{"id":367,"date":"2010-01-29T14:55:26","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T18:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/?p=367"},"modified":"2010-01-29T14:55:26","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T18:55:26","slug":"12910-rave-on-cat-fight-in-memory-of-buddy-holly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/2010\/01\/29\/12910-rave-on-cat-fight-in-memory-of-buddy-holly\/","title":{"rendered":"1\/29\/10 &#8211; &#8220;Rave On&#8221; Cat Fight In Memory Of Buddy Holly!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Rave On<\/span><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Buddy Holly\" src=\"http:\/\/www.photosfan.com\/images\/buddy-holly-singing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"308\" height=\"399\" \/><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>This week, M. Ward, Marshall Crenshaw, The Real Kids and Sonny West all battle it out over Buddy Holly&#8217;s defining version of &#8220;Rave On.&#8221;\u00a0 We remember the musical legacy of Buddy Holly as we approach the 51st anniversary of his tragic death.\u00a0 &#8220;Rave On,&#8221; one of Buddy&#8217;s signature tunes was written by Bill Tighman, Norman Petty AND Sonny West.\u00a0 Sonny actually recorded the tune FIRST in early 1958, but it was Holly&#8217;s version in May of &#8217;58 that would propel the tune to #37 on the charts.\u00a0 From there, many different renditions of the song have appeared.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve chosen four of them for your consideration this week.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t try and compare them to Buddy&#8217;s version, as they will all surely fall short.\u00a0 Please try and compare them against each other and vote for the one you truly DIG THE MOST!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><div id=\"polls-54\" class=\"wp-polls\">\n\t<form id=\"polls_form_54\" class=\"wp-polls-form\" action=\"\/FNCF\/index.php\" method=\"post\">\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" id=\"poll_54_nonce\" name=\"wp-polls-nonce\" value=\"075342925f\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"poll_id\" value=\"54\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Which Version Of \"Rave On\" (Besides Buddy's) Do You Dig The MOST?<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"polls-54-ans\" class=\"wp-polls-ans\"><ul class=\"wp-polls-ul\">\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-147\" name=\"poll_54\" value=\"147\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-147\">Sonny West (Original Version - 1958)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-148\" name=\"poll_54\" value=\"148\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-148\">The Real Kids (1977)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-149\" name=\"poll_54\" value=\"149\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-149\">Marshall Crenshaw (1982)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-150\" name=\"poll_54\" value=\"150\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-150\">M. 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Ward, Marshall Crenshaw, The Real Kids and Sonny West all battle it out over Buddy Holly&#8217;s defining version of &#8220;Rave On.&#8221;\u00a0 We remember the musical legacy of Buddy Holly as we approach the 51st anniversary of his tragic death.\u00a0 &#8220;Rave On,&#8221; one of Buddy&#8217;s signature tunes was written by Bill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,14],"tags":[84,9,8,16,85,7],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rock-n-roll","category-rockabilly","tag-buddy-holly","tag-friday-night-cat-fight","tag-matt-the-cat","tag-podcast","tag-rave-on","tag-rock-roll"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions\/369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}