The Best of Buddy Holly

Tracklist

• 1
  That’ll Be the Day
  2:17
  4.6 ★
• 2
  Oh Boy
  2:10
  4.0 ★
• 3
  Maybe Baby
  2:03
  3.8 ★
• 4
  Think It Over
  1:48
  4.0 ★
• 5
  Peggy Sue
  2:31
  4.5 ★
• 6
  Listen to Me
  2:22
  3.5 ★
• 7
  Rave On
  1:49
  4.2 ★
• 8
  Early in the Morning
  2:07
  5.0 ★
• 9
  Heartbeat
  2:09
  4.6 ★
• 10
  Midnight Shift
  2:10
  4.0 ★
• 11
  Peggy Sue Got Married
  2:05
• 12
  True Love Ways
  3:01
  3.0 ★
• 13
  Learnin’ the Game
  2:02
• 14
  Everyday
  2:08
  4.9 ★
• 15
  Reminiscing
  2:00
  4.0 ★
• 16
  Brown Eyed Handsome Man
  2:05
  3.4 ★
• 17
  Bo Diddley
  2:20
  5.0 ★
• 18
  Wishing
  2:03
  4.0 ★
• 19
  Words of Love
  1:56
  4.0 ★
• 20
  It Doesn’t Matter Anymore
  2:03
  2.8 ★

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The Buddy Holly Collection

The Buddy Holly Collection 1993

From the Original Master Tapes

From the Original Master Tapes 1985

20 Golden Greats

20 Golden Greats 1977

Release credits

• Abby Hoffer
  background vocals [7]
• Abraham “Boomie” Richman
  tenor saxophone [20]
• Al Caiola
  guitar [7, 20]
• Al Chernet
  guitar [8]
• Bill Pickering
  background vocals [2-3]
• Bo Clarke
  drums (drum set) [18]
• Bob Lapham
  background vocals [2-3]
• Bob Thiele
  producer [7]
• Buddy Holly
  background vocals [14], guitar [1, 1-10, 14-16, 18-19], lead vocals [1-2, 14], vocal [2-7, 7-10, 14-16, 18-20]
• Cliff Leeman
  drums (drum set) [20]
• David Schwartz
  viola [20]
• Dick Jacobs
  conductor [20], producer [8, 20]
• Dick Jacobs & His Orchestra
  performing orchestra [20]
• Don Guess
  bass [10]
• Donald Amone
  guitar [7]
• Doris Johnson
  harp [20]
• Doug Kirkham
  percussion [10]
• Ernest Hayes
  piano [8, 20]
• Frank Parker
  design
• Gary Tollett
  background vocals [1]
• George Atwood
  bass [9, 18]
• George Barnes
  guitar [8]
• Grady Martin
  guitar [10]
• Harriet Young
  background vocals [8]
• Helen Way
  background vocals [8]
• Herbert Bourne
  violin [20]
• Howard Kay
  viola [20]
• Irving Spice
  violin [20]
• Jerry Allison
  background vocals [14], drums (drum set) [1-7, 7, 9, 15-16, 19], percussion [14]
• Joe B. Mauldin
  bass [2-7, 7, 14-15, 19]
• John Pickering
  background vocals [2-3]
• Julius Held
  violin [20]
• June Clark
  background vocals [1]
• King Curtis
  tenor saxophone [15]
• Larry Welborn
  bass [16], double bass [1]
• Leo Kruczek
  violin [20]
• Leonard Posner
  violin [20]
• Maeretha Stewart
  background vocals [8]
• Maurice Bialkin
  cello [20]
• Maurice Brown
  cello [20]
• Merril Ostrus
  background vocals [7]
• Milton DeLugg
  producer [7]
• Niki Sullivan
  background vocals [1, 14], guitar [1, 3, 5-6]
• Norman Petty
  piano [7], producer [1-7, 9, 12, 14-16, 18-20], recording [16]
• Owen Bradley
  producer [10]
• Panama Francis
  drums (drum set) [8]
• Paul Winter
  violin [20]
• Phil Kraus
  drums (drum set) [8]
• Ramona Tollett
  background vocals [1]
• Ray Free
  violin [20]
• Robert Bollinger
  background vocals [7]
• Robert Harter
  background vocals [7]
• Sam “The Man” Taylor
  tenor saxophone [8]
• Sanford Bloch
  bass [8], bass guitar [20]
• Sonny Curtis
  guitar [10]
• Sylvia Shulman
  violin [20]
• The Fireballs
  performer [15]
• The Helen Way Singers
  background vocals [8]
• The Roses
  background vocals [4]
• Theresa Merritt
  background vocals [8]
• Tommy Allsup
  guitar [9, 18]
• Vi Petty
  celesta [14], piano [4]
• William Marine
  background vocals [7]
• Wolfman Jack
  spoken vocals [1]
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Issues

• T
  (Combined release view)
• T
  The Best of Buddy Holly

  CD
  1994
• T
  The Best of Buddy Holly

  Unknown format
  2 September 2002