Summertime Blues- Eddie Cochran

[Kelchjrs]

Russel Crowe

[LSA2013]

Just because the sound quality improves doesn't mean the music improves with it. Rush did a great cover of this, and I probably would have never found this song had it not been for that cover version.

[ItsKatieHey]

I'm 13 and I hate how my 17 year old sister likes Bieber and Kesha etc all that mainstream crap, but when I listen to this I'm a freak apparently?

What's wrong with some one actually having talent, not just some autotuned guy talking into a microphone?

rant over -_-

[NostalgicTimeMan]

@ItsKatieHey Wow you should actually think about slapping her head into reality. lmao By the way your not a freak.

[mikefranky]

The two guys clapping their hands put the oo in cool!!...i think they awesome!!!

[adamvmiller]

Setzer's hero and I can see why. Unreal!

[mr5spd]

great songs like this one just reminds me of how bad "music" is today.

[maddogmann21]

:) im a dancer and this is my tap dance song:)))

[schmutrix]

love the sound



[DrinkThunderbird]

:)

[robin9465]

Real rhythm. The way it should be.

[colshythecomedian]

1.33 watch him laugh at the guy talking into the mic

[Leffus66]

Who needs any comments!!!

[stdtcomp]

Ohhh yeah this is real music!!!!!!

[XanderTheDutchGuy]

this is one of the best songs ever

[XanderTheDutchGuy]

this is one of the best songs ever

[xliondolphinx]

like*

[xliondolphinx]

comment if you heard this song on Mafia 2

[TheBritishpopstar]

24 dislikes who the hell could dislike this guy absolute Icon off rock n roll miss you eddie

[danalovesjoe5555]

Eddie is fuckin sweet!!

[TheRockandroll420]

Blue Cheer>This

[bohrmaenneken]

@Rockinrobintweets: And stay there for some time, pull eddie out of his car right before the crash and bring him with you to or time, so he can give me some guitar lessons ;-)

[thecubanism]

Absolutly beautiful Eddie at his best, born in 42, obviously loving anything pre-beatles.

[TheErrol1975]

24 pepols dont know what real musik is and 3684 are pepol who know what real musik is

[BNSF1985]

@TheErrol1975 and your point is?

[TheErrol1975]

@BNSF1985 Its a great and unik song but i hawe heard it so often so im going to be a little bit tyerd.

[BNSF1985]

@TheErrol1975 well,alright then

[TREYOLDHIPPIE]

nice nice nice

[kingbacon]

That's the problem it's the "new" music that sounds likre it's from the 1890's.

[bohrmaenneken]

@ faeriebility: And don´t forget Chuck Berry and the Killer J.L. Lewis... If you shall ever find out how to make a time machine, please tell me...

[rockinrobintweets]

@bohrmaenneken Send me to Feb. 2, 1959..kidnap Buddy Holly, Richic V and the Big Booper so they DO NOT get on that plane and crush Feb 3, 1959,,, IF ONLY

[TheosHits]

Great !

[meezerlover1]

oh and how about johnny burnette?? damn, so much talent. I wish I was back in the 50's and 60;s. I could just cry.

[faeriebility]

Elvis, Eddie Cochran, Ritchie Valens, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Arthur Crudup, Buddy Holly.... when there was real Rock n Roll, real RnB, real greatness... <3 <3 <3

I want a f#cking time machine.

[faeriebility]

@Southie99 I never said that today's music was horrible or that it should imitate the music of a century ago. Actually, that's part of the problem - alot of modern popular music tries to sound like older music put through an electronic grindmill. IMO that doesn't equate with greatness, but that's just me (it's partly a partiality for all old music in general - and RnR is so amazing because it has so much going on in it).

But I agree, it was pretty clever what Harvey did w/ his song.

[barnfres60]

@faeriebility hey, when that time machine comes, you best come and get me too,il supply then new comb,s for the shirt pocket,,new shoe,s and polish and clafornian hair poppy for the part,and we can both go back in time, when it meant everything to pull up in a $25.00 jalopy you fixed and painted yourself at home, and be the Envey of all the kids arround....and thats what a dear mate said to me when he took a day of school to see gene vincent in the 1950,s...Lets go...!!

[lancesta01]

@faeriebility Wish the delorean was real <3 haha

[Donbetful]

lovely song brings back good memories

[omahagreek]

the like bar is the size of eddies dick, no homo. its probably true

[rockinrodney5000]

@omahagreek The like bar's small. o.o You say his dick is small? Trying to insult him?

