The Crickets discography

The Crickets discography
Studio albums15
EPs18
Compilation albums20
Singles32

This is the discography of American rock and roll band the Crickets.

Albums

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Studio albums

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Title Album details Peak chart positions
US
[1]
UK
[2]
The "Chirping" Crickets
  • Released: November 27, 1957
  • Label: Brunswick
  • Formats: LP
5
Buddy Holly [A]
  • Released: February 20, 1958
  • Label: Coral
  • Formats: LP
In Style with the Crickets
  • Released: December 5, 1960
  • Label: Coral
  • Formats: LP
13
Bobby Vee Meets the Crickets
  • Released: July 14, 1962
  • Label: Liberty
  • Formats: LP
42 2
Something Old, Something New, Something Blue, Somethin' Else
  • Released: December 1962
  • Label: Liberty
  • Formats: LP
California Sun / She Loves You
  • Released: February 1964
  • Label: Liberty
  • Formats: LP
Rockin' 50's Rock'n'Roll
  • Released: December 1970
  • Label: Barnaby
  • Formats: LP
Bubblegum, Pop, Ballads & Boogie
  • Released: April 1973
  • Label: Philips
  • Formats: LP
Remnants
  • Released: December 1973
  • Label: Vertigo
  • Formats: LP
A Long Way from Lubbock
  • Released: May 1974
  • Label: Mercury
  • Formats: LP
T Shirt
  • Released: September 1988
  • Label: Epic, CBS
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
Double Exposure
  • Released: September 1993
  • Label: Rollercoaster
  • Formats: CD
Too Much Monday Morning
  • Released: March 1997
  • Label: Carlton Sounds
  • Formats: CD, MC
The Crickets & Their Buddies
About Time Too!
  • Released: September 2005
  • Label: Rollercoaster
  • Formats: CD
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Compilation albums

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Title Album details Peak chart positions
US
[1]
CAN
[3]
NZ
[4]
UK
[5]
The Buddy Holly Story
  • Released: February 28, 1959
  • Label: Coral
  • Formats: LP
67 2
A Collection
  • Released: June 1965
  • Label: Liberty
  • Formats: LP
Rock Reflections
  • Released: 1971
  • Label: Sunset
  • Formats: LP
Back in Style
  • Released: 1975
  • Label: MCA
  • Formats: LP
20 Golden Greats
  • Released: February 17, 1978
  • Label: MCA
  • Formats: LP, MC, 8-track
55 31 1
The Complete Crickets
  • Released: February 1984
  • Label: Charly
  • Formats: LP
File 1961–1965
The Best of the Crickets
  • Released: November 1989
  • Label: Liberty
  • Formats: CD, LP
The Liberty Years
  • Released: May 1991
  • Label: EMI/Liberty
  • Formats: CD, MC
Ravin' On – From California to Clovis
  • Released: 1991
  • Label: Rockstar
  • Formats: CD
Words of Love – 28 Classic Songs from Buddy Holly and the Crickets
  • Released: February 8, 1993
  • Label: MCA
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
20 1
The Singles Collection 1957–1961
  • Released: May 1994
  • Label: Pickwick
  • Formats: CD
25 Greatest Hits
The Very Best of Buddy Holly and the Crickets
  • Released: August 16, 1999
  • Label: Universal Music TV
  • Formats: CD, MC
  • Expanded reissue in 2009
12 13
The Ultimate EP Collection
  • Released: September 2001
  • Label: See for Miles
  • Formats: 2xCD
The Complete Early Recordings
  • Released: October 2009
  • Label: ZYX Music
  • Formats: CD
Please Don't Ever Change 1961–1962
The Crickets Story
  • Released: February 3, 2017
  • Label: Not Now Music
  • Formats: 2xCD
The Rough Guide to Buddy Holly & the Crickets
The Complete US & UK Singles As & Bs 1956–62
  • Released: February 9, 2018
  • Label: Acrobat Music
  • Formats: 2xCD
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

