Eddie cochran tv#
He agreed to make one last tour – of England – to play with Gene Vincent.Ĭochran and Vincent were treated like royalty in Britain and their TV appearances and concert performances blazed a triumphant trail around the country.
The group even cut some records together, notably the instrumental Guybo b/w Strollin’ Guitar.įollowing the death of Buddy Holly (who had been a close friend of Eddie’s) in February 1959, Cochran vowed to move out of the limelight and concentrate on recording and producing some of the other acts that he and Capehart liked, including a young studio musician by the name of Glen Campbell. In order to fulfil his touring commitments, Eddie put together a live band featuring Connie ‘Guybo’ Smith on bass, Gene Riggio on drums and a variety of musicians on piano and sax. It didn’t do as well as Summertime Blues – except in Britain – but still sold well over a million copies and soared up the charts in the autumn of 1958. His next single was Somethin’ Else, written by Eddie and his girlfriend, Sharon Sheeley. The sparse instrumentation of Eddie’s voice and guitar, Connie Smith’s bass and Jerry Capehart’s cardboard box were again used on the follow-up single, C’mon Everybody. They released it in May and it quickly became an enormous hit and has become one of the most covered songs in popular music history. While they spent their time trying to find the right style for them – a sound that would sell and make them both successful – Eddie appeared in another film, Untamed Youth, about kids picking cotton in California.Īnd then, in March 1958, Eddie and Jerry wrote Summertime Blues in less than an hour. Liberty permitted Eddie to record a Capehart/Cochran original as a follow-up single, but Mean When I’m Mad was a disaster and marked the beginning of a lean period for Eddie and Jerry. Eddie performed a number he had co-written, called Twenty Flight Rock. The film featured most of the usual names – Little Richard, Gene Vincent, Fats Domino – as incidentals. As a direct result of the hit came a cameo part for Eddie in the film The Girl Can’t Help It(1957), starring Tom Ewell and Jayne Mansfield. Released in late 1956 it sold over one million copies with Eddie singing in his gulping, ersatz- Elvis voice, and Capehart on the cardboard box drums. Then, instead of using any Capehart/Cochran material, Liberty gave them a John D Loudermilk song, Sittin’ In The Balcony, to record. The bass was played by a session guy called Connie ‘Guybo’ Smith (as it was on most of Eddie Cochran’s hits).Īs a result of these dubs, Eddie had his first solo record released – Skinny Jim b/w Half-Loved – on the Crest label (a promotional subsidiary of American Music).Īrmed with the dubs and the solo record, Jerry Capehart did the rounds of the record companies in the area and found Liberty interested enough to sign Eddie. On the dubs, Eddie sang and played the guitar while Jerry played a cardboard box, amplified to sound like a snare drum. In 1956, Eddie and Jerry made some dubs for publishing company American Music, and among the songs they laid down were Long Tall Sally and Blue Suede Shoes – an indication of how fast they had moved on to pure rock & roll once away from Hank’s country influence. Hank Cochran preferred a different style of music though and set off for Nashville to play pure country music. Soon after they first met, Capehart got some recording studio time and took Eddie and Hank Cochran along to cut some songs they had co-written.įollowing this session, three titles were released as singles under the name of The Cochran Brothers: Tired and Sleepy, Mr Fiddle and Guilty Conscience. There Eddie began playing rockabilly music and met Jerry Capehart, an aspiring songwriter who was to become integral to his success. In Albert Lea (population 20,000) Eddie grew up in a relaxing atmosphere of hunting, fishing and practising the guitar, but the family moved again – to Bell Gardens, California. The Cochran family home was in Oklahoma City but shortly after Eddie was born the family was forced to move to Albert Lea, Minnesota, in search of employment. Eddie Cochran was born on 3 October 1938, the youngest of five children.
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