LENNON-ISQUE VOCAL MADE RUN OF THE MILL ROCKABILLY ONE OF THE GREAT BUDDY HOLLY PERFORMANCES

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Buddy Holly is just a legend if you want my opinion. I dont think any other musician in the history of popular music had as much in-
fluence over others with only an 18 month window of opportunity to record what most would have taken years to do. 

Buddy Holly of course was one of the unlucky `four` who died in the plane crash on the day `the music died`, as folk rocker Don McLean called it over a decade later in the early 70`s in his cryptic and mysterious tribute song to his mentor `American Pie`.

The fourth man besides Buddy, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper is the oft times forgotten about inept pilot who quite possibly flew the three men to their deaths named Roger Peterson. 

We will never find out if he contributed towards the crash through human error, or if the atrocious blizzard conditions over Iowa in the early hours of the 3rd February, 1959 was solely responsible but Peterson had a really chequered history as a pilot. 

The plane crash certainly destroyed one totally incredible talent, and maybe two, assuming that Richie Valens would have reached superstardom if he lived. 

I had a passing thought just now about a song of Buddy`s from way back, even before he hit it big with THAT`LL BE THE DAY (the re-recorded version of the inferior first one), and PEGGY SUE. 

In very early 1956, Buddy, without his longtime country rock companion Bob Montgomery, went on an ill-fated trip to Nashville to record half a dozen or so songs, four of which are considered to be up there with the best of his output. 

He and Bob Montgomery had already been a duo under the name BUDDY AND BOB in Buddy`s hometown of Lubbock in Texas.

Buddy had wanted Bob to record with him in Nashville but record label Decca would not permit it, reluctantly Buddy went to Nashville and recorded a set of songs with a then unknown brigade of session rockabilly musicians. 

Eventual Crickets singer Sonny Curtis, who would go on to front that band in the 60`s after Holly`s death was one of those who
was part of this `ad-hoc` band that the
powers that be at Decca forced Buddy to
record with. 

Amazingly, despite all the upheaval and lack of real artistic chemistry between this band of convenience, a few of the songs are truly brilliant.

One of them in particular really blows my mind away, its called I`M CHANGING ALL THOSE CHANGES. 

Take 4 is what made the recorded reel and there`s no other song that captures the magical vocal abilities of Buddy like this baby.

It gives me goose bumps, I can almost
picture the cars of Buddy`s family members parked outside his parents house on the day he died. 

There is really just something spooky about it, I feel like I am with Buddy in spirit when I listen to it.

The song was written by Sonny Curtis,
and Buddy sounds so uncannily like John
Lennon singing it. To me it is the ultimate truly rockabilly tune ever recorded.