"...I try to show it and you drive me back"

Buddy Holly and the Crickets



     If you have Google, type in

Buddy Holly - Not Fade Away (1957)

and play.

     
     Buddy Holly wrote the song, and recorded it with his band in New Mexico, May 27th, in 1957.  The Rolling Stones loved the music of Buddy Holly, so they learned the song and performed it.  There are videos on You Tube of them performing it in the 1990s -- a 1994 concert in Rio de Janeiro has this song up, as well as several other Stones favorites....

     [excerpt - Wikipedia] --------------- The rhythmic pattern of "Not Fade Away" is a variant of the legendary Bo Diddley beat, with the second stress occurring on the second rather than third beat of the first measure, which was an update of the "hambone" rhythm, or patted juba from West Africa.


     Jerry Allison, the drummer for the Crickets, pounded out the beat on a cardboard box.

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