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Buddy Holly
Not Fade Away
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“Not Fade Away” is a song credited to Buddy Holly (originally under his first and middle names, Charles Hardin) and Norman Petty (although Petty’s co-writing credit is most likely a formality) and first recorded by Holly’s band The Crickets in Clovis, New Mexico, on May 27, 1957 (which was the same day the song “Everyday” was recorded).
[ The song’s rhythm pattern is one of the classic examples of the Bo Diddley beat, which itself was an update of the so-called “hambone” rhythm, or “patted juba” from Western Africa; Crickets drummer Jerry Allison pounded out the beat on a cardboard box.][ Allison, Holly’s best friend, also claims to have written part of the lyrics, though his name never appeared in the... Read on...]Song lines: ♪ Well love is love and not fade away ... I wanna tell you how it's gonna be ... Not fade away ♫
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This song is listed #107 on Rolling Stone Magazine’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
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