On the Record: Rediscover Buddy Holly: A Revelatory Edition of His Classic LP with the Crickets

Buddy Holly and his band released The “Chirping” Crickets , on Nov. 27, 1957, about 14 months before he perished in an Iowa airplane crash. The record, their debut, turned out to be the only album they would make together.

But what an album it is. Among the tracks on this LP are the chart-topping “That’ll Be the Day,” which Holly wrote with his drummer, Jerry Allison, and producer Norman Petty. Here, too, are two other classic big hits, “Maybe Baby,” a Holly/Petty co-write, and “Oh Boy!,” by Petty and songwriters Sonny West and Bill Tilghman. (Note that the extent …