It was the group's only album released during Holly's lifetime.

In 2012, it was ranked number 420 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

It was re-released by Coral in 1962 as Buddy Holly and the Crickets.

After being out of print for many years, it was reissued as a remastered CD in 2004 with bonus tracks.

[5] In July 2023, the album was reissued by Rollercoaster Records in England as The Alternative "Chirping" Crickets, a CD containing remixed Mono, Stereo plus the twelve tracks, in stereo but without the backing vocals that the Crickets felt were intrusive and inappropriate.