Reading between the Grooves

Buddy Holly only had two Top 5 hits, “That’ll Be The Day” with the Crickets at #1 and his solo “Peggy Sue” which peaked at #2. The only oth...

Released as Buddy Holly’s first single in April 1956, “Blue Days, Black Nights” was not a Buddy Holly composition; however, he was the first...

It’s the second week of the month and I decided to do my focus on songs by Buddy Holly that were recorded by others. Some of these, the mai...

Here it ‘tis – another Friday – the day we celebrate the other side of the record with our Friday Flipside selection. Today’s feature is on...

It is said that Vanilla Fudge’s cover of The Supremes’ “You Keep Me Hanging On” was recorded in one take; however, it took two times on the ...

I must apologize for being gone for about 10 days, but I needed a little vacation from writing to take care of other aspects of my life. In...

It’s our final look at Asylum Records and our Bubbling Under Hit for this Saturday is the Eagles’ “James Dean.” Showing the incestuous natu...