market label will clone the Buddy Holly "Not Fade Away: Complete Studio Recordings" box set sometime in the near future. It would sell very well.
Yes... there are bootleg boxesets out there....buddy has been issued...re-issues....I hate,boot-leg anything but "THE BUDDY I KNEW" is an interesting beast.I've never seen another copy new or used... and I purchased the only copy at "H.M.V." in manhattan when they were still in business.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07BF7BNRG/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Not sure that it is complete as such, but it covers a lot. I enjoy it ... it is a cd set though
Thanks for all the tips. I had no idea it would be so complicated to chronicle such a brief career! Would it make sense to just get this? https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B01LVV7YUB/ref=cm_cr_srp_mb_bdcrb_top?ie=UTF8
Yes! The audio quality is superior on the original (1979) than on the 'Not Fade Away' Collection. The NFC is a wonderful set though! A reissue with new mastering would be wonderful! I found something I can't find any information on. I stumbled across this GIF, a second or two of Buddy & The Crickets I've never seen before and I can't find anything on youtube to support it. Is there a full clip of this? I'd love to see it!
It's from a TV show called Hightime. There's only about twelve seconds total. Buddy starts at about eight minutes and ten seconds in.
And unless better sources, tapes and care in mastering ever turn up, unfortunately....you know the rest. I heard most of the previously-booted material was sourced from the Purple Chick set. And with the master tapes "reportedly" burned up in the Universal fire, apart from some a few decent mastering (SH, KG), unfortunately the more recent CD's will all we'll have. :-(