IT DOESN'T MATTER ANYMORE

Created on 03/09/2002
Latest update on 03/02/2024

Artist: Buddy Holly
Author: Paul Anka
Label: Coral
Year: 1959

First ever posthumous #1 (UK) for a rock star.

Covers:

1959:

Vince Eager

1961:

Wanda Jackson

1963:

Bobby Vee

1963:

Paul Anka [author]

1964:

Freddie & The Dreamers

1967:

Skeeter Davis [with Waylon Jennings on guitar]

1975:

Linda Ronstadt

1978:

Don McLean

1978:

R.C. Bannon

1980:

Hollies

1983:

Martin Simpson

1990s:

Eva Cassidy [posthumously on cd Imagine]

1993:

Danny Gatton

2009:

Pat DiNizio

Paul Anka and Buddy Holly toured together in 1958 and this Paul Anka song ironically was Buddy's single released 'the day the music died'.

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