Oh, Boy! (The Crickets song)

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"Oh, Boy!"
Single by the Crickets
from the album The "Chirping" Crickets
B-side"Not Fade Away"
ReleasedOctober 27, 1957
December 22, 1957 (UK)
RecordedJuly 29 – August 1, 1957, Clovis, New Mexico
GenreRock and roll, rockabilly
Length2:10
LabelBrunswick 9-55035
Songwriter(s)Sonny West, Bill Tilghman, Norman Petty
Producer(s)Norman Petty
The Crickets singles chronology
"That'll Be the Day"
(1957) 		"Oh, Boy!"
(1957) 		"Maybe Baby"
(1958)

"Oh, Boy!" is a song written by Sonny West, Bill Tilghman and Norman Petty. The song was included on the album The "Chirping" Crickets and was also released as the A-side of a single, with "Not Fade Away" as the B-side. The song peaked at number 10 on the US charts,[1] number 3 on the UK charts in early 1958,[2] and number 26 in Canada.[3] (See 1958 in music for more context.)

Background

The song was originally recorded as a demo by Sonny West as "All My Love (Oh Boy!)" at

12-bar blues verse and an 8-bar bridge. (Holly also covered another West song, "Rave On
".)

Lyrics change

West has stated that Holly made a small change to the original lyrics of the song. He told the BBC's Classic Albums series in 2019, "I said 'All my love, all my kissing, you're gonna see what you've been missing'. And with Buddy's verse, 'All my love, all my kissing, you don't know what you've been missing'. I have no idea, maybe it has more punch that way."

Covers

"Oh Boy!" was covered by British

UK Singles Chart in May 1975.[4] It was the band's third and final UK number one. It was included on their album Mud Rock Volume 2, which reached number 6 in the UK Albums Chart.[5]
Other versions include:

  • Bobby Vee recorded the song in 1963.
  • Jackie DeShannon released a version of the song on her album Breakin' It Up on the Beatles Tour! (1964).
  • The song was "revived" in an offbeat power ballad version by Starbabies, which reached the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart in 1979.
  • Los Lobos recorded the song for the film La Bamba in 1987.

References

  1. ISBN 0-89820-089-X
  2. ^ "Official Charts Company". Officialcharts.com. 1958-02-01. Retrieved 2022-03-17.
  3. ^ "CHUM Hit Parade - February 3, 1958".
  4. ISBN 1-904994-10-5
    .
  5. ISBN 1-904994-10-5
    .

Sources
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