One of my favourite lesser-known Buddy Holly songs that wasn’t officially released in his lifetime is the short and sweet, Beatles-DNA-infused ‘You’re The One’. While I was pretty well-versed in Holly’s back catalogue before I played him in Buddy Holly and The Cricketers, this particular song had escaped my notice until it was put forward to enter our set for a short tour of Northern Ireland in 2007. Like a lot of the demos he recorded and didn't put out, it eventually surfaced in the early Sixties, daubed with some (in this instance clumsy) overdubs by his old producer Norman Petty to create the impression of a full band recording. While we used this as reference for our arrangement in the show, it’s the unadorned demo that has real charm. It wasn’t until today that I discovered it was written in half an hour in response to a bet set by a radio DJ, who didn’t think Buddy could compose a song that quickly. The fact he came up with this (and then performed it on t...
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