Down the Line: Rarities

Compilation by Buddy Holly

Released 27 January 2009

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Tracklist

CD 1
1
My Two-Timin’ Woman
2:15
2
Footprints in the Snow
Buddy and Bob
1:20
3
Flower of My Heart
Buddy and Bob
2:36
4.0 ★
4
Door to My Heart
Buddy and Bob
2:23
3.0 ★
5
Soft Place in My Heart
Buddy and Bob
2:16
4.0 ★
6
Gotta Get You Near Me Blues
Buddy and Bob
1:53
3.0 ★
7
I Gambled My Heart
Buddy and Bob
2:43
4.0 ★
8
You and I Are Through
2:05
9
Down the Line
Buddy and Bob
2:03
3.0 ★
10
Baby, Let’s Play House
2:28
11
Moonlight Baby
1:58
12
I Guess I Was Just a Fool
2:19
13
Don’t Come Back Knockin’
2:00
14
Love Me
The Crickets
1:53
15
Gone
1:12
4.0 ★
16
Gone (alternate take)
1:16
17
Have You Ever Been Lonely (alternate take)
0:53
18
Have You Ever Been Lonely
1:18
19
Brown-Eyed Handsome Man
2:08
20
Good Rockin’ Tonight
1:57
21
Rip It Up
1:25
22
Blue Monday
1:57
23
Honky Tonk
3:26
24
Blue Suede Shoes
1:53
4.0 ★
25
Shake Rattle and Roll (partial)
1:21
26
Bo Diddley
2:20
27
Ain’t Got No Home
2:01
4.0 ★
28
Holly Hop
1:36
CD 2
1
Last Night (undubbed)
1:56
2
Not Fade Away (partial alternate overdub)
2:23
3
Peggy Sue (alternate take)
2:33
4
Oh Boy! (undubbed)
2:09
5
That’s My Desire (two false starts plus undubbed master)
4:11
6
Take Your Time (false start & partially undubbed take)
3:32
7
Fool’s Paradise (alternate take undubbed)
2:30
8
Fool’s Paradise (undubbed master)
2:32
9
Fool’s Paradise (alternate #2, undubbed)
2:33
10
Think It Over (false start & rehearsal take, take 1)
2:13
11
Think It Over (undubbed alternate, take 2)
1:51
12
Think It Over (undubbed master, take 3)
1:51
13
Love’s Made a Fool of You (undubbed)
2:04
14
That’ll Be the Day (greetings to Bob Thiele)
0:35
15
That’ll Be the Day (greetings to Murray Deutsch)
0:32
16
That’s What They Say (with fragment)
1:52
17
What to Do
1:54
18
Peggy Sue Got Married
1:50
19
That Makes It Tough
2:17
20
Crying, Waiting, Hoping
1:52
21
Learning the Game
1:34
22
Wait Till the Sun Shines Nellie
1:14
23
Slippin’ and Slidin’ (slow version #1)
3:11
24
Slippin’ and Slidin’ (slow version #2)
3:35
25
Slippin’ and Slidin’ (fast version)
1:27
26
[Buddy & Maria Elena Talking in Apartment]
3:28
27
Dearest (fragment)
1:13
28
Dearest
1:53
29
[untitled instrumental]
1:20
30
Love Is Strange
1:43
31
Smokey Joe’s Café
2:14

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Release credits

Bo Clarke
drums (drum set) [13]
Bob Montgomery
guitar [2-8], vocal [2-8]
Buddy Holly
acoustic guitar [17-22, 24-25, 28-29, 31], electric guitar [23], guitar [2.1, 2.3-4, 2.8, 2.13-14, 1.1-8, 1.10, 1.13, 1.17, 1.21, 1.23-24, 1.26-27], vocal [2.1, 2.3-4, 2.8, 2.13-14, 2.17-25, 2.28-29, 2.31, 1.1-8, 1.10, 1.13, 1.17, 1.21, 1.24, 1.26-27]
Don Guess
bass [5-7, 13], steel guitar [3-4]
Doug Roberts
drums (drum set) [21, 23]
George Atwood
bass [13]
George Tomsco
guitar [8, 21, 23]
Jerry Allison
additional [21], drums (drum set) [1.8, 1.10, 1.13, 1.17, 1.21, 1.23-24, 1.26-27, 2.1, 2.3-4, 2.14], percussion [8]
Joe B. Mauldin
bass [1, 3-4, 8, 14]
Keith McCormack
guitar [8, 21, 23]
Larry Welborn
bass [3-4, 8, 10, 26]
Niki Sullivan
guitar [3, 14]
Norman Petty
organ [8], producer [1.8, 1.21, 1.23, 1.26, 2.1, 2.3, 2.8, 2.13-14]
Sonny Curtis
fiddle [3-7], guitar [13]
Stan Lark
bass [21, 23]
Tommy Allsup
guitar [13]
Vi Petty
piano [21, 23]

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Down the Line: Rarities
2x CD
27 January 2009