Su	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa
31	1	2	3	4	5	6
7	8	9	10	11	12	13
14	15	16	17	18	19	20
21	22	23	24	25	26	27
28	29	30	1	2	3	4

Buddy Holly & The Crickets - The 'Chirping' Crickets (1957) Japanese Remastered Expanded Edition 2004

Posted By: Designol

Date: 24 Jan 2023 13:04:09

The debut album by the Crickets and the only one featuring Buddy Holly released during his lifetime, The "Chirping" Crickets contains the group's number one single "That'll Be the Day" and its Top Ten hit "Oh, Boy!." Other Crickets classics include "Not Fade Away," "Maybe Baby," and "I'm Looking for Someone to Love." The rest of the 12 tracks are not up to the standard set by those five, but those five are among the best rock & roll songs of the 1950s or ever, making this one of the most significant album debuts in rock & roll history, ranking with Elvis Presley and Meet the Beatles.

Review by William Ruhlmann, Allmusic.com

It's taken 46 years for Buddy Holly's debut LP to finally get treated with some real respect by its U.S. label – in England, where they've treated Holly like a rock & roll god for 50 years, there's been an upgraded version of The "Chirping" Crickets out since 2000 on the BGO label, and this U.S. reissue sounds even better than that one did, albeit only slightly. The album originally appeared in November of 1957, at a time when rock & roll LPs were still a relative novelty and good ones few and far between, especially once you got past Elvis Presley's output. The "Chirping" Crickets wasn't quite a match for Elvis' best work in terms of sheer power or boldness – how could it be, when Elvis had a million dollars worth of record company support from RCA (when RCA was one of the biggest labels in the world), including access to the top session players in the country to augment his own band, and to the best new songs from one of the business' biggest publishers, plus legions of songwriters knocking on his door who'd have happily sold their grandmothers to get him to record their work? It was like comparing the New York Yankees, with all the recognition and collective star aura and press support in the world, with a Negro League team with a million dollars worth of talent in their ranks and a lot of nerve, seeking recognition that had to be earned one play at a time.

Buddy Holly & the Crickets were making their impact (and their records) with a lot less record company support and writing the book on rock & roll success from the sticks to the big city as they went along. They were coming off of a monster hit with "That'll Be the Day" and a healthy follow-up in "Oh, Boy!," but assembling 12 viable songs for an album was still considered a challenge in those days, to which the group rose amazingly well with help from their producer/manager, Norman Petty. As a piece of self-generated rock & roll – half its songs co-written by Holly and/or one of the other Crickets, and many of the other generated from Petty's orbit – The "Chirping" Crickets was amazingly close to a personalized artistic "statement," in the language of rock & roll, in a way that Presley's RCA albums, with all of the many creative hands involved, could never be. In addition to singing lead, Holly was still playing his own lead guitar parts on this album, a function on his records that he would later mostly cede to session guitarist Tommy Allsup. The album led from strength with the then-current hit "Oh, Boy!," the most perfect Holly-style song that he never wrote (Sonny West and Bill Tilghman authored it, with Petty's name also on the copyright, which, in the nature of the business in those days, may or may not have meant he had something to do with its composition) – Holly's searing lead guitar part is put right in your face by the 2004 remastering. "Not Fade Away" was a classic that was ignored at the time – it took the Rolling Stones, kicking the Bo Diddley-style rocker out of second gear and into overdrive, to get it recognized. And "Maybe Baby," lifted as a single in early 1958, would become a hit a few months after the album's release.

