Eddie Cochran - Somethin' Else: The Fine Lookin' Hits of Eddie Cochran
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Artist: Eddie CochranEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1998-02-24
Music Label: Razor & Tie
Soundtracks:
- Tired and Sleepy
- Skinny Jim
- Long Tall Sally
- Sittin' in the Balcony
- Drive-In Show
- Twenty Flight Rock
- Jeannie, Jeannie, Jeannie
- Summertime Blues
- C'mon Everybody
- Nervous Breakdown
- My Way
- Teenage Heaven
- Weekend
- Somethin' Else
- Boll Weevil
- Hallelujah, I Love Her So
- Guybo
- Cherished Memories
- Three Steps to Heaven
- Cut Across Shorty
Free Music Notes for Somethin' Else: The Fine Lookin' Hits of Eddie Cochran
Free Music Review: One of the rock'n'roll greats
Hit: 5 Stars
After a few years of rock'n'roll, American pop music went through a mellower phase with Pat Boone among its leading stars. This may explain why Eddie, a brilliant rock'n'roll performer, was ultimately more popular in Europe than his homeland.
Eddie's first single, Skinny Jim, failed to chart but he made the American top twenty with his second single, Sitting in the balcony. Following that, Eddie had a run of singles that made little impact until he recorded the song that he is best remembered for, Summertime blues. Most songs about summer are joyful and happy but this bluesy rocker was something different. It made the top ten in America and the top twenty in Britain.
So far, Eddie was more successful in America than Britain but his next single, C'mon everybody, made the top ten in Britain but was a much more modest top forty hit in America. Next came Teenage heaven, which just made the American top hundred but didn't chart in Britain. After that, Something else made the British top twenty but was only a minor American hit - it was also his last American hit.
His British hits continued with Hallelujah I love her so (a cover of the Ray Charles classic), which in turn was followed by Three steps to heaven. This was his biggest UK hit, going all the way to number one. Seventies rock'n'roll cover specialists Showaddywaddy almost repeated Eddie's achievement, taking the song to number two in 1975.
Eddie continued to make the UK charts with Sweetie pie, Lonely, Weekend (a top twenty hit), Jeannie Jeannie Jeannie and My way (no, not THAT song), this last hit being in 1963. Subsequently, Eddie only entered the UK charts via re-issues of old hits - Summertime blues, a top forty hit in 1968, and C'mon everybody, a top twenty hit in 1988. The 1968 re-entry of Summertime blues explains its inclusion on so many UK sixties compilations.
Eddie died in 1960 in a town called Chippenham in England. I lived in Chippenham at the time but I was only a child, not interested in either music or news events back then. It was only many years later, long after I had left the area that I learned that this was where Eddie died. The town occasionally stages events in his memory.
This compilation contains all the essentials by one of the rock'n'roll greats who was a major influence on those that followed.
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