Very Best of Buddy Holly & The Picks [Import]

Buddy Holly | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 19, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 3
• Format: Import
• Label: Prism Explorer
• ASIN: B00009QG4V
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #622,510 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Peggy Sue

2. Raining In My Heart

3. True Love Ways

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

5. Come Back Baby

6. Learning The Game

7. Take Your Time

8. Bo Diddley

9. Reminsicing

10. That's What They Say

11. Rock-A-Bye Rock

12. Listen To Me

13. Love's Made A Fool Of You

14. Love Me

15. Heartbeat

16. Everyday

17. Moondreams

18. Midnight Shift

19. What To Do

20. Love Is Strange

See all 39 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The Very Best of Buddy Holly ruined by poor overdubbing., October 23, 2004

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A. T. Wilkes (UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Very Best of Buddy Holly & The Picks (Audio CD)

Anybody new to Buddy Holly and his music would do well to avoid this collection. Many of Buddy's very best tracks are spoiled by the overdubbing which sounds like it was recorded in a bathroom and all on the same day. The voices of The Picks had been overdubbed onto many of The Crickets' original recordings but the tracks attributed to Buddy Holly usually escaped the treatment.
The sad thing is that the basic quality of the recordings used here is sparkling when they can actually be heard.
The Picks (and The Roses, another vocal group who's voices were dubbed onto Crickets' recordings) may well deserve some kind of tribute in recognition for being involved (post production) in the Crickets story but this should not have been the way to do it.
In fact, if the technology exists, it would have been far better to re-release all of the Crickets original tracks with the overdubbing removed.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars DEFACING HOLLY'S BEST WORK, February 22, 2008

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

This review is from: Very Best of Buddy Holly & the Picks (Audio CD)

There is no mention of The Picks on the album cover posted here, but this is listed by Amazon as "Buddy Holly and The Picks".

If this is with the Picks you should know that...

There is no "best of" Buddy Holly with the Picks...

For some incomprehensible reason, around 1985-90 someone in authority gave license to a group called the Picks to overdub any and all original Buddy Holly recordings with their vocal harmonies.

These modern overdubs of Holly's 1950s classics deface his finest work, and are widely distributed as "Buddy Holly and the Picks".

As result, there are surely a lot of people out there who think Holly's band was the Picks, and that Holly and the Picks were not very good (they're not).

Buddy Holly was an exceptional artist. Treat yourself to the real thing.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The very worst of Cruddy Holly, July 8, 2010

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David M. Baker "Stan's Biographer" (Wasilla, Alaska) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Very Best of Buddy Holly & the Picks (Audio CD)

I was so looking forward to getting rid of my old cassette of Buddy Holly and upgrading to CD. So, after ordering this CD, I did. Huge mistake! This release is a prime example of remastery at its very worst. Some idiots have ruined most of Buddy Holly's old original masters with some hick overdubbing that falls short of really bad drunken karaoke or "The Singing Bee". When I played this disc, I immediately renamed it The Very Worst of Cruddy Holly. DO NOT BUY this CD from anyone at any price. I recommend you buy an old LP or Cassette that preceeds modern technological vandalizm.