"Tell Me How," co-authored by Holly and drummer Jerry Allison, is the lost single from the album, a punchy rocker with a killer beat and a searing lead vocal that should've been a hit but instead ended up on the B-side of "Maybe Baby" – the record could easily have been flipped by the DJs and not done badly. "I'm Looking for Someone to Love" was the pounding, driving B-side of "That'll Be the Day," and "Rock Me My Baby" was a showcase for some of Holly's loudest, most uninhibited lead guitar up to that time. Some of the surrounding balladry is distinguished: "You Got Love" shows off Holly's gentler singing style while his crisp lead playing generates some excitement; Chuck Willis' "It's Too Late" and Roy Orbison's "An Empty Cup (And a Broken Date)" serve as vehicles – the former more successfully than the latter – for the moodier, brooding side of Holly's singing and persona; and "Last Night," co-written by Crickets bassist Joe B. Mauldin, shows off the singer's gentlest, most vulnerable side. The 2004 reissue puts every nuance of playing and singing off the original in high relief – almost a "3-D" sound on Holly's lead breaks and some of his more dramatic vocalizing – and also adds the stylistically compatible "Think It Over" and "Fool's Paradise," recorded five months after the latest songs on the LP, plus a pair of tracks, "Lonesome Tears" and "It's So Easy," from the following spring. Tommy Allsup was playing lead by then, in a style similar to Holly's but with more range and virtuosity. The annotation by Bill Dahl explains the genesis of some of the songs, as well as providing an overview of Holly's career, and the original cover art and annotation are re-created as well.

Review by Bruce Eder, Allmusic.com

Buddy Holly at Allmusic
Buddy Holly at Wiki

Tracklist:

01. Oh, Boy! (02:08)
02. Not Fade Away (02:22)
03. You've Got Love (02:09)
04. Maybe Baby (02:03)
05. It's Too Late (02:24)
06. Tell Me How (02:00)
07. That'll Be The Day (02:17)
08. I'm Looking For Someone To Love (01:58)
09. An Empty Cup (And A Broken Date) (02:13)
10. Send Me Some Lovin' (02:35)
11. Last Night (01:55)
12. Rock Me My Baby (01:50)
13. Think It Over (Bonus track) (01:47)
14. Fool's Paradise (Bonus track) (02:30)
15. Lonesome Tears (Bonus track) (01:48)
16. It's So Easy (Bonus track) (02:09)

EAC log

Exact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 5 from 4. May 2009

EAC extraction logfile from 9. September 2011, 16:53

Buddy Holly & The Crickets / The "Chirping Crickets"

Used drive : Optiarc DVD RW AD-7280S Adapter: 2 ID: 0

Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No

Read offset correction : 48
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Gap handling : Appended to previous track

Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 768 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
Command line compressor : C:\Program Files\Exact Audio Copy\Flac\flac.exe
Additional command line options : -8 -V -T "ARTIST=%a" -T "TITLE=%t" -T "ALBUM=%g" -T "DATE=%y" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%n" -T "GENRE=%m" -T "COMMENT=EAC FLAC -8" %s

TOC of the extracted CD

Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––-
1 | 0:00.00 | 2:08.65 | 0 | 9664
2 | 2:08.65 | 2:22.53 | 9665 | 20367
3 | 4:31.43 | 2:09.05 | 20368 | 30047
4 | 6:40.48 | 2:03.52 | 30048 | 39324
5 | 8:44.25 | 2:24.20 | 39325 | 50144
6 | 11:08.45 | 2:00.68 | 50145 | 59212
7 | 13:09.38 | 2:17.05 | 59213 | 69492
8 | 15:26.43 | 1:58.05 | 69493 | 78347
9 | 17:24.48 | 2:13.42 | 78348 | 88364
10 | 19:38.15 | 2:35.58 | 88365 | 100047
11 | 22:13.73 | 1:55.07 | 100048 | 108679
12 | 24:09.05 | 1:50.38 | 108680 | 116967
13 | 25:59.43 | 1:47.12 | 116968 | 125004
14 | 27:46.55 | 2:30.28 | 125005 | 136282
15 | 30:17.08 | 1:48.55 | 136283 | 144437
16 | 32:05.63 | 2:09.43 | 144438 | 154155

Track 1

Filename D:\EAC\01-Buddy Holly & The Crickets-Oh, Boy!.wav

Pre-gap length 0:00:02.00

Peak level 89.1 %
Track quality 100.0 %
Test CRC 1B614822
Copy CRC 1B614822
Cannot be verified as accurate (confidence 20) [0F43B6D7], AccurateRip returned [6267AFAF]
Copy OK

