Not Fade Away (song)

"Not Fade Away"
Single by the Crickets
from the album The "Chirping" Crickets
A-side"Oh, Boy!"
ReleasedOctober 27, 1957 (1957-10-27)
RecordedClovis, New Mexico, August 1957[1]
Genre
Length2:21
LabelBrunswick[1]
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Norman Petty[1][2]
The Crickets singles chronology
"That'll Be the Day"
(1957)
"Not Fade Away"
(1957)
"Maybe Baby"
(1958)

"Not Fade Away" is a song credited to Buddy Holly (originally under his first and middle names, Charles Hardin) and Norman Petty (although Petty's co-writing credit is likely to have been a formality[3]) and first recorded by Holly and his band, the Crickets.[2]

  1. ^ a b c Buddy Holly: Greatest Hits. Liner notes. 1995. MCA Records.
  2. ^ a b Norman Petty interviewed on the Pop Chronicles (1969)
  3. ^ The Real Buddy Holly Story (DVD). White Star Studios. 1987.