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Post by NoShear on Feb 3, 2024 18:06:23 GMT
This song seems horn-rimmed visionary, and I wonder if it would have been an A-side in a later time:
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Post by BunnyWhit on Feb 3, 2024 22:37:48 GMT
This song seems horn-rimmed visionary, and I wonder if it would have been an A-side in a later time: Do you think if "Heartbeat" and "Well....All Right" had been reversed the release would have peaked at better than 82 on the Billboard Hot 100?
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Post by NoShear on Feb 3, 2024 23:06:39 GMT
This song seems horn-rimmed visionary, and I wonder if it would have been an A-side in a later time: Do you think if "Heartbeat" and "Well....All Right" had been reversed the release would have peaked at better than 82 on the Billboard Hot 100? I don't have any pulse - no pun originally intended - on "Heartbeat" nor the 1950s music in general, BunnyWhit, so I'm nowhere near the person to offer a comment but since you asked... I think Buddy Holly's A-side was of its time, so maybe it was the right choice of side; whereas "Well...All Right" seems of a future audience and argues the possibility that Buddy Holly might have successfully transitioned into the college coffeehouses of the early 1960s instead of languishing on the nostalgia circuit that was the fate of some or many of Holly's rockabilly peers if I'm not mistaken.
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