Buddy Holly - The Song He Never Wrote

Love Is A Mystery - a Buddy Holly song if there ever was one! Written and performed by Richard Garlick and Ian Hammond as a tribute to the man, lost to us 50 years ago, but whose music lives on.

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Music

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• Buddy Holly
• Music
• Tribute
• Original Song

[BINGOPINBALL]

Absolutely excellence in all ways. Buddy does approve wholeheartedly, but wonders why he didn't write it !!!

[scottgibson66]

@BINGOPINBALL

Thanks B - Happy to get Buddy's approval.  I'm sure he's wondering if there are any bands out there that have put this song into their repertoire!

[scottgibson66]

Thanks for the comments,folks - wonderful to know that the song is appreciated.

[scottgibson66]

Yes - simple tunes, fresh ideas, universal messages. That's what sustains the appeal ... like folk music! Thanks for the comment!

[scottgibson66]

BST - Thanks for your comment. Yes - the "chorus" sound is different ... but I'll bet Buddy would have used it if it'd been around at the time! Note this song has gone over 8,000 in a year. Seems there IS a public ear!

[GJoeJ010841]

This song is almost exactly like A FOOL AGAIN by Ray Ruff. The best Buddy soundalike there ever was (and I have a collection of over 200) was Royce Clark. Did a song written by Wayland Jennings ( spelling of his name on the label) and Sky Corbin, a Lubbock friend of Buddy's titled LIKE A MAN. Sounds EXACTLY like Buddy! Label: VEEDA 4011, Amarillo, Texas. Took 20 years to finally win it in a Goldmine auction. He played the DJ in the movie Coal Miner's Daughter, but didn't sing in it. Joe Scibetta

[scottgibson66]

Joe -

Thanks for your insightful comment. You clearly know your stuff - I'd like to continue the discussion of the "post-Buddy Holly" world (Ray Ruff, Royce Clark, Sky Corbin, etc.). Meanwhile I'll search around Google. All new names to me!

Cheers -

Scott

[nalvojo]

... for me truly TEXMEX ... same sound, rythm, presentation, - it could be him ...

Thanks, scott - heard this for the first time ....

[DougPatton1]

Not so strange that down around wes-Tex ways in Rockin 50s Days Buddy Holly wasn't the only young tenor voice broncin' buck sounding like Buddy Holly, but the many songs that he wrote and his interpretions of others set him far ahead of the Prairie Dawg puppy pack.

[StanleyClements]

Yes, I agree, strong Buddy Holly flavor with a touch of Bobby Fuller. I think both would have been happy to record this.

[gittahfiend]

this is a badass song !!

[Isthisthelongestname]

I never knew Buddy Holly was only 22 when he died, I thought he closer to 30.....Wow! And he's practically a household name 50 years later! Impressive.

Thanks.

[georgeB140]

Great Buddy Holly flavor. And he does sound a lot like Buddy (but more like Earl Sinks).