1-1 	–Eddie Cochran 	Introduction 	0:22
1-2 	–Eddie Cochran 	Halleluja I Love Her So 	2:16
1-3 	–Eddie Cochran 	C'Mon Everybody 	1:42
1-4 	–Eddie Cochran 	Something Else 	1:47
1-5 	–Marty Wilde With Eddie Cochran 	Interview: Marty Wilde With Eddie Cochran 	0:54
1-6 	–Eddie Cochran 	Twenty Flight Rock 	1:39
1-7 	–Eddie Cochran 	Introduction 	0:14
1-8 	–Eddie Cochran 	Money Honey 	2:12
1-9 	–Eddie Cochran 	Have I Told You Lately That I Love You 	1:35
1-10 	–Eddie Cochran 	Halleluja I Love Her So 	2:21
1-11 	–Eddie Cochran 	Closing Announcement 	0:50
1-12 	–Eddie Cochran 	Summertime Blues 	1:53
1-13 	–Eddie Cochran 	Milk Cow Blues 	3:02
1-14 	–Eddie Cochran 	Introduction & Interview 	0:52
1-15 	–Eddie Cochran 	I Don't Like You No More 	2:51
1-16 	–Eddie Cochran 	Sweet Little Sixteen 	2:34
1-17 	–Eddie Cochran 	Introduction 	0:10
1-18 	–Eddie Cochran Duet With Gene Vincent 	White Lightnin' 	1:33
1-19 	–Eddie Cochran 	Interview Part 1 	3:03
1-20 	–Eddie Cochran 	Sittin' In The Balcony 	2:04
1-21 	–Eddie Cochran 	Interview Part 2 	10:48
1-22 	–Eddie Cochran 	Twenty-Flight Rock 	1:45
2-1 	–Eddie Cochran 	Skinny Jim 	2:10
2-2 	–Cochran Brothers 	Latch On 	1:37
2-3 	–Eddie Cochran 	Nice 'n' Easy 	2:19
2-4 	–Eddie Cochran 	My Love To Remember 	2:30
2-5 	–Cochran Brothers 	Slow Down 	1:59
2-6 	–Jerry Capehart 	Heart Of A Fool 	1:47
2-7 	–Eddie Cochran 	Dark Lonely Street 	2:33
2-8 	–Eddie Cochran 	Pink Pegged Slacks 	1:53
2-9 	–Gene Bo Davis 	Drowning All My Sorrows 	2:10
2-10 	–Eddie Cochran 	Mighty Mean 	1:58
2-11 	–Eddie Cochran 	Guitar Blues 	2:56
2-12 	–Jack Lewis  	I.O.U. 	2:07
2-13 	–Eddie Cochran 	Half Loved (Alt Take -1) 	2:48
2-14 	–Bob Denton 	Pretty Little Devil 	2:09
2-15 	–Eddie Cochran 	Cruisin' The Drive In 	1:41
2-16 	–Eddie Cochran 	Nervous Breakdown 	1:57
2-17 	–Derry Weaver 	Itty Bitty Betty 	1:51
2-18 	–Eddie Cochran 	Jelly Bean 	2:08
2-19 	–Eddie Cochran 	Jungle Jingle 	2:32
2-20 	–Eddie Cochran 	Don't Bye Bye Baby Me 	2:27

Disc one is all live action from his 1960 UK TV broadcasts & a Wembley concert, plus a rare 1957 interview. Disc two is Eddie in the studio with his rare early solo recordings & also as producer & accompanist for others. 42 tracks & a 16 page illustrated booklet with slipcase. Proper. 2003. ---Editorial Reviews

Somehow, time has not accorded Eddie Cochran quite the same respect as other early rockabilly pioneers like Buddy Holly, or even Ricky Nelson or Gene Vincent. This is partially attributable to his very brief lifespan as a star: he only had a couple of big hits before dying in a car crash during a British tour in 1960. He was in the same league as the best rockabilly stars, though, with a brash, fat guitar sound that helped lay the groundwork for the power chord. He was also a good songwriter and singer, celebrating the joys of teenage life -- the parties, the music, the adolescent rebellion -- with an economic wit that bore some similarities to Chuck Berry. Cochran was more lighthearted and less ironic than Berry, though, and if his work was less consistent and not as penetrating, it was almost always exuberant.

Cochran's mid-'50s beginnings in the record industry are a bit confusing. His family had moved to Southern California around 1950, and in 1955 he made his first recordings as half of the Cochran Brothers. Here's the confusing part: although the other half of the act was really named Hank Cochran, he was not Eddie's brother. (Hank Cochran would become a noted country songwriter in the 1960s.) Eddie was already an accomplished rockabilly guitarist and singer on these early sides, and he started picking up some session work as well, also finding time to make demos and write songs with Jerry Capehart, who became his manager.

Cochran's big break came about in a novel fashion. In mid-1956, while Cochran and Capehart were recording some music for low-budget films, Boris Petroff asked Eddie if he'd be interested in appearing in a movie that a friend was directing. The film was The Girl Can't Help It, and the song he would sing in it was "Twenty-Flight Rock." This is the same song that Paul McCartney would use to impress John Lennon upon their first meeting in 1957 (Paul could not only play it, but knew all of the lyrics).

