MEGA-RARE 78 EDDIE COCHRAN -20 FLIGHT ROCK UK LON EX+

	£		55
	$		72

A REALLY EXCELLENT COPY OF THIS CLASSIC EDDIE COCHRAN

ROCK & ROLL 78

Cochran was born in Albert Lea, Minnesota as Edward Ray Cochrane. He took music lessons in school, but quit the band to play drums, he would have been required to take piano lessons also. Instead, he began playing his family's guitar and playing the country music he heard on the radio. In 1955, Eddie's family moved to Bell Gardens, California. Eddie's guitar playing kept improving and he formed a band with two friends from his Jr. High School. During a show featuring many performers at an American Legion hall, he met Hank Cochran (later a country music songwriter). Although they were not related, family acts were popular at the time and they began performing together. The duo recorded as The Cochran Brothers. Eddie Cochran also worked as a session musician, and began writing songs, making a "demo" with Jerry Capehart, his future manager.

In 1956, Boris Petroff asked Cochran if he would appear in the musical comedy film The Girl Can't Help It. He agreed and sang a song called "Twenty Flight Rock" in the movie, delivered with an attitude and stance that can be regarded as one of the earliest germs of punk rock seen decades later. In 1957, Cochran had his first hit, "Sittin' in the Balcony," one of the few songs he recorded that was written by another songwriter (John D. Loudermilk). However, his most famous hit, "Summertime Blues" (co-written with Jerry Capeheart), was an important influence on music in the late 1950s, both lyrically and musically. Cochran's brief career included only a few more hits, such as "C'mon Everybody," "Somethin' Else," "My Way," "Weekend," "Nervous Breakdown," and his posthumous UK number one hit "Three Steps to Heaven."

On the night of Saturday April 16, 1960, at about 11:50 p.m. while on tour in the United Kingdom, Cochran died in a traffic accident in a taxi (a Ford Consul, [reg. no. RBO 869], not as widely quoted a London Hackney carriage) traveling through Chippenham, Wiltshire, on the A4. He was 21. The taxi crashed into a lamp post on Rowden Hill. There was no other car involved. A plaque erected there shows the actual spot. He was taken to St. Martin's Hospital, Bath, but died at 4:10 p.m. the following day. Songwriter Sharon Sheeley (Cochran's fiancée) and singer Gene Vincent survived the crash.

The car and other items from the crash were impounded at the local police station until a coroners' inquest could be held. At that time, Dave Dee, later of the band Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich, was a police cadet at the station, and taught himself to play guitar on Eddie's impounded Gretsch.

Strangely enough, an unknown rock 'n' roll fan called Mark Feld had carried the same guitar to the limo from a London gig the night before. Feld later changed his name to Marc Bolan and became one of the stars of the British Glam Rock scene of the 1970s.

Ooh-well I got a gal with a record machine
When it comes to rockin' she's the queen
We love to dance on a Saturday night
All alone when I can hold her tight
But she lives on the 20th floor uptown
The elevator's broken down

So I walk 1, 2, flight 3 flight 4
5,6,7, flight 8 flight more
12 I'm startin' to drag
15th before I'm ready to sag
Get to the top, I'm too tired to rock

Well she called me up on the telephone
Said 'come on over, honey. I'm all alone'
I said baby your mighty sweet
But I'm in bed with a-achin' feet
This went on for a couple of days
But I couldn't stay away

So I walk 1, 2, flight 3 flight 4
5,6,7, flight 8 flight more
12 I'm startin' to drag
15th before I'm ready to sag
Get to the top, I'm too tired to rock

Well, they sent to Chicago for repairs
Till it's fixed I'm a-using the stairs
Before it's too late
But my baby - much to wait
All this clowin' was gettin' me down
They found my corpse draped over a rail

So I walk 1, 2, flight 3 flight 4
5, 6, 7, flight 8 flight more
12 I'm startin' to drag
15th before I'm ready to sag
Get to the top, I'm too tired to rock

DISC DETAILS

UK LONDON HLU 8386

A Side: 20 FLIGHT ROCK (From the film "The Girl Can't Help It")(Fairchild, Cochran) 

B Side: DARK LONELY STREET (Cochran, Capehart) 

 CONDITION IS RATED EX+  - THE RECORD IS IN GREAT CONDITION!!

THIS GREAT ROCK AND ROLL 78 FAILED TO CHART AND IS GETTING VERY HARD TO FIND - ESPECIALLY IN THIS GREAT CONDITION!!

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