Alternative Chirping Crickets CD

Buddy Holly & The Crickets
The Alternative Chirping Crickets CD

Three different versions of the classic Chirping Crickets album presented together on one 36 track CD - Mono, Stereo and Remixed!
By August 1957, The Crickets were red hot in the US with their first single, That'll Be The Day, which had been moving up the charts.
As a result, on 2nd August, the group were off on tour, beginning at the Howard Theatre in Washington, DC.
From then on, until the end of November, they toured almost without a break.
Meanwhile, Brunswick Records were calling for an album and, although several tracks had been recorded in Clovis, a few more were needed.
Fortunately there were a few short breaks in the tour and during September. The Crickets recorded four tracks at the Officers Club, Tinker Airforce Base, Oklahoma City.
Because of the urgency, and the need to continue with The Crickets sound as it was interpreted on both sides of their hit, Norman Petty took the tapes back to his studio in Clovis, New Mexico and decided to overdub background vocals on thes four Olkahoma recordings and some other tracks which had been recorded earlier in Clovis.
This may have gone against The Crickets own plans for finishing the album tracks and, when they heard the results upon the release of The Chirping Crickets LP in November 1957, there was some discussion about the obtrusive nature and style of background vocals on some of the finished recordings.
The addition of The Picks, a rather 'square' vocal group, did not always sound as integrated as the earlier recordings.
For years, The Crickets, and many of their fans, wondered how the undubbed versions of the album tracks would have sounded.
Modern technology has advanced so much that it has become possible, with the help of recent innovations and hours of work by dedicated and determined engineer Chris Hopkins, to realise the dream.
By separating the instruments, it was possible to remix and create stereo and 'undubbed' versions of the recordings.
Thus you will hear the Alternative Chirping Crickets album pretty much the way it should have sounded in 1957, along with the original, but remastered, version and stereo mixes of the tracks.