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Buddy Holly
A double-sided 10 inch acetate Brown Eyed Handsome Man/Bo Diddley, with colour Presto Recording Corporation, Paramus, New Jersey printed label inscribed in an unknown hand with the track details and Recorder: Buddy Holly, Date: 1957

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This acetate is the property of KSEL disc jockey, Doc Stewart, who was friendly with Buddy Holly in Lubbock, Texas. According to Mr Stewart, Holly was keen to cut these two tracks and was in a hurry to do so before he left for New York so the two of them went to Dave Hester's recording studio in Lubbock and cut this acetate. Apparently, only two copies were produced, Holly kept one and Stewart kept this one.

The two tracks on this acetate, Brown Eyed Handsome Man and Bo Diddley, were overdubbed and released after Holly's death, and both became hit singles. This acetate contains the original undubbed versions.

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