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The Crickets: Still In Style - The Complete US Decca Recordings (CD)

1-CD with 20-page booklet, 23 tracks. Playing time approx. 52 mns.

The Crickets' much-requested U.S. Decca recordings are all finally together in one place. 22 tracks including I Fought The Law, More Than I Can Say, Peggy Sue Got Married, Love's Made A Fool Of You,
Baby My Heart, Great Balls Of Fire, Rockin' Pneumonia, Ting-a-Ling, and Smooth Guy. Essential for Buddy Holly fans and lovers of that fabulous Tex-Mex sound!

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  • Interpret: The Crickets

  • Album titlle: Still In Style - The Complete US Decca Recordings (CD)

  • Genre Rock'n'Roll

  • Label Bear Family Records

  • Preiscode AH
  • Artikelart CD

  • EAN: 4000127155993

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Crickets, The - Still In Style - The Complete US Decca Recordings (CD) CD 1
01Someone, SomeoneThe Crickets
02Love's Made A Fool Of YouThe Crickets
03I Fought The LawThe Crickets
04A Sweet LoveThe Crickets
05Time Will TellThe Crickets
06When You Ask About LoveThe Crickets
07DeborahThe Crickets
08Why Did You LeaveThe Crickets
09Just This OnceThe Crickets
10Ting-A-LingThe Crickets
11Great Balls Of FireThe Crickets
12Rockin' Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie FluThe Crickets
13Rockin' Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu(aThe Crickets
14Smooth GuyThe Crickets
15After It's OverThe Crickets
16So You're In LoveThe Crickets
17Baby My HeartThe Crickets
18So You're In LoveThe Crickets
19Smooth GuyThe Crickets
20More Than I Can SayThe Crickets
21Baby My HeartThe Crickets
22Don't Cha KnowThe Crickets
23Peggy Sue Got MarriedThe Crickets
THE CRICKETS That’ll Be The Day (Buddy Holly) THE CRICKETS So what would Buddy... more
"The Crickets"

THE CRICKETS

That’ll Be The Day (Buddy Holly)


THE CRICKETS

So what would Buddy Holly have sounded like if he was still recording in 1963? The Crickets provide a possible answer. By 1962, former dee-jay Jerry Naylor was taking the lead vocals, and the group was rounded out by drummer Jerry Allison, lead guitarist Sonny Curtis, and pianist Glen D. Hardin (although researcher John Ingman figures that Leon Russell plays piano here). Jerry Naylor took the lead on most of the Liberty recordings until he went solo in 1965. The Crickets were astonishingly successful in the UK during the early 1960s, racking up several hits, including Carol King's Don't Ever Change, Sonny Curtis's My Little Girl, as well as Don't Try To Change Me and a revival of La Bamba. They even landed a movie role, singing My Little Girl and Teardrops Fall Like Rain in the 1962 British rock music movie, 'Just For Fun.' Here they tackle a song by their Liberty Records stablemate Jackie DeShannon and Sharon Sheeley, the girlfriend of former Liberty Records star, Eddie Cochran. It first appeared as a single, then on the UK-only LP, 'A Collection,' in 1965.

At the time this was issued in the UK, first on a single and then on a UK-only album, 'A Collection,' the Crickets were a hot item in Europe, as indeed was their former lead singer, Buddy Holly. In the USA, Lonely Avenue was issued as a single in January 1964 coupled with You Can't Be In-Between, but in the UK Lonely Avenue was released two months later, coupled with the just-recorded Playboy. The latter was an early effort by David Gates, who became the founder and chief composer for the '70s soft rock group, Bread. The son of a band director and piano teacher in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Gates grew up with classical music, and was reading music at age Five. By high school, he was proficient on piano, guitar and bass, and was soon making rockabilly records for East-West, Mala, and other labels. Just weeks before Playboy was recorded, Gates had his first hit as a songwriter when The Murmaids took his Popsicles And Icicles into the US Top 10.

 

Recorded on June 14, 1963 and released just over one month later, hopes must have been high for April Avenue, but the song has been curiously neglected through the years, and rarely reissued until now. Sonny Curtis took the lead vocal on what amounts to a complete short story related in under two-and-a-half minutes. He was becoming an ace songwriter. "When I was a kid,” he says, "I wanted to be a big country star. A local promoter put me on a show with Hank Snow. I went on right before Hank, and to impress him, I sang a lot of his hits. I was so dumb, I didn't realize that was not the thing to do. Hank's road manager told me that if I wanted to make it, I would have to find my own songs, and if I didn't know any songwriters, I would have to write them myself. I never became a big country star, but I did learn to write songs.” He wrote Walk Right Back for the Everly Brothers, and in 1964 the Bobby Fuller Four revived his Crickets song, I Fought The Law. In 1980 Leo Sayer revived another old Crickets song, More Than I Can Say, and later that decade Sonny walked away with several awards for Keith Whitley's big country hit, I'm No Stranger To The Rain, but his biggest payday probably came when he wrote and recorded the theme song to 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show.'

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Customer evaluation for "Still In Style - The Complete US Decca Recordings (CD)"
23 Feb 2022

past Buddy Holly era!

Top notch release by the Crickets - includes in my opinion the best version of 'Rockin' Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu'! A load full of great Rock & Roll and Teenage music!

23 Feb 2022

"I Fought the Law" started here.

These are the songs recorded by the Crickets in their immediate post-Buddy Holly period. One of those songs would go on to have a long, lustrous history and is still remembered to this day. That one is "I Fought the Law", made most famous by the Bobby Fuller 4. An advantage of adding this CD to your collection is hearing where this great song started.

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Tracklist
Crickets, The - Still In Style - The Complete US Decca Recordings (CD) CD 1
01 Someone, Someone
02 Love's Made A Fool Of You
03 I Fought The Law
04 A Sweet Love
05 Time Will Tell
06 When You Ask About Love
07 Deborah
08 Why Did You Leave
09 Just This Once
10 Ting-A-Ling
11 Great Balls Of Fire
12 Rockin' Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu
13 Rockin' Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu(a
14 Smooth Guy
15 After It's Over
16 So You're In Love
17 Baby My Heart
18 So You're In Love
19 Smooth Guy
20 More Than I Can Say
21 Baby My Heart
22 Don't Cha Know
23 Peggy Sue Got Married