Led In The Game?

RJHC · Post by **RJHC** » Sun Dec 10, 2000 6:28 pm

_THIS SONG ON "HEAR HERE" SOUNDS AN AWFUL LOT

LIKE "LEARNING THE GAME" BY BUDDY HOLLY . DID THE

SEARCHERS MISSPELL IT OR WAS IT A TYPO AT MERCURY

RECORDS ?

jjr · Post by **jjr** » Sun Dec 10, 2000 11:13 pm

I don't know who screwed up, but it's the same song, and they sing it as "Led in the Game". Rest of the lyrics are straight up from Holly's song. There was a tribute album two years ago to Buddy-called "Not Fade Away". Waylon Jennings did "Learnin the Game" on it. Nanci Griffith did "Well, Allright", and the Hollies did "Peggy Sue Got Married"-with Buddy Holly. Like the Beatles w/ Lennon-only much better.

I think Holly was a major influence ("Listen to Me"), along w/ Phil and Don. The only reason I can think of for changing the title might have been a problem over rights to the music (Norman Petty)

tim · Post by **tim** » Mon Dec 11, 2000 4:44 am

I think the problem started way back at the Star-Club, in Hamburg in 62/63. The German record label staff, responsible for putting together the live album, probably just simply transcribed the title wrongly.

jjr · Post by **jjr** » Mon Dec 11, 2000 4:00 pm

Tim,

It's not just the title. If you listen to the song, they're singing "Led in the Game".

mdenger · Post by **mdenger** » Sat Dec 30, 2000 6:31 am

Learning The Game - Led In The Game

The circumstances under which the Starclub songs were recorded were poor. The record company simply didn't know the title, seemed to hear "Led" and credited it to "unknown"

Michael

anon · Post by **anon** » Sat Feb 03, 2001 5:22 pm

Who's version was more popular? The Searchers or the Hullaballoos?

jjr · Post by **jjr** » Sun Feb 04, 2001 12:51 am

Buddy Holly's. The correct title is "Learnin' the Game".Congrats! I'd forgotten the Hullabaloos, although I remembered the show- and Lada Edmonds, Jr.

admin · Post by **admin** » Sun Feb 04, 2001 4:24 pm

Now I will have to check out the Hullabaloos version.