Buddy Holly’s Last Song - Written on a Bet! 

The era of many great artists. Buddy Holly was certainly one of those greats.

So good to hear Buddy and friends had a vision , I can think of him with a big smile , another classic from a legend .

Thanks for the story. I thought maybe it was "That makes it tough". "You're the one" is one of my favorites. I have every song (that has been released) and listen to Buddy at least once a week. His music is timeless. Long live Buddy Holly!

Thank you very much for this video. I had never heard that song before. I loved Buddy’s work and thought I had heard everything he had done. I got my first guitar in 1959, I was twelve years old. I’m happy to say I played in pop and rock bands for many years, and I still have the Stratocaster I bought in 1968.

Fantastic group.....you did his last tune justice...jam on.

Thanks very much for this. What a real shame he died so young. He already had his voice and his own unmistakable style--it would have been nice to have seen him develop as an artist.

Buddy wud have been amazing in the 60.s

Huge buddy fan for past 40 years. This is news to me. Know the song well..didn't know about prism or how he met Waylon. Thanks

Buddy was a personal friend of my friend Ray Ruff, who became a famous record producer. Ray recorded a wonderful tribute song to Buddy Holly, in his style, "I Took A Liking To You", released exactly one year after Buddy's tragic death, on Lin Records, on February 3, 1960.

I was a big fan of both Buddy and Elvis in 1957 when I was 10 years old.

For the short time Buddy was on the Planet he made some great music to say the least,. 😀😀✍✍🎸🎸🎶 RIP Buddy Holly !!!.

Thank you a lot !! Very interessting and simple explained !! Hope we will hear and see more of Buddy Holly Songs about the technical Side and how they made it !! Thank you Mr. McDermott 👍👍👍

Buddy is one of my favorites. I have a double vinyl album of Buddy's recordings and Allison and Petty co-wrote with Buddy on many of his hits. Interesting note, Buddy was playing country music until he saw Elvis in Texas in '54 and switched to rock and roll. Waylon stated that Elvis changed Buddy.

Great story...and great voice by the way! You have a Roy Orbison kind of quality👍👍

Buddy rules !!!! I’ve been to his museum in Lubbock

Absolutely no telling how big Buddy would have been…… so good…..my Aunt to Lubbock High with him ..The Crickets …the first Rock Band!!!!!

Thanks for that information, this was the first song I covered when I started singing and playing guitar when I was in my late teens early twenties, ❤

I'm 18 and I love Buddy Holly's music so much. I didn't really see anyone making a video about him until yours showed up. This isa very informative video. I hope more people will know about Buddy and his music. Thank you for making such a great video.

Buddy certainly was the one.

This was over-dubbed by the Fireballs when Norman Petty used them on the recording. The song was released in 1969 ten years after Buddy's death. It's a great song and it shows the musical talent Buddy Holly had as a songwriter and recording artist.

What another wonderful job. Thank you again!

For any fans of the 80s British comedy ' The Young One's ' We know that Buddy's actual last song was ' Coo Coo Daddy Long Legs'

cool story & AWSEOME song !! thanks for sharing

Long live buddy holly"s music

This is always been one of my favorite Buddy Holly songs - didn’t realize it was his last. Great video, great performance - and you have a really great voice too, sir! Well done… Sidebar- I’ve always been a Strat guy - largely in part to Buddy!👍🎸

Thanks for sharing. Buddy Holly has been a great inspiration throughout my life.

Ty so very much for sharing 💓 😊

Great words for Buddy! I will Always wonder!!!!

We will never know what might have been but we do know what Buddy Holly achieved. In such a short period of time he wrote so many timeless classics. I love the story behind this last song, an illustration of his natural talent and innate ability. Given how much money Buddy made he should never have been on that winter tour but sadly fate told a different story. I personally feel Mr Holly would have grown as an artist/song writer/musician and been inspired by the “British Invasion”. Thank you for this dedication to one of Americas finest. R.I.P Buddy Holly. 🙏😘🎼🎸.x

This might have been Buddy's last composition but his last recorded song was That Makes It Tough according to the Real Buddy Holly Story produced by Paul McCartney.

