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Buddy Holly's demo for "Words of Love"

Cory Doctorow at 6:28 am Sun, Dec 30, 2012

Piglisi sez, "Experimenting with double-tracking his voice and guitar, Buddy Holly recorded a demo for a song he'd composed (by himself, despite his producer/manager taking half the songwriting credit). A scratchy acetate survives."

Buddy Holly - Words Of Love ('Echo Chamber Demo')

See also:

* Buddy Holly's first-ever recording, from 1949
* Rave On Buddy Holly: tribute album streaming now
* Buddy Holly's secretly recorded contract negotiation with Decca
* What was in Buddy Holly's plane-crash overnight bag?

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That’s lovely! I was going to say that perhaps someone could engineer it to clean up the sound, but it is pretty nifty as is.
jaytkay

Lovely is the word! Thanks, Cory!
D3

Haunting and touching.
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