Cochran's brief career included a few more hits, such as " C'mon, Everybody", " Somethin' Else", " Teenage Heaven", " Three Steps to Heaven", which posthumously topped the charts in the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom in 1960. The song, released by Liberty recording no. With this song, Cochran was established as one of the most important influences on rock and roll in the 1950s, both lyrically and musically. In 1958, Cochran seemed to find his stride in the famous teenage anthem " Summertime Blues" (co-written with Jerry Capehart).
There were only a few rockers on this album, and Liberty seemed to want to move Cochran away from Rock and Roll. The album included "Sittin' in the Balcony". In the Summer of 1957 Liberty Records issued Cochran's only studio album released during his lifetime, Singin' to My Baby. Fairchild, who was not a rock and roll performer, merely provided the initial form of the song the co-writing credit reflects Cochran's major changes and contributions to the final product. "Twenty Flight Rock" was written by AMI staff writer Ned Fairchild (a pen name-her real name is Nelda Fairchild). In 1957 Cochran starred in his second film, Untamed Youth, and he had yet another hit, " Sittin' in the Balcony", one of the few songs he recorded that was written by other songwriters (in this case John D. Cochran agreed and performed the song " Twenty Flight Rock" in the movie. In the spring of 1956, Boris Petroff asked Cochran if he would appear in the musical comedy film The Girl Can't Help It. It featured "Skinny Jim", now regarded as a rock-and-roll and rockabilly classic. In July 1956, Eddie Cochran's first "solo artist" single was released by Crest Records.
Eddie Cochran also worked as a session musician and began writing songs, making a demo with Jerry Capehart, his future manager. They recorded a few singles for Ekko Records that were fairly successful and helped to establish them as a performing act. Although they were not related, they recorded as the Cochran Brothers and began performing together. During a show featuring many performers at an American Legion hall, he met Hank Cochran, a songwriter.
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He dropped out of Bell Gardens High School in his first year to become a professional musician. As his guitar playing improved, he formed a band with two friends from his junior high school. Also, rather than taking piano lessons, he began learning guitar, playing country and other music he heard on the radio.Ĭochran's family moved to Bell Gardens, California, in 1952. He took music lessons in school but quit the band to play drums. His parents were from Oklahoma, and he always said in interviews that his parents had some roots in Oklahoma. His songs have been recorded by a wide variety of recording artists.Ĭochran was born October 3, 1938, in Albert Lea, Minnesota, to Alice and Frank R. In 1987, Cochran was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Though his best-known songs were released during his lifetime, more of his songs were released posthumously. He had just performed at the Bristol Hippodrome. Soon afterward, he signed a recording contract with Liberty Records and his first record for the label, " Sittin' in the Balcony", rose to number 18 on the Billboard charts.Ĭochran died at age 21 in St Martin's Hospital, Bath, Somerset, after a road accident in Chippenham, Wiltshire, at the end of his British tour in April 1960. His first success came when he performed the song "Twenty Flight Rock" in the film The Girl Can't Help It, starring Jayne Mansfield. When they split the following year, Eddie began a songwriting career with Jerry Capehart. In 1954, he formed a duet with the guitarist Hank Cochran (no relation).
Ĭochran was involved with music from an early age, playing in the school band and teaching himself to play blues guitar. His image as a sharply dressed and attractive young man with a rebellious attitude epitomized the stance of the 1950s rocker, and in death he achieved iconic status. He played the guitar, piano, bass, and drums. He experimented with multitrack recording, distortion techniques, and overdubbing even on his earliest singles. Cochran's songs, such as " Twenty Flight Rock", " Summertime Blues", " C'mon Everybody" and " Somethin' Else", captured teenage frustration and desire in the mid-1950s and early 1960s.
Ray Edward Cochran ( / ˈ k ɒ k r ən/ Octo– April 17, 1960) was an American rock and roll musician.
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