Something Old, Something New...! (+ Extra Tracks) (CD)
This CD, containing the complete first album by the post-Buddy Holly Crickets for Liberty (to which they were signed in 1960), augmented by a half-dozen 1963-1964 vintage songs, is actually easier to recommend than the EMI best-of on the band. Most of this CD is straightforward rock & roll, not groundbreaking, but played with a spirit and rawness that was getting pretty rare in the early 1960s -- "Willie and the Hand Jive," "Summertime Blues," "What'd I Say," "Searchin'," and "Blue Monday" share space with Goffin & King's "Don't Ever Change," Goffin's "Little Hollywood Girl," and the standard "Love Is Strange."~ Bruce Eder
01 Willie and the hand jive - 2:50 02 Don't ever change - 2:20 03 Summertime blues - 1:57 04 Searchin' - 2:58 05 Little hollywood girl - 2:11 06 Pretty blue eyes - 2:14 07 What'd i say - 2:39 08 Parisian girl - 2:02 09 Blue blue day - 1:53 10 Love is strange - 2:38 11 He's old enough to know better - 1:56 12 Blue monday - 2:18
13 (they call her) la bamba [*] - 2:42 14 Lonely avenue [*] - 2:07 15 Teardrops fall like rain [*] - 1:46 16 Thoughtless [*] - 1:45 17 My little girl [*] - 1:58 18 Playboy [*] - 1:58