Not FadeAway

[Jean Pierre]

Not Fade Away is a song written by Buddy Holly and Norman Petty, recorded by Holly with his band, The Crickets, in 1957. It is based on a variation of the "Bo Diddley beat", a rhythm popularised by Bo Diddley.

J'ai toujours pensé que c'etait une chanson de Bo Diddley du fait de ce beat...
Cette chanson a été reprise par bon nombre de groupe
Rolling Stones sur l'album américain England's Newest Hit Makers (1964)
Rush en single (1973)
The Everly Brothers en single (1973)
Black Oak Arkansas sur l'album Race with the Devil (1977)
Steve Hillage sur l'album Motivation Radio (1977)
Stephen Stills sur l'album Thoroughfare Gap (1978)
Mick Fleetwood sur son premier album solo The Visitor (1981)
Foreigner sur l'album live Best of Live enregistré en tournée entre 1978 et 1988. La chanson elle-même a été jouée lors d'un concert en 1985.
Sheryl Crow en single (2007)
James Taylor sur l'album Covers (2008)
Grateful Dead, sur scène, entre 1970 et 1995.

Je viens de me rendre compte que je n'avais pas fait de basse! 
J'ai tout fait...excepté le celebre Bo diddley beat qui un echantillon en boucle

[Zoltan]

Bo Didley beat rules!

I like the crunchy retro sound you've managed to achieve here. It really does sound like an early recording. Closer to late 50s (early 60s at most).

Great cover JP!

[Jean Pierre]

well seen or rather well heard Zoltan !

crunchy retro sound you've managed to achieve here. It really does sound like an early recording. Closer to late 50s (early 60s at most).

...I actually used the J37 emulation, that famous Abbey Road studio magnetophone, for the vocals and my guitar (telecaster clone) went through the guitar rig 6 mill with compressor emulation and sounds that gave very crunchy sounds and indeed we're closer to the sound of the 50s. At that time I was a teenager and in my band, as there were no imported Vox or Fender amps yet, we tinkered with the guitar amps ourselves, which, when pushed to full volume, had a "natural" distortion long before it was invented.   

read the very interesting article on wiki  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distortion_(music)

[Farrell Jackson]

JP, you have nailed down the retro sound of the late 1950's. Well done there!
What is next, Hand Jive? 

[Jean Pierre]

I added bass line "bien crado"


Farrel said "Hand Jive"...
I didn't know the Hand jive. so I listened to it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxA0etaejck

..indeed it's the same beat as the Bo Diddley beat ...which Bo Diddley wouldn't have invented by the way ..it comes from Africa

[TPB]

Very nice me and Dobro did a cover of this song years ago I will see if I can dig it so you can hear it is a fun song to cover you did a great job of covering this song
Well done
Tim

[Farrell Jackson]

I added bass line "bien crado"
Farrel said "Hand Jive"...
I didn't know the Hand jive. so I listened to it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxA0etaejck
..indeed it's the same beat as the Bo Diddley beat ...which Bo Diddley wouldn't have invented by the way ..it comes from Africa

It sounds good with the bass added JP! Here's another one by Eric Clapton. It's called Willie and The Hand Jive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRTvQd-CHbg

[Ted]

I added bass line "bien crado"
Farrel said "Hand Jive"...
I didn't know the Hand jive. so I listened to it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxA0etaejck
..indeed it's the same beat as the Bo Diddley beat ...which Bo Diddley wouldn't have invented by the way ..it comes from Africa [url="https://songcrafters.org/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;attach=196098;type=preview;file"]NOT FAD AWAY render MP3 with add bass-001.mp3[/url]

It sounds good with the bass added JP! Here's another one by Eric Clapton. It's called Willie and The Hand Jive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRTvQd-CHbg

I always thought it was southern Africa, but the ethnomusicologists point to Yoruba traditions.

I love the wandering melodic bass – because your instincts are so different from mine. For this rhythm, I would have gone for _LOW root notes, and that would have been boring.

An album that had a big impact on me was "Snoopy vs.The Red Baron" by The Royal Guardsmen. It was a novelty/children's record. I was only 4 or 5 years old, but it introduced me to the Bo Diddly beat, and classic songs such as "Battle Of New Orleans" (which I can still sing from memory), and their cover version of "Li'l Red Riding Hood" by Sam Sham and The Pharaohs – which was one of the first songs I ever learned as a teenager. 

What I'm saying is: This beat has been in my psyche for a long time. I love it.

[Jean Pierre]

thank you for these very interesting comments

[StephenM]

J'espère ne plus jamais entendre une autre version de cela. C'est parce qu'aucun des autres ne pourrait jamais être à la hauteur dans mon esprit... un sacré boulot JP !


I hope I never hear another version of this again.  That is because none of the others could ever measure up to this in my mind... one hell of a job JP!