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Buddy Holly and His Recording History
( This entry is not intended to substitute for or replace entries for either Buddy Holly or The Crickets but to provide some information of common relavence to both of those topics )

Buddy Holly is one of the most influential figures in Rock and Roll and Rock music history. His major recording period only lasted from early 1956 to December 1958 with the great majority of his releases occurring from mid 1957 to just before his death on Feb 2nd 1959. This was a little over eighteen months and over this period his output was prolific.

This was facilitated by two factors. First most of his 1956 recordings for Decca Records went unreleased until the success of the single That'll be the Day on the Brunswick Records label in mid 1957 when they were released over about a year as several singles and an L.P.. Second his post Decca songs were released under both the attribution of "Buddy Holly" on the Coral Records label and as a member of the group "The Crickets" (Brunswick). This meant that, using both contracts , he could have concurrent record releases. Because of these two factors from around mid 1957 to his death some fifteen singles, four extended play records and three L.P.s were released