The Indispensable 1955–1959

Tracklist

• CD 1: 1955–1957
• 1
  Memories
  2:19
• 2
  Baby, Let’s Play House
  2:27
• 3
  Moonlight Baby
  1:53
• 4
  Midnight Shift
  2:11
• 5
  Don’t Come Back Knockin’
  2:14
• 6
  Blue Days, Black Nights
  2:04
• 7
  Love Me
  2:07
• 8
  Rock Around With Ollie Vee
  2:12
• 9
  I’m Changin’ All Those Changes
  2:13
• 10
  That’ll Be the Day
  2:29
  2.0 ★
• 11
  Girl on My Mind
  2:17
• 12
  Ting‐A‐Ling
  2:41
• 13
  Modern Don Juan
  2:39
• 14
  You Are My One Desire
  2:22
• 15
  Gone
  1:15
• 16
  Have You Ever Been Lonely
  1:21
• 17
  I’m Looking for Someone to Love
  1:57
• 18
  That Will Be the Day
  2:16
• 19
  Words of Love
  1:55
• 20
  Mailman Bring Me No More Blues
  2:12
• 21
  Not Fade Away
  2:21
• 22
  Everyday
  2:07
• CD 2: 1957–1958
• 1
  Ready Teddy
  1:31
• 2
  Peggy Sue
  2:30
• 3
  I’m Gonna Love You Too
  2:13
• 4
  Oh Boy
  2:07
• 5
  An Empty Cup (and a Broken Date)
  2:13
• 6
  Rock Me My Baby
  1:50
• 7
  You’ve Got Love
  2:08
  4.0 ★
• 8
  Maybe Baby
  2:02
• 9
  Last Night
  1:54
• 10
  Send Me Some Lovin’
  2:35
• 11
  It’s Too Late
  2:23
• 12
  Tell Me How
  2:00
• 13
  Little Baby
  1:57
  5.0 ★
• 14
  (You’re So Square) Baby I Don’t Care
  1:37
  5.0 ★
• 15
  Look at Me
  2:06
• 16
  Mona (I Need You Baby)
  2:28
• 17
  Rave On
  1:49
• 18
  Well… All Right
  2:14
• 19
  Fool’s Paradise
  2:31
• 20
  Take Your Time
  1:58
• CD 3: 1958–1959
• 1
  Think It Over
  1:46
• 2
  It’s So Easy
  2:11
• 3
  Heartbeat
  2:09
  4.6 ★
• 4
  Early in the Morning
  2:07
• 5
  Now We’re One
  2:04
• 6
  Peggy Sue Got Married
  2:06
• 7
  That’s What They Say
  2:12
• 8
  What to Do
  1:54
• 9
  Crying, Waiting, Hoping
  2:14
• 10
  That Makes It Tough
  2:27
• 11
  Learning the Game
  2:11
• 12
  Bo Diddley
  2:22
• 13
  Brown Eyed Handsome Man
  2:04
• 14
  Baby Won’t You Come Out Tonight
  1:54
• 15
  Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie
  1:55
• 16
  Smokey Joe’s Cafe
  2:13
• 17
  True Love Ways
  2:48
• 18
  It Doesn’t Matter Anymore
  2:04
• 19
  Raining in My Heart
  2:47
• 20
  Moondreams
  2:40

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Release credits

• Al Chernet
  guitar [5]
• Andrew Ackers
  piano [10]
• Bill Pickering
  background vocals [5]
• Bob Lapham
  background vocals [5]
• Buddy Holly
  acoustic guitar [8, 10, 15], guitar [1.2-3, 1.9, 1.15-16, 2.5, 2.7, 2.13-14, 3.3], vocal [1.2-3, 1.5, 1.9, 1.15-16, 2.5, 2.7, 2.13-14, 3.3, 3.5, 3.8, 3.10, 3.15]
• C. W. Kendall
  piano [13]
• Dick Jacobs
  producer [5]
• Don Guess
  bass [3, 5, 9, 14]
• Donald Amone
  guitar [10]
• Doug Kirkham
  percussion [5]
• Dutch McMillin
  tenor saxophone [14]
• Ernest Hayes
  piano [5]
• Floyd Cramer
  piano [14]
• George Atwood
  bass [3]
• George Barnes
  guitar [5]
• George Tomsco
  guitar [15]
• Grady Martin
  guitar [5, 14]
• Harriet Young
  background vocals [5]
• Helen Way
  background vocals [5]
• Jack Hansen
  producer [10]
• Jerry Allison
  drums (drum set) [3.3, 2.5, 2.7, 2.13-14, 1.2-3, 1.9, 1.15-16]
• Joe B. Mauldin
  bass [3.3, 2.5, 2.7, 2.13-14]
• John Pickering
  background vocals [5]
• Keith McCormack
  guitar [15]
• Larry Welborn
  bass [2]
• Maeretha Stewart
  background vocals [5]
• Niki Sullivan
  guitar [2.5, 2.7, 3.3]
• Norman Petty
  producer [2.7, 2.13-14, 3.3, 3.15]
• Owen Bradley
  producer [5, 9, 14]
• Panama Francis
  drums (drum set) [5, 10]
• Phil Kraus
  drums (drum set) [5]
• Sam “The Man” Taylor
  alto saxophone [5]
• Sanford Bloch
  bass [5, 10]
• Sonny Curtis
  guitar [3, 5, 9]
• The Picks
  background vocals [7]
• The Ray Charles Singers
  background vocals [10]
• Theresa Merritt
  background vocals [5]
• Tommy Allsup
  guitar [3]
• Show all credits (38)

Issues

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  The Indispensable 1955–1959

  3x CD
  2020