Legendary Masters Series

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Legendary Masters Series
Eddie Cochran LP UAS9959.jpg
Compilation album by
Eddie Cochran
ReleasedJanuary 1972
RecordedMay 1956 to
August 1959
Genre Rock and roll, Rockabilly
Label United Artists
Producer Various
Eddie Cochran chronology
Summertime Blues
(1966)		Legendary Masters Series
(1972)		 Eddie Cochran on the Air
(1972)
Singles from Legendary Masters Series
  1. "Jeannie Jeannie Jeannie"
    Released: January 1958
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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]

Contents

Content

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 form the 2 LP set was released on CD as Legendary Masters Series Vol. 1 in 1990. [9] [10]

Track listing

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Skinny Jim" Jerry Capehart / Eddie Cochran 2:09
2."Let's Get Together"Jerry Capehart / Eddie Cochran1:55
3."Eddie's Blues"Jerry Capehart / Eddie Cochran3:55
4."Little Lou"Jerry Capehart / Eddie Cochran1:40
5."Pink Pegged Slacks"Jerry Capehart / Eddie Cochran / Hank Cochran 2:07
6."Jeanie Jeanie Jeanie" George Motola / Ricky Page2:20
7."Somethin' Else" Sharon Sheeley / Bob Cochran2:07
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Pretty Little Devil"Fred Carter, Jr2:04
2."Who Can I Count On" Sammy Masters 2:20
3."Thinkin' About You" Bob Luman / Fred Carter, Jr2:02
4."Opportunity" Jewel Akens / Eddie Daniels 1:52
5."Latch On"Dale Fitzsimmons / Ray Stanley1:36
6."I'm Ready"Sylvester Bradford / Fats Domino / Al Lewis 1:33
7."Three Stars"Tommy Dee3:29
8."Cotton Picker" Mike Deasy 2:10
Side three
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Summertime Blues" Jerry Capehart / Eddie Cochran 1:55
2."Cut Across Shorty" Marijohn Wilkin / Wayne P. Walker1:51
3."Milk Cow Blues" Kokomo Arnold 2:40
4."My Way"Jerry Capehart / Eddie Cochran2:13
5."Blue Suede Shoes" Carl Perkins 1:50
6."Nervous Breakdown"Eddie Cochran2:30
7."C'mon Everybody"Jerry Capehart / Eddie Cochran1:53
Side four
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Sittin' In The Balcony"Johnny Dee / John D. Loudermilk 1:58
2."Twenty Flight Rock" Eddie Cochran / Ned Fairchild1:43
3."Teenage Cutie" Jerry Capehart / Eddie Cochran1:50
4."Hallelujah I Love Her So" Ray Charles 2:15
5."Fourth Man Theme"Jerry Capehart / Eddie Cochran1:59
6."Weekend"Bill Post / Doree Post1:50
7."Bo Weevil"Jerry Capehart / Eddie Cochran / Traditional1:57
8."Long Tall Sally" Robert "Bumps" Blackwell / Enotris Johnson / Richard Penniman 1:43

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Demming, Mark, Eddie Cochran - Legendary Masters [LP] review , retrieved October 22, 2023
  2. ↑ Kelly, Michael Bryan (1993). Liberty Records: A History of the Recording Company and Its Stars, 1955-1971. McFarland. p. 522. ISBN   978-0-89950-740-8.
  3. ↑ Kaye, Lenny. "Eddie Cochran: Liner Notes from Legendary Masters LP". thompsonian.info. Retrieved October 22, 2023.
  4. 1 2 Tudor, Dean; Tudor, Nancy (1979). Contemporary Popular Music. Libraries Unlimited. p. 168. ISBN   978-0-87287-191-5.
  5. ↑ Cochran, Bobby (2003). Three Steps to Heaven: The Eddie Cochran Story. Hal Leonard Corporation. p. 239. ISBN   978-0-634-03252-3.
  6. ↑ Dove, Ian (January 22, 1972). Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. p. 4.
  7. ↑ Denisoff, R. Serge (December 24, 2021). Tarnished Gold: Record Industry Revisited. Routledge. p. 159. ISBN   978-1-000-67942-7.
  8. ↑ Bangs, Lester (March 30, 1972). "Eddie Cochran: Review of Legendary Masters LP". thompsonian.info. Retrieved October 22, 2023.
  9. ↑ Hilburn, Robert (May 11, 1990). The Bulletin. The Bulletin.
  10. ↑ Orr, Jay; Rumble, John; Kingsbury, Paul (February 1, 2012). The Encyclopedia of Country Music. Oxford University Press. p. 101. ISBN   978-0-19-992083-9.


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