Teenage Heaven

"Teenage Heaven"
Single by Eddie Cochran
from the album The Eddie Cochran Memorial Album
B-side	"I Remember"
Released	February 1959
Recorded	January 1959
Genre	Rock and roll
Label	Liberty 55177
Songwriter(s)	Eddie Cochran Jerry Capehart
Producer(s)	Eddie Cochran
Eddie Cochran singles chronology
"C'mon Everybody" (1958) "Teenage Heaven" (1959) "Somethin' Else" (1959)

"Teenage Heaven" is a 1959 song by Eddie Cochran and Jerry Capehart. ^[1] It was the A-side of Liberty F-55177 and was featured in the 1959 film Go, Johnny Go! . ^[2] This single rose to number 99 on the Billboard charts. ^[3] The B-side's "I Remember" was also recorded and filmed for the movie but was left out. It would be Cochran's last charting single during his lifetime. ^[4]

Personnel

• Eddie Cochran: vocal, guitar
• Don Myers: electric bass
• Gene Riggio: drums
• Jim Stivers: piano
• Plas Johnson: tenor saxophone ^[5]
• Earl Palmer: drums ^[6]

Chart performance

Chart (1959)	Peak position
US Billboard Hot 100	99

References

1. Cochran, Bobby (2003). Three Steps to Heaven: The Eddie Cochran Story. Hal Leonard Corporation. pp. 129, 235. ISBN   978-0-634-03252-3.
2. Bullman, Lee (2023-12-19). Eddie Cochran: In Person!: The Lost Treasures of a Rock 'n' Roll Legend. Weldon Owen International. p. 109. ISBN   979-8-88674-180-3.
3. "Song artist 867 - Eddie Cochran". Tsort.info. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
4. Pollock, Bruce (2014-03-18). Rock Song Index: The 7500 Most Important Songs for the Rock and Roll Era. Routledge. p. 356. ISBN   978-1-135-46296-3.
5. "Eddie Cochran biography". Eddiecochran.info. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
6. Scherman, Tony, Backbeat: The Earl Palmer Story, foreword by Wynton Marsalis, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C., 1999

External links

• Eddie Cochran US discography on Remember Eddie Cochran