Condition: New
Eddie Cochran - Singin' To My Baby
Label: Doxy
Catalog#: DOY603
Format: Vinyl, LP, Stereo
Record Is In Shrink and New, only opened for recording.
Issue: 00's Italian Issue
Released: Originally 1959-60
Genre: Rock
Style: Rock & Roll, Rockabilly
Tracklist:
A1 Sitting On The Balcony
A2 Completely Sweet
A3 Undying Love
A4 I'm Alone Because I Love You
A5 Lovin' Time
A6 Proud Of You
A7 Am I Blue
B1 Twenty Flight Rock
B2 Drive In Show
B3 Mean When I'm Mad
B4 Stockings And Shoes
B5 Tell Me Why
B6 Have I Told You Lately That I Love You
B7 Cradle Baby
B8 One Kiss
Saturday, 17 April 2010
Eddie Cochran: Singin' To My Baby (HA-U2093) (1958)
after celebrating the 50th anniversary of the passing of buddy holly, ritchie valens and the big bopper last year, today is the day that, also 50 years ago, a musician who was very close to them passed away aswell. close to them, as a friend, as a just as highly acclaimed rock n roll star, and as a rock musician who was just as greatly influential on generations of artists up to now - who had to die much too young, just as the three. eddie cochran not only has a special place in music history, helping to make rock n roll and rockabilly what it eventually became, he has a special place in this blog, as of course the title 'twenty flight rock' is a tribute to one of my favourite 50s rock n rollers, if not the favourite one at all.
as eddie died so very young he did not produce many records during his lifetime, just about a dozen of 45s and a single lp - singin to my baby, released in late 1957. although eddie already wrote much of his material himself, compared to most of his contemporaries, many of the songs on this album are cover versions. but this by far is no flaw, as he turned them all into his own, fantastic style of rock n roll that made him a shooting star at the time, and thus made them his own songs in a way.
interestingly, this album was released even before cochran had his greatest hits ('summertime blues', 'cmon everybody', 'somethin else'), and the only charting 45 at all included here is 'drive in show' / 'am i blue' (#82 in 1957). both sides are cover songs, but i love the b-side a lot. other songs that became popular despite achieving no chart success are for instance 'sittin in the balcony', 'completely sweet' and my beloved 'twenty flight rock'. completely sweet alongside two other tracks, 'undying love' and 'mean when im mad' (both great as well, but completely sweet is one of my very favourites) were co-written by cochrans manager jerry capehart, like most of eddies great successes were. twenty flight rock originally was written by ned fairchild (although the name may be misleading 'ned' is a woman, and she is still alive), but as eddie changed the song a lot (it wasnt a rock n roll song before), he was credited as a co-writer although never recieving any royalties. the lyrics rather focusing on teenage fun than on serious issues, like most of eddies hits, twenty flight rock perhaps is one of the most tongue-in-cheek one of his songs, about a young man who is not able to go out with his girl because he is terribly exhausted after walking up all the twenty flights up to her flat because "the elevators broken down". it is not only my favourite song from this lp, but it is also the only one that usually appears on rock n roll compilations and samplers, because the other great hits werent recorded yet by the time this record was released. so it is something like a jewel among the fifteen pearls to be found on this album.
being merely a year older than i am now, he died a real rock star death in april 1960. he died in a car crash, like so many others, like johnny kidd, mark leeman, j.b. lenoir, bessie smith, marc bolan and not least gene vincent, who survived the crash that killed eddie but eventually died from the injuries suffered more than ten years later. marc bolan, then still called mark feld (like bob dylan he didnt seem to want to keep his jewish name) and a fan of cochrans, had carried eddies guitar to the car before the crash - of course this coincidence is a rich source for conspiracies. the same guitar, however, when it was impounded by the police, was taken by a policeman who later was to become dave dee of dave dee, dozy, beaky, mick & tich. he died from cancer last year.
Eddie Cochran - Twenty Flight Rock
The song Paul played for John at the garden fete 1957,the first time they met.
Eddie Cochran - Am I Blue
This is a very good cover of a jazz ballad by Ethel Waters from the 1930s. He has done what a great artist does: made the song his
Eddie Cochran - Drive-In Show
Did you know this song was was banned in the 50s because of the line "bet my peanuts to a candy bar" sounded an awful lot like something else?
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