buddy holly - It Doesn't Matter Any More - The Best of Buddy

[MsKamalaD]

i came looking for the original singer after American idol.... love the song...

[ryannoviant]

American Idol brought me here!!

nice song!!

[broadmoor7771]

brilliant!!!!

[suburbanblackchick]

Love him so much. He left us way too soon. Buddy was genuine and so amazing. This is my favorite song. So loved and missed. RIP Buddy

[blueticecho]

I wonder if Buddy Holley felt this at the time he recorded it ? They say that it takes a worried man to sing a worried song.

[Robb5994]

my fav buddy song. polished, brill

[blva888]

Loved this song ever since I was 7 back in 83.

[EVODIKA]

Buddy had Ask Paul Anke to write this for him,he wanted to get into the big sound,

amazed Paul wrote it and Buddy kick it out.One great song.

Paul also wrote words of love with Buddy. And to the paigerybirdies once you hear Buddy he will amaze anyone.

[Mackingcole]

Paul Anka orchestrated it with pizzicato strings, as Buddy hadn't much time to record it-if my memory serves me right?

[DallasDirkable]

love this song!

[Istuckonroof]

This helped me get over major heartbreak in 2011, back when I was 13.

[jonnytheoasisfan]

@paigerybirdies15 strings and brasses behind buddys singin'

[jonnytheoasisfan]

I like the orchestration. who made it up?

[triptych3z]

@jonnytheoasisfan .Dick Jacobs Orchestra. :)

[jonnytheoasisfan]

@paigerybirdies15 so.. Im 19 .. its like 6 turn'd over

[jonnytheoasisfan]

@jonnytheoasisfan or around.. whatever :D

[Paxo469]

Just a great song from start to finish,fantastic!

[magdagra1]

waylon is better



[kellyfella]

buddy holly will live forever....... rock on!!!!!

[MovieMan891]

Buddy Holly dominated Rock and Roll, a few country influenced songs like this one, and topped the R&B charts, Harlem's Apollo mistakingly booked Buddy Holly for a gig thinking they were a black R&B group!

[ItsMattyWattam]

Forget Elvis, Buddy Holly would of been the king if he didn't die... :(

[conor123987]

@baldandold Atop his pedestal in the Rock 'N Roll Hall of Fame

[baldandold]

if he hadnt died at 22 i wonder where he would be now...

[SavageAngel31]

This song is dedicated to someone who did me dirty and led me on. Love you forever Buddy. RIP.

[cawkanos]

Buddy your music is just important to me now as it was all those years ago, R I P Buddy, miss you so much. Love from Australia.

[buddynme]

Loved you now for 53 years, and I'll surely love you forever, dear, sweet Buddy.

Even yet, whenever I'm upset as I was in the early morning hours of February 3rd, 1959, I turn again and again to your powerful voice to restore my sense of well being. And as I had bad news this week, I need you now as never before...

[Metanoia112]

music reminds me of always sunny in philadelphia

[TheArmenian13]

Holl(e)y recorded more good music in two years than most artists record in their entire lifetimes. There is absolutely no comparison with what he did then and the "artists" of today. Not every song was a #1 hit but his legacy is not in those rankings but rather in how he helped shape rocka-billy music and early R&R

[ReapWhatYouSow1]

blueticecho - Buddy put it better.

[Kaizo45]

The fact that Buddy's songs on youtube tend to have so few dislikes is a testament to how good he was.

[blueticecho]

I've always called this song the I had enough and I'm outta here lady.

[therealjoebloggs]

Buddy Holly probably would have had a career track similar to Conway Twitty, i.e. primarily a country artist but able to do crossover stuff, Buddy's stuff being more pop-country from the start in a Glenn Campbell vein. Imagine what might have happened if Buddy Holly and Willie Nelson had worked together, coupla TX good-ol'-boys.

[jalamin250]

@therealjoebloggs id even take it one step further this to me is the original roots of rap music, buddy holly could flow an keep a crowd going, this song to me is about as gangster as radio play would have allowed for.. having a live band of talented musicians just makes this so much more pure an wholesome

[1951jmc]

its raining in my heart

[TheSilvergold45]

RECORDED ON OCT 21 1958 AT THE DICK JACOBS RECORDING SESSIONS IN NEW YORK.. WRITTEN BY PAUL ANKA.. AS SOON AS BUDDY HEARD THE DEMO OF THIS SONG HE WAS SO EXCITED HE TALKED DICK INTO  RECORDING IT. IT HAS BECOME ONE OF HIS BEST AND A CLASSIC BUDDY HOLLY SONG!!!!!!

