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Peggy Sue (1957) & Peggy Sue Got Married (1959) – Buddy Holly

(Peggy Sue) Gerron stated that she first heard the song at a live performance at the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium in 1957, and that she was “so embarrassed, I could have died.” Today you get two Buddy Holly classics in the

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Oh Boy! (1957) – Buddy Holly and the Crickets

If I was to go back to the dawning of it all, I guess I’d have to start with Buddy Holly. Buddy died when I was about eighteen and he was twenty-two. From the moment I first heard him, I

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Heartbeat (1958) – Buddy Holly

This is the second track to appear here from Buddy Holly. Heartbeat is an adorably winsome song and Holly makes it his own with his peculiar intonations. The first song to appear here: Everyday was released a year prior to

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Everyday (1957) – Buddy Holly

I adored this song as a kid in the coming-of-age movie Stand By Me. It is one of the monumental tracks in the origin of Rock n Roll music. Buddy Holly influenced the cream of the crop in music who

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