There's a big mistake on this CD, the compilers have included a track that was recorded AFTER Buddy Holly's death! This version of "Don't Cha Know" was recorded in California by The Crickets and was the flip side of a version of "Peggy Sue Got Married", the featured singer is David Box who only recorded one single with them. One great coincidence is that David died in a light aeroplane accident.
Also featured are rare tracks by Gary Tollett, who contributed to the backing vocals on the hit version of "That'll Be The Day". Buddy "paid" Norman Petty for his liberal approach to the use of the Clovis, New Mexico studios by providing backing for some of the other artists that used the well equipped facility. Rick Tucker was a fellow Texan who was born in Amarillo some two years after Holly. It is alleged by some that Holly plays on "Don't Do Me This Way" and "Patty Baby", which Tucker recorded at Petty's studio in 1957 but no hard evidence is there to substantiate this.
Country singer Charlie Phillips' composition "Sugartime" was recorded at Clovis in 1957 and features Buddy on guitar. The record was a hit for the Coral artists McGuire Sisters and although Phillips went on to have two Billboard entries in 1960 he never achieved international fame.
Jerry Ivan Allison recorded "Real Wild Child" after hearing the original version by Australian singer Johnny O'Keefe on the Oz tour. The versions here are underdubs with Buddy's lead guitar missing on "Real Wild Child" and the tuned bottles in "Oh You Beautiful Doll" missing. The "Maria Elena in the New York apartment" features a tiny fragment of a Ray Charles song "Drown In My Own Tears" and also has a second incomplete version "Dearest"