[kdspttex]

This helped get me over major heartbreak in 1959

[postshanna]

@kdspttex dang ur hold bro

[gunny426plymouth]

@kdspttex Me too and I was born in '94

[ocduff]

Released Jan 5, 1959. As of Jan 31, this song wasn't on the Top 40 charts in Green Bay, WI, where Holly performed that night. At the Top 5 of the Green Bay WDUZ charts: A Lover's Question/Clyde McPhatter, Manhattan Spiritual/Reg Owens, Stagger Lee/Lloyd Price, Donna/Richie Valens, Nola/Billy Williams. Buddy had been off the charts since August, '58. That must've been on his mind that night, and yet he must've known that he'd made something memorable. Would've loved to have seen him sing it!

[smokiebird06]

Now here is a true musical genius, and dead at 22. What a loss.

[GazzaFJ27]

@smokiebird06 indeed, so sad even now, God bless!

[fmnma1]

Having listened and loved both Richy, and Buddy... Buddy was much much better. I am sure they are rocking the heavens.. RIP!

[Yeppy97]

@fmnma1 well ritchie only had his career for 6 months so he was experimenting with music so we couldnt really judge him and he was doing great and buddy had his career for a couple of years so yeah haha but i like them both :)

[fmnma1]

@Yeppy97

You could be right. Hard to say what would have come of Valens, I do like a few of his songs, no doubt. Buddy, has so many great tunes. One in particular,

"Do you remember baby, last September... well I guess it doesn't matter anymore.. There's no use in me a cryinnggg I've done everything and now I'm sick of trying"

Well you get the point. Agreed, both are fantastic though. They will live in music history, forever. The 50s sure were a great era for music.

[Yeppy97]

@fmnma1 I agree. I love Buddy's voice it was very suited for Rock, it was smooth yet in some songs its very rough. So he was able to do those loud and dancing songs and those quiet happy ones. That's what I love about his music. I admire Ritchie, considering at the time it was rare for him to be someone thousands of people look up to. Also the fact that I live near Panorama is also interesting. I like them both and others too, just a shame most of these famous singers died young.

[fmnma1]

@Yeppy97

Yes, that plane crash was so very devastating to the music industry, but music will live forever. Of course I love the 60s, 80s, 90s and today... Strange how I fall in love with a song the second I hear it. As a kid, growing up in the 80s, my Mother a hippie, I fell in love with the 50s as well. Cheers to good times, and good music.

[Yeppy97]

@fmnma1 Very true, this music did inspire other decades to, like the Beatles covered many artists including Buddy. But I was born late 90's towards the 2000's so I don't have much connection with this type of music, considering the fact my parents didn't live here at the time, which I think can suck but I do still like those type of music you pointed out. Even the ones today but I usually go by lyrics so my taste can be pretty much everywhere haha.

[LedBeatles9O9]

Oh man, it's been a long time since I've heard this.

[skinnyirishman]

every girl i've ever known. lol

[Irwiin161]

I LOVE this song so... I'm going to listen to it 100 TIMES IN A ROW.

xD

j'adore comment il fait une petite pause à la fin de chaque ligne

[gerardusch]

Many modern artists could learn a few things here ....

[echofarmma]

Is it me or is this one of his better songs that the radio stations barely play?

[2ausome]

why did he have to die?! D:

[princessbabyfirefly]

im 18 and this is deffinatly the best of all buddy holly's songs :D

[09bnunez]

TRUE LOVE WAYS WAS HIS LAST IT WAS RELEASE AFTER HE DIED.....PRETTY SONG THAT1...A FINAL DEPARTING LOVE SONG...SO YOUNG SO TALENTED...SO LONG BUDDY...BUT YOU LIVE IN THE HEART OF  YOUR FANS ..BUDDY HOLLY LIVES ON!!!!!!!!1

[blueagate]

Those rotten bastards blocked True Love Ways! Damn it I hate VEVO! Go soak your head somewhere but get it out of our asses and let us get on with listening to what music we like.

