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The Best Of Eddie Cochran / Summertime Blues, C'mon Everybody, Three Steps To Heaven, Somethin' Else, Hallelujah I Love Her So, Twenty Flight Rock / Emi Gold Audio CD 2004
UPC 724357144322
Product Details:
Editorial Reviews:
20-track collection features all the rockabilly pioneer's UK hits including 'Summertime Blues', 'C'mon Everybody', 'Three Steps to Heaven', 'Somethin' Else', & 'Twenty Flight Rock'. EMI Gold. 2004.
Tracklist:
1 | Summertime Blues | 2:01 |
2 | C'mon Everybody | 1:57 |
3 | Three Steps To Heaven | 2:24 |
4 | Sittin' In The Balcony | 2:01 |
5 | Drive In Show | 2:02 |
6 | Jeanie Jeanie Jeanie | 2:21 |
7 | Teenage Heaven | 2:06 |
8 | Somethin' Else | 2:09 |
9 | My Way | 2:15 |
10 | Cut Across Shorty | 1:50 |
11 | Twenty Flight Rock | 1:44 |
12 |
Weekend | 1:49 |
13 | Hallelujah I Love Her So |
2:21 |
14 | Lonely | 2:16 |
15 | Sweetie Pie | 2:11 |
16 | Three Stars | 3:41 |
17 | Skinny Jim | 2:12 |
18 | Nervous Breakdown | 2:20 |
19 | Completely Sweet | 2:32 |
20 | Rock And Roll Blues | 2:14 |
About the Artist:
Ray Edward Cochran ( October 3, 1938 – April 17, 1960) Was an American rock and roll musician. Cochran's songs, such as "Twenty Flight Rock", "Summertime Blues", "C'mon Everybody" and "Somethin' Else", captured teenage frustration and desire in the mid-1950s and early 1960s. He experimented with multitrack recording, distortion techniques, and overdubbing even on his earliest singles. He played the guitar, piano, bass, and drums. His image as a sharply dressed and attractive young man with a rebellious attitude epitomized the stance of the 1950s rocker, and in death he achieved iconic status.
Cochran was involved with music from an early age, playing in the school band and teaching himself to play blues guitar. In 1954, he formed a duet with the guitarist Hank Cochran (no relation). When they split the following year, Eddie began a songwriting career with Jerry Capehart. His first success came when he performed the song "Twenty Flight Rock" in the film The Girl Can't Help It, starring Jayne Mansfield. Soon afterward, he signed a recording contract with Liberty Records.
Cochran died at age 21 after a road accident, while traveling in a taxi in Chippenham, Wiltshire, during his British tour in April 1960. He had just performed at Bristol's Hippodrome theatre. Though his best-known songs were released during his lifetime, more of his songs were released posthumously. In 1987, Cochran was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. His songs have been recorded by a wide variety of recording artists.
- Liner Notes – Dave McAleer