Eddie Cochran - Pocketful of Hearts '2021

Tracks list

Tracklist:

01. Half Loved
02. Skinny Jim
03. Am I Blue
04. Cradle Baby
05. Dark Lonely Street
06. Drive in Show
07. Mean When Im Mad
08. One Kiss
09. Sittin in the Balcony
10. Twenty Flight Rock
11. Cmon Everybody
12. Jeanie Jeanie Jeanie
13. Love Again
14. Pocketful if Hearts
15. Pretty Girl
16. Summertime Blues
17. Teresa
18. Boll Weevil Song
19. Dont Every Let Me Go
20. Hallelujah I Love Her So
21. I Remember
22. Little Angel
23. Somethin Else
24. Teenage Heaven
25. Cut Across Shorty
26. Lonely Winds
27. Sweetie Pie
28. Three Steps to Heaven
29. Cherished Memories
30. Weekend


 Read MoreSingin to My Baby [Liberty]Eddie Cochran was born on October 3,
1938 in Albert Lea, Minnesota. His parents were originally from Oklahoma, and
his earliest influences were in country music. Cochran was a schoolboy when he
began playing the drums, and he soon moved on to teach himself guitar and piano.
In 1950, the Cochran family left the Midwest for Bell Gardens, California, and
Eddie formed his first band while he was in junior high, playing hillbilly songs
with his friends. After a year of high school, Cochran dropped out to become a
professional musician, and in 1954 he began working with fellow country musician
Hank Cochran; while the two were not related, they played out as the Cochran
Brothers. The Cochran Brothers released their first single, Mr. Fiddle b/w Two
Blue Singin Stars, in 1955, and the duo was modestly successful. But as rock &
roll began entering public consciousness, Eddie fell under the spell of Chuck
Berry, Little Richard, Carl Perkins, and other early rock heroes. Though he
would continue to write songs with Hank Cochran, Eddie struck out on his own and
cut his first solo single, Skinny Jim b/w Half Loved, in 1956. Between his
casual good looks, impressive skills as a guitarist, and energetic vocal style,
Cochran seemed an ideal choice to be a rock & roll star, and that same year he
landed a role in the first great rock movie, The Girl Cant Help It, which also
featured Fats Domino, Gene Vincent, Little Richard, and Jayne Mansfield. But his
first chart success, 1957s Sittin in the Balcony b/w Dark Lonely Street, was
more of a pop number, relatively polite, and while Mean When Im Mad and Twenty
Flight Rock, released later the same year (the latter featured in The Girl Cant
Help It), were in line with what would become his trademark sound, neither made
the singles charts in America. Eddies first album, Singin to My Baby, was issued
before 1957 was out, and he made a second film appearance that same year,
playing a small role in the teen exploitation flick Untamed Youth, where he sang
the song Cotton Picker.

A Gene Vincent Record DateEddie Cochran made a major breakthrough and scored his
biggest hit in August 1958 with Summertime Blues (co-written by Cochran with
Jerry Capehart, his manager), an upbeat but relatable litany of teenage gripes
against the adult world. It gave Cochran his first Top Ten single, rising to
number eight on the sales charts, and Cmon Everybody, a celebration of the rock
& roll house party, followed it into the Top 40 in January 1959. As Cochran
became more accustomed to the recording studio, he began to experiment with
overdubbing multiple guitar parts in the manner of Les Paul, and he helped out
friends in the studio, playing lead guitar on sessions for honky tonk hero
Skeets McDonald and adding backing vocals on the album A Gene Vincent Record
Date. After the infamous February 1959 plane crash that claimed the lives of
Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper, which Cochran would memorialize
in the song Three Stars, Cochran became wary of extensive touring and wanted to
devote more time to writing and recording. But a dip in his record sales made
him reconsider for financial reasons, and as his star was rising in Great
Britain, where hed scored a handful of hit singles, he booked a tour of the
United Kingdom in tandem with Gene Vincent for early 1960. The tour was a major
financial success and made both stars the talk of Great Britain. However, the
adventure came to a tragic end on April 17, 1960. After their concert at the
Bristol Hippodrome, Cochran and Vincent hired a cab to drive them to London,
where they would fly back to America. En route, the car blew a tire, sending the
vehicle out of control. It smashed into a concrete post, and Cochran was killed,
while Vincent and Sharon Sheeley (Cochrans steady girlfriend, a songwriter who
helped pen the song Somethin Else for Eddie) suffered moderate injuries.

In the wake of Cochrans death, the single Three Steps to Heaven went to number
one on the U.K. charts and, while his passing was certainly noted by American
rock fans, his posthumous career had a higher profile in Great Britain, where
his death at the end of his successful tour was major news. Summertime Blues in
particular proved to have a long life, rebounding into the U.K. charts in 1966,
1968, and 1975, and covered by Blue Cheer, the Who, the Flying Lizards, and Alan
Jackson, among many others. Cochran would appear as a character in the films The
Buddy Holly Story and La Bamba; in the latter film, Cochran was played by Brian
Setzer of the Stray Cats, who often cited him as a major influence. ~ Mark
Deming

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