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".

[1][4] The catalogue number was UAS 9959,[5] and was part of a successful series of budget re-issues by the company.

[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.