5:44 Thank JP. I didn't know the story behind this song, I've been playing it for decades. I was born in 58, so Buddy was still alive when I was born. As a youngster I was always drawn to Buddy's music. I came from a music family and when I picked up a guitar as a teenager, some of the very first songs I learned were his. Perhaps because they are easy to play and sing together, as Waylon once said Buddy was primarily a rhythm guitarist when playing live. Waylon went on to say, not taking anything away from Buddy's ability to play lead guitar in the studio, but there is just something especially rhythmic and playable about his music. Years later I became a fan of Waylon, not knowing the connection in the pre internet days. When I finally learned of their early relationship I was blown away. Two of my favorite guitarists and performers started together. I met Maria Elaina and John Pickering years ago at a dedication to Buddy. I had a chance to speak to Waylon in passing when I was 16. He spoke to me as he walked by and I was high as a kite, just from a couple of words. I still play Buddy's music to this day. In an era when a lot of kids don't even know who the Beatles are, people always respond to Buddy's music when played live. He recorded all of his hits in 18 months. The things he could have done if he lived. Can you imagine Buddy Holley in the Traveling Wilburys with Roy Orbison? Oh well, we'll never know but I do know Buddy was the first successful performer to create a four piece rock n roll band with two guitars. There might have been some blues guys doing that, but buddy literally put that iconic two guitar live band in the map. Never be another Buddy, and certainly never be another Waylon. I will never stop playing their music as long as I can heft an ax....

Great video... I had no idea about this story / song. You're one of the few people I've met that really knows Buddy. I know you seemed familiar... I met you in Long Beach about a year ago when you opened for West of Texas and Deke Dickerson. I still have your card and Buddy Holly cover CD you gave me. Awesome video. Keep it up!

I was a fan and a teen at that time but I didn’t have any money for records. I still remember how devastated I was when I heard he,the Big Bopper and Jimmy Valens all died in that plane crash😢

Can't help but to wonder where music in general would have gone, had not Buddy Holly died ,along with so many others back then. JP Richardson, Ritchie Valens on the same plane. Eddie Cockrane,Gene Vincent,Patsy Cline and so many others, gone before their prime.

What a great version happy days

In the early 1960 ties i wa the lead singer in a group called The Heart Beats we all loved Buddy Hollys music so much hence the name of the group and we always ended our gigs with Heartbeat surely Buddy Holly was the greatest artist of that time so sad 😢 we lost him so early what would he aceaved had he lived RIP Buddy ❤

wow what a great video :) I always wondered why that song had waylon jennings in the credits as you would've thought they would've done a whole album together. But I never knew it was a bet. Buddy Holly is the greatest :)

His last song he ever sung was Brown Eyed Handsome man.

You're the One by the Vogues was our song before she broke my heart. I like Buddy's song, too.

I didn’t know about this anecdote. You’re The One has always been special for me: it’s the archetype of Buddy’s songs: simplicity with genius!

This video has had me go back and listen to You're The One again, after my earlier comment. What it did throw up, was that the violin/string overdub reminded me of Robert Gordon's version of Walk On By. The Studio cut of Walk on Bye almost employs (to me), a note for note string liet motif that I hear on the You're The One overdub. Have a listen. Perhaps it's a common fill (in classical pieces), but I think the strings give depth to the recordings, albeit posthumously in Buddy's case. Another loss with Rober Gordons recent passing too. Rave On. El

Buddy holley was much respected in the uk what a great songwriter

Love all his songs. At 16 i was a bedroom songwriter like Buddy.

Awesome never herd this song before thanks

Hello from Kingston upon Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire. UK. You have a great channel, well done sir, for me Charles Hardin Holley will always be the best. For ever Buddy. 😎👍

Buddy Holly. Was copied by a lot of groups. And started. Beat groups like Beatles Stones Hollies. And so many more. One of the all time Rick songs to this day that will B the Day. Massive

I was wondering how waylon got with Buddy Holly

Amazing, thanks for sharing.

Wow! That was great and very informative. Thanks for this. I'll think about working it out on guitar. Working on "Words of Love" now in Bangkok. I'll watch for more.

