Buddy Holly & The Crickets - Maybe Baby live 1958 on BBC's "Off The Record".

[1965walker]

What a wonderful post, thank you so much!

[akatsku]

My favourite version of Maybe Baby. Nobody can sing and rock like him. Buddy was and will be the best. I'm very glad if you read this comment, Buddy!

Maybe Buddy you will come back some day...



[NostalgicTimeMan]

that is such a sick ass guitar!

[tbirdtim]

Buddy Holly was the real deal, to say the least. This raw recording clearly demonstrates what Norman Petty heard (the diamond in the rough) when all those cats from Nashville wrote him off. Thanks for sharing. Kudos to Cricket drummer Jerry Allison, one of the nicest people I've ever met, and a pioneer drummer who does not often get the recognition that he truly deserves!

[Iconius1]

Iam just a little younger than Buddy would have been if he lived... I was born in Lubbock and was lucky.... I got to run with Buddy and Waylon for a while.... in those days they were just regular guys to me.... I wish I would have had a camera and used it back then....

[Condewest]

I'm 28 and I will always include this on my wife's mix CD!!!! Great song!

[sgtlzy]

Buddy was nearsighted (myopic) just looking thru his glasses--couldn't see at distances.

Oh, if he could have known the far reaches of his music.

[KlayyJayy]

0 dislikes.... yeah that's right

[Thule000]

see-ah-hee .....awesome

[dannyaingefan]

@neatania You're Very welcome and I couldn't agree more :) Rave On!!!

[JoeTakeHolly]

WHAT A GREAT SOUND AS ALWAYS GOOD OLD BUDDY WHAT CAN i SAY ]

[Chancelander]

This is killer, thanks for the upload. I'll tell ya what, I hear Buddy's influence ALL OVER the Beatles' Star Club tapes. That raw propulsion that you hear on this BBC stuff, the Fabs had it down and went gunning for it every time they hit the boards back then. Buddy taught 'em all, God bless him.

[Shoknifeman]

oops that should say the hit version was recorded in '58, not '48 =_=' (In an airplane hanger, of all things...Buddy loved the building's accoustics!)

[beatlejim64]

This is GREAT!!!

[mike3mra]

It seems that only artists back then sounded better live than they did in the studio... I wonder why...

...Oh that's right. Its because it's real talent and not autotuned.

[screenpuller]

Your welcome everyehere else... Texas has given y'all some of the best. Buddy Holly, T-Bone Walker, Edgar AND Johnny Winter, Janis, Kris Kristofferson, Jimmy AND Stevie Ray Vaughan, ZZ Top, Los Lonely Boys, oh, & did I mention Willie Nelson?!? I LOVE TEXAS!!! Happy birthday, Buddy, I love you.

[vikingmanMN]

This live version is awesome!!!!!

[jase1478]

yeah, this is the real thing here. Live and real. not studio bs. Wish it was a bit better quality but it's down and dirty. love it! long live Buddy. The real king

[OtisBlue22]

This live version really cooks! Distorted guitar gives it an appropriately raw rock 'n' roll edge.

[hopop313]

He's great live, from the few bits and pieces that still exist from his live performances, it's obvious he sounded better live than in the studio. Its just a shame people back in the old days didn't see the value in preserving things like they do now. Apparently that whole tv performance he did in England just got srapped not long after it was filmed! What the hell were they thinking? If someone found a copy of it lurking in some archive somewhere, it'd be worth a fortune! Maybe there is.

[neatania]

Thank you for uploading this, really nice pictures. This live version is so much better than the album one, this is more rock and so ahead of its time. As an artist myself, Buddy Holly is far and away my favourite rock legend and inspiration.

[Agent0061958]

Wow, after hearing virtually every recording Buddy Holly ever made, this is a true first for me! Until this, I had never heard the entire live performance of "Maybe Baby." It's interesting to finally hear definitively how Buddy play the lead part to this song and how it's strummed the rest the way very much like "Peggy Sue." Buddy Holly sounded great live, and it's a shame we don't have more examples of his incredible performances! Thanks for sharing this!

[JM13121]

Thanks for the upload! Love Maybe Baby!

[ode2joy4u]

I met The Picks, Nicky Sullivan and Maria Elaina back in 84. That was the year they unvailed Buddy's statue. Got to go to NorVaJack where they recorded. Vi Petty played the celesta, just as she had for, "Everyday". yeah, I cried! It was very moving. As for the backround singing and Petty's overdubbed versions... no thanks. Compared to the cleaner sound, that stuff sounds dated.

