The Crickets & Buddy Holly - The Chirping Crickets (Hybrid SACD, Mono)
COMPILATION
Buddy Holly – lead vocals, lead guitar, acoustic guitar , backing vocals
Jerry Allison – drums, card-box percussion and backing vocals
Joe B. Mauldin – contrabass, , backing vocals
Niki Sullivan – rhythm guitar, , backing vocals
Larry Welborn – contrabass
The Picks (Bill Pickering, John Pickering and Bob Lapham) - backing vocals,
Ramona and Gary Tollett – backing vocals
1 Hybrid SACD
Original analog Master tape : YES
Mono
Studio
Label : Analogue Productions
Original Label : Brunswick
Recorded February 25 – September 28, 1957
Produced by Norman Petty
Remastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio
Originally released in 1957
Reissued in 2017
Tracks :
1. The Chirping Crickets
2. Oh, Boy!
3. Not Fade Away
4. You've Got Love
5. Maybe Baby
6. It's Too Late
7. Tell Me How
8. That'll Be The Day
9. I'm Looking For Someone To Love
10. An Empty Cup (And A Broken Date)
11. Send Me Some Lovin'
12. Last Night
13. Rock Me My Baby
14. Buddy Holly
15. I'm Gonna Love You Too
16. Peggy Sue
17. Look At Me
18. Listen to Me
19. Valley of Tears
20. Ready Teddy
21. Everyday
22. Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues
23. Words of Love
24. You're So Square (Baby I Don't Care)
25. Rave On!
26. Little Baby
Awards:
1000 Recordings you must hear before you die - Ranked 8
Reviews :
« The debut album by the Crickets and the only one featuring Buddy Holly released during his lifetime, The "Chirping" Crickets contains the group's number one single "That'll Be the Day" and its Top Ten hit "Oh, Boy!." Other Crickets classics include "Not Fade Away," "Maybe Baby," and "I'm Looking for Someone to Love." The rest of the 12 tracks are not up to the standard set by those five, but those five are among the best rock & roll songs of the 1950s or ever, making this one of the most significant album debuts in rock & roll history, ranking with Elvis Presley and Meet the Beatles. » AllMusic Review by William Ruhlmann
"An equally impressive, classics-laden album to pair with Buddy Holly's eponymous LP, this included 'Oh Boy!,' 'Not Fade Away,' 'That'll Be The Day,' and nine others which inspired The Beatles, The Hollies, The Rolling Stones, The Searchers and every other British Invasion band. Sixty years after it appeared, this still sounds fresh and innovative, while Analogue Productions' superlative transfer is one of the best sounding I've heard yet - and I have been collecting Holly LPs for 52 years. Apparently this and its sibling will be issued as 45 RPM doubles — how can they possibly sound even better? This ranks as one of the greatest debut LPs ever." Ken Kessler, Hi Fi News, February 2018.
"...the choice to purchase these Analogue Productions reissues boils down two considerations: whether you want the music configured as it was first released and whether these LPs sufficiently improve on the sound of earlier releases. ... Analogue Productions presents the original running order and artwork, and the covers, from Stoughton Printing, are first-rate. If all of that doesn't have you reaching for your wallet, then the improvement in sound should. Kevin Gray's remastering breathes new life into the music, enhancing tonality, dynamics and retrieval of inner detail. The sound of these reissues easily outstrips that of any prior releases." Dennis Davis, The Audio Beat, April 28, 2017