The Buddy Holly Story (album)
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| Compilation album by Buddy Holly and the Crickets | |||||
| Released | February 28, 1959 | ||||
| Recorded | February 25, 1957 – May 27, 1958, Norman Petty Studios, Clovis, New Mexico September 27–28, 1957, Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma City January 25, 1958 – October 21, 1958, New York City |
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| Genre | Rock | ||||
| Label | Coral | ||||
| Producer | Norman Petty, Dick Jacobs, Bob Thiele | ||||
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The Buddy Holly Story is the first posthumously released compilation album by Buddy Holly and the Crickets. The album was released on February 28, 1959 by the Coral Records less than a month after Holly's death.
The album featured previously released singles by Buddy Holly on both the Brunswick label (with the Crickets) and the Coral label (as a solo artist). The album became a top twenty hit in the United States and England.
The album was certified Gold in the U.S. in 1969 by the RIAA.
Of the twelve songs released on the original album, the songs "Maybe Baby", "That'll Be the Day", "Think It Over", and "Oh, Boy!" were credited to the Crickets, while the rest were credited to Buddy Holly. All of the songs were released as singles and the songs "Peggy Sue", "That'll Be the Day", "Early in the Morning", "Maybe Baby", "Oh, Boy!", "Rave On!", "Think It Over", and "It Doesn't Matter Anymore" all peaked in the Top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 and the songs "Heartbeat" and "Raining In My Heart" both peaked in the lower half of the Hot 100.
When Coral Records released The Buddy Holly Story as a 12" 33⅓ rpm LP record, they also released the four songs "It Doesn't Matter Anymore", "Heartbeat", "Raining In My Heart", and "Early in the Morning" – which were included on the LP version – as a 7" 45 rpm EP record which was also titled as The Buddy Holly Story (catalog number EC-81182). The EP peaked at #9 on Billboard magazine's Best Selling Pop EPs chart.
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