"though Hampton himself did not play on the session. The song was also covered by Tex Beneke with the Glenn Miller Orchestra, as ""Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop"", which reached number 4 on the pop chart in 1946. Other versions, though technically listed as different songs, included Dizzy Gillespie's ""Bob A Lee Ba"" and Tina Dixon's ""E-Bop-O-Lee-Bop"". The use of nonsense syllables to convey excitement was passed on in later years in such songs as Gene Vincent's ""Be-Bop-A-Lula"" and Little Richard's ""awopbopaloobop alopbamboom"" in ""Tutti Frutti"", both in 1956. Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop ""Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop"" is a 1946 song by Lionel Hampton and His Orchestra."
"Dave Dee David John Harman, known professionally as Dave Dee (17 December 1941 – 9 January 2009), was an English singer-songwriter, musician, A&R manager, fundraiser and businessman. He was the frontman for the 1960s pop band Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich. Dave Dee was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire and attended Adcroft School, Trowbridge. Upon leaving school he became a police cadet with the Wiltshire Constabulary and as such was one of the first on the scene of the April 1960 car crash that resulted in the death of Eddie Cochran and serious injury to Gene Vincent. He later"
"was a policeman) to make their living from music. Apart from performing in the UK, they also occasionally played in Hamburg (Star-Club, Top Ten Club) and in Cologne (Storyville). Ward-Davies had acquired his nickname when he unwrapped a chocolate bar before absent-mindedly discarding the bar and attempting to eat the wrapper. Vocalist Dave Dee, the ex-policeman, was at the scene of the motoring accident that took the life of the American rock and roller Eddie Cochran and injured Gene Vincent in April 1960. In summer 1964, the British songwriters Ken Howard and Alan Blaikley became interested in recording them. The"
"Gene Vincent Vincent Eugene Craddock (February 11, 1935 – October 12, 1971), known as Gene Vincent, was an American musician who pioneered the styles of rock and roll and rockabilly. His 1956 top ten hit with his Blue Caps, ""Be-Bop-A-Lula"", is considered a significant early example of rockabilly. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Rockabilly Hall of Fame. Craddock was born February 11, 1935, in Norfolk, Virginia, to Mary Louise and Ezekiah Jackson Craddock. His musical influences included country, rhythm and blues and gospel music. His favourite composition was Beethoven's Egmont overture. He"
"in 2002, and is featured on their album ""Live at Leeds""). The glam-rock artist Marc Bolan had his main Gibson Les Paul guitar refinished in a transparent orange to resemble the Gretsch 6120 played by Cochran, who was his music hero. He was also an influence on the guitar player Brian Setzer, of Stray Cats, who plays a 6120 almost like that of Cochran, whom he portrayed in the film ""La Bamba"". The following songs also made the following chart entries in the UK: Eddie Cochran Edward Ray Cochran (; October 3, 1938 – April 17, 1960) was an American"
"Leon to his former manager. Eddie's Mustang car collided with a trailer truck in EDSA Shaw underpass in 1977. He died a month and a week later (April 30, 1977) at the age of 32 at Polymedic Hospital due to internal hemorrhage and car accident. His death shocked his millions of fans nationwide. Eddie Peregrina Eduardo Villavicencio Peregrina (November 11, 1944 – April 30, 1977), better known as Eddie Peregrina, was a Philippine singer and leading matinee idol of the 1970s. Dubbed as ""the Original Jukebox King,"" he was most famous for hit songs such as ""What Am I Living"
"Eddie Cochran Edward Ray Cochran (; October 3, 1938 – April 17, 1960) was an American musician. Cochran's rockabilly 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 good-looking young man with a rebellious attitude epitomized the stance of the 1950s rocker, and in death he achieved an iconic status. Cochran was involved with music from"
"1959. Then in April 1960, while touring with Gene Vincent in the UK, their taxi crashed into a concrete lamp post, killing Eddie at the young age of 21. The grim coincidence in this all was that his posthumous UK number-one hit was called ""Three Steps to Heaven"". Rockabilly music enjoyed great popularity in the United States during 1956 and 1957, but radio play declined after 1960. Factors contributing to this decline are usually cited as the 1959 death of Buddy Holly in an airplane crash (along with Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper), the induction of Elvis Presley into"