Track 2

Filename D:\EAC\02-Buddy Holly & The Crickets-Not Fade Away.wav

Pre-gap length 0:00:01.60

Peak level 98.8 %
Track quality 100.0 %
Test CRC 1008B3FC
Copy CRC 1008B3FC
Cannot be verified as accurate (confidence 20) [37C07583], AccurateRip returned [695EB295]
Copy OK

Track 3

Filename D:\EAC\03-Buddy Holly & The Crickets-You've Got Love.wav

Pre-gap length 0:00:01.60

Peak level 88.9 %
Track quality 100.0 %
Test CRC 5AEC5BB9
Copy CRC 5AEC5BB9
Cannot be verified as accurate (confidence 20) [957FAF43], AccurateRip returned [71A8A53D]
Copy OK

Track 4

Filename D:\EAC\04-Buddy Holly & The Crickets-Maybe Baby.wav

Pre-gap length 0:00:01.60

Peak level 97.0 %
Track quality 100.0 %
Test CRC 38BB2338
Copy CRC 38BB2338
Cannot be verified as accurate (confidence 20) [D3FCAB15], AccurateRip returned [6D80A66F]
Copy OK

Track 5

Filename D:\EAC\05-Buddy Holly & The Crickets-It's Too Late.wav

Pre-gap length 0:00:01.58

Peak level 96.2 %
Track quality 100.0 %
Test CRC 2D589B1B
Copy CRC 2D589B1B
Cannot be verified as accurate (confidence 20) [459D44CD], AccurateRip returned [45693EBB]
Copy OK

Track 6

Filename D:\EAC\06-Buddy Holly & The Crickets-Tell Me How.wav

Pre-gap length 0:00:01.60

Peak level 97.6 %
Track quality 100.0 %
Test CRC 7680821F
Copy CRC 7680821F
Cannot be verified as accurate (confidence 20) [43B95BBE], AccurateRip returned [48FFE106]
Copy OK

Track 7

Filename D:\EAC\07-Buddy Holly & The Crickets-That'll Be The Day.wav

Pre-gap length 0:00:01.58

Peak level 100.0 %
Track quality 100.0 %
Test CRC 3084E2BE
Copy CRC 3084E2BE
Cannot be verified as accurate (confidence 20) [2DEC6324], AccurateRip returned [B36F6B82]
Copy OK

Track 8

Filename D:\EAC\08-Buddy Holly & The Crickets-I'm Looking For Someone To Love.wav

Pre-gap length 0:00:01.61

Peak level 100.0 %
Track quality 100.0 %
Test CRC C123F7EA
Copy CRC C123F7EA
Cannot be verified as accurate (confidence 20) [4704DCC1], AccurateRip returned [F504A4E1]
Copy OK

Track 9

Filename D:\EAC\09-Buddy Holly & The Crickets-An Empty Cup (And A Broken Date).wav

Pre-gap length 0:00:01.61

Peak level 100.0 %
Track quality 100.0 %
Test CRC 8E706B1C
Copy CRC 8E706B1C
Cannot be verified as accurate (confidence 20) [B19A200D], AccurateRip returned [433163D5]
Copy OK

Track 10

Filename D:\EAC\10-Buddy Holly & The Crickets-Send Me Some Lovin'.wav

Pre-gap length 0:00:01.60

Peak level 98.8 %
Track quality 100.0 %
Test CRC CFA565BC
Copy CRC CFA565BC
Cannot be verified as accurate (confidence 20) [C4AFA154], AccurateRip returned [0E1BFB70]
Copy OK

Track 11

Filename D:\EAC\11-Buddy Holly & The Crickets-Last Night.wav

Pre-gap length 0:00:01.60

Peak level 100.0 %
Track quality 100.0 %
Test CRC 94D945D8
Copy CRC 94D945D8
Cannot be verified as accurate (confidence 20) [5738EBA0], AccurateRip returned [E6481340]
Copy OK

