
All six were issued on an album, The Buddy Holly Story, Vol. (The remaining four tunes on Holly's tape were re-recorded by Hansen and company in 1960. Both sides were released as Buddy Holly's first posthumous single. Hansen's studio version of "Crying, Waiting, Hoping" was recorded on June 30, 1959, at Coral Records' Studio A, along with "Peggy Sue Got Married". (For a German reissue of this song, the producer took the "echo" idea literally, and played the Hansen recording in an echo chamber.) Hansen ingeniously turned the solo into call-and-response verses, so the backup singers fill in the pauses with an "echo" of each word. Holly wrote and recorded the song with pauses ("Cryin'. "Crying, Waiting, Hoping" is technically the most successful of the six overdubs it turned out so well that it was originally intended as the "A" side of a 45-rpm single. The idea was to match the established sound of Buddy Holly and the Crickets as closely as possible. Hansen hired studio musicians and a backup vocal group, the Ray Charles Singers, to augment Holly's vocal and guitar. After Holly's death on February 3, 1959, his home recordings of his last six compositions were turned over to record producer Jack Hansen. The song was first recorded on Decemby Holly (only himself with guitar) in apartment 4H of "The Brevoort", Fifth Avenue, Manhattan (many other sources say apartment 3B). Three versions of Holly's recording were released: the 1959 commercial release, the 1964 reissue with different orchestration, and Holly's original, private home recording. It was released in 1959 as the B-side to " Peggy Sue Got Married".


" Crying, Waiting, Hoping" is a song written by Buddy Holly. ( April 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)

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