Buddy Holly 'That'll be the Day' Decca DL8707
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Buddy Holly 'That'll be the day' Decca US DL8707 ...here we have a mega rare LP original issue from the late 1950's Jacket is in reasonable shape, a bit dirty on the back but could be cleaned with a 1-2" split on the bottom left corner. Other than that, all edges are good . Vinyl has a few superficial marks which do not affect play in fact it plays well bright and crisply without any jumps especially so for an LP from 1958...both labels have slight damage(see pic) (info gleaned from the internet) The tendency of most critics is to dismiss this album, comprised as it is of the songs from Holly's 1956 Nashville sessions, which yielded a somewhat too tentative, country-oriented sound that suited neither him nor the public. In actual fact, at least ten of the 11 songs on this LP (the one exception being the ballad "Girl on My Mind") have aged almost as well as anything that Holly ever recorded. "Rock Around With Ollie Vee," "Blue Days, Black Nights," "Ting-A-Ling," "I'm Changing All Those Changes," "Modern Don Juan," "Love Me," "Don't Come Back Knockin'," and "Midnight Shift" are all decent, solid early rock & roll; he sounds too countrified by about half on much of the record, especially on the early version of "That'll Be the Day," but these were not bad records, even if they weren't going to break his talent out to a mass audience. What's more, at least at the time of his first sessions in January of 1956, few white artists and even fewer producers at major labels had yet figured out what mix of country, R&B, and blues worked on a rock & roll record. Given all of this, this is a better than decent album with one real gem ("Rock Around With Ollie Vee"), and if not for the fact that they mostly feature a completely different lineup of musicians and were also contractually separate from the rest of his eventual output for Coral/Brunswick/Decca, roughly half of the songs here could have been filtered into either of Holly's later official LPs without doing any violence to the newer material. Even the ballad "You Are My One Desire" -- though it doesn't really resemble much else that Holly ever did -- is given a hauntingly passionate performance. That'll Be the Day isn't a revelatory piece of rock & roll history, but it's a more substantial and enjoyable prelude to the main body of Holly's career than it's usually given credit for being, extending his serious legacy backward a full album. [In 1967, Decca Records reissued That'll Be the Day as The Great Buddy Holly, with a new cover and stripping off the song "Ting-A-Ling." In 1975, British MCA gathered together the 11 songs off of this album and an alternate take of "Rock Around With Ollie Vee" from a different session and released it as The Nashville Sessions.] ~ Bruce Eder, Rovi That’ll Be The Day is the third album from American rock and roll icon Buddy Holly. Decca, Holly’s first major record label, after failing to produce a hit single from Holly’s early recordings, packaged these 1956 tunes after he had some success with recordings from the Brunswick and Coral labels, i.e. the previously released single "That'll Be the Day". This is the last album released before his death, February 3, 1959 and is rare among collectors; some mint copies are priced at $1,000. There can't be many of these originals left...Good luck and happy bidding...
M Mint perfect condition The disc and cover in original saleable condition
EX Excellent has obviously been played but shows little evidence The cover/sleeve may show very slight usage...but still almost as new
VG Very Good the cover shows some wear and probably ringwear the disc shows lots of usage but still plays fine ...might crackle...
G Good the cover shows a lot of wear and tear ....disc shows lots of wear and may have marks and or scratches but will still play just but very crackly
P Poor...the cover is in a poor state might be torn or very grubby...disc shows severe usage and might not play ...and only worth it until you can get a better one...will be cheap!
On 26-Aug-11 at 17:01:12 BST, seller added the following information: Just to let you know If this Lp does not reach a 'reasonable' bid amount by 15 hours before the end I will have to end the listing early...sorry you have been warned...!!!
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