Think It Over Explained

Think It Over
Cover:	Thinkitover.JPG
Type:	single
Artist:	the Crickets
Album:	The Buddy Holly Story
B-Side:	Fool's Paradise
Released:	May 27, 1958
Recorded:	February 1958
Genre:	Rock and roll, rockabilly
Length:	1:45
Label:	Brunswick
Producer:	Norman Petty
Prev Title:	Maybe Baby
Prev Year:	1958
Next Title:	It's So Easy!
Next Year:	1958

"Think It Over" is a rock-and-roll song written by Buddy Holly, Jerry Allison, and Norman Petty in 1958, originally recorded by the Crickets. Vi Petty, Norman Petty's wife, played piano on this recording.

Chart performance

In the US, "Think It Over" was released by Brunswick Records as a 45-rpm single (9-55072),^[1] reached number 27 on the Billboard pop singles chart,^[2] and number 9 on the Billboard R&B chart. Overseas, the song went to number 11 in the UK.^[3]

Other recordings

The song has been recorded by:

Bobby Vee
The Bunch
The Bobby Fuller Four
The Hollies
Skeeter Davis
Gloria Lynne
P.J. Proby
Ringo Starr.^[4]
Australian band Ol' 55 covered the song on their album, Take It Greasy (1976).

Sources

Amburn, Ellis (1996). Buddy Holly: A Biography. St. Martin's Press. .
Bustard, Anne (2005). Buddy: The Story of Buddy Holly. Simon & Schuster. .
Dawson, Jim; Leigh, Spencer (1996). Memories of Buddy Holly. Big Nickel Publications. .
Gerron, Peggy Sue (2008). Whatever Happened to Peggy Sue? Togi Entertainment. .
Goldrosen, John (1975). Buddy Holly: His Life and Music. Popular Press. .
Goldrosen, John; Beecher, John (1996). Remembering Buddy: The Definitive Biography. New York: Da Capo Press. .
Gribbin, John (2009). Not Fade Away: The Life and Music of Buddy Holly. London: Icon Books. .

Notes and References

http://tsort.info/music/3mfe7w.htm Song artist 342 – Buddy Holly.tsort.info
Book: Whitburn, Joel . Joel Whitburn
. Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles, 14th Edition: 1955-2012 . Joel Whitburn . 2013 . Record Research . 390.
Web site: officialcharts.com. . March 31, 2021.
http://www.secondhand-songs.com/work/12682 Think It Over. Second Hand Songs