Forgive me if this is already all over the place today, but it's one of the
saddest audio recordings I've heard in a long time.  Wanted to share.

It's Buddy Holly speaking on the telephone, trying to get out of his Decca
record contract, age 20 in 1957:

http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2009/02/buddy-holly-on-line-one.html

-Jerry Fabris