C'MON EVERYBODY
EDDIE COCHRAN
SONGWRITERS: EDDIE COCHRAN & JERRY CAPEHART
COUNTRY: U.S.A.
ALBUM: C'mon Everybody
LABEL: LIBERTY
GENRE: ROCKABILLY
YEAR: 1958
"C'mon Everybody"
is a 1958 song by = Eddie Cochran and Jerry Capehart,
originally released as a B-side.
In 1959 it peaked in the UK (where Cochran had major success and where he died
in 1960) at number six in the singles chart, and, thirty years later, in
1988, the track was re-issued there and became a number 14 hit. In the United
States the song got to number 35 on the Billboard Hot 100.
"C'mon Everybody" is ranked number 403 on the Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All
Time.
When Cochran recorded his lead vocal for the song, he
also created an alternate version of the song called "Let's Get
Together". The only change to the lyrics was exactly
that: the phrase "Let's get together" in place of "C'mon
everybody". This alternate version was eventually released on a
compilation album in the 1970s.