CLASSIC EDDIE COCHRAN 78 - SUMMERTIME BLUES UK LON EX-

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A REALLY EXCELLENT COPY OF THIS CLASSIC EDDIE COCHRAN

ROCK & ROLL 78

Cochran was born in Albert Lea, Minnesota as Edward Ray Cochrane. He took music lessons in school, but quit the band to play drums, he would have been required to take piano lessons also. Instead, he began playing his family's guitar and playing the country music he heard on the radio. In 1955, Eddie's family moved to Bell Gardens, California. Eddie's guitar playing kept improving and he formed a band with two friends from his Jr. High School. During a show featuring many performers at an American Legion hall, he met Hank Cochran (later a country music songwriter). Although they were not related, family acts were popular at the time and they began performing together. The duo recorded as The Cochran Brothers. Eddie Cochran also worked as a session musician, and began writing songs, making a "demo" with Jerry Capehart, his future manager.

In 1956, Boris Petroff asked Cochran if he would appear in the musical comedy film The Girl Can't Help It. He agreed and sang a song called "Twenty Flight Rock" in the movie, delivered with an attitude and stance that can be regarded as one of the earliest germs of punk rock seen decades later. In 1957, Cochran had his first US hit, "Sittin' in the Balcony," one of the few songs he recorded that was written by another songwriter (John D. Loudermilk). However, his most famous hit, "Summertime Blues" (co-written with Jerry Capeheart), was an important influence on music in the late 1950s, both lyrically and musically. Cochran's brief career included only a few more hits, such as "C'mon Everybody," "Somethin' Else," "My Way," "Weekend," "Nervous Breakdown," and his posthumous UK number one hit "Three Steps to Heaven."

On the night of Saturday April 16, 1960, at about 11:50 p.m. while on tour in the United Kingdom, Cochran died in a traffic accident in a taxi (a Ford Consul, [reg. no. RBO 869], not as widely quoted a London Hackney carriage) traveling through Chippenham, Wiltshire, on the A4. He was 21. The taxi crashed into a lamp post on Rowden Hill. There was no other car involved. A plaque erected there shows the actual spot. He was taken to St. Martin's Hospital, Bath, but died at 4:10 p.m. the following day. Songwriter Sharon Sheeley (Cochran's fiancée) and singer Gene Vincent survived the crash.

The car and other items from the crash were impounded at the local police station until a coroners' inquest could be held. At that time, Dave Dee, later of the band Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich, was a police cadet at the station, and taught himself to play guitar on Eddie's impounded Gretsch.

Strangely enough, an unknown rock 'n' roll fan called Mark Feld had carried the same guitar to the limo from a London gig the night before. Feld later changed his name to Marc Bolan and became one of the stars of the British Glam Rock scene of the 1970s.

Summertime Blues

(Eddie Cochran)

Well I'm gonna raise a fuss
And I'm gonna raise a holler
About workin' all summer
Just tryin' to earn a dollar
Well, I went to my boss
Who governs me
He said, "No, dice, bud
You gotta work late"

Sometime I wonder
What I'm gonnna do
There ain't no cure
For the summertime blues

Well, my mom and papa told me
Now you better earn some money
If one of you is gonna go
Ridin' next Sunday
Well, I didn't go to work
I told my boss I was sick
He said, "You can't use the car
'Cause you didn't work a lick"

Sometime I wonder
What I'm gonnna do
There ain't no cure
For the summertime blues

Gonna save two weeks
Gonna have a fine vacation
Gonna take my problem
To the United Nations
Well, I went to my congressman
He sent me back a note
It said, "I''d like to help you, hon
But you're too young to vote"

Sometime I wonder
What I'm gonnna do
There ain't no cure
For the summertime blues

Now there ain't no cure
For the summertime blues
Now there ain't no cure
For the summertime blues

DISC DETAILS

UK LONDON HLU 8702

A Side: SUMMERTIME BLUES (Cochran, Capehart)

B Side: LOVE AGAIN (Sheeley) 

 CONDITION IS RATED EX-  :THE RECORD PLAYS GREAT - IT HAS A STRONG SOUND AND LOW BACKGROUND NOISE AND HAS A GOOD SHEEN. BUT, IT HAS A NUMBER OF SURFACE MARKS VISIBLE.

THIS CLASSIC ROCK AND ROLL 78 WAS EDDIE COCHRAN'S FIRST UK HIT REACHING # 18 IN THE UK CHARTS ENTERING ON 7th NOVEMBER 1958. IT ORIGINALLY STAYED IN THE CHARTS FOR JUST 6 WEEKS - BUT WAS RE-ISSUED BY LIBERTY ON 45 IN 1968 WHEN IT SPENT ANOTHER 8 WEEKS IN THE CHARTS

BUT .. I DON'T THINK YOU CANT BEAT THE SOUND OF THE ORIGINAL 78!!

SO - DON'T MISS OUT - BID NOW!!