| Legendary Masters Series | |
| Type: | Compilation |
| Artist: | Eddie Cochran |
| Cover: | Eddie_Cochran_LP_UAS9959.jpg |
| Released: | January 1972 |
| Recorded: | May 1956 to August 1959 |
| Genre: | Rock and roll, Rockabilly |
| Label: | United Artists |
| Producer: | Various |
| Prev Title: | Summertime Blues |
| Prev Year: | 1966 |
| Next Title: | Eddie Cochran on the Air |
| Next Year: | 1972 |
Legendary Masters Series is the fourth album posthumously released in the US after Eddie Cochran's death in 1960.[1] The release featured liner notes by Lenny Kaye.[2] It was described as a "double - disc set [that] presents to the public virtually everything that rocker Cochran put out".
The album was released as a two album set on the United Artists label in January 1972.[3] The catalogue number was UAS 9959,[4] and was part of a successful series of budget re-issues by the company.[5] [6]
Lester Bangs described the release in Rolling Stone magazine as consisting of "genre pieces are rather uneven but consistently interesting".[7] 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.[8] [9]