CLASSIC EDDIE COCHRAN RARE ON 78 - C'MON EVERYBODY EX+
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A REALLY EXCELLENT COPY OF THIS CLASSIC EDDIE COCHRAN RECORD - VERY RARE ON 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.
C'MON EVERYBODY
(Eddie Cochran, Jerry Capehart)
C'mon everybody let's get together tonight
I got some money in my jeans and I'm really gonna spend it right
Been a-doin' my homework all week long
The house is empty, the folks are gone
Ooo C'mon everybody
Well my baby's number one but I'm gonna dance with three or four
And the house'll be shakin' from my bare feet slappin' the floor
When you hear that music you can't sit still
If your brother won't rock you then your sister will
Ooo C'mon everybody
Well we'll really have a party but we gotta put a guard outside
If my folks come home I'm afraid they're gonna have my hide
They'll be no more movies for a week or two
No more runnin' round with the usual crew
Who cares C'mon everybody
C'mon everybody
C'mon everybody
DISC DETAILS
UK LONDON HLU 8792
A Side: C'MON EVERYBODY (Cochran, Capehart)
B Side: DON'T EVER LET ME GO (Fitzsimmons)
CONDITION IS RATED EX+ :THE RECORD PLAYS GREAT - IT HAS A STRONG SOUND AND LOW BACKGROUND NOISE AND HAS A GOOD SHEEN.
THIS CLASSIC ROCK AND ROLL 78 WAS EDDIE COCHRAN'S FIRST UK TOP TEN HIT REACHING # 6 IN THE UK CHARTS ENTERING ON 13th MARCH 1959. IT ORIGINALLY STAYED IN THE CHARTS FOR 13 WEEKS - BUT WAS RE-ISSUED BY LIBERTY ON 45 IN 1988 WHEN IT SPENT ANOTHER 7 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!!
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