[KingTodge]

It's a damned shame the BBC didn't keep the original video footage to this one, it would have been so good to watch it. I bet they're sorry now.

[charlyW34]

"jwpick", shamelessly plugging the Picks contribution to 9 songs on the chirping crickets album...Nothing changes the fact that the overdubs the Picks did in the '80's are both atrocious and damaging to Buddy Holly's legacy. Avoid any cheapo cd that says it's by "buddy holly and the picks".

[jwpick]

@charlyW34

John Pickering of The Picks died on 2-28-2011. He won't be plugging any more Picks contributions to the 9 songs on "The Chirping Crickets" album of 1957. The Picks never received one cent for the work they did on those songs. But the late John Pickering, the late Bill Pickering and Bob Lapham's voices will always remain on those songs. Vicky Pickering buddyhollyandthepicks com

[charlyW34]

@jwpick Like them of not, NO one disputes the fact that Norman Petty used the picks for 9 songs in Buddy Holly's catalogue. It's the other, seriously flawed and abusive overdubs the picks did in the 80's that so many of us, a large majority of Buddy Holly fans, dislike so much. Poor Buddy was no longer around to protect his classics, nor was Norman Petty. Those very self indulgent overdubs have harmed Holly's legacy. Backing vocals on Peggy Sue? really? and poorly executed at that...

[hapyjoy82]

Will we ever have another Buddy again ?

[mopac1]

@hapyjoy82 Unfortunately, No...Music isn't even "music" anymore, to some degree...What we have today pales in comparison to Buddy Holly. He was totally original, both in music, lyrics, and recording "know-how". He was YEARS, perhaps DECADES ahead of his time.

[jwpick]

Why weren't the Crickets singing on this version like on the original release on "The Chirping Crickets" LP?

[dannyaingefan]

@jwpick The Crickets didn't sing back up vocals on any Crickets or Buddy Holly release. The two groups that were used for back up vocals were, " The Picks and The Roses".

[TheDJGrandPa]

@dannyaingefan I'm actually pretty sure they sang on one of the songs on The "Chirping" Crickets, either way I'm sure that Niki Sullivan did some of the back-up singing

[soulgypsy76]

@TheDJGrandPa

niki sullivan didn't stay with the group long

[TheDJGrandPa]

@soulgypsy76 Doesn't change the fact that I'm sure I've read somewhere that he did make back-up singing on at least one of the recordings...

Anyway, this is a fantastic live recording, although it wouldn't hurt if the quality was a bit better :D

[SlashManEXE]

@TheDJGrandPa He did (off the top of my head, I can name "That'll Be the Day").

[Shoknifeman]

@SlashManEXE Actually, Nikki Sullivan (A Cricket who left after a short time) did some back ups on the Original 1957 Decca version of Maybe Baby (The hit was recorded in '48) , but, otherwise, the Crickets didn't sing back ups until AFTER Buddys death, when Earl Sinks took over as lead singer in mid 1959. On TBTD, Nikki's contribution was to hit the switch on Buddy's guitar so he could play the "break" in a lower key, then click it back again for the chorus! (I heard this from Nikki himself )

[poesc]

@Shoknifeman You're getting confused with Peggy Sue. Nikki joined the crickets after That'll be the day was recorded.

[Shoknifeman]

@poesc You're the one who's confused, Niki joined the band in 56 and deffinately sang on the original version of Maybe Baby > From his online bio: His name will forever be associated with many of Holly's hits, including 'That'll Be The Day', for which he sang back-up vocals and played rhythm guitar. Niki also did backing vocals on 'Not Fade Away' and the early, cha-cha version of 'Maybe Baby

[poesc]

@Shoknifeman

Well that may be. But what you said about "Nikki's contribution was to hit the switch on Buddy's guitar so he could play the "break" in a lower key, then click it back again for the chorus" was defiantly for Peggy Sue and not That'll be the Day. 

[Shoknifeman]

@poesc Hmm... yeah, I probably typed that at 4 or 5 am and got them mixed up (I tend to stay up all night)

[wolfnipplechips07]

@jwpick the crickets never did any of the backing singing, thats what the picks etc did :)

[acoustic8guitarist]

Awesome Upload

[edward21004]

wow after waiting over 50 years to hear this it was well worth it