Buddy Holly & the Picks Greatest Hits [Import]

Buddy Holly | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 13, 2008)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Label: Gp Serie
• ASIN: B00004YSJP
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #321,172 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Peggy Sue

2. Heartbeat

3. Words of Love

4. Love's Made a Fool of You

5. Listen to Me

6. Come Back Baby

7. Rock-A-Bye Rock

8. Midnight Shift

9. Rock Around with Ollie Vee

10. Modern Don Juan

See all 20 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Bo Diddley

2. You're So Square (Baby I Don't Care)

3. Don't Come Back Knockin'

4. Little Baby

5. Everyday

6. Girl on My Mind

7. Well.... Alright

8. Ting-A-Ling

9. You're the One

10. Because I Love You

See all 19 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars DEFACING HOLLY'S BEST WORK, December 22, 2007

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Mark "a longtime record buyer" (Santa Monica, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Buddy Holly & the Picks Greatest Hits (Audio CD)

Fair enough, this album is a compilation of some of Buddy Holly's finest work, mostly recorded in 1957-58 on the Brunswick and Coral labels.

BUT -- on this album a vocal group called the Picks overdub their vocal harmonies over these tracks.

I believe this was done around 1990.

These Picks overdubs have been repackaged many times under many different album titles on different bogus "labels". This is merely their most recent resurfacing.

In my opinion it is a tragic defacing of Holly's great classics.

I strongly urge anyone even thinking about buying this to at least hear the REAL Holly first. And even then, make sure to sample what you get here before paying honest money for it.

Buddy Holly was an extraordinary talent. Treat yourself to the real thing.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Avoid this imitation, and get the real thing, March 17, 2009

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TetraBytes (SW US) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Buddy Holly & the Picks Greatest Hits (Audio CD)

I bought this a flea market stall selling old CDs. I read the track list, and it appeared to have some songs that I wanted to hear, so I bought it, waiting in anticipation until I could get home to listen to it. I wish had looked at the label at little more closely. This recording uses Buddy's original vocals, but apparently has substituted a group called the "Picks" for the instruments and back-up vocals. Most of the songs sound distinctly different than the original versions with the "Crickets"; and most lack the sense of inspiration or passion that the originals have. You know an album is bad when some of the songs don't even have Buddy on them, and apparently were written sometime after his unfortunate death. Really hard-core collectors might want this as a novelty. Otherwise, I would say read the label carefully; avoid albums with this back-up band, and get the recordings with the original band.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars NOT GOOD, October 3, 2009

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Rosemarie Martin - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Buddy Holly & the Picks Greatest Hits (Audio CD)

C/D WAS NEW BUT THE QUALITY OF IT WAS LOUSEY SOME SONGS WERE OK BUT THE MAJORITY WERE BAD THE ONLY REASON I DIDNT RETURN IT WAS BECAUSE THE SONG I WANTED ON IT WAS OK