His first posthumous LP, the 1960 "The Eddie Cochran Memorial Album" https://monolover.blogspot.com/2015/11/the-eddie-cochran-memorial-album-lby.html started as "Twelve Of His Biggest Hits" in US (Liberty LRP 3172), but got a name change after his tragic death in a car accident same year. That was a killer, containing numbers that changed rock'n'roll forever - e.g. "Summertime Blues", "C'mon Everybody" and "Somethin' Else". This UK collection isn't that exciting, but still has enough to get through. With cuts first published between 1959-64 it's obviously a mix of originally issued and ones picked from the vaults after his death. To my taste rather uneven, though a couple of the tracks do touch. "My Way", "Little Lou" and the covers of "Blue Suede Shoes" and Long Tall Sally" are all good rock'n'roll. Also the instrumental "Eddie's Blues" shows he was a good and rather inventive guitar player. Audio shifts a little between tracks, but most sounds very good and non bad. Don't think this record won over any new fans back then, but probably a must for the die-hard ones. Issued in UK only 1964, then reissued on vinyl from 1968 and on in UK, France, Belgium, Germany and South Africa. Also on French cassette, but to my knowledge never like this on CD. Premiere UK in mono only had label as shown here in a laminated flip/back cover. (XLÄ*)
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