Rave On (Buddy Holly song)
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| Single by Buddy Holly | ||||||||||
| from the album Buddy Holly | ||||||||||
| B-side | "Take Your Time" | |||||||||
| Released | April 20, 1958 June 6, 1958 (UK) |
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| Format | 7" single | |||||||||
| Recorded | January 1958, Bell Sound Studios, New York City, New York | |||||||||
| Genre | Rock and roll | |||||||||
| Length | 1:47 | |||||||||
| Label | Coral C61985 Coral Q 72325 (UK) |
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| Writer(s) | West-Tilghman-Petty | |||||||||
| Producer(s) | Milton DeLugg | |||||||||
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"Rave On", also written "Rave On!", is a song written by Sonny West, Bill Tilghman and Norman Petty in 1958. It was first recorded by West for Atlantic Records, which released his version in February 1958 (as Atlantic 45-1174).Buddy Holly recorded the song later the same year, and his version became a hit, one of six of his recordings that charted in 1958. Holly is instantly recognizable as the artist: the record begins with a drawn-out "Well…" as stylized by Holly's distinctive hiccup ("A-weh-uh-heh-uh-ell…").
Most of Holly's recordings were produced and engineered by Norman Petty, who also managed Holly, and recorded in Petty's studio in Clovis, New Mexico. "Rave On", however, was produced by Milton DeLugg and recorded in New York City. The title was inspired by the 1956 Sun Records recording "Dixie Fried" by Carl Perkins, which uses the refrain "rave on." The B-side was Holly's composition "Take Your Time".
Holly's rendition of "Rave On" is ranked number 154 on Rolling Stone magazine's 2004 list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time."
As Buddy Holly and the Crickets
Cover versions of "Rave On" have been recorded by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Commander Cody, Status Quo, M. Ward, and the folk-rock band Steeleye Span. It was a hit for the Delta Cross Band in Denmark in 1980.
The song was used as comical background music in a television commercial for Arnott's Shapes in Australia in the early 1990s. The 1998 motion picture Pleasantville uses part of the song.
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