NOT FADE AWAY

Created on 21/05/2002
Latest update on 17/08/2022

Artist: Buddy Holly & The Crickets
Author: Norman Petty/Charles Hardin
Label: Coral
Year: 1957

B-side of Oh Boy with Jerry Allison on cartboard boxes instead of regular drums. Jerry claimed co-authorship.

Covers:

1963:

Cyril Davies R&B All-Stars [reissued on Immediate in '65]

1964:

Rolling Stones [n°3 UK]

1964:

Dick Rivers [as Bientôt à moi]

1965:

Diana Ross & The Supremes

1971:

Grateful Dead

1973:

Everly Brothers

1973:

Rush

1976:

Bo Diddley

1977:

Steve Hillage [as Not Fade Away (Glid Forever)]

1978:

Tanya Tucker

1978:

Stephen Stills

1979:

Eddy Mitchell [as Comment ça fait?]

1980:

Joe Ely

1982:

Andy J. Forest

1984:

15-60-75 [The Numbers Band]

1989:

Lolitas

1995:

Crickets & The Band [vocal: Levon Helm]

1995:

Roy Rogers

1996:

Mike & The Mellotones

1996:

Johnny Hallyday [as Je vais te secouer]

1999:

Ned Sublette [cowboy rumba version]

1999:

Status Quo

2000:

Lemmy & Friends

2007:

Sheryl Crow

2007:

Walter Trout Band

2008:

James Taylor

2011:

Florence & The Machine

2011:

Stevie Nicks

2022:

John Scofield

The Stones accentuated the latent Bo Diddley beat in Buddy Holly's original. See also: Hambone and Mona (I Need You Baby).

Contact


If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:

Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)

info@originals.be

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