THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY
The Buddy Holly Story is the first posthumously released compilation album by American rock and roll musician Buddy Holly. The album was released on February 28, 1959 by the Coral record label less than a month after his death. The album featured previously released singles by Buddy Holly on both the Brunswick label (with the Crickets) and the Coral label (as a solo artist). The album became a top twenty hit in both the United States and England. The album was certified Gold in the U.S. in 1969 by the RIAA. (More from Wikipedia)
In 2009 (on the 50th anniversary of the airplane crash), Don McLean wrote an editorial for CNN.com that told of his learning of it the following morning: “Buddy [Holly]’s death, for me, an impressionable 13-year-old, delivering papers, was an enormous tragedy. The cover photo of the posthumously released [The] Buddy Holly Story and The Buddy Holly Story, Vol. 2, coupled with liner notes written by his widow, Maria [Santiago-Holly], created a sense of grief that lived inside of me, until I was able to exorcize it with the opening verse of ‘American Pie’.”
(June 2013/1)