[timminsmeet]

sad to say that this was his last recording

[metalliholic]

@timminsmeet I heard that he recorded Love is Strange the night before the crash. In the hotel with his personal recorder. They later added the other instruments and released the song.

[JohnAGood]

This was one of the first pop records to feature classical musicans. The musicians were taken fron the NBC and New York Philharmonic. Apparently they were not that keen to take part but Buddy made the recording stood in front of them just as if it were a concert rather than recording the vocal part in a seperate booth and took complete charge of the situation. In the end everyone was happy as they completed the recording in just one take.

[yankeefan1961]

This song was written for Buddy by Paul Anka who gave up his composer's royalties to Buddy's family after he died

[JohnAGood]

@yankeefan1961 Apparently Anka only turned up with the song the night before the recording. There wasn't time to do much work on the orchestral backing, that's why a rather simple pizzicato arrangement on the strings was used. What a masterstroke this turned out to be as it works perfectly. Of course this recording does add weight to the argument that Buddy had he lived was moving away from Rock n Roll in the same way Elvis Presley did. How sad we shall never know.

[yankeefan1961]

@JohnAGood ...JAG, I really feel that there is some sort of divine intervention that takes these wonderful people from us to make us make these people live far beyond their years in a very honorable way. I wouldn't want to see Elvis, old and wrinkled and possibly down-trodden. I'm not saying that's how he would be today, but i wouldn't want to chance it. Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, James Dean and the like are far to valuable to their craft. It is our duty to discuss them.

[tokyowhat]

Crimen Sollicitationis

[larry11098]

if there is a heaven, and I can get there, the concerts should be fricken awesome

[TheMusicman12ize]

a true pop classic song by 1 of the best singers of the 50s-60s love buddy holly. off to see the buddy holly story on monday in cardiff i cant wait 4 it

[katrastrophy]

my kid is 10 and this guy is his favorite,timeless.

[Evileddiex123]

@katrastrophy i'm 12 & i Love Buddy Holly... i carry my Fender Sunburst stratocaster in school even though i'm not supposed too. RAVE ON!!!

[katrastrophy]

@Evileddiex123 He he....good you like guitar but better not get it taken away ! Hopefully you will always know good music then as well,GL buddy.

[Evileddiex123]

@katrastrophy almost did.... he

[Evileddiex123]

@katrastrophy when i grow up i'm going to be just like Buddy Holly :D

[katrastrophy]

@Evileddiex123 good ,he seemed like a gentle dude-good choice,peace.

[bodywhomp98]

weird how he wrote all these great songs, yet cover a song [by Paul Anka] and outdo another genius. this month I've been in yet another funk. Too many dead rock heroes. moral of all this has been? stay out of chartered airplanes1 And that Surf ballroom in Iowa still hosts an annual winter dance party. insane. Miss all the dead legends I've seen taken away too soon.

[summertia99]

this man was a genius

[seggy41]

The last of the best

[goldcup11]

am i right in thinking this was the first british posthumous no.1 hit?Great record either way.

[gamster68]

great song ,strange to believe 3 years earlier in 1956 he was recording cutting edge Rockabilly tracks like "Midnight Shift " and " Blue Days,Black Nights" , gotta love Buddy.

[shakopeemike]

Really a great song. This song was written by Paul Anka in 1958. Some reports have this as being recorded in October '58, a few others say it was recorded in a New York studio session for Norman Petty in January 1959, the month before Buddy was killed in the plane crash. Who knows... Just a really great song. I think this song, and "True Love Ways" show the genus of Holly and where his music was headed. Still sounds fresh today! Buddy was one of the greats!

[tryingtobeNaboo]

eva cassidy's version is better, in fact it's better than anything ever

[kovachfg]

What a great talent. Writer, producer and performer. Sad to think what new creations we shall never get to hear.

[Chimchimchu]

this song is beast

[joseph60us]

This one was on the charts the day of the plane crash. Buddy recorded this in mid-October 1958 with the NY Philharmonic (the Crickets were back in Texas), and despite very little rehearsal time, this one was recorded in ONE take. The pizzicato strings are just amazing. Thanks for posting this great record!

