Originally released on Liberty 55203. There's not enough celebration of Eddie Cochran in the world, I've decided. :-) I'm delighted to put this reissue in the store today, since it's always been one of my personal favorites. I'm also saddened by the realization of how much we lost that April day in 1960 when Eddie Cochran died in a car crash while touring England with fellow rockabilly giant Gene Vincent, who was injured that day but survived. "Somethin' Else" was Cochran's last chart single before his death, and it ranks up there with his very best: "Summertime Blues," "Nervous Breakdown," "Twenty Flight Rock"... Clearly, he was still at his peak when he died at 21, and who knows how much more great rockabilly we would now have if he'd lived? By the way, the song's co-writer, Sharon Sheeley, was in the car with Cochran and was also injured that day.\r\n
Looking back at 1959-60, conspiracy theorists would have no trouble imagining that someone or some group was trying to kill rock'n'roll... as if that would have been possible.
- Killed in crashes:
- Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, Big Bopper, Eddie Cochran
- Locked up, defamed:
- Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis
- Gone for a soldier:
- Elvis Presley
- Wounded:
- Gene Vincent
- Born again:
- Little Richard
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I guess the rock-killers didn't consider Fats Domino subversive enough. :-)
