| Subject: Re: Buddy Holly (& the Picks) |
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Mike C
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Date Posted: Mon January 21, 2008 00:28:49
In reply to:
Scot Dennin
's message, "Re: Buddy Holly (& the Picks)" on Sun January 20, 2008 15:25:21
Scott, answering your question.
I was a teenager in 1957 and it’s certainly true that at that time we just assumed that background vocals were sung by the Crickets themselves. Information was hard to come by in those days.
I notice on his website, John Pickering says that the Picks had no recognition until 1977, when Norman Petty revealed that they had sung on the records. I would dispute this because those of us in the UK who were members of John Beecher’s Buddy Holly Appreciation Society knew this from his newsletters from (in my case) the early 60s, when there was a big Holly revival here.
Background vocals were part of the Petty plan to give records released under the name of the Crickets a different feel and sound to those released under the name of Buddy Holly (Rave On being an exception). Surely, there is a world of difference between this and the subsequent opportunistic overdubbing decades later of recordings that were never intended to have this treatment and have become much loved, in some cases rightly attracting the tag of “classic”.
Two very different situations, surely?
If you’ve read the threads (including the one that was deleted) you’ll see that a major concern to us here is the extent to which these overdubs have saturated the UK market, squeezing out the originals and now starting to become the first choice of radio DJs as examples of Holly's work. People believe this is counter productive to the Holly legacy. I feel that folks overseas just don’t appreciate the extent of this here.
Mike
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