I'LL BE ALRIGHT

Created on 08/02/2006
Latest update on 14/03/2024

Artist: Angelic Gospel Singers
Author: Margaret Allison
Label: Nashboro
Year: 1955

Buddy Holly's favorite gospel and played on his funeral.

Covers:

1959:

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]

1960:

Norman Petty Trio [idem]

1960:

Jimmy Gilmer [idem]

1963:

Bobby Vee [idem]

1964:

Frank Ifield [idem]

1965:

Peter & Gordon [idem; n°2 UK, top 20 US]

1965:

Tommy Allsup [idem]

1965:

Dick Rivers [as Ne pleure pas]

1967:

Skeeter Davis

1967:

Jimmy Jones [soul version]

1970:

Crickets

1979:

Ricky Nelson [posthumous release in '86]

1980:

Mickey Gilley [n°1 C&W]

1983:

Cliff Richard [top 10 UK]

1986:

Elvis Costello [live in NYC; bonus track deluxe reissue King Of America in 2005]

1989:

Sonny Curtis

1989:

Johnny Mathis

1991:

John Spencer [as Jij Bent Van Mij]

1994:

David Essex [with Catherine Zeta Jones]

1996:

Mavericks

1998:

Amina [as Nuits presque Chine]

2003:

Erasure

2003:

P.J. Proby

2005:

Martina McBride

2009:

Pat DiNizio

2011:

My Morning Jacket

2011:

Jackson Browne [all as True Love Ways]

Contact


If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
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Arnold Rypens
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