"Cochran is Eddie's nephew. The song was covered in French by Johnny Hallyday. His version (titled ""Elle est terrible"") was first released in a live rendition (recorded at the Olympia Hall in Paris). The single appeared in 1962 and spent one week at no. 1 on the singles sales chart in France (from December 15 to 21). In Wallonia (French Belgium) his single spent 28 weeks on the chart, peaking at number 4. The Sex Pistols recorded a version of ""Something Else"" for the album ""The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle"". The double A-sided single was credited to ""Sex Pistols"
"Bobby Cochran Bobby Cochran (born 1950) is an American guitarist, singer, author, engineer, songwriter, and record producer. He has worked with many bands, including Steppenwolf, the Flying Burrito Brothers, Leon Russell, and Bob Weir, Bobby and the Midnites. He was inducted into The international Rockabilly Hall of Fame along with his uncle, Eddie Cochran, at the same time, July 1, 2017. The international Rockabilly Hall of Fame has inducted Bobby Cochran, and Eddie Cochran, at the same time, July 1, 2017. The president thinks it's the first time it's ever happened that two family members have been inducted on the"
"Fortune, a name he had previously considered for another artist he signed in 1959, Georgie Fame. The newly christened Fortune signed to Pye Records as a solo artist, and released four singles, two of which became hits in the UK Singles Chart in 1960. ""Be Mine"" reached No. 4, whilst the follow-up, ""This Love I Have For You"" was a Top 30 hit. In April 1960, Fortune and Jerry Keller replaced Eddie Cochran on Gene Vincent's then current UK tour, after Cochran's untimely death in a road accident. Later in the 1960s, Fortune joined a group called the Staggerlees. Lance"
"or Cry: My Life in Verse"". After the book was published she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Ned Fairchild Nelda ""Ned"" Fairchild (August 26, 1929 in Burley, Idaho - May 3, 2015) was an American songwriter. Her best known work is the 1957 rock'n'roll hit ""Twenty Flight Rock"", on which a co-writing credit was given to rock and roll pioneer Eddie Cochran. Paul McCartney and John Lennon have in different contexts said that McCartney was invited to join Lennon's band, The Quarrymen, because he knew both the chords and words to ""Twenty Flight Rock"", a much-admired staple of the bands"
"Fury with the Four Kestrels Billy Fury Ronald Wycherley (17 April 1940 – 28 January 1983), better known by his stage name Billy Fury, was an English singer from the late 1950s to the mid 1960s, and remained an active songwriter until the 1980s. Rheumatic fever, which he first contracted as a child, damaged his heart and ultimately contributed to his death. An early British rock and roll (and film) star, he equalled the Beatles' record of 24 hits in the 1960s, and spent 332 weeks on the UK chart, without a chart-topping single or album. AllMusic journalist Bruce Eder"
"be replaced by a statue. A posthumous album, ""My Way"", was released in 1964. Cochran was a prolific performer, and the British label Rockstar Records has released more of his music posthumously than was released during his life. The company is still looking for unpublished songs. One of his posthumous releases was ""Three Stars"", a tribute to J. P. Richardson, better known as the Big Bopper, and Cochran's friends Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens, who had all died in a plane crash just one year earlier. Written just hours after the tragedy by disc jockey Tommy Dee, it was recorded"
"Pence"". He was bitingly satirised as the manipulative ""Major Rafe Ralph"" by Peter Sellers, from a script by Frank Muir and Denis Norden, on the 1959 album ""Songs For Swingin' Sellers"". Parnes also promoted concerts, including the 1960 tour by Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran during which Cochran was killed in a road crash. Later the same year he hired the Silver Beetles, an early incarnation of the then-unknown Beatles, to back one of his singers, Johnny Gentle, on a short tour of Scotland. Although Gentle tried to persuade him to manage the group, Parnes decided not to do so."
