Buddy Holly discography
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This article serves as a discography for Buddy Holly. Holly recorded under several names, and with several different backing bands. The key for the Artist Credit below is as follows: Buddy Holly (BH); The Crickets (C); Buddy Holly & The Crickets (BH+C); Buddy Holly & The Three Tunes (BH+TTT)
The Crickets played on almost all of Holly's singles from 1957 to 1958.
Though Holly was killed in a plane crash on February 3, 1959, he had recorded prolifically during his lifetime, and many singles and albums of his material were released posthumously, beginning with "It Doesn't Matter Anymore" in 1959.
Please note that there are too many compilation albums by Buddy Holly to list all of them.
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[edit] Albums
[edit] Studio albums
| Title | Artist credit |
Album details | Peak chart positions |
|---|---|---|---|
| UK [1][2][3] |
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| The "Chirping" Crickets | C | 5 | |
| Buddy Holly | BH |
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— |
| That'll Be the Day | BH+TTT |
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5 |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart. | |||
[edit] Compilation albums
| Title | Artist credit |
Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [4] |
NZ [5] |
UK [1][3] |
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| The Buddy Holly Story | BH C |
|
11 | — | 2 | US: Gold[6] |
| The Buddy Holly Story, Vol. 2 | BH |
|
41 [7] |
— | 7 | |
| Reminiscing |
|
40 | — | 2 | ||
| Showcase |
|
— | — | 3 | ||
| Holly in the Hills |
|
— | — | 13 | ||
| The Best of Buddy Holly |
|
— | — | — | UK: Gold[8] | |
| Buddy Holly's Greatest Hits |
|
— | — | 9 | ||
| Giant |
|
— | — | 13 | ||
| Buddy Holly: A Rock & Roll Collection |
|
— | — | — | ||
| 20 Golden Greats | BH+C |
|
55 | — | 1 | US: Gold[6] UK: Platinum[8] |
| The Complete Buddy Holly | BH |
|
— | — | — | |
| Love Songs |
|
— | — | — | UK: Gold[8] | |
| The Great Buddy Holly |
|
— | — | — | ||
| For the First Time Anywhere |
|
— | — | — | ||
| From the Original Master Tapes |
|
— | — | — | ||
| True Love Ways |
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— | 24 | 8 | UK: Gold[8] | |
| Words of Love | BH+C |
|
— | 20 | 1 | UK: Gold[8] |
| Greatest Hits | BH |
|
— | — | — | |
| The Very Best of Buddy Holly |
|
— | — | 24 | UK: Gold[8] | |
| The Very Best of Buddy Holly & the Crickets | BH+C |
|
— | 12 | 13 | |
| Not Fade Away | BH |
|
101 | — | — | |
| Down the Line: Rarities | — | — | — | |||
| Memorial Collection |
|
— | — | — | ||
| Not Fade Away: The Complete Studio Recordings And More | BH |
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— | — | — | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart. | ||||||
[edit] Singles
Buddy Holly released singles under several names, and with several different backing bands. The key for the Artist Credit below is as follows: The Crickets (C); Buddy Holly (BH); Buddy Holly & The Crickets (BH+C)
The Crickets played on almost all of Holly's singles from 1957 to 1958.
| Year[9] | Title[9] | Artist Credit | Chart positions | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Hot [10][11] |
US R&B | UK [1][2] |
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| 1956 | "Blue Days, Black Nights" | BH | — | — | — |
| "Modern Don Juan" | — | — | — | ||
| 1957 | "That'll Be the Day" | C | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| "Words of Love" | BH | — | — | — | |
| "Rock Around with Ollie Vee" | — | — | — | ||
| "Peggy Sue" (B side = "Everyday")[12] |
3 | 3 | 6 | ||
| "Oh Boy!" | C | 10 | 15 | 3 | |
| 1958 | "Love Me" | BH | — | — | — |
| "I'm Gonna Love You Too" | — | — | — | ||
| "Maybe Baby" | C | 17 | 8 | 4 | |
| "Rave On!" | BH | 37 | — | 5 | |
| "Think It Over" | C | 27 | 9 | 11 | |
| "Girl On My Mind" | BH | — | — | — | |
| "Early in the Morning" | 32 | — | 17 | ||
| "It’s So Easy" | C | — | — | — | |
| "Heartbeat" | BH | 82 | 4 | 30 | |
| 1959 | "It Doesn't Matter Anymore" | 13 | — | 1 | |
| "Peggy Sue Got Married" | — | — | — | ||
| 1960 | "True Love Ways" | — | — | 25 | |
| 1962 | "Reminiscing" | 68 | — | 17 | |
| 1963 | "Brown Eyed Handsome Man" | 113A | — | 3 | |
| "Bo Diddley" | 116A | — | 4 | ||
| 1965 | "What to Do" | — | — | — | |
| 1969 | "Love is Strange" | — | — | — | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart. | |||||
- 1.^ Denotes a release that charted on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart.
[edit] Guest appearance
Buddy Holly also played lead guitar on "Real Wild Child" by Ivan; "Ivan" was a pseudonym for the Crickets' drummer, Jerry Allison. The 1958 single reached #68 on the U.S. chart. Bobby Vee and the Crickets' "Someday (When I'm Gone From You)" was released in 1962, and charted for a single week at #99.
[edit] References
- ^ a b c "Buddy Holly". The Official Charts Company. http://www.theofficialcharts.com/artist/_/buddy%20holly/. Retrieved January 28, 2011.
- ^ a b "Crickets". The Official Charts Company. http://www.theofficialcharts.com/artist/_/crickets/. Retrieved January 28, 2011.
- ^ a b "Buddy Holly & the Crickets". The Official Charts Company. http://www.theofficialcharts.com/artist/_/buddy%20holly%20%26%20the%20crickets/. Retrieved January 28, 2011.
- ^ "Buddy Holly: Charts & Awards - Billboard Albums". Allmusic. United States: Rovi Corporation. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p4502/charts-awards/billboard-albums. Retrieved December 31, 2010.
- ^ "Buddy Holly" (ASP). New Zealand Charts. Hung Medien. http://charts.org.nz/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Buddy+Holly. Retrieved June 21, 2011.
- ^ a b "Gold & Platinum Searchable Database" (PHP). Recording Industry Association of America. http://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?content_selector=gold-platinum-searchable-database.
- ^ "Top LP's: 150 Best Selling Monaural LP's". Billboard Music Week Vol. 74 (No. 36): Cover. September 8, 1962. http://books.google.com/books?id=dhcEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PP2&dq=%22CRL+57326%22&hl=en&ei=qf7fTdbJIoTQiAKFgdXZCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDkQ6AEwAzge#v=onepage&q=%22CRL%2057326%22&f=false. Retrieved May 27, 2011.
- ^ a b c d e f "Certified Awards Search" (ASPX). British Phonographic Industry. http://www.bpi.co.uk/certifiedawards/search.aspx.
- ^ a b Ashley Brown, ed. (1990). "The Buddy Holly Story". The Marshall Cavendish Illustrated History of Popular Music. Volume 2 (Reference ed.). Freeport, New York: Marshall Cavendish. p. 189. ISBN 1854360153.
- ^ "Buddy Holly - Billboard Singles". Allmusic. United States: Rovi Corporation. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p4502/charts-awards/billboard-singles. Retrieved December 31, 2010.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (1992). Joel Whitburn's Bubbling Under the Hot 100: 1959-1985. Record Research. ISBN 0898200822.
- ^ "Buddy Holly Discography" at hotshotdigital.com. Accessed 2011 August 7.
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