Eddie Cochran


Biography


Eddie Cochran is born as Eddie Ray Cochrane in Oklohoma City on October 3, 1938 as the youngest son of five children. His family soon moved to Minnesota and at the age of 11 they moved to California. In 1953 he met Connie Smith who became his bassist later. They starting playing hilbilly music as backup guitarists behind the hilbilly singer Hank Cochran. They also played as a duo as the Cochran Brothers. Hank was not a relative of Eddie. In 1955 they recorded two singles but switched to the rock and roll music, after seeing Elvis Presley in a Dallas stage show. In the following year they split up and Eddie met Jerry Capehart, a songwriter, who became his manager and friend. Capehart secured Eddie with a contract with Liberty Records who in turn found him a part in the film "The Girl can't help it". Eddie sang "Twenty flight rock" in this movie. In 1957 Liberty released "Sittin' in the balcony" a rock ballad which reached no. 18 position in the Billboard Hot 100 in May. It was also his first millionseller. In the next year Eddie had two big hits with "Summertime Blues" and "C'mon Everybody" featuring Eddie playing guitar. Both hits were written by Eddie and Jerry Capehart. "Summertime Blues" was his greatest hit and reached the 8th position in the United States. Both hits are now true classics of the old Rock and Roll era. After that there were some more hits like "Somethin' Else", "Jeannie Jeannie Jeannie", "Drive in show", but they were not as succesfull as his first hits. Meanwhile Eddie also appeared in two other movies, "Untamed youth" and "Go Johnny go". In 1960 he was on a succesfull tour in Great Britain with another Rock and Roll star, his friend Gene Vincent. After the tour both artists were serious wounded in a car crash when travelling to London airport. Eddie Cochran died in the hospital. At that moment he had his greatest hit in Great Britain with "Three steps to heaven" which peaked the no. 1 position.



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