Cochran had his first Top 20 hit in early 1957, "Sittin' in the Balcony," with an echo-chambered vocal reminiscent of Elvis. That single was written by John D. Loudermilk, but Eddie would write much of his material, including his only Top Ten hit, "Summertime Blues." A definitive teenage anthem with hints of the overt protest that would seep into rock music in the 1960s, it was also a technical tour de force for the time: Cochran overdubbed himself on guitar to create an especially thick sound. One of the classic early rock singles, "Summertime Blues" was revived a decade later by proto-metal group Blue Cheer, and was a concert staple for the Who, who had a small American hit with a cover version. (Let's not mention Alan Jackson's country rendition in the 1990s.)

That, disappointingly, was the extent of Cochran's major commercial success in the U.S. "C'mon Everybody," a chugging rocker that was almost as good as "Summertime Blues," made the Top 40 in 1959, and also gave Eddie his first British Top Tenner. As is the case with his buddy Gene Vincent, though, you can't judge his importance by mere chart statistics. Cochran was very active in the studio, and while his output wasn't nearly as consistent as Buddy Holly's (another good friend of Eddie's), he laid down a few classic or near-classic cuts that are just as worthy as his hits. "Somethin' Else," "My Way" (which the Who played in concert at the peak of psychedelia), "Weekend" (covered by the Move), and "Nervous Breakdown" are some of the best of these, and belong in the collection of every rockabilly fan. He was also (like Holly) an innovator in the studio, using overdubbing at a time when that practice was barely known on rock recordings.

Cochran is more revered today in Britain than the United States, due in part to the tragic circumstances of his death. In the spring of 1960, he toured the U.K. with Vincent, to a wild reception, in a country that had rarely had the opportunity to see American rock & roll stars in the flesh. En route to London to fly back to the States for a break, the car Cochran was riding in, with his girlfriend (and songwriter) Sharon Sheeley and Gene Vincent, had a severe accident. Vincent and Sheeley survived, but Cochran died less than a day later, at the age of 21. --- Richie Unterberger, AMG

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1 	C'mon Everybody 	1:55
2 	Three Steps To Heaven 	2:20
3 	Cut Across Shorty 	1:52
4 	Have I Told You Lately That I Love You	2:38
5 	Hallelujah, I Love Her So	2:20
6	Sittin' In The Balcony		2:02
7 	Summertime Blues 	1:57
8 	Lovin' Time		2:09
9 	Somethin' Else 		2:10
10 	Tell Me Why 	2:20
11 	Teenage Heaven 		2:09
12 	Drive In Show	2:05

This compilation was released by Liberty Records in 1960, shortly after Eddie Cochran's death that spring, the first of several memorial albums (including one called Memorial Album) to come out on Cochran. And while it doesn't really live up to its title -- sad to say, Cochran never had a dozen hits, big or otherwise, to compile -- it is a surprisingly good collection as an overview of Cochran's career and sound (flaws and all), the hits included. At the time of its release, this album would have presented the very first chance that anyone would have had for an overview of Cochran's career -- the problem with the record, as with most early Cochran compilations, lies in the errors made by Liberty Records in handling Cochran's career in the first place; the label apparently saw him developing in the same manner as Elvis Presley (which was understandable, as Elvis was the quintessential white rock & roll star of the era), and, like Presley, doing ballads as often as rockers, and found nothing incongruous in the fact that Cochran just didn't have the voice to pull that off the way that Elvis did. It wasn't that Cochran couldn't do it -- he could -- but it was more of a stretch, and became an impossible one when he was saddled with second-rate material, as was often the case (where Elvis, until he started doing the movies full-time, never had that problem). But this album starts off on the right foot, with "C'mon Everybody" -- one of Cochran's best songs but never a huge hit in the U.S. -- leading off the set, which proceeds with the deceptively complex rocker "Three Steps to Heaven." We jump back to Cochran's country roots with "Cut Across Shorty" and "Have I Told You Lately That I Love You," the latter a ballad that Cochran handled surprisingly well -- trying for a sound akin to what Elvis was doing on slow numbers -- given his relative antipathy to the form. "Hallelujah, I Love Her So" puts us back in the heart of Cochran's mature sound, showcasing his guitar amid its string accompaniment and some very strong singing as well. The first side closes with the obligatory "Sittin' in the Balcony" -- which, in fairness, was his first Liberty single, and does have a more than decent guitar break even if the song is a little wimpy. Side two storms out with "Summertime Blues," as powerful a song as any white rock & roller charted in 1957. But listeners who skip the sappy "Lovin' Time" and jump to "Somethin' Else" will be doing Cochran's memory a world of good. "Tell Me Why" is another slowie, but it shows some power to Cochran's singing, even if he doesn't pull off what the record label wanted. "Teenage Heaven" was probably obligatory, as it was featured in the then relatively recent movie Go Johnny Go, and it avoids being totally lame by virtue of Cochran's raspy vocalizing and a reasonably hot sax solo. And "Drive In Show" closes the set out in a manner that probably ought to be skipped, except out of curiosity over some of the more absurd numbers that Cochran was made to record in his tragically brief career. It's not an ideal collection, by any means, but it is an honest snapshot of his music, warts and all. ---Bruce Eder, AllMusic Review

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