MINT - BLUE DAYS BLACK NIGHTS / LOVE ME - BUDDY HOLLY - 7” Single - 45rpm
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MINT (AND I MEAN MINT) - BLUE DAYS BLACK NIGHTS / LOVE ME - BUDDY HOLLY - 7” Single - 45rpm
Probably the one record missing from your prized Buddy Holly collection -- take a good look. This is a rare pressing on Decca in mint condition with its original Catalog No of 9-29854. The song was originally released as Buddy Holly’s first single in April 1956. ‘Blue Days, Black Nights’, however, was not a Buddy Holly composition although he was the first to record this Ben Hall song and thus became the artist normally associated with this rockabilly classic. Hall did not release his own version of the song until 1960 when he and his ‘Circle 4 Ramblers’ collaborated on a country version of the song complete with steel guitar and his characteristic nasal vocals.
‘Blue Days, Black Nights’ was one of two singles released by Holly on Decca in 1956, both of which failed to chart. As a consequence, Decca shelved the project which also included a promising albeit slower version of ‘That’ll be the Day’. However, after ‘The Crickets’ and ‘Buddy Holly’ started having hit records on Decca’s own subsidiaries of Brunswick and Coral, Decca finally released an album of the 1956 sessions recorded at Owen Bradley’s studios in Nashville.
Lyrics - Blue Days, Black Nights - Buddy Holly
Blue days, black nights
Blue tears keep on fallin', for you dear
Now you're gone
Blue days, black nights
My heart keeps on calling for you dear
And you alone
Memories of you make me sorry
I gave you reason to doubt me
But now you're gone and I am left here all alone
With blue memories, I think of you
Blue days, black nights
I didn't realize I would miss you
The way I do
And now somehow, I know I will pay
For the times I have made you blue
Songwriters: Ben Hall
The record will be posted in a proper 7” cardboard record sleeve within a plain white sleeve with the one depicted included. Postage will be via Royal Mail, Signed For.price rating
