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Very Best of Buddy Holly & The Picks

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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.

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.

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.

I enjoyed this album/Cd allot. Anything and everything that brings focus on the wonderful Buddy Holly music is only doing good in my eyes.

The Picks with the earlier Holly recordings bring the music into the 21 century. The dated sounds of the fifties recordings are not really missed here. Buddy Holly fanatic's need to chill and view this music as an asset and that people around the world still enjoy the music.

These particular recordings/tracks were put out in Germany I believe and I have zero problem with the sound. It all sounds very clean and crisp (using stereo for added fun) with the overdubbing adding much to the overall sound. I've listened through my Dahlquist speakers or the Sennheiser 650 headphones and its all great stuff.

Enjoy...