This gem is one of the saddest songs ever written. Buddy will always be sorely missed but never forgotten.

According to Waylon, this song was the last one they laid down before the Winter Dance Party tour. Waylon also said that Buddy hadn't finished writing it and wanted to lay down a basic sampling of it so he wouldn't forget the words. Awesome song.

The most talented man in rock n roll history. I love this song I play it over and over, God bless Buddy Holly my musical hero.

It is incredible that there use to be such a singer/songwriter out there and that we had to lose him. Awesome music!!!!!!

Song from my youth, still great have on vinyl.The late great Buddy Holly,

Buddy could say so much with so few words. I cannot think of another songwriter who could this like Buddy.

To me the greatest rock n roller of all time, this terrific song, no big studio boost, just raw talent that through the 60 years still comes roaring through.

This is as good as music gets. Buddy a lot of us still miss you, but your music lives on!

Man Buddy Holly is GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a song God Bless him

Buddy has inspired me in my singing profession since 58

What makes it so sad about the death of these wonderful musicians, is that they all seemed to be such lovely, warm-hearted friendly people. The sadness the fans felt must have been a tiny pinprick compared to the grief and heartbreak of friends and family.

One of the greatest american artists ever¡¡ (so many great artists from Texas).

So young and still knew about how the game is played.....imagine what stuff he could have done in his 40's and 50's.

What a masterpiece.His voice, riff and rhythm. Superb, never equalled.

Great stuff. Was 10 yrs old in '59. Had a radio and got my music fan start as a Holly, Preslie fan cause that's the kind of records they liked. TV arrived for us a bit late and introduced Ricky Nelson who gave Presley a run for his money.

Esta canción se cuenta entre las más bellas cantadas por Buddy Holly. Me encanta!!

THE STATE OF TEXAS CAST IT VOTE FOR BUDDY HOLLY.

Did Buddy ever write a bad song? Everything I'm hearing on this playlist is wonderful!

Beautiful song !

I have always been fascinated by the fact that at the time of his life that he should have been as happy as he had ever been, having reached the pinnacle of success in the musical world, and having met and married his truest love, Buddy Holly was recording his most bitterly sad and unsettling songs. The last stage of his career, for me, was his very best, and really showed the promise of the great things that might have been, with true heartbreakers such as this gem, What To Do, Peggy Sue Got Married, Crying Waiting Hoping, Love's Made A Fool Of You, and Raining In My Heart. Even when he chose to cover another artist's song, such as in his brilliant take on Paul Anka's It Doesn't Matter Anymore, it was brutally sad. I believe that he was the greatest love song writer of all time, getting to the deepest of feelings in the most direct way possible, and then marrying those lyrics to simple but immensely memorable music, but this stage of his career is really a delicious anomaly for me. It really makes me wonder about the state of his heart and mind at the time.

This recently replaced Peggy Sue as my new favourite Buddy Holly song - kind believe I had never heard it before. I was so amazed I had to keep replaying it over and over. What a genius!

To the greatest they're ever was,is, and ever will be. The true king of rock and roll cheers

Brilliant song I've got this on a buddy holly tape I love it

Listen to this song with good head phones and you will probably like this song twice as much.

Buddy Lives on always...music never dies. Texas misses you Bud

My all-time favorite rock and roll artist. Because of Buddy, I and 6 million other kids picked up guitars and fell in love with music

THE GREAT MUSIC MASTER I CALL HIM }}}

This is from the heart he was so sad. all for some girl called Peggy sue.......... what a shame such good music comes from so much pain...........

Such a plain grave. Humble.. I was expecting more . Buddy's music inspired so many. Well done Paul McCartney for keeping it alive and bringing it into the 21st century

pure and true ..........buddy lives with us

My favorite version

This is my favorite Buddy Holly song, ever; but, PLEASE, there are so many lovely photographs of Buddy on-line, YOU DON'T NEED TO USE THIS ONE OF IMPERSONATOR, JOHN MUELLER.

Waylon states in his autobiography that he was in the apt. in late '58 when Buddy recorded this demo of LTG in one take. Then they went out for a pastrami sandwich afterwards - Waylon had never had pastrami and he hated it! Waylon genuinely loved Buddy - they were brothers in a way. I think most of us only know friendship like that once in our lives - and those guys had it. To me, this is a song of a brother warning a brother - hey, you've got a lot to learn, but it's okay. You'll get there...

He definately was a genius. Sometimes even young people have been around the barn a few times.

Ahhh Buddy!. No one like him.

Great Song!

Brilliant innovator so talented equally as a singer songwriter and guitarist

Where did Buddy come up with this stuff?!?! If you had listened to all the must that has been recorded in the post WWII era, but you never heard of Buddy Holly, you would have no idea where his music fit in either chronologicly or style or anything. It's just it's own genre of brilliance.

thanks for all the great music over the years you were the best buddy and know won will ever be able to take your place

His vocals here are less "signature Buddy Holly" and more natural, mature and genuine in a slightly deeper voice. Beautiful song, with instrumentation and production values that sound modern

The game of love !!!

He was a great boy he whent too soon rip buddy and family love his song's yes i like different song's and song's do some thing fore me,😢❤❤❤

Beauty song thanks Boddy

My baby to be born soon is going to be called Holly after buddy. btw i am 25 and Buddy Holly is my all time favourite artist. Legend. :)

sad day

So many years of creative output lost. Imagine what he would have produced. Fortunately, he made such an impression on so many young artists.