EPs

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Title EP details Peak chart positions
UK
[6]
The "Chirping" Crickets
  • Released: November 27, 1957
  • Label: Brunswick
  • Formats: 7"
The Sound of the Crickets
  • Released: December 1957
  • Label: Brunswick
  • Formats: 7"
The Sound of the Crickets
  • Released: September 1958
  • Label: Coral
  • Formats: 7"
  • UK-only release
It's So Easy
  • Released: January 1959
  • Label: Coral
  • Formats: 7"
  • UK-only release
18
The Crickets
  • Released: March 1960
  • Label: Coral
  • Formats: 7"
  • UK-only release
Four More
  • Released: May 1960
  • Label: Coral
  • Formats: 7"
  • UK-only release
7
That'll Be the Day
  • Released: November 1960
  • Label: Coral
  • Formats: 7"
  • UK-only release
The Crickets Don't Ever Change
  • Released: July 1962
  • Label: Coral
  • Formats: 7"
  • UK-only release
The Crickets
  • Released: 1963
  • Label: Coral
  • Formats: 7"
Just for Fun
  • Released: March 1963
  • Label: Liberty
  • Formats: 7"
  • UK-only release; split with Bobby Vee
1
Straight – No Strings!
  • Released: 1963
  • Label: Liberty
  • Formats: 7"
  • UK-only release
Come On
  • Released: August 1964
  • Label: Liberty
  • Formats: 7"
  • UK-only release
Buddy Holly: Crickets Hits
  • Released: 3 September 1976
  • Label: MCA
  • Formats: 7"
  • UK-only release
Buddy Holly Memorial Society
  • Released: 1979
  • Label: Buddy Holly Memorial Society
  • Formats: 7"
Million Dollar Movie
  • Released: March 1980
  • Label: Rollercoaster
  • Formats: 7"
  • UK-only release; split with solo Sonny Curtis
The Crickets
  • Released: April 1988
  • Label: Rollercoaster
  • Formats: 7"
  • UK-only release
Back Home in Tennessee
  • Released: 1990
  • Label: Rollercoaster
  • Formats: 7"
  • UK-only release
Go Boy Go!
  • Released: 1998
  • Label: Rollercoaster
  • Formats: 7"
  • UK-only release
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Singles