[Gadgetnieuwscom]

The Freddie and the Dreamers versions rocks!

[3kencloud]

Always been a Buddy Holly fan; I mean HUGE fan. This was his last hit in the US and I would cry when it played. Recently, I heard Eva Cassidy's cover of this (Paul Anka) song and I have to say, she nailed it. BOTH were gone too soon.

[yayglitterbabyyay]

omg i <3 when he says theres no use in me cryn n he uses a cryn voice when he sings it i <3 it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[GANNAMEDE]

Nothing beats the original!

[cunnidvd]

Buddy was the greatest. But Linda ronstadt knocked this one out of the park.

[honeyman1964]

@cunnidvd yes,she does it much better,but if you were in that age group when Buddy was singing,then you would probably like his version.I also dont like the music on Buddys version,just my opinion.

[pinheadq41]

That fabulous hiccup, only Holly could do this and make it sound so natural. Still remember the day and the time I first heard of his death. Wonder what he would have done with his music? What a shame.

Thanks for posting.

pin

[cornflake1559]

@007home1 fuck you u scumbag how dare you write that on a buddy holly song and i love this tune :-)

[Diogenes1360]

Talk about a premonition of things that will come to pass!

[007home1]

i tutch kids



[cruefan77]

man i love this song

[Hope111ification]

classic, this heped me break up with my bitch of an ex gf

[Edfiki86]

@Hope111ification HELL YEAH!

[sparwood8]

Yeah I was in grade eight when he died. So why do I get goose bumps and tears when I hear his music?

Because he is unequaled 'til this day

[Mowac]

Paul Anka gave this song to Buddy when he was living in New York during the famous string sessions with producer,Dick Jacobs. Buddy was so eager to do the song that he literally rushed in the door of the session he was doing and begged Jacobs to do this song on the spot. And the rest is history.

[alanpacy]

Love, love love this tune. 

[timminsmeet]

i remember when this song came out hell i remember where i was when it came out

[Bajandoug]

One of the most influential players of that or any era. Sad that he passed away so young, he would have made such a great contribution to the music we enjoy today.

[fridayap]

hmmmm. thanks for the post!

[angelk002]

I guess it doesn't matter anymore.

[mrtautriadelta]

the voice of an angel...

[alanmk5]

nothing really mattered after buddy holly died

[pogsboo]

@alanmk5 What the Fcin hell you on about???My mother loved him as a singer...just like the milions for MJ.....your a small mined person...and a Jerk...

[oldschoolsinger]

By far his best hit, and one of the gems of the rock n' roll era. The strings being played, and plucked during the verse are genius. Absolutely classic

[bicnarok]

Absolutely brilliant.

[katyywithawhyy]

I'm only 15 and I love him and Ritchie Valens they're both absolutely amazing :)

[shirls2]

A Brilliant song i wish he was still alive to tell him how good he is love Shirls xx

[edjames04]

how amazing would Buddy have been in the 70's, the musical arrangements, full orchestras, could have been a big time producer.

[karlzips1]

@edjames04  well said friend ive always thought the same ... so sad to lose so young....

[xmrsmitch00ukx]

i love hearing my brother singin this he sounds so much like buddy holly

[RachelJenni]

Im 14 but I love him! love this song <3

[TJB63]

Back in 1974 when I was 11, My Mom bought me a Buddy Holly album, Yea they had Albums back in those days. Anyway I've been hooked ever since. Buddy was way ahead of his time and was an influance to none than The Beatles, The Rolling Stones to name a couple. Great Music and this is one of my favorites.

[christianphi]

@TJB63 dont forget the hollies heck they named they're band after him that definitely shows buddy's influence

[sillygurl73]

All of his songs are SOOO good! :D It's sad hes gone now though :'( I also love how he does that hiccup kinda sound ! =) R.I.P. Buddy. Your music will NEVER die! <3

[mericontrary]

Very cool. My dad was a big Buddy Holly fan and played him for me all the time. It's good to hear this song again.

[Apfan123123]

Great

[BINKS4201]

GOT THAT RIGHT

[yogafan6500]

One of Buddy Holly's last great hits.

[oldieschick6]

@yogafan6500 Yes, and it was written by Paul Anka.