Eddie Cochran on "Summertime Blues". The recordings were issued on the album "A Gene Vincent Record Date". In early 1959 two of Cochran's friends, Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens, along with the Big Bopper, were killed in a plane crash while on tour. Cochran's friends and family later said that he was badly shaken by their deaths, and he developed a morbid premonition that he also would die young. It was shortly after their deaths that he recorded a song (written by disc jockey Tommy Dee) in tribute to them, "Three Stars". He was anxious to give up life on the road
Buddy Holly (album) includes the original liner notes and two extra tracks, which are "Now We're One" (issued as the B side of Holly's "Early in the Morning") and "Ting-A-Ling" . It also included new liner notes written by Gary Blailock on September 2014. Released as WaxTime Catalog # 772006 with bar code 84365442 017596. The Crickets Additional personnel Single Buddy Holly (album) Buddy Holly is a studio album by Buddy Holly. It was released by Coral Records on February 20, 1958. The album collects Holly's four hit singles released on the Coral label; "Words of Love", "Peggy Sue", "I'm Gonna Love You