Summertime Blues (album)

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Summertime Blues
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Compilation album by Eddie Cochran
Released August 1966
Recorded March 1957 to
May 1958
Genre Rock and roll
Label Sunset
Eddie Cochran chronology
My Way
(1964)		Summertime Blues
(1966)		 Legendary Masters Series
(1972)
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Summertime Blues is the third album posthumously released by Eddie Cochran in the US after Cochran's death in 1960.

Eddie Cochran American rock and roll pioneer

Edward Ray Cochran was an American musician. Cochran's rockabilly 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. He experimented with multitrack recording, distortion techniques, and overdubbing even on his earliest singles. He played the guitar, piano, bass, and drums. His image as a sharply dressed and good-looking young man with a rebellious attitude epitomized the stance of the 1950s rocker, and in death he achieved an iconic status.

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The album was released on the Sunset Records label in August 1966 in both stereo and mono. The catalogue number was SUS-5123 for the stereo version and SUM-1123 for the mono version. [1]

Sunset Records

Sunset Records was a record label started in 1966 as the budget album subsidiary of Liberty Records to reissue the Liberty, Imperial, and Minit material.

Monaural sound intended to be heard as if it were emanating from one position

Monaural or monophonic sound reproduction is sound intended to be heard as if it were emanating from one position. This contrasts with stereophonic sound or stereo, which uses two separate audio channels to reproduce sound from two microphones on the right and left side, which is reproduced with two separate loudspeakers to give a sense of the direction of sound sources. In mono, only one loudspeaker is necessary, but, when played through multiple loudspeakers or headphones, identical signals are fed to each speaker, resulting in the perception of one-channel sound "imaging" in one sonic space between the speakers. Monaural recordings, like stereo ones, typically use multiple microphones fed into multiple channels on a recording console, but each channel is "panned" to the center. In the final stage, the various center-panned signal paths are usually mixed down to two identical tracks, which, because they are identical, are perceived upon playback as representing a single unified signal at a single place in the soundstage. In some cases, multitrack sources are mixed to a one-track tape, thus becoming one signal. In the mastering stage, particularly in the days of mono records, the one- or two-track mono master tape was then transferred to a one-track lathe intended to be used in the pressing of a monophonic record. Today, however, monaural recordings are usually mastered to be played on stereo and multi-track formats, yet retain their center-panned mono soundstage characteristics.

Track listing

Side 1

  1. "Summertime Blues" (Eddie Cochran - Jerry Capehart)
  2. "Stockins 'n Shoes (Bare foot Rock)" (Lyle Gaston)
  3. "Proud Of You" (Dale Fitzsimmons)
  4. "Lovin' Time" (Jan Woolsey)
  5. "Completely Sweet" (Eddie Cochran - Jerry Capehart)

Side 2

  1. "One Kiss" (Eddie Cochran - Johnny Russell (singer))
  2. "Mean When I'm Mad" (Eddie Cochran - Jerry Capehart)
  3. "Tell Me Why" (Eddie Cochran)
  4. "Undying Love" (Eddie Cochran - Jerry Capehart)
  5. "Lonely" (Eddie Cochran - Sharon Sheeley)

Notes

  1. ↑ Eddie Cochran US discography at Remember Eddie Cochran Archived 2013-11-05 at the Wayback Machine . Retrieved July 1, 2013
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