This medley was the opening number in Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story. "Flower of My Heart" was written by Buddy's friends and sometime bandmates Bob Montgomery and Don Guess. "Ready Teddy" was co-written by Bumps Blackwell and Johnny Marascalco, and, according to Little Richard, Little Richard. The song was a showstopper in Buddy and the Crickets' sets. 

In the show, everybody freaks out because the band switches from country to this new, dangerous, unbridled music called rock and roll. Chaos ensues. 

This recording is from a bootleg cassette of my last-ever performance as Buddy at the Victoria Palace Theatre, June 1995.

Flower Of My Heart/Ready Teddy

Live In London

Everyday

For a year - June '94 to June '95 - I performed as Buddy Holly in Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story. I spent some time with the road company, touring the UK, and some time in the West End, at the Victoria Palace Theatre. I acted, played guitar, and sang 17 songs every performance. It was a pivotal experience, as you can imagine. These files are from a  bootleg cassette of my last performance. Shortly after this, I headed back to NYC and began a new chapter of my life.

Not Fade Away

Peggy Sue

It Doesn't Matter Anymore

La Bamba

Johnny B. Goode

American Trilogy

Robert Burke Warren is a musician, writer, performer and teacher. His songwriting appears in movies and TV and on albums by Rosanne Cash, RuPaul, and rockabilly queen Wanda Jackson. As a globetrotting bassist in the last century, he toured extensively in an Econoline van. In the mid 90s, he spent a year as Buddy Holly in the West End musical Buddy: the Buddy Holly Story. His rock n roll novel, Perfectly Broken, was published in 2016. His one-man show Redheaded Friend debuted in 2019. For a sweet 10 month period in 2019/2020, Woodstock-based folk rockers The Mammals brought him out of semi-retirement to tour the U.S. with them as bassist.

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