The Very Best of Eddie Cochran (1975 album)

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The Very Best of Eddie Cochran
The Very Best Of Eddie Cochran United Artists LA428-E.jpg
Compilation album by Eddie Cochran
Released 1975
Recorded January 1957 to
August 1959
Genre Rock and roll
Label United Artists
Producer Various
Eddie Cochran chronology
Legendary Masters Series
(1972) Legendary Masters Series1972
The Very Best of Eddie Cochran
(1975)
Great Hits
(1983) Great Hits1983

The Very Best of Eddie Cochran is the fifth album posthumously released in the US after Eddie 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.

Contents

Content

The album was released on the United Artists Records label in 1975. The catalogue number was LA.428-E. [1]

United Artists Records American record label

United Artists Records was a record label founded by Max E. Youngstein of United Artists in 1957 to issue movie soundtracks. The label expanded into other genres, such as easy listening, jazz, pop, and R&B.

Track listing

Side 1

  1. "Summertime Blues"
  2. "Sittin' in the Balcony"
  3. "Twenty-Flight Rock"
  4. "Cut Across Shorty"
  5. "Nervous Breakdown"

Side 2

  1. "C'mon Everybody"
  2. "Hallelujah! I Love Her So"
  3. "Teenage Heaven"
  4. "Somethin' Else"
  5. "Milk Cow Blues"

Notes

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