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Subject: Re: Buddy Holly and The Beatles were not the first Author: Darren Mullins [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: Sat May 18, 2019 06:12:37 In reply to: Mulligan 's message, "Re: Buddy Holly and The Beatles were not the first" on Wed May 15, 2019 11:03:46 When I said many of his songs weren't hits, I meant in the Top 40, but as we all know, non charted songs like Not Fade Away are classics now. I was also trying to say that having one or two self-written hit songs doesn't exactly set a standard. It is true that guys like Carl Perkins hit it big first, but he, along with some of the others, only had one or two big hits by the time Buddy and the Crickets came out. Three out of four of Buddy's first hits were written by him. Other singers wrote songs as well, but Buddy was one of the first to have multiple hits with his own material. Let's look at the list of standards or hits that Buddy wrote in a matter of less than three years: That'll Be The Day Peggy Sue Not Fade Away Everyday It's So Easy Maybe Baby Think It Over Words Of Love Well, All Right True Love Ways Remember that this list only includes songs he wrote, it does not inclue Rave On, Oh Boy and It Doesn't Matter Anymore. Let's look at the number of standards by some of the other acts: Eddie Cochran Summertime Blues Twenty Flight Rock Cut Across Shorty Somethin' Else C'mon Everybody Carl Perkins Blue Suede Shoes Matchbox Honey Don't Little Richard Tutti Fruitti Long Tall Sally Keep A Knockin' Lucile Chuck Berry Johnny B. Goode School Day Rock And Roll Music Roll Over Beethoven You Never Can Tell Sweet Little Sixteen Maybelline (rewrite of a Bob Willis song) From what I just said, Buddy and the Crickets were a lot more prolific at recording original material and making it standards. Buddy was not the first though, but one of the first and probably the most prolific in terms of how many songs became standards. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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Subject Author Date Re: Buddy Holly and The Beatles were not the first Lachlan Sun May 19, 2019 04:41:15 Re: Buddy Holly and The Beatles were not the first -- Darren Mullins, Mon May 20, 2019 11:24:04