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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...