Fact #153404
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Short story:
The Crickets, featuring Buddy Holly, enter the Billboard Top 40 Singles Chart in the USA with Think It Over, which will peak at No27.
Full article:
Sonny Curtis (guitarist, The Crickets) : All the early hits, That'll Be The Day, Oh Boy and Maybe Baby were purely The Crickets, and (producer) Norman (Petty) had very little say in the way they were performed, and they were huge. Funnily enough, when Norman got more control over the group, I thought the records began to suffer! For example, Think It Over was a great song, but Norman insisted on adding in that terrible piano solo in the middle and frankly I think that ruined it. OK - I see his point - it was probably very nice for Vi Petty (Norman's wife) to be on a Crickets single, but it had nothing to do with the song and nothing to do with the sound of The Crickets.
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