Jacobus T. Boot | Perth, Western Australia | 02/10/2007
(5 out of 5 stars)
"For those who are dying to find out what is actually on this CD
Track Listings
Disc: 1
1. Baby Won't You Come Out Tonight
2. Love Me
3. Don't Come Back Knockin'
4. Midnight Shift
5. Blue Days Black Nights
6. Rock Around With Ollie Vee
7. Rock Around With Ollie Vee
8. Because I Love You
9. Changing All Those Changes
10. I Guess I Was Just A Fool
11. It's Not My Fault
12. I'm Gonna Set My Foot Down
13. Rock A Bye Rock
14. Girl On My Mind
15. That'll Be The Day
16. Ting A Ling
17. I'm Changin' All Those Changes
18. I'm Changin' All Those Changes
19. Modern Don Juan
Disc: 2
1. You Are My One Desire
2. You Are My One Desire (1)
3. Rock Around With Ollie Vee
4. Honky Tonk
5. Good Rockin' Tonight
6. Brown Eyed Handsome Man
7. Bo Diddley
8. Rip It Up
9. Blue Monday
10. Blue Suede Shoes
11. Shake Rattle And Roll
12. Ain't Got No Home
13. Holly Hop
14. Bo Diddley
15. Brown Eyed Handsome Man
16. Have You Ever Been Lonely
17. Have You Ever Been Lonely
18. Have You Ever Been Lonely
19. Have You Ever Been Lonely 2
20. Gone
21. Gone 1
22. Gone 2
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An essential addition to your Buddy Holly collection
Luigi Facotti | Chicago Il | 02/10/2008
(4 out of 5 stars)
"Nearly 50 years after his death, unheard Buddy Holly tracks still emerge despite the comprehensive, but now rare Vigotone bootleg set from the 1990s. On the present set, a new version of "Rock Around with Ollie Vee" (November, 1956) and some new demos from Clovis add to the listening pleasure. Sound is generally good and often superior to the Vigotone set. While looking forward to El Toro's next Buddy Holly set for 1957 (and perhaps ones for 1958 and 1959?) two minor irritations, a lack of track sources and details to the extent known and a total running time of 77 mins that could've been put on a single CD at less cost.
As noted in a variety of web discussion sites - until Universal/MCA resolve the legal issues around Buddy Holly's recorded estate that began immediately after his untimely death and continue to this day - sources such as Vigotone, El Toro and the endless recompilations of the MCA recorded estate will have to do until the ultimate annotated box set with the total Lubbock, Clovis, New York and "Apartment" sources included appears. Hopefully this will happen before the CD format disappears and while Buddy's remaining fans still have their hearing!"
Holly rocks
A. Pierre | Somewheres | 04/17/2007
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Buddy Holly was a excellent artist. His singing was amazing, I loved his screams, and the way he played his guitar. He wrote some amazing songs in his short life. His drummer, Jerry Allison was one of the best rock drummers in the early days and very underrated. Holly has plenty of greatest hit collections out but which one to get? I cant tell you. I do own all of his work expect one song. Anything that doesnt have the picks in it would be a great start."
The greatest rock star ever
Timothy P. Molthan | 02/16/2008
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Admittedly, this set is for the completist, but Buddy Holly was magnificent both as a musician and a vocalist. Plenty of these come from rare acetates (that's all that exist in many cases) and the complete Owen Bradley sessions are here in great quality (it's a shame Bradley didn't have a clue as what to do with Holly). The real treat is the Clovis demos (Norman Petty's studio truly must have been state-of-the-art) because those tracks, especially "Brown Eyed Handsome Man" really shine on their first ever undubbed debuts (it was overdubbed for a 60s release to "modernize" it...to call that unneccessary is an understatement). The sound quality varies greatly depending on the source material, but with the professional recordings (the Clovis demos and the Bradley sessions) I have never heard them sound better. Something tells me these sets from the El Toro label will be the Holy Grail of Buddy Holly recordings one day."