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Single (A-side / B-side)
Both sides from same album except where indicated
Year Peak chart positions Album
US
[7]
US R&B
[8]
AUS
[9]
CAN
[10]
IRE
[11]
NZ
[12]
UK
[2]
"That'll Be the Day"
b/w "I'm Looking for Someone to Love"
1957 1 2 2 2 1 The "Chirping" Crickets
"Oh, Boy!"
b/w "Not Fade Away"
10 13 4 6 3
"Maybe Baby"
b/w "Tell Me How"
1958 17 4 16 9 4
"Think It Over"
b/w "Fool's Paradise"
27
58
73 45 11 Non-album tracks
"It's So Easy!"
b/w "Lonesome Tears"
34 [B]
"Love's Made a Fool of You"
b/w "Someone, Someone" (Non-album track)
1959 26 In Style with the Crickets
"When You Ask About Love"
b/w "Deborah"
27
"More Than I Can Say"
b/w "Baby My Heart"
1960 42
33
"Don't Cha Know"
b/w "Peggy Sue Got Married"
Non-album tracks
"He's Old Enough to Know Better"
b/w "I'm Feeling Better" (Non-album track)
1961 105 60 Something Old, Something New, Something Blue, Somethin' Else
"I Fought the Law" (UK-only release)
b/w "A Sweet Love"
In Style with the Crickets
"Don't Ever Change"
b/w "I'm Not a Bad Guy" (Non-album track)
1962 98 9 8 5 Something Old, Something New, Something Blue, Somethin' Else
"Punish Her" (by Bobby Vee)
b/w "Someday (When I'm Gone from You)" (by Bobby Vee and the Crickets; from Bobby Vee Meets the Crickets)
20
99
Non-album tracks
"I Believe in You"
b/w "Parisian Girl" (from Something Old, Something New, Something Blue, Somethin' Else)
"Little Hollywood Girl"
b/w "Parisian Girl"
76 Something Old, Something New, Something Blue, Somethin' Else
"My Little Girl"
b/w "Teardrops Fall Like Rain"
1963 134 86 17 Non-album tracks
"Don't Try to Change Me" (UK-only release)
b/w "Lost and Alone"
37
"April Avenue"
b/w "Don't Say You Love Me"
"Right or Wrong" (UK-only release)
b/w "You Can't Be in Between" (from California Sun / She Loves You)
"Lonely Avenue"
b/w "Playboy" (Non-album track)
1964 California Sun / She Loves You
"From Me to You"
b/w "Please Please Me"
"You've Got Love" (UK-only release)
b/w "An Empty Cup"
40 Non-album tracks
"(They Call Her) La Bamba"
b/w "All Over You"
34 21
"I Think I've Caught the Blues"
b/w "We've Gotta Get Together"
"Now Hear This"
b/w "Everybody's Got a Little Problem"
1965
"Million Dollar Movie"
b/w "A Million Miles Apart"
1968
"True Love Ways"
b/w "Rockin' 50's Rock and Roll"
1972 Rockin' 50's Rock'n'Roll
"My Rockin' Days" (UK-only release)
b/w "Lovesick Blues"
1973 Bubblegum, Bop, Ballad and Boogies
"Wasn't It Nice in New York City"
b/w "Hayride"
"Rhyme and Time" (UK-only release)
b/w "Ooh Las Vegas"
1974 Remnants / A Long Way from Lubbock
"Rock Around with Ollie Vee" (UK-only release)
b/w "Cruise in It"
1979 Non-album tracks
"T-Shirt"
b/w "Holly Would"
1988 T-Shirt
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Buddy Holly was credited solely to Holly as his debut solo album. However, it features the Crickets as his backing group.
  2. ^ "It's So Easy!" did not enter the now-official New Musical Express Top 30, but did peak at number 19 on the Record Mirror Top 20.

References

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  1. ^ a b Whitburn, Joel (1996). Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Albums 1955–1996. Record Research. pp. 350, 814. ISBN 0898201179.
  2. ^ a b "CRICKETS | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". www.officialcharts.com. Retrieved September 26, 2022.
  3. ^ "100 Albums". RPM. 30 (3): 31. October 13, 1978. ISSN 0315-5994. Archived from the original (PHP) on October 23, 2012. Retrieved June 19, 2011.
  4. ^ "charts.org.nz - New Zealand charts portal". charts.nz. Retrieved September 26, 2022.
  5. ^ "TOM ROBINSON | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". www.officialcharts.com. Retrieved April 14, 2022.
  6. ^ "everyHit.com - UK Top 40 Chart Archive, British Singles & Album Charts". www.everyhit.com. Retrieved September 26, 2022.
  7. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2009). Top Pop Singles 1955–2008. Record Research. pp. 234, 448, 1025. ISBN 9780898201802.
  8. ^ Whitburn, Joel (1996). Joel Whitburn's Top R&B Singles 1942–1995. Record Research. p. 98. ISBN 0898201152.
  9. ^ Kent, David (2005). Australian Chart Book 1940–1969. Australian Chart Book Pty Ltd, Turramurra, N.S.W. ISBN 0-646-44439-5.
  10. ^ Peak positions for the Cricket's singles on the Canadian CHUM Chart:
  11. ^ "Irish Top Ten". Evening Herald. July 26, 1962.
  12. ^ "flavour of new zealand - search lever". www.flavourofnz.co.nz. Retrieved September 26, 2022.