Vinyl Album - Denny Laine - Holly Days - EMI

Vinyl Album

Artist:	Denny Laine
Title:	Holly Days
Label:	EMI
Country:	UK
Catalogue:	EMA 781 / 0C 064-98 541
Date:	6 May 1977
Format:	LP
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	8 Own
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	Denny Laine	Heartbeat	Montgomery, Petty	Rate
A2	Denny Laine	Moondreams	Petty	Rate
A3	Denny Laine	Rave On	West, Tilghman, Petty	Rate
A4	Denny Laine	I'm Gonna Love You Too	Mauldin, Petty, Linsley	Rate
A5	Denny Laine	Fool's Paradise	LeGlaire, Petty, Linsley	Rate
A6	Denny Laine	Lonesome Tears	Holly	Rate
B1	Denny Laine	It's So Easy / Listen To Me	Holly, Petty, Hardin, Petty	Rate
B2	Denny Laine	Look At Me	Hardin, Petty, Alison	Rate
B3	Denny Laine	Take Your Time	Holly, Petty	Rate
B4	Denny Laine	I'm Looking For Someone To Love	Holly, Petty	Rate

Notes

According to the notes on the back of the sleeve the background to these songs is as follows:

In the highlands of Scotland there’s a wood-lined, tin-roofed shack known as Rude Studio. Here Denny Laine and Paul McCartney got together to record some Buddy Holly songs…

On the four-track recorder Paul laid down the basic tracks, overdubbing each instrument himself.

Denny and Linda added a few licks and all three joined in on the vocals… Denny singing lead and Paul and Linda harmonising.

Keeping it simple they tried to recapture the spirit of the original recordings by recalling, in moments of madness, their own sweet Holly Days.

Holly Days was produced by Paul McCartney.
Photographs by Linda McCartney.

So why an album of Holly covers? Well this side project from Wings may well have been a McCartney reward to Laine for standing by McCartney after Denny Seiwell and Henry McCullough left Wings at the end of rehearsals for Band On The Run. But McCartney’s publishing company had also acquired rights to the Buddy Holly songbook in 1975 before recording the album (during the summer of 1976), which gave McCartney some financial interest in its release, and therefore may well have been a prime reason for this collection of Buddy Holly covers.

This is a lo-fi, low-key collection of songs bringing back memories of McCartney. It is in all but name a Paul McCartney project, with Denny Laine vocals. Two of the tracks are instrumentals with perhaps only McCartney playing.

Some consider this a “lost” Wings album.

The album was released on CD on 17 January 2002 on the Magic label (France) "avec l'aimable autorisation de EMI Music France", remastered in high definition 24 bit.

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JPGR&B SUBS 7th Dec 2023		No. 1 in the Top 50 vinyl albums viewed yesterday, Wednesday 6 December 2023.



MR B PAGE 6th Dec 2023		R.I.P. Denny Laine.



leonard ● 6th Oct 2021		Added stickered front sleeve and competition form



JPGR&B SUBS 12th Jan 2014		Hollydays - the full album.

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Linked Releases

Canada - Capitol - 1977

Germany - EMI - 1977

Sweden - EMI - 1977

USA - Capitol - 1977