Heartbeat - Buddy Holly (cover-live by Bill Sharkey)

Heartbeat (Buddy Holly, 1958). Live cover performance by Bill Sharkey, Home Studio, Hawaii Kai, HI. 2023-02-17. "Keeping the Oldies & Classics Alive"

"Heartbeat," written by Bob Montgomery and Norman Petty, was Buddy Holly's first solo release without his backup band the Crickets; the song stalled at the no. 82 position on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1958/1959 (Whitburn, 2013) but did reach no. 30 on the UK chart (officialcharts, 2023). "Heartbeat" was Holly's last single released prior to his untimely death (doyouremember, 2023), when he, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper (Jiles Perry "J.P." Richardson Jr.) were killed in a plane crash on Feb. 3, 1959; Holly was 22 years old (Dimery & MacDonald, 2007; Whitburn, 2013). An interesting side note, Buddy Holly and The Crickets were the first big-name white group to play the Apollo Theater in Harlem. They were booked there in 1957 by a promoter who assumed they were black" (songfacts, 223).

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Lyrics:

Heartbeat
Why do you miss when my baby kisses me
Heartbeat
Why does a love kiss stay in my memory
Piddly pat
I know that new love thrills me
I know that true love will be
Heartbeat
Why do you miss when my baby kisses me

Heartbeat
Why do you skip when my babies lips meet mine
Heartbeat
Why do you flip and give me a skip each sign
Piddly pat
And sing to me love's story
And bring to me love's glory
Heartbeat
Why do you miss when my baby kisses me