Buddy Holly - Brown eyed handsome man (HQ)

This cover by "Buddy Holly" was released i believe in 1963 and was a top 5 hit here in the UK, but the original was done by "Chuck Berry" in 1956 and was a B side song to "Too Much Monkey Business"

[tomvaughn]

I saw him perform this live in Lamesa Texas in 1956. It is still the best concert I have ever seen. I still wonder how it is possible that any human being could have so much talent. He was beyond human.

[MCO]

Brown Eyed Handsome Man was last on the set list of the Clear Lake concert on February 2, 1959, making it the last song Buddy ever performed

[RFEDO]

Buddy has been gone now over 60 years yet the first note of any of his tunes that get's played you know it's him...now thats what you call a proper legacy !!

[tonytrotta]

Classic song by Buddy Holly - Nobody plays or sings it better!
Buddy doesn't miss a beat - the man was ahead of his time!
Crank this classic song up!

[maureendevries]

GENIUS! No wonder the Beatles admired and imitated him.

[natuurvriend]

Rock ‘n roll as it should be, just a little bit short.

[messenger]

We were robbed of an amazing talent. He wrote so many great songs in a short space of time.

[yeastxtract]

Lyrics:
Arrested on charges of unemployment
He was sitting in the witness stand
The judge's wife called up the district attorney
Said free that brown eyed man
You want your job you better free that brown eyed man

Flying across the desert in a TWA
I saw a woman walking across the sand
She been a-walkin' thirty miles en route to Bombay
To reach a brown eyed handsome man
Her destination was a brown eyed handsome man

Way back in history three thousand years
Back ever since the world began
There's been a whole lot of good women shedding tears
For a brown eyed handsome man
A lot of trouble, was a brown eyed handsome man

Well the beautiful daughter couldn't make up her mind
Between a doctor and a lawyer man
Her mother told her darling go out and find yourself
A brown eyed handsome man
That's what your daddy is a brown eyed handsome man

Well DeMilo's Venus was a beautiful lass
She had the world in the palm of her hand
But she lost both her arms in a wrestling match
To win a brown eyed handsome man
She fought and won herself a brown eyed handsome man

Well, two, three the count with nobody on
He hit a high fly into the stand
Rounding third he was headed for home
It was a brown eyed handsome man
That won the game, it was a brown eyed handsome man

[capricorn]

For me he`s the real KING OF ROCK`N`Roll!!!

[johnd]

As others have already said: we lost an amazing song writer and singer.
It seems nothing today is original.

[SteelSkylineGlassSky]

Favorite version of this song. Nobody can sing it like Buddy did!

[paulschafers]

THE last song ever sang by one of my all time heroes, Buddy Holly

[themouse]

I was born in 1960 and in 1972 I heard buddy Holly for the first time and Im still listening to buddy Holly now. Along with Roy orbison.

[andrewsparsholtt]

Buddy Holly was the greatest Rock n roll singer of all time

[desmorris]

Chuck wrote it but buddy made it.
unreal.

[georgeioannou]

BUDDY HOLLY IS A LEGEND ! BROWN EYED HANDSOME MAN IS A KILLER TRACK !

[atomicghost]

My grandmother saw him live three months before he passed away when he with in town. She said he was pretty great live.

[Scotseasy]

This came so close to topping the UK charts in April 1963 : reaching No. 2 in some versions, No.3 in others. The late great  Buddy Holly up there that year with the British groups whose music he helped to inspire.

[michaelgallant]

I Love Ya Buddy...62yrs. passed...not for us...Buddy Holly's Music Lives...and of course Chuck Berry...Rock Thanks Thee Both.

[oilwellholdings]

Masterpiece!!! 1950`s Rock For Ever!!!