Artist: Angelic Gospel Singers
Author: Margaret Allison
Label: Nashboro
Year: 1955
Buddy Holly's favorite gospel and played on his funeral.
Covers:
Buddy Holly [opening notes of True Love Ways; cut at Pythian Temple Studio in NYC along with Raining In My Heart and It Doesn't Matter Anymore; posthumously on The Buddy Holly Story Vol II; hit UK]
Norman Petty Trio [idem]
Jimmy Gilmer [idem]
Bobby Vee [idem]
Frank Ifield [idem]
Peter & Gordon [idem; n°2 UK, top 20 US]
Tommy Allsup [idem]
Dick Rivers [as Ne pleure pas]
Jimmy Jones [soul version]
Ricky Nelson [posthumous release in '86]
Mickey Gilley [n°1 C&W]
Cliff Richard [top 10 UK]
Elvis Costello [live in NYC; bonus track deluxe reissue King Of America in 2005]
John Spencer [as Jij Bent Van Mij]
David Essex [with Catherine Zeta Jones]
Amina [as Nuits presque Chine]
Jackson Browne [all as True Love Ways]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
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