BUDDY HOLLY - "The Last Recordings" - (Homerecordings Dec.1958 - Jan.1959) 

Absolutely do, they are Gems.

Wow!! I heard her start to wash the dishes as soon as I read this!!!!

Isn't that the coolest? I think it really adds to the overall recording. The intimacy is really cool.

@@VanishedPNW listen to John Lennon, and Yoko,. With John playing Buddy, and the phone rings, effing scary. So simular to Buddy and Maria talking, when their phone rings!!

Yeah, my thoughts too lol.. I picked up on the clinking of dishes & running water too... Gret to hear the original, even if it was an early draft.

I agree. it's like a time portal. One friendly note, though: never, ever call Buddy's widow "Maria." She insisted upon being called by her full name of "Maria Elena." (I suppose she still does.) As far as I know, She and Sonny Curtis are the only members of Buddy's inner circle who remain. The first Crickets, the "new" Crickets, Peggy Sue, Buddy's brothers and sister...all are now gone. Wouldn't it be ironic if Maria Elena ended up the last one?

Well the Beatles loved Buddy so much so Paul like me thought the world had ended when the pane crashed.

Absolutely. He is always there for us. Always a ight for us. Buddy is that great. He is a sweet, dear, warm, knowledgeable Sage. An amazing man.

You are right We have to be very thankful for what we have, But I mourn everyday for what would have been, as I have absolutely no doubt that Buddy would have kepy producing hit after hit. He was and is that good. I named my Youngest Baby Girl Holly, Buddy

HE IS EXCELLENT !!!!

The original slower version of "Maybe Baby" sounds like a Beatles song. Check it out.

Well, said. You have 'hit the nail on its head'. He really was special. He still influences, young 'up and coming groups' today. And i don't see it diminishing!

Well said

Dude, any more cliches to list?

Add the Rolling Stones and Grateful Dead

Dude, too many to waste your time dude.

Ich empfinde auch so .

As a ,now, 80 year old Brit , who had started to play guitar in 1957, Buddy Holly was my inspiration to just make music. His death was( and still is) a physical blow, what a tragedy. I have spent an entire life making music , clubs, ballrooms, theatres, every sort of venue, a life making music, even now at my age I’m still getting together with like minded “ old folks”and doing what has driven me my entire life. Thank you Buddy for inspiring me and making my life a dream come true…… and I was lucky in love !!!!! Wow !

When I listen to a BH song in my home, it feels like he’s almost in the room. I’ve never felt that with any other artist

⁠​⁠@@PMexPAT Funny thing is, I’m only 16

Couldnt put it better myself i find these last recordings hauntingly beautiful in a way his songs resonate through the soul and mind i miss you Buddy

​​ I'm 21 and have been a fan of Buddy since I was 5 I just prefer 50s music in general howdy from North Carolina born and raised in the south I'm a bass baritone singer but the funny thing is I have a little bit of the hiccup in my voice when I sing I've also been playing guitar since I was 6

Me too. I want to shake his hand. I wrote a song about it 22 years ago for my tribute CD to him, If I Can Make it Up to Heaven (Buddy, Would You Shake My Hand)

You dont age in heaven and nore does God your what you tell your self and you don't hear God going on a bout age and a lot need too learn a bout age and has it say says heaven earth will be one a men,❤❤😢😊

Yeah he's more important than Elvis lmaooo. fuckin clown

He’s certainly one of them but I think a certain artist from tupelo Mississippi called Elvis Presley is far more well known and influential

Only because he lived longer. Elvis didn't write his own music, Buddy could do it all!

I'll never deny Buddy Holly was very talented but Elvis was on another level

Pound for pound, The best ever.

That guy was about to be on another level, above best.

Yes that amazed me! Most likely these were recorded in Buddy and Maria Elena's apartment facing Washington Square in Greenwich Village, New York City. There's an article online (with the address of the building) talking about how Maria Elena visited the building in 2011 for the first time since she and Buddy lived there.

​@@seeburg10 I 😢😂

❤🤗

Na he definitely died. Even saying that he died is under statement. He absolutely obliterated 💀. But I understand what your saying.

Yes, these songs way to clear to be done on a regular tape recorder. even though it's just Buddy with his acoustic guitar, it sounds like it was studio recorded. It's amazing what he was able to do with A, D, and E chords. I only wish the Beatles had some of their unreleased demos and cover songs sound this good. I love their version of Crying Waiting Hoping.

Got em all on a 6 LP set of all versions, lucky me, and brilliant.

I am with the comment from Terence Tuttle. Nothing but Buddy and his guitar. This is what he would have wanted. 👍👏🏻🎸

Buddy's music is timeless and he is the reason that I picked up a guitar. I love these songs, just him and his guitar 🎸😍

@@ericsmallwood2009 What is that set of LPs called? Thank you

There will never be anyone on Buddy's level. But he was a sweetheart. A regular kind of guy but not a regular mind and heart. A regular, decent, warm young an with brilliance. He is eternal. ETERNAL. 🌹

Elvis

*I KNOW!* 👍

@@ronnierice9815 you don’t know do you! 😒🤨🥱

@@TomClarkSouthLondon I agree with you. Buddy Holly was more talented than Elvis. If Buddy had lived longer, he probably would’ve been the King of Rock & Roll. If it wasn’t for Buddy Holly & the Crickets, the Beatles certainly wouldn’t have existed. Buddy Holly would’ve progressed better musically if not for his death 🎸

Buddy Holly paved the way for a lot of great artists.

