“Walk Right Back” was written by Sonny Curtis and made a hit by The Everly Brothers.
At the request of the Buddy Holly Educational Foundation, David Frizzell wrote “Maria Elena” for Buddy Holly’s widow, Maria Elena Holly, as a gift for her 80 th birthday. Two songs in the collection have a unique backstory.
The tribute album is narrated by David Frizzell, who introduces each song and its comments on its significance to Buddy, his career and his remarkably lasting legacy. “Everyone involved felt that we were creating something very, very special.” Crafting this project in his honor has been a very moving experience,” Frizzell says. In between is woven a musical tale of the Buddy Holly legacy in song. One of the first songs that Buddy learned from his older brothers, although he never recorded it, was Scott Wiseman’s “Remember Me.” Merle starts off this great tribute with his version of “Remember Me.” Jimmy Fortune, Helen Cornelius and David Frizzell close out the collection with their version of the same tune. While Buddy has been cited as “the single most influential creative force in early Rock and Roll,” his roots and earliest influences were bluegrass and country music with artists like Hank Snow and Lefty Frizzell. Graham Brown a member of multiple Halls of Fame, multi-award winning singer/songwriter Sonny Curtis and the legendary, Grammy award winner Merle Haggard. Incidentally, this project is concurrent with the 50 th year milestone in country music for Haggard. Joining Frizzell for this impressive 21-track collection are six country music icons: “Grand Ladies of Country Music” singer, Helen Cornelius GMA (Gospel Music Association) and CMA (Country Music Association) Hall of Famer Jimmy Fortune CMA award winner T. The album is a benefit for the Buddy Holly Educational Foundation, a charitable organization focused on musical education and co-founded by Buddy’s widow, Maria Elena Holly. The musical collection includes a DVD on the making of the project. 7, 2014, (on what would have been Holly’s 78 th birthday). Now, Country Music star David Frizzell has gathered a cadre of music’s elite for a very special homage to Buddy Holly with The Buddy Holly Country Tribute: Remember Me, set for release on Sept. Although he only played rock and roll for a few years, the breadth of material Holly recorded made an enormous, lasting impression on popular music. In recent years, Holly has been honored with a six-disc career retrospective, a pair of best-selling tribute albums, and two Grammy nominations for works inspired or created by the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer. The indelible legacy of Buddy Holly continues to touch fans and has inspired decades of artists across multiple genres. (Nashville, TN) - Country Music legend David Frizzell, along with The Buddy Holly Educational Foundation, is pleased to announce the upcoming release of a special musical collection, The Buddy Holly Country Tribute: Remember Me. His original compositions of "That'll Be the Day", "Peggy Sue", and "It's So Easy", are being recorded today by top contemporary artists and Buddy's own albums are still racking up impressive sales throughout the world".David Frizzell, on behalf of the Buddy Holly Educational Foundation, announces the release of 21-track collection He also happened to be a genius whose music has stood the test of time. No such association with drugs touched Holly's life. Dramatizing the tragic ends of Janis Joplin or Jimi Hendrix, for example, could have a profound effect on youthful moviegoers who would see such a film. As well, it would be difficult, at least from an ethical perspective, to glamorize the lives of many of the other famous rock stars, some dead and others still living, because of their heavy involvement in the drug scene. He also was the first to gain wide acclaim for being the progenitor of a succession of white singers and instrumentalists to combine the black rhythm-and-blues sound with the country sound of the '50s, a feat which caused young Buddy no small amount of turmoil during the early days of his brief career. He was the first of his genre to write, produce, sing and perform his music during a career.
set the tone and established certain standards for the rock 'n' roll idiom. ", many of which were currently being revived by such stars as Linda Ronstadt), ". Why was a biopic of Buddy Holly made instead of any of the host of other rock stars who were his contemporaries? The film's production notes stated: "Because Buddy, despite his brief musical career (he died at age 22 and had 45 hit tunes.
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