GREAT EDDIE COCHRAN 78 - 20 FLIGHT ROCK UK LONDON EX-

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CLASSIC EDDIE COCHRAN - 20 FLIGHT ROCK ON THE UK LONDON LABEL

GREAT ROCKABILLY 78 IN GREAT PLAYING CONDITION

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.

TWENTY FLIGHT ROCK
(Fairchild - Cochran)
EDDIE COCHRAN 

Ooh, well I got a girl with a record machine
When it comes to rockin' she's the queen
We love to dance on a Saturday night
All alone where I can hold her tight
But she lives on the twentiest floor uptown
The elevator's broken down

So I walked one, two flight, three flight, four
Five, six, seven flight, eight flight, more
Up on the twelfth I started to drag
Fifteenth floor I'm a-ready to sag
Get to the top, I'm too tired to rock

When she calls me up on the telephone
Say, come on over honey, I'm all alone
I said, baby you're mighty sweet
But I'm in bed with the achin' feet
This went on for a couple of days
But I couldn't stay away

Well they sent to Chicago for repairs
Till it's a-fixed I'm a-usin' the stairs
Hope they hurry up before it's too late
Want my baby too much to wait
All this climbin' is a-gettin' me down
They'll find my corpse draped over a rail
But I climbed one, two flight, three flight four

DISC DETAILS

UK LONDON HLU 8386

A Side: 20 FLIGHT ROCK (Fairchild, Cochran)

B Side:  DARK LONELY STREET (Cochran, Capehart) 

 CONDITION IS RATED OVERALL EX-  : THE RECORD ACTUALLY LOOKS ONLY VG/VG+ BUT IT PLAYS LIKE EX+!!  - IT HAS A STRONG SOUND AND LOW BACKGROUND NOISE BUT, IT HAS A NUMBER OF SURFACE MARKS VISIBLE.

THIS CLASSIC ROCK-A-BILLY 78 WAS EDDIE COCHRAN'S FIRST UK RELEASE

 YOU CANT BEAT THE SOUND OF THE ORIGINAL 78!!

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