This song was voted the ninth greatest record of all time on the media observer. Bout time it got some credit.

He was so young when he died in a plane crash in Clear Lake Iowa with Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper. The pilot was also killed in the crash.

Hermosa Cancion...!!! Buddy vive por Siempre en los Corazones de todos los que lo Oimos sus Bellas Melodias... ..!!!

Tune ... Excellent and Fantasic original version. Brilliant A+++

Que Adorable Cancion. !!! Muchas Gracias Buddy Holly...!!!

There NEED's to be a worldwide holiday named after Buddy Holly. Seriously. He's changed my entire outlook on love with this song.

Norman Petty’s dubbed recording, excellent 👌🏼

merci buddy

THE GOAT.

very nice song, great video

Been to Lubbock this year. A privilege.

This TEENAGER wrote THIS song in1958! We're all trying to keep our kids on the straight and narrow and not rob people or be violent etc, and this guy was writing stuff like this. Never mind that he's way ahead of his time, he's amazingly focused for a teenaager of ANY era. I love you Buddy! Mikey xx

@mikeystrafford (Buddy Holly was 22 in 1958, not a teenager). Still a great song!

I love that guitar at 00:55! That whole instrumental part is great.

Two people are still learning the game.

Although a fanatical purist I'll admit that each and every one of the post mortem Buddy Holly overdubbed recordings are flawless whether instrumental or vocal and I prefer them to the solo versions. Brown Eyed Handsome Man and Bo Diddley even made it to the charts in 1963.

Originally from his apartment tapes...later dubbed in & released after his death. No one finer than Buddy. RIP, Brother.

a sad day for music but spooky that was when my first land rover was regd a very early series 2 i love 50s and 60s music

The "Music" Lives.

DAMN I LEARNED THE HARD WAY THANKS ASH:(

In UK charts of 1960

THE BEST I THINK SO ANY WAY

Hearts that are broken and love that's untrue These go with learning the game When you love her and she doesn't love you You're only learning the game When she says that you're the only one she'll ever love Then you find that you are not the one she's thinking of Feeling so sad and you're all alone and blue That's when you're learning the game

Too bad he didn't record the other verse on this demo. A friend of mine Larry Welborn was Buddy's original bass player and played bass on "That'll be the Day" and "Lookin' for Someone to Love." Larry played me a later version of the song that Buddy really loved. The words were changed around and the line "Learning the Game" was only sung once...as the last line. Buddy felt that it could be the only song in history in which the title was sung only once...and then as the last line.

He really wasnt a teenager when he wrote this.. He was already 22. It was recorded in December of 1958. BTW that 1st picture isnt "Buddy Holly" Its John Mueller, a Buddy Holly look Impersonator.

@mikeystrafford buddy holly was 22 when he died so he wasnt a teenager LOL but i bet he singed when he was a teenager too. :)

He wrote his own lyrics in a time when no artists did, including our favorites (i.e. elvis). Absolute tragedy. What could have been...

this was recorded in NYC in january 1959 less than a month before he died

The drummers.

❤️❤️❤️

The genius was in the chord progressions. It was no longer C-Am-F-G. It was. as THIS song demonstrates-A-E-D-E and so forth. He reversed the chords and could mix a guitar, bass and drums and fill the dynamic of the song so well.

BUDDY

Eddie from Rocky Horror said it best, Buddy Holly was singing his vary last song. RIP ;_;

@ocduff The version was never recorded on wax. I actually recorded it once on tape and entered it in a contest by "Buddy Magazine" for the cover of a Buddy Holly song. The prize was a replica '57 Strat when they first came out and it had a special serial number. The listeners to the tape probably didn't realize what I had done. I even used Buddy Intro and played a Gibson accoustic. I will put the revised words on your web site, although it may not be today.

@mikeystrafford if he wrote the song, as you said, in 1958 than he was no teenager as he was born in 1936...

I'm naming my child Buddy.

oh, ok thank you. its still so sad regardless.

Cool cool,blue-rock.

A girl dumped me in high school went home played this song thank you buddy

buddy die in 1958 i was born in 1982 but i love his music

@84292431A That has been done a bit. Another I can think of is "Bohemian Rapsody" by Queen.

yo me case con esa canción love

@john9944 - could you expound on this a bit. Was the recording you're referring to, the recording of an artist other than Buddy? Or are you saying that there is another recording demo of this song somewhere?? Thanks - that's great you know Mr. Welborn - he is an important figure in rock history.

Good grief. Who has done WHAT to this song?

@mikeystrafford One of the best comments I've read in KZfaq. Completely agree!!

I Love this version but is it the release version? live? or acoustic?

Could you love Buddy anymore?

Much, much better version posted by draadnagels. Its the picture of him with the blue in the bottom right.

@mikeystrafford Hear,hear!!!

@davelove Um... oh yeah! I knew that! I thin i'd had a single malt or two when I made that comment. However, it's still a major achievement. AND - at 22 I was still a kid and i'm sure most people (of may age) agree with that! The world grows up so quickly these days. At 12 they've got facebook accounts, mobile phones and laptops. At 12, i was playing with action man and asking my dad who Elvis was - lol. Mikey xx

Why have you got an impersonators photograph right at the start? That is John Mueller not Buddy!

surely the 2 dislikes are from hitting the wrong button

I will always dislike Feb.03 1959 as the worst day in music history.

That picture is NOT Buddy Holly, Its a Holly impersonator/ tribute artist