Buddy Holly – It Doesn’t Matter Anymore 45 rpm!

It Doesn’t Matter Anymore – Buddy Holly (Coral Records) 1959, 45 rpm! It’s hard to believe that Buddy Holly was only 22 when he was killed (along with Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper) in that fateful plane crash on 2/3/59. Born on 9/7/36, in Lubbock, Texas. He was 21 in ’57, when his songs started to become hits! Buddy’s started very early, while he was in Jr High School in Lubbock. He and his friend Bob Montgomery were a duo, and played country and western songs live at any function that would hire them. Before long they had begun to incorporate R&B songs into their act, as the new “Rock And Roll” music began to catch on around 1953. They started to perform live on local radio station KDAV, and they became a trio, taking on a third member, bassist Larry Welborn. Marty Robbins’ manager, Eddie Crandall, got Buddy his first recording contract in early 1956. Crandall hooked Buddy up with talent agent Jim Denny, who contacted Decca’s Nashville A & R man, Paul Cohen, who liked what he heard and got Decca exec Paul Stone to offer Buddy a contract. But Decca was only interested in Buddy, and not Bob Montgomery, or Larry Welborn. Buddy was apprehensive at first, but Montgomery convinced him not to let this oppurtunity go by. Buddy recorded 12 songs for Decca in 1956, with 11 of them being released, although 7 of the songs weren’t until after he had become popular with the Crickets. None of the Decca records ever became hits. Studio musician Grady Martin played rhythm guitar on …