OT/ Buddy holly phone call

[Jay Bass]

Hi,
Not realy Shadows related But you may find this interesting?

Here is a link to an interesting phone conversation between Buddy Holly and
Decca Records. An amazing piece of Rock & Roll history:

"In 1956, Buddy Holly traveled to Nashville to
record several songs. One of the songs he recorded was "That'll Be The
Day", but the producer assigned to his sessions (Owen Bradley) hated
rock n' roll, and did a terrible job on the song. After that, Buddy
traveled to New Mexico and re-recorded "That'll Be The Day" (the
version that became the monster hit) at a different studio with his
own (superior) arrangement, but according to his contract with Decca,
he couldn't release it, because Decca owned all rights to his music.
He decided to call Decca, to try reason with them, and he secretly
taped his conversation. They refused to give him the rights to his own
song, but he went ahead and violated his contract. Here is the
conversation he secretly taped."

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/01/30/bu ... cretl.html

Regards jay

[neil2726]

Very interesting conversation - thanks for posting!

[kipper]

screwed or what . peter

[des mcneill]

Thank you for posting this Jay,I am a great Buddy fan and have never heard this before.
Des.

[ala1940]

This phone call is probablly the one on the triple CD pack "Not Fade Away- Buddy Holly 1957 : The complete recordings" El Toro Records 2008 ETCD 1016. Well worth a listen for any Buddy Holly fan.