Buddy Holly - A Nostalgia Feast...

[vetuste_ennemi]

...for VE (and, I guess, many people of my generation).

Did you catch it? BBC4 last night 9.00 pm - "Buddy Holly: Rave On" (my favourite Buddy Holly song at the time).

Fascinating commentary. Didn't know that "Oh Boy" and "Rave On" were written by the prodigy Paul Anka.

[Tilly2]

I didn't know that. Thank you.

[THECORBYLOON]

VE, I looked them up and Anka didn't write either of them. Both were written by Sonny West, Bill Tilghman and Norman Petty.

[vetuste_ennemi]

I stand corrected. Thanks, Corby.

Apologies for misleading my reader.

Anka is one of the commentators in the programme. It's "It Doesn't Matter Any Morr" wot he wrote.

Dons Everley and McLean are other commentators.

[tonyav]

I think I'll watch this on iPlayer tomorrow.

[THECORBYLOON]

Seen it yesterday and Don McLean needs a haircut...

[bhg481]

Another programme to look out for - "The Music of Buddy Holly and the Crickets", Sky Arts, Thursday 7th Feb 2pm to 4pm.

[vetuste_ennemi]

Thanks, BHG.

[goodgoalie]

....but Paul Anka did write the English lyrics for My Way, from the French song Comme D'Habitude

[Khandro]

I have 'Oh Boy' on an original 78 rpm record, which must surely be very rare - and also might be valuable - is it?

[shoota]

I'm a brown eyed handsome man...

[shoota]

Oh the frolics I had accompanied by Buddy, Eddie Cochrane also.

[Mamyalynne]

Can find 2 on EBay quickly Khandro - £45 & £50

[Khandro]

Thanks Mamya, - very comforting. I'd better go and see what else is in that pile. :0)

[tonyav]

shoota Oh the frolics I had accompanied by Buddy, Eddie Cochrane also.

Better frolics accompanied by the walrus of lurrrve himself Barry White ( on the back seat of a 1970 Ford Capri ), shoota ;-)

[shoota]

The bonnet maybe, couldn't get in the back....
(Flame red 2.0s....)

[tonyav]

Jade Green 3.0 GT XLR. push the front seats forward ;-)

[vetuste_ennemi]

Ah, I see a serious thread about a seminal influence of popular culture has turned into reminscences about adolsescent sexual encounters.

I associate "Raining in My Heart" with Bernice, a charmingly precocious fourteen year old, and one of my earliest disappointments in love. But personal embarrassment stops my going into further detail.

[shoota]

'Seminal' is therefore appropriate....

[Mamyalynne]

Don't set them off V_E, it turns into a cross between Auto Trader and the Kama Sutra.

[tonyav]

LOL ^^^^