Audio Salvage Project: Buddy Holly – From Clovis To New York – Stereo

Project History:

De-mixing and cleaning all the individual tracks for this collection began in early May 2024. Mastering was completed June 21st. What you’re listening to is the undubbed original masters, plus the bonus track… the overdubbed version of “Love’s Made A Fool Of You” (With Handclaps).

The Master Tapes – A Brief History:

The tracks were all recorded between January 25th and September 10th, 1958. Of all the tracks, only three of them actually utilized the Crickets. The sessions were divided between Norman Petty’s NorVaJak Studios, in Clovis, New Mexico, Bell Sound Studios, 237 W. 54th Street, New York and  The Pythian Temple, 80th Street, New York. Buddy was clearly preferring to use session musicians such as Glen “Bo” Clark, George Atwood,  the Dick Jacobs Orchestra consisting of Al Chernet, George Barnes, David “Panama” Francis and Philip Kraus,  Sanford Bloch, Sam Taylor,  Ernest Hayes, The Helen Way Singers and, of course, King Curtis and Tommy Allsup. Most people prefer to think the “split” between Buddy and the Crickets began sometime in October of that year, yet Mr. Holly began recording without them as early as January 25 of that year. During 1958, in fact, Holly played more sessions with members of the Crickets while backing up the likes of Carolyn Hester, than together on his own recordings.  These recordings have been referred to (accurately) as “the stray” sessions, in that they didn’t appear on any LP until after Mr. Holly’s passing.

What We’ve Done:

Using AI de-mixing technology, we’ve reduced the tape hiss considerably. Not only have we separated and cleaned each individual track (vocals, drums, bass, etc.), we have also stemmed the original studio effects (Sound-On-Sound, Echo, Reverb) and remixed those into the stereo spectrum for a very rich, natural sounding end-product. Finally, all tracks were remixed and mastered in true stereo.

Track List:

1. Love’s Made A Fool Of You (Undubbed)
2. Lonesome Tears
3. Wishing
4. Come Back Baby
5. Reminiscing
6. That’s My Desire
7. Early In The Morning
8. Heartbeat
9. Fool’s Paradise
10. Now We’re One
11. Take Your Time
12. Love’s Made A Fool Of You (Overdubbed – Hand Claps)

Downloads are below… in FLAC and HQ MP3.  Enjoy!