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Buddy Holly Songwriter Records at SugarHill
Added: (Sun Sep 18 2005)
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Buddy Holly Songwriter Records at SugarHill
(HOUSTON, TEXAS) – September 14th, 2005– Former Buddy Holly backup singer John Pickering and songwriter Sonny West, were recently at SugarHill Recording Studios completing West’s new album with SugarHill Chief Engineer, Andy Bradley. They completed mixing and tracking vocals for 6 songs with Bradley in SugarHill’s Studio B.
Sonny West grew up in, Lubbock Texas (Buddy Holly’s home town) where he released his own records and co-wrote the rock 'n' roll classics 'Oh Boy!' and 'Rave On' that were eventually covered by Buddy Holly, becoming massive hits in 1957.
West continues to appear in larger roots music shows, and is a member of the Rockabilly Hall of Fame (Inductee #38), He is also a recipient of BMI's Million Airplays Award where “Rave On” is in the Top 200 of Rolling Stone Magazine's 'Greatest Hits of All Time.'
John Pickering (formerly of the backup group The Picks) made rock 'n' roll history when they recorded the vocal backup harmonies for many of Buddy Holly's most famous releases, including "Oh Boy", "Maybe Baby" and "Tell Me How". Buddy Holly & The Picks were voted Best and Most Promising Vocal Group of 1957 in both the USA and Great Britain.
“It was amazing to hear John (Pickering) sing all the various harmonies and parts instantaneously”, commented Chief Engineer Andy Bradley. “We recorded like these guys did in the old days, where singers sang all the way through with hardly any cutting and pasting”.
Both Sonny West and John Pickering are featured in the new DVD "The Music of Buddy Holly and The Crickets" released in June 2005 in the UK and Europe and is scheduled to be released in the US very soon.
For more on SugarHill Recording Studios, visit: www.sugarhillstudios.com
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Located in Houston, SugarHill Recording Studios is the oldest continuously operating facility in Texas. With over 60 years of music-making history, we have an award-winning engineering staff and a collection of both leading edge and vintage equipment. For more information, visit our website at http://www.sugarhillstudios.com.