I absolutely love this song... the arrangement, the vocal, the crisp guitar bits, the backing vocals, the lyrics... everything! But it just never gets played. Rod Stewart covered the B side on his great "Every Picture Tells A Story" LP, and "Shorty" is a terrific rockabilly number, for sure. But someone should play "Three Steps To Heaven" now and then. One of the interesting things about this recording is how much like a Buddy Holly & the Crickets arrangement it seems. It's sobering to recall that "Heaven" was released shortly after Cochran died in a U.K. car crash, which also injured fellow rockabilly rocker Gene Vincent. All of this occurred just a little over a year after Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper went down in that fateful plane crash. No wonder it looked like rock'n'roll was coming to an end in 1960. Note: This copy comes in a vintage Liberty Records factory sleeve (has some writing on it). It has dark green labels, which grade very close to Mint. The vinyl looks almost untouched, but the audio has light surface noise, more noticeable on the A side than the B. The audio grades EX, and the record's overall grade is a strong EX.