"on ""Rolling Stone""'s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Steve Allen mocked the lyrics to the song by reading them in a pseudo-serious tone accompanied by light piano background music in a September 1957 broadcast of ""The Steve Allen Show"". Vincent recorded a new version of the song in 1962 which appeared on the flip-side of the single ""The King of Fools"". Vincent sang the song in the movie ""The Girl Can't Help It"". ""Be-Bop-A-Lula"" has been covered by numerous and varied artists. The Everly Brothers released a version only two years after Vincent's, on their 1958 self-titled debut album,"
"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), and 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 afterwards, he signed a recording contract with Liberty Records. Cochran died at age 21 after a road accident, while travelling in a taxi in Chippenham, Wiltshire, during his British tour in April 1960,"
"Rock and Roll Legends Hall of Fame. Many 1960s garage bands played ""96 Tears"" in their live performances. Cover versions of ""96 Tears"" have been recorded by a number of bands and musicians, including Aretha Franklin, Thelma Houston, Todd Rundgren, Iggy Pop, The Texas Tornadoes, Eddie and the Hot Rods, the Stranglers, and Garland Jeffreys. On February 24, 2011, former Mysterians drummer Eddie Serrato (born Eduardo Serrato, December 5, 1945) died from a heart attack at age 65. In October 2017, lead guitarist Robert Balderrama was diagnosed with prostate cancer. ? and the Mysterians ? and the Mysterians (also rendered"
"Abe Kesh Abe ""Voco"" Kesh (b. Abe Keshishian, 1933–July 3, 1989) was a San Francisco-based disc jockey and record producer. He is best-known for discovering the seminal hard rock band Blue Cheer, and for producing their first two albums, ""Vincebus Eruptum"" and ""Outsideinside"". He also produced the band's 1968 Top 10 cover of Eddie Cochran's ""Summertime Blues."" He was born in Detroit, and died at the Marin Hotel in San Rafael, where he lived the final 14 years of his life. Besides Blue Cheer, Kesh produced albums by Harvey Mandel, Graham Bond, Morning Glory, Linn County, The Savage Resurrection, Don"
"band recorded in Nashville, Tennessee. Producer Ken Nelson had session musicians standing by in case the band was not up to par, but as soon as Gallup played the solos on ""Race with the Devil"" they knew they would not be needed. Gallup played on 35 tracks with Vincent, including his biggest hit, ""Be-Bop-A-Lula"", and established a reputation as one of the most technically proficient guitarists in early rock and roll. As a married man, Gallup was reluctant to tour with Vincent, and left the band in late 1956, returning only for some more studio sessions that same year for"
"Hill, where a plaque now marks the spot. No other car was involved. Cochran, who was seated in the centre of the back seat, threw himself over his fiancée (songwriter Sharon Sheeley) to shield her and was thrown out of the car when the door flew open. He was taken to St Martin's Hospital, in Bath, where he died of severe head injuries at 4:10 p.m. the following day. Cochran's body was flown home, and his remains were buried on April 25, 1960, at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Cypress, California. Sharon Sheeley, tour manager Pat Thompkins, and singer Gene"
"and Jerry Lee Lewis. Audiences did not take to him, and he was attacked on stage and had beans thrown over him (to a contemporary audience 'Heinz' would have been associated with Heinz Baked Beans). Heinz's next and biggest-selling solo hit was ""Just Like Eddie"", a tribute to Eddie Cochran. Its success coincided with the emergence of The Beatles and was the high point of commercial success for Heinz. Two successful EPs, ""Heinz"" and ""Live It Up"", followed, and 1963 he appeared in the British music-film ""Live It Up!"", with music produced by Meek, in which he acted the role"
"on ""Summertime Blues"". The recordings were issued on the album ""A Gene Vincent Record Date"". In early 1959 two of Cochran's friends, Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens, along with the Big Bopper, were killed in a plane crash while on tour. Cochran's friends and family later said that he was badly shaken by their deaths, and he developed a morbid premonition that he also would die young. It was shortly after their deaths that he recorded a song (written by disc jockey Tommy Dee) in tribute to them, ""Three Stars"". He was anxious to give up life on the road"
"The Eddie Cochran Memorial Album The Eddie Cochran Memorial Album is the second album by Eddie Cochran, released on Liberty Records in mono, LRP 3172, in May 1960. It had previously been issued as 12 of His Biggest Hits in April 1960 with the same catalogue number, but after Cochran's death on April 17 it was retitled and reissued, and has remained so titled ever since. It is currently in print on the Magic Records label in France, on CD on EMI-Toshiba in Japan, and on BGO in the UK as a twofer with ""Singin' To My Baby."" Eight tracks"
"originally recorded by Wayne Cochran named ""Last Kiss"". Duly recorded by the group, it was first released on Le Cam (722) and then on Tamara (761), before it became a hit in June 1964 on Josie Records (Josie 923). It reached the Top 10 in October that year, eventually reaching #2 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100, sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. While driving in Ohio later that year, Roush fell asleep at the wheel, and they collided head-on with another vehicle. Roush was killed and Wilson injured to the extent that he was on"
"the brakes business was taken over by the German company Knorr-Bremse, and is based at a site in nearby Melksham. On 17 April 1960, American singers Eddie Cochran and Gene Vincent, and songwriter Sharon Sheeley, were involved in a car crash in Chippenham at Rowden Hill. Cochran died as a result of his injuries and a memorial plaque was erected near the site. Each year Chippenham hosts an Eddie Cochran festival (see below). On 13 February 1998, two unexploded bombs from World War II were discovered in the field behind Hardens Mead during preparations for the building of Abbeyfield School."
