Eddie Cochran Live | Summertime Blues (1959) | Best Music Of The 50s

The original version of "Summertime Blues" was co-written and sung by Eddie Cochran,. The song was written by Cochran and his manager Jerry Capehart and it was released in August 1958. The song 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. Olivia Newton-John recorded this song for her Clearly Love album in 1975. The 1958 Liberty Records single by Eddie Cochran was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999 and the song is ranked number 73 in Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. In March 2005, Q magazine placed it at number 77 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks. The song is also on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum's list of "The Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll"

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