I’m curious if Buddy would have evolved his music in the late 60s to keep up with the acts like Hendrix, Stones, and the Beatles. He would have been in his early 30s.

@@cggg5089 My guess is he might have moved towards the production side and worked with other artists making records and/or moved towards country music like Jerry Lee and Waylon did. He was such a big influence on so many groups with his short career I can't imagine his influence not continuing to grow in some way.

@@cggg5089 I along with many others hafe speculated. He is on tape saying he thinks Rock and Roll won't last but a couple of years more. THAT was 60 plus years ago. Buddy ROCKS!

rock n roll is a faith that searches out its congregation.. none of us really chose rock n roll. all we can ever do is choose to not waste time trying to fight the fire it lit in our souls. I hope this finds you all still rocking your hearts out 🖤

A true Legend

@@stiiimes Great post! Yes, still rockin'. I also post original tunes on RU-vid. Type in "Present at the Creation", followed by my last name, and you can hear my rock'n'roll story.

You are right, but the singles produced, with overdubs by Norman Petty, were awful.

Thank you for posting all the demos! When I think of Buddy Holly, instant joy comes to me and I just smile! He was such a positive force! Holly introduced the concept which was followed in the Sixties Pop/Rock bands of the Two Guitars, Bass and Drums. What am immense contribution to American music was made by this wonderful and highly esteemed man. REST IN ETERNAL PEACE ~ CHARLES HARDIN "BUDDY HOLLY" HOLLEY.

thank you!

Not all heroes wear capes....

@@80blkflg whatever that means….

@@raulmacias1311 This Music Is Good Medicine

The blues in that makes it tough …. I can’t stop listening to it

According to Paul McCartney, Elvis is still the person he would like to meet with. And he already did that before.

So with the comment from eddyrocks. These sound great! Thanks, Buddy. 👏🏻👍

I thought it was at Radio KLLL, when Jennings was a DJ there ? There's a video on You Tube, which may be wrong of course, that claims that. It says ' You're the One ' was his last song recorded; but I don't see how, as some of these, I thought, were recorded in the January of '59.

@@heathstjohn6775 My bad. You are correct. This was recorded at KLLL during the fall of '58. You are also correct that Buddy's last recordings were in his apartment in December of '58. Possibly early January '59... as Buddy was a late addition to the Winter Dance Party. So, he may have spent at least the first week of January still at home.

@@That_AMC_Guy So much to wonder about. So much never to be known. So many lives, right now, somewhere, everywhere, unmet, beginning, ending. *: Have you heard the recording of Holly and Maria'-Elana in the Greenwich apartment ?: if not, type in ' Buddy Holly phone call '. (But don't trouble, I'm afraid, with phone number something-48687, as the apartment number you hear Maria-Elana mentioneing at the beginning, is...disconnected). Thanks. (Do you like this ?: a forgotten r ' n ' r artist, still alive...but singing a 1958 hit of his...but forty-years later, in 1998 ! I don't know who's playing the guitar Holly should have gasped ! at: shall do, soon, as I've ordered it from Discogs ! Is there anything you don't like about it ? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2WUHHD6sMeQ.htmlsi=j_lU6-mSkJukcecf

Buddy was a big Ray Charles fan and wanted to work with him, possibly on an album. The instrumental on the Apartment Tapes may have been preparing for that in some way.

Oh come on now don't insult Buddy like that he has more talent in his pinky than rappers have

@@southernpride2003That’s not at all what they were referring to

@@southernpride2003 can you honestly shut the fuck up. that's not even a comparison that should be made its entirely different times in history and genres of music.

😅😅😅😅😅

Best believe that fly was tapping his antenna and legs to this

@@khaaleliilighntingcoronado9009 Hi, good to receive a return comment from another Buddy fan. I hadn't received one for a while, and today it's eerie, but in a good way, of course. When you entered your comment, I had just arrived home after having attended a concert by a Buddy re-enactor, a local boy. Still in high school, he must have been all of 16 years old. He played a guitar that looked just like Buddy's and wore a suit and bow tie the way Buddy used to do. (His dad served as his sound tech.) What were the chances? I feel almost as if Buddy has arranged all this because he knows the extent of my fandom.

I'm only 38, but had these ( apartment tapes) through the BH memorial society 20 years ago. I still play them at least twice a week, religiously! Enjoy!

the reason is the Beatles was and are the greatest........ however, Holly was a great influece to them....what a great artist was and is Buddy Holly! rip.

The Beatles had some good recordings but they were nothing like Buddy Holly; Buddy was streets ahead in talent. There are very few artists who can sound so good with just a guitar. Todays entertainers need millions of dollars of specialised sound enhancing equipment to do a show or make a recording, and really not much good even then. Not Buddy

@@samcash6131I’d beg to differ. John, George and Paul could also mezmorize as solo artists with only a guitar.....