"of the singer's worsening health and was played at his very last concert at the London Palladium in February 2000. As of 2007, the Blockheads continue to use the song in their sets. Ian Dury was a fan of Gene Vincent since his early to mid teens and claims to have bought every single Vincent produced. In an interview reprinted in ""Sex And Drugs And Rock And Roll: The Life of Ian Dury"", Dury says that he first heard of Vincent via Be-Bop-A-Lula's inclusion in film ""The Girl Can't Help It"" and admitted to being reduced to tears by the"
"one of Elvis' employees accidentally killed a pedestrian while driving one of Elvis' cars), Chuck Berry 1967, George Benson, the Mills Brothers, Dean Martin 1973, Marvin Gaye 1976, and Slim Whitman. There is a different song called ""Ramblin' Rose,"" recorded by Jerry Lee Lewis and MC5 in the 1960s; although it has the same title it is a different song, written by Wilkin and Burch, and not to be confused with the Nat King Cole hit. Neither of those songs should be confused with ""Rambling Rose"", a light pop song from the 1940s, with music by Joe Burke and lyrics"
"""Somethin' Else"", ""Teenage Heaven"", and his posthumous UK number one hit ""Three Steps to Heaven"". He remained popular in the US and UK through the late 1950s and early 1960s, and more of his records were posthumous hits, such as ""My Way"", ""Weekend"", and ""Nervous Breakdown"". Another aspect of Cochran's short but brilliant career is his work as backup musician and producer. In 1959 he played lead for Skeets McDonald at Columbia's studios for ""You Oughta See Grandma Rock"" and ""Heart Breaking Mama"". In a session for Gene Vincent in March 1958 he contributed his trademark bass voice, as heard"
"and spend his time in the studio making music, thereby reducing the chance of suffering a similar fatal accident while touring. Financial responsibilities, however, required that he continue to perform live, and that led to his acceptance of an offer to tour the United Kingdom in 1960. On Saturday, April 16, 1960, at about 11.50 p.m., while on tour in the United Kingdom, 21-year-old Cochran was involved in a traffic accident in a taxi travelling through Chippenham, Wiltshire, on the A4. The speeding taxi blew a tire, the driver lost control, and the vehicle crashed into a lamppost on Rowden"
"album, ""Cockrell & Santos"". Santos was killed in a car crash near Geyserville in Sonoma County, California on December 14, 1989. Cockrell also did a brief stint as the singer with Sons of Champlin from 1977 to 1978 in between his work with Cockrell & Santos. Cockrell wrote many of the songs performed by his bands. He was known as the ""Rock and Roller"" but also played blues and country music. He spent his last years living in the Delta on dialysis, where he died on March 6, 2010, due to complications of diabetes. Bud Cockrell James Ray ""Bud"" Cockrell"
"Billy Fury Ronald Wycherley (17 April 1940 – 28 January 1983), better known by his stage name Billy Fury, was an English singer from the late 1950s to the mid 1960s, and remained an active songwriter until the 1980s. Rheumatic fever, which he first contracted as a child, damaged his heart and ultimately contributed to his death. An early British rock and roll (and film) star, he equalled the Beatles' record of 24 hits in the 1960s, and spent 332 weeks on the UK chart, without a chart-topping single or album. AllMusic journalist Bruce Eder stated, ""His mix of rough-hewn"
"covered in 1968 by The Move and appears on their eponymous album. The song was also recorded by Bobby Vee in 1965, Showaddywaddy in 1981, Alvin Stardust in 1982, Teenage Head in 1985, and Darrel Higham in 2004. Weekend (Eddie Cochran song) ""Weekend"" is a song recorded by Eddie Cochran. The song was written by Bill and Doree Post and recorded in April 1959. The song was released posthumously as a single in the UK on London Records as 45-HLG 9362 in June 1961 and rose to number 15 on the charts. In the US it was released on Liberty"