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The Buddy Holly Collection [MCA, 1993]
Finally a compilation format suitable to a minor genius whose achievement seems permanently shrouded in myth: neither 20 astonishing hits nor every hiccup and fingerpick he ever committed to tape, just 50 songs running barely an hour and three-quarters. Even these tracks vary considerably in quality, held together like so much classic pop by the aural glue of an identifiable sound and style--the signature of a miniaturist who till the day he died was comfortable with a radio that preferred two-minute ditties to three-minute extravaganzas, and who found untold emotional and rhythmic nuance within the constriction. He was no nerd, but nerds loved him for a reason: he played by the rules without letting them stop him. A

Nah

BH was signed to Coral, something of a minor miracle because that label had a quite notorious reputation.
>started by Decca in 1949 as a subsidiary for jazz and swing recordings
>by 1954 it was taken over by Bob Thiele who was almost a match for Mitch Miller in bad taste
>Coral was then primarily used for R&R and mainstream pop acts while the parent Decca label went to more classy, upmarket acts
>eventually many years later Thiele and Teresa Brewer married after she'd divorced her first husband as the two had had a close working relationship since her hitmaking days at Coral in the 50s and what more of a match made in heaven could that have been?
>other Coral luminaries included the McGuire Sisters, Steve Lawrence, Eileen Barton, Johnny Desmond, and Lawrence Welk

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Technically these were Holly solo recordings while Buddy Holly & The Crickets were on Brunswick.

Cuck.