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SUMMERTIME BLUES

EDDIE COCHRAN

SONGWRITER: EDDIE COCHRAN & JERRY CAPEHART

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: SUMMERTIME BLUES

LABEL: LIBERTY

GENRE: ROCKABILLY

YEAR: 1958

Ray Edward Cochran (/ˈkɒkrən/; October 3, 1938 – April 17, 1960) was an American rock and roll musician. Cochran's 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 attractive young man with a rebellious attitude epitomized the stance of the 1950s rocker, and in death he achieved iconic status.

Cochran was involved with music from an early age, playing in the school band and teaching himself to play blues guitar. In 1954, he formed a duet with the guitarist Hank Cochran (no relation). When they split the following year, Eddie began a songwriting career with Jerry Capehart. His first success came when he performed the song "Twenty Flight Rock" in the film The Girl Can't Help It, starring Jayne Mansfield. Soon afterward, he signed a recording contract with Liberty Records and his first record for the label, Sittin' in the Balcony, rose to number 18 on the Billboard charts.

Cochran died at age 21 in St Martin's Hospital, Bath, Somerset, after a road accident in Chippenham, Wiltshire, at the end of his British tour in April 1960. He had just performed at the Bristol Hippodrome. Though his best-known songs were released during his lifetime, more of his songs were released posthumously. In 1987, Cochran was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. His songs have been recorded by a wide variety of recording artists.

"Summertime Blues" is a song co-written and recorded by American rock and rockabilly artist Eddie Cochran. It was written by Cochran and his manager Jerry Capehart. Originally a single B-side, it was released in August 1958 and peaked at number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 on September 29, 1958 and number 18 on the UK Singles Chart. It has been covered by many artists, including being a number-one hit for country music artist Alan Jackson, and scoring notable hits in versions by Blue Cheer, The Who, and Brian Setzer, the last of whom recorded his version for the 1987 film La Bamba, in which he portrayed Cochran. Jimi Hendrix performed it in concert.

I'm gonna raise a fuss

I'm gonna raise a holler

A-but-a workin' all summer

Just-a trying to earn a dollar

Every time I call my baby

And ask her to date

My boss says: Uh duh son

You gotta work late

Sometimes I wonder

What I'm-a gonna do

But there ain't no cure

For the summertime blues

Well my mama papa told me

Son, you gotta make some money

If you wanna use the car

To go ridin' next Sunday

Well, I didn't go to work

So my pa said I was sick

You can't use the car

'Cuz you didn't work a lick

Sometimes I wonder what I'm-a gonna do

But there ain't no cure

For the summertime blues

Gonna take two weeks

Gonna have a fine vacation

I'm gonna take my problem

Through the United Nations

I called up my congressman

And he said

I'd like to help you Sonny

But you're too young to vote

Sometimes I wonder what I'm-a gonna do

But there ain't no cure

For the summertimes blues.

ROAD HOG

JOHN D. LOUDERMILK

SONGWRITER: JOHN D. LOUDERMILK

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: ROAD HOG

LABEL: RCA VICTOR

GENRE: FOLK

YEAR: 1962

John D. Loudermilk Jr. (March 31, 1934 – September 21, 2016) was an American singer and songwriter. Although he had his own recording career during the 1950s and 1960s, he was primarily known as a songwriter. His best-known songs include "Indian Reservation", a 1968 UK cover by Don Fardon and a 1971 U.S. No. 1 hit for Paul Revere & the Raiders; "Ebony Eyes", a 1961 U.K. No. 1 and U.S. No. 8 for the Everly Brothers; "Tobacco Road", a 1964 Top 20 hit in both the U.S. and the U.K. for the Nashville Teens; "This Little Bird", a U.K. No. 6 for Marianne Faithfull in 1965, and "Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye", a U.S. Top Ten hit in 1967 for the Casinos and also a U.S. No. 1 country hit for Eddy Arnold the following year.

John D. Loudermilk was born in Durham, North Carolina, to Pauline and John D. Loudermilk Sr., an illiterate carpenter. John D. Jr. grew up in a family who were members of the Salvation Army, and was influenced by the church singing of the Christian Church. His cousins Ira and Charlie Loudermilk were known professionally as the Louvin Brothers. Loudermilk was a graduate of Campbell College (now Campbell University), a private North Carolina Baptist Convention-owned college in Buies Creek, North Carolina.

As a young boy he learned to play the guitar, and while still in his teens, wrote a poem that he set to music, "A Rose and a Baby Ruth". The owners of the local television station, where he worked as a graphic artist, allowed him to play the song on-air, resulting in country musician George Hamilton IV putting it on record in 1956. After Eddie Cochran had his first hit record with Loudermilk's song "Sittin' in the Balcony", Loudermilk's career path was firmly set.

Loudermilk recorded some of his songs, including "Sittin' in the Balcony", under the stage name "Johnny Dee" (reaching Nº. 38 on the pop charts in 1957). His "Johnny Dee" records were recorded for the North Carolina-based Colonial Records label.

Have you ever been driving down the road

And come up on a fella who was just poking along

Straddlin' the white line?

And when you'd try to pass him he'd speed up?

Ha ha well, around here we call this fella a Road Hog

This is a story about him and his eventual end

Well me and my buddy went a ridin' last night

Me and my buddy went a ridin' last night

We topped a hill and we saw his lights