Me fascina ese cantante y tengo el orgullo de tener un disco de 45rpm donde están Every day y Peggy Sue,y fue gracias a ese disco que luego supe era esta gran artista

Re:Prism Records - if Buddy had severed his ties with Norman Petty,why was Norman listed on the business card as ‘Sales’?

Seemed like a kind kid.

Amazing... 🇧🇷

Great story.

Actually he never did fully cut ties with Norman because on the 12th September 1958, Buddy signed a new five year publishing deal with Normans company Nor Va Jak. I own the original agreement.

The part about Norman Petty holding up his money isn't quite right. In New York, Buddy had made a verbal agreement that he had shook on with a Musical Lawyer guy named Manny Greenfeld, to look after his affairs. Greenfeld made a legal claim to payments from Buddy. Whilst the legalities were being sorted out, the accounts of Petty for money owed to Buddy were frozen. Thats why Buddy couldnt get a hold of his money. Petty gets the blame, but Norman and Buddy were amicable...dont forget Petty had sold Buddy the Ampex recording equipment Buddy used to record his apartment tapes on. They years have often seen Norm Petty get the blame for Buddy having to go on the Winter Dance Party tour, but in reality it was the legal challenge from Manny Greenfeld.

Great video, thanks for sharing!

Awesome!

I had a 45 of Oh Boy, just like that one, and just like that one it had, The Crickets I thought it should be Buddy Holly and the Crickets.

Very nice

That was great. Thank you.

The winter dance party should have been in the south !

JP. I do like this song but I’m wondering about of course we wjll never know exactly when he did all those apartment tapes… But I thought some of them were in January 1959 and they have dearest and Um oh yeah and a few other gems as well.

Has anyone taken over for Bill Griggs as official Buddy Holly archivist and historian since Bill went to be with Buddy?

Very informative. Thanks.

Ummm... This might have been the last song released during his life, but, according to every source I know of, the last song Buddy wrote (And recorded in his apartment on a reel to reel recorder) was LEARNING THE GAME

Very interesting. Thankyou. 😊

Going to Lubbock next week

I watched this thinking I was going to hear Buddy singing the song.

I remember our guitar player telling me once that all Buddy Holly songs were in A. I see this last one of his was. I've never checked that claim against Buddy's catalog. Is it true?

Think about it: Buddy Holly ---》Billie Eilish (and Finneas, of course). [And many in-between, to be sure.]

Can anybody tell me please anything about the photo at 1'04'', with two quite modern-looking people in: one on a keyboard-looking instrument, the other one to the right, as you look ?

So, JP, would you agree that Norman Petty's withholding of funds indirectly led to Holly's demise? I've never seen that business card...was Holly still planning on going into business with Petty after his move to NYC?

The last song Buddy recorded was his "True Love Ways" so it's likely that the last song he wrote. There were three other songs in that session, but all were written by others. I remember "You're the One" with the strings when I started collecting Buddy's records in the early 70s.

Thank you!

Nice

Thanks J P

Nice!

The best ting Texas produce to the world.

Actually the $1,000 went to a gold top Les Paul, not a Strat. Buddy traded it in for his first Strat.

Buddy Holly was singing his very last song 😦

Buddy, would have been a great producer like he wanted. He could spot talent … insert “Waylon Jennings”😂He wouldn’t have been sleezy like the rest of them.

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Whose J-35 are you playing?

Didn't know he had bought land and was planning a studio and record label, that makes me really sad about could have been, did his wife ever get the money he was owed

This is NOT a “great” song but I am confident that Holly could have reworked this and improved it.

Last song was Buddy's guitar or learning the game

Walon was never a cricket

was he killed air planes was safe

Lots of facts wrong in this video he needs to do his homework

Bullshit.....Buddy wrote 5-6 songs and recorded them on a tape recorder in his New York apparment. They were released years after his death as he recorded them and overdubed by the Fireballs in Petty's studio.

An Absolute Legend.

Sigh. Buddy’s money was being held up because of a lawsuit, not because Norm Petty chose to do so. Do some research

Mmmmmmmm Buddy died way too young. I've always loved his music 😊😊😊

God wanted buddy in heaven to sing with the angels 😇

Thats ace man

Dude! I was expecting to hear Buddy Holly sing "Yurrtha 1" not some karaoke bar guy. Shhish!