Legendary Masters Series
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| Legendary Masters Series | ||||
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| Released | January 1972 | |||
| Recorded | May 1956 to August 1959 | |||
| Genre | Rock and roll, Rockabilly | |||
| Label | United Artists | |||
| Producer | Various | |||
| Eddie Cochran chronology | ||||
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| Singles from Legendary Masters Series | ||||
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| Allmusic |   [1] |
Legendary Masters Series is the fourth album posthumously released in the US after Eddie Cochran's death in 1960.[1][2] The release featured liner notes by Lenny Kaye.[3] It was described as a "double - disc set [that] presents to the public virtually everything that rocker Cochran put out".[4]
The album was released as a two album set on the United Artists label in January 1972.[1][4] The catalogue number was UAS 9959,[5] and was part of a successful series of budget re-issues by the company.[6][7]
Lester Bangs described the release in Rolling Stone magazine as consisting of "genre pieces are rather uneven but consistently interesting".[8] When EMI took over the ownership of the label towards the end of the 1980s, a selection from the 2-LP set (17 of 30 tracks) was released on CD as Eddie Cochran: Legendary Masters Series, Volume 1 (#92809) in 1990.[9][10]