Track 12

Filename D:\EAC\12-Buddy Holly & The Crickets-Rock Me My Baby.wav

Pre-gap length 0:00:01.60

Peak level 93.1 %
Track quality 100.0 %
Test CRC ECE2D607
Copy CRC ECE2D607
Cannot be verified as accurate (confidence 20) [4D39D032], AccurateRip returned [285D009C]
Copy OK

Track 13

Filename D:\EAC\13-Buddy Holly & The Crickets-Think It Over (Bonustrack).wav

Pre-gap length 0:00:01.61

Peak level 92.7 %
Track quality 100.0 %
Test CRC 54B757C8
Copy CRC 54B757C8
Cannot be verified as accurate (confidence 20) [7E0394EB], AccurateRip returned [BDA55022]
Copy OK

Track 14

Filename D:\EAC\14-Buddy Holly & The Crickets-Fool's Paradise (Bonustrack).wav

Peak level 99.7 %
Track quality 100.0 %
Test CRC 28531292
Copy CRC 28531292
Cannot be verified as accurate (confidence 20) [42399203], AccurateRip returned [01CD901A]
Copy OK

Track 15

Filename D:\EAC\15-Buddy Holly & The Crickets-Lonesome Tears (Bonustrack).wav

Pre-gap length 0:00:01.61

Peak level 98.8 %
Track quality 100.0 %
Test CRC 580373A1
Copy CRC 580373A1
Cannot be verified as accurate (confidence 20) [6B463DC2], AccurateRip returned [56CC0D02]
Copy OK

Track 16

Filename D:\EAC\16-Buddy Holly & The Crickets-It's So Easy (Bonustrack).wav

Pre-gap length 0:00:01.62

Peak level 98.2 %
Track quality 100.0 %
Test CRC 27B8FB2A
Copy CRC 27B8FB2A
Cannot be verified as accurate (confidence 20) [C67774F1], AccurateRip returned [3555B568]
Copy OK

No tracks could be verified as accurate
You may have a different pressing from the one(s) in the database

No errors occurred

End of status report

DR log

foobar2000 1.2 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2013-08-09 18:52:50

––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
Analyzed: Buddy Holly & The Crickets / The 'Chirping Crickets'
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

DR Peak RMS Duration Track
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
DR10 -0.99 dB -12.33 dB 2:09 01-Oh, Boy!
DR11 -0.10 dB -13.48 dB 2:23 02-Not Fade Away
DR10 -1.01 dB -12.88 dB 2:09 03-You've Got Love
DR11 -0.26 dB -13.19 dB 2:04 04-Maybe Baby
DR11 -0.33 dB -14.72 dB 2:24 05-It's Too Late
DR11 -0.21 dB -13.00 dB 2:01 06-Tell Me How
DR10 0.00 dB -11.93 dB 2:17 07-That'll Be The Day
DR10 0.00 dB -12.02 dB 1:58 08-I'm Looking For Someone To Love
DR10 0.00 dB -11.87 dB 2:14 09-An Empty Cup (And A Broken Date)
DR9 -0.10 dB -12.75 dB 2:36 10-Send Me Some Lovin'
DR11 0.00 dB -14.42 dB 1:55 11-Last Night
DR11 -0.61 dB -12.80 dB 1:51 12-Rock Me My Baby
DR11 -0.65 dB -13.99 dB 1:47 13-Think It Over (Bonustrack)
DR12 -0.02 dB -14.24 dB 2:30 14-Fool's Paradise (Bonustrack)
DR8 -0.10 dB -9.73 dB 1:49 15-Lonesome Tears (Bonustrack)
DR12 -0.15 dB -12.94 dB 2:10 16-It's So Easy (Bonustrack)
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Number of tracks: 16
Official DR value: DR11

Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 16
Bitrate: 567 kbps
Codec: FLAC
================================================================================

All thanks to original releaser - egr1973

More interesting music in My Blog

2000s 50s Buddy Holly Buddy Holly & The Crickets CD-Rip + Scans FLAC Lossless MP3 Rock & Roll Rock and Roll Rockabilly