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Geoffrey Goddard: 'Buddy Holly Spoke To Me' says singer who wrote 'Tribute'

June Harris, Disc, 26 October 1961

THREE weeks before the release of 'Johnny Remember Me', songwriter Geoffrey Goddard claims he received a "message" from the late Buddy Holly saying "this song will go to number one in the charts." It did, and stayed there seven weeks.

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