Artist: Crickets
Author: Sonny Curtis
Label: Coral
Year: 1959
Vocal: Earl Sinks. Written by Sonny Curtis of The Crickets. They cut it following Buddy Holly's death. Released on album In Style With The Crickets (1960). Slightly based upon Sonny's Talk About My Baby ('58).
Covers:
Paul Stefen [first cover]
Bobby Fuller Four [top 10 US; Bobby first cut a version in '63 on his own Exeter label in El Paso]
Claude François [as J'ai joué et puis j'ai perdu]
Texas Mavericks [with Doug Sahm]
Nanci Griffith [with Crickets Sonny Curtis and Jerry Allison]
Rolling Bidochons [as Apporte de l'eau]
In '66 Bobby Fuller hit with Love's Made A Fool Of You, another Holly related song. Then he died asphyxiated.
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Arnold Rypens
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