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From Buddy's Wiki page:
"In February 1984, MCA mastering engineer Steve Hoffman sent what are known as safety copies of several Buddy Holly master recordings to John Pickering of The Picks[22] who took them to Sound Masters studios in Houston, TX. There, the reunited group overdubbed their new vocal parts onto at least 60 recordings, and sent them back to Hoffman at MCA. The general consensus seems to be that, with Hoffman's influence, MCA would've issued these "new" recordings as an album[22], perhaps to commemorate the 25th year since Holly's passing. This however, was not to be.
Not long afterwards, Steve Hoffman was fired by MCA, for, among other things, stealing master tapes of Holly material and attempting to sell them to, among other parties, the Norman Petty estate. A short time later, a raid produced the stolen tapes which were then returned to MCA. With these plans having fallen through, Pickering decided to take matters into his own hands and go the self-release route.
These recordings slowly made their way to the public on privately pressed albums like "The Original Chirping Sound" and "Buddy Holly Not Fade Away". In 1992, John Pickering approached Viceroy Records to arrange a deal for major nationwide distribution of these overdubbed recordings, who hit a brick wall when MCA made it clear that Pickering did not have proper legal clearance to release such recordings[22]. Andy McKaie, an executive at MCA, has stated that Pickering has never bothered to ask for licensing on the songs. To this day, budget labels release these recordings despite the fact that they are, depending on how one looks at it, bootlegs or pirates."
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