Not Fade Away (song)

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"Not Fade Away"
Buddy holly crickets not fade away brunswick.jpg
Single by the Crickets
from the album The "Chirping" Crickets
A-side "Oh, Boy!"
ReleasedOctober 27, 1957 (1957-10-27)
Recorded Clovis, New Mexico, August 1957 [1]
Genre
Length2:21
Label Brunswick [1]
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Norman Petty [1] [2]
The Crickets singles chronology
"That'll Be the Day"
(1957)		"Not Fade Away"
(1957)		"Maybe Baby"
(1958)

"Not Fade Away" is a song credited to Buddy Holly (originally under his first and middle names, Charles Hardin) and Norman Petty (although Petty's co-writing credit is likely to have been a formality [3] ) and first recorded by Holly and his band, the Crickets. [2]

Contents

Original song

Holly and the Crickets recorded the song in Clovis, New Mexico, on May 27, 1957, the same day the song "Everyday" was recorded. [1] The rhythmic pattern of "Not Fade Away" is a variant of the Bo Diddley beat, with the second stress occurring on the second rather than third beat of the first measure, which was an update of the "hambone" rhythm, or patted juba from West Africa. Jerry Allison, the drummer for the Crickets, pounded out the beat on a cardboard box. [3] Allison, Holly's best friend, wrote some of the lyrics, though his name never appeared in the songwriting credits. Joe Mauldin played the double bass on this recording. It is likely that the backing vocalists were Holly, Allison, and Niki Sullivan, but this is not known for certain. [1]

"Not Fade Away" was originally released as the B-side of the hit single "Oh, Boy!" and was included on the album The "Chirping" Crickets (1957). The Crickets' recording never charted as a single. In 2004, this song was ranked number 107 on Rolling Stone 's list of " The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time ".

Personnel

Buddy Holly and the Crickets

The Rolling Stones version

"Not Fade Away"
Not fade away.jpg
US picture sleeve
Single by the Rolling Stones
B-side
Released
  • February 21, 1964 (1964-02-21) (UK)
  • March 6, 1964 (1964-03-06) (US)
RecordedJanuary 10, 1964
Studio Olympic, London
Genre rock and roll, blues-rock
Length1:50
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Andrew Loog Oldham
Rolling Stones UK singles chronology
"I Wanna Be Your Man"
(1963)		"Not Fade Away"
(1964)		"It's All Over Now"
(1964)
Rolling Stones USsingles chronology
"Not Fade Away"
(1964)		"Tell Me"
(1964)

In 1964, the Rolling Stones' cover of "Not Fade Away" was a major hit in the United Kingdom. It was the A-side of the band's first US single. [4]

The Rolling Stones' version of "Not Fade Away" was one of their first hits. Recorded in January 1964 and released by Decca Records on February 21, 1964, with "Little by Little" as the B-side, it was their first Top 10 hit in the United Kingdom, reaching number three. [5] London Records released the song in the US on March 6, 1964, as the band's first single there, with "I Wanna Be Your Man" as the B-side. [6] The single reached number 48 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. [7] It also reached number 44 on the Cash Box pop singles chart in the U.S. and number 33 in Australia based on the Kent Music Report. [8] "Not Fade Away" was not on the UK version of their debut album, The Rolling Stones , but was the opening track of the US version, released a month later as England's Newest Hitmakers . Cash Box described it as "a wild, freewheeling full-sounding pounder that can take off in no time flat." [9] It was a mainstay of the band's concerts in their early years, usually opening the shows. It was revived as the opening song in the band's Voodoo Lounge Tour, in 1994 and 1995.

Personnel

According to authors Philippe Margotin and Jean-Michel Guesdon, [10] except where noted:

Charts

Chart (1964)Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report) [8] 33
Canada (CHUM Chart) [15] 22
Ireland (IRMA) [16] 5
Sweden (Kvällstoppen) [17] 17
UK Singles (OCC) [18] 3
US Billboard Hot 100 [19] 48
US Cash Box Top 100 [20] 44
US Record World Top 100 [21] 58

Other cover versions

Explanatory notes

  1. ↑ In a July 1964 issue of Rolling Stones Monthly, the Stones' manager and producer Andrew Loog Oldham stated that American producer Phil Spector played maracas on the track. [11] Wyman later disputed this account, suggesting Oldham created the story to increase the song's publicity. [12] While Spector was present at some of the band's sessions, including on 28 January and 4 February 1964, [13] they recorded "Not Fade Away" on 10 January 1964. [13] [14] Both Margotin & Guesdon and authors Andy Babiuk & Greg Prevost write Jagger contributed maracas. [13] [14]

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