Raining in my Heart - Buddy Holly Lives! 2003

Please check out the 2010 version of this cover to see it updated on a strat. This version from 2003 was performed as a three piece in the style of a live concert on a Gibson ES175 with The Crickets by "Buddy Holly Live!", an Ontario tribute band now called "Buddy Holly Lives!"
Buddy Holly recorded this shortly before his death on his New York string sessions Oct 21, 1958 with the Dick Jacobs Orchestra - at the Pythian Temple - Coral Recording Studios.

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• raining
• in
• my
• heart
• buddy
• holly
• live!
• dave
• bull

[ocduff]

The music is great, but this looks more like a young Colonel Sanders than Buddy Holly. He never wore a bolo tie or white dinner jacket. It seems some are more interested in depicting the Buddy Holly Story than Buddy Holly who literally died in a jacket that cost him $900 in 1958 money. I wish his extravagance, and also great taste were portrayed also - not some tacky hayseed nerd image.

[rockabillyotis]

@ocduff I can appreciate where you are coming from. I have being doing his portrayal since 1999 and some things have developed. That is one of them. I would point out I have read 10 biographies and done my homework. I used a Gibson at the time because it looked like Nicki Sullivan's guitar, but I have since gone to a 1944 Martin and play it when not using a 58 strat.

[rockabillyotis]

@ocduff In fact he did use a white suit in his earlier career & a bolo tie. In his later years you are correct. He is indeed a man who morphed from a tacky hayseed Texan into a classy New Yorker. He had his teeth done, got an image consultant and made many changes to become a man who could afford a $900 suit in 1958. But the Buddy Holly Story is the antithesis of our show. That play is embarrassing.

[LittleDragon2000]

@rockabillyotis

Do you mean the play or the movie is the antithesis of your show?

The movie was highly fictionalized - but put Buddy Holly back in the spotlight.

"Some things will be around forever - like Buddy Holly... and the ducktail."

[rockabillyotis]

@LittleDragon2000 exactly - the buddy holly story used wrong names, wrong guitars (this one is the one niki sullivan used). Songs start on second verses. Buddy had a tele not a strat. Stories were fictionalized. This is from 2003 and by 2010 I believe we have worked out all of the historical inaccuracies and our goal is to present a real Buddy Holly concert devoid of Hollywood or Broadway - no dancing girls with poodleskirts, no additional guitarists playing while Buddy fakes it. We want it true

[rockabillyotis]

I strongly urge everyone to view the Best of Buddy Holly Lives! for a 2010 version of "Raining in my Heart" - It is a far superior version. It is also played on a stratocaster, Buddy's guitar of choice. Rockabillyotis

[LittleDragon2000]

@rockabillyotis

I appreciate your quest for authenticity. Really. And you guys are "getting better all the time."

But the nitpicking Cricket critics really get up my nose - especially those who insist that everyone who plays Buddy Holly has to play it the way he and the Crickets played it.

Buddy used a variety of guitars and instruments on recordings (from what I've read), although he favoured the Strat.

And for all the faults with the Buddy Holly Story - it made him a star again.

[Blackskies2011]

You are great, really great. I loved Buddy Holly. Great song.

[ElliotWoolf]

Great version.

[martynjohnramsey]

Nice rendition, Thanks for sharing. Always loved this song, like you to take a listen to my version and comment if you would. Thanks