Buddy Holly

Buddy Holly was not a 'rock 'n' roll'* singer; he and his band were country musicians who played some 'hauntingly evocative' (to use a stomach churning and toe curlingly hackneyed phrase that is none the less appropriate) songs:





This is a little too fast but still sounds just right:







And finally, what is probably my most liked 'rock 'n' roll' song and one of the few that I feel was actually a rock 'n' roll song:



I lent my Buddy Holly albums to a slim hipped girl in very tight jeans, at art college, about thirty five years ago. I've no idea what she did with them.


* A meaningless term used in the nineteen fifties as a catch all for various disparate forms of lively music that were not obviously jazz.