UDiscover Music is operated by Universal Music Group (UMG). The Hollies, the prolific UK hitmakers whose very name they owed to the star, cut the song in 1980, and other remakes ensued by fellow fans such as Don McLean, Hank Marvin, and Brian May.īuy or stream “Maybe Baby” on Buddy Holly’s Goldcompilation.įor the latest music news and exclusive features, check out uDiscover Music. Numerous covers of “Maybe Baby” included one by Bobby Vee in 1963, while the Crickets teamed with Waylon Jennings to revive it as part of a medley of Holly’s hits in 1978. It thus continued a hot transatlantic streak that had seen “That’ll Be The Day” hit No.1 and “Oh, Boy!” reach No.3, while Holly reached No.6 with “Peggy Sue.”įollow the 50s playlist, starring Buddy Holly along with Chuck Berry, Little Richard and many others. The Crickets’ single climbed to No.17 in late March, but made proportionately more impression in the UK, spending six weeks in the Top 10 and peaking at No.4. Backed with “Tell Me How,” the single entered Top 100 Sides at No.76 on March 3, 1958, in the same week that Danny and the Juniors debuted with “Rock and Roll Is Here To Stay.” Big in Britain Mauldin on bass, Niki Sullivan on rhythm guitar, and Jerry Allison on drums. Holly played lead guitar on “Maybe Baby,” which also featured the Crickets’ Joe B. The plaque had previously been thought lost, but a Tinker club worker had saved it from being discarded and loaned it to the historian. The base's own website reported that Pugh returned the original plaque commemorating what's thought to be the only big US pop hit recorded on an Air Force base.
Buddy found the acoustics of the club just right for the song, and its creation there on that night was re-confirmed in 2008 by Holly historian Graham Pugh of Choctaw, Oklahoma. Holly and the Crickets went to the club after playing a gig that September night at Oklahoma City Municipal Auditorium, as part of the Show Of Stars ’57 line-up. The song was recorded at Tinker’s Officers’ Club on Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma, with background vocals added later at Petty’s studios in Clovis, New Mexico. It was composed by Holly, writing under his real first two names as Charles Hardin, and producer-manager Norman Petty. “Maybe Baby” (pictured in the lead image in its German release on Coral) was another gently rocking anthem of young love, as infectiously simple and heartfelt as all of the Crickets’ catalog.
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