[omahagreek]

@rockinrodney5000 no its the massive green bar, times a thousand. eddie out does any singer now adays but just touching a guitar.

[TL250Rider]

One of the Kings of Rock N Roll

He left us too soon.

God Bless  Thank you

[Context81]

What a sound this guy had

[mjchapman44]

24 dislikes?

Good grief...this is one of the best rock and roll songs of all time!!!!

[Reak55]

21 years old... God I fucking hate you.

[Shineivi]

@Reak55 haha truee! we both dream to born in that time!

[RadioCarino]

This guy had it all going on. Words can't explain it.

[metalkrush77]

Eddie Cochran was a bad ass, it's sad how hurt he was when his friends Ritchie Valens and Buddy Holly were killed in that plane crash! Eddie was a true pioneer in Rock music !

[iglesiascesar]

the father of punk ?

[Ao3Dash]

Was that Gene Vincent doing the talking bits?

[andrewr62]

@Ao3Dash No that was Dick D'Augustin.

[Ao3Dash]

@andrewr62 Thank you

[1973MrCoolio]

Ace!!!

[MrStevechips]

rock and roll has changed since eddie, but it has never improved

[whocares1694]

Lasting power thu the ages!

[reginaDeviant]

What year was this- 1960?

[JacobSly1]

'There aint no cure for the Summertime Blues' --Eddie Cochran

[C0NTR4B455]

Amazing rhythm playing here....

[fergsfolly]

Died way too young. Love all his work.

[dylancomputerbeast]

why the hell was this in my history?

[antdigger]

This guy ripped off Alan Jackson.

[decoycarver17]

@antdigger WRONG Alan Jackson came AFTER Eddie.

[rockinrodney5000]

@antdigger This is the original version! Alan Jackson came 20-30-40 years after Eddie Cochran!

[28JohnnyP]

@antdigger YOUR WRONG MAN, EDDIE COCHRAN WROTE THIS SONG IN THE 1960'S. ALAN JACKSON COPIED IN THE 1980'S.

[oddjobjujitsu]

@28JohnnyP please dont tell me you really said that!...... eddie did not write this in the 60's lmfao the 60's?....Eddie died in 1960.......try 1958.......he wrote this in 1957-1958 also with supposed help from his manager jerry capehart......but anyone with an ounce of knowledge about eddie knew eddie did the writing..jerrys name was on there the same as norman petty had his name on buddy hollys music....for money and because they were their managers

[28JohnnyP]

@oddjobjujitsu the point is Eddie wrote the song, NOT alan jackson.

[oddjobjujitsu]

@28JohnnyP ha ha yes...almost forgot what the topic was lol

[Conqueror441]

Caddyshack brought me here! :D xD

[aryanimperium]

Black keys version is way better

[HeadHunteR1988]

@aryanimperium lol...

[CmMaikman]

Mafia 2

[TOTIKI14]

This is the best

[af4k]

You can see why EVERYONE admired this, Townshend, Daltry, Setzer - yep of course. It's great.

[CL137626]

I heard this on empire central radio and i was like OMG that's a good song.

[kevindlinc]

That was fuckin' deadly. Rock and roll is here to stay!!!

[Mrssunrise111]

I love this song !

[frackooo]

fantastic never ending

[jsteelman1000]

WOW great vid he combed his hair like Elvis!

[cazonetta]

@jsteelman1000 It was the popular/common look back then. A pity more guys don't comb their hair like that today, it's a cute style.

[af4k]

@jsteelman1000 He combed his hair like ELVIS? LOTS of guys combed their hair that way and used Brycreem on it in those days. Nothing so special about Elvis and the hair.

[rockinrodney5000]

@jsteelman1000 It's called a Pompadour and not only Elvis used it,welcome to the 50's,idiot.

[FelipeQuevici]

Its a really cool song, but i still prefer The Who cover.

[20FlightBlues]

god himself

[SpiritKnob]

Those two guys to the left of Eddie have the best job in the world

[themoshmenace]

@SpiritKnob There's only ONE guy to his left.

[Orbisonlover]

Hoo yeah !

[travisxgreggxajax1]

It's a shame this man died so young. Imagine what kind of legacy he would've left behind! This is a great song, and he was a great performer. Timeless classic from a true artist:) I'm 23 and play in a metal/punk band...and I still appreciate the type of music that all genres today evolved from. This is the good stuff...

[tatu2003]

After listening all kind of music past 36 yrs and now Im 41...I must rate Eddie´s song number one. But Please pay attention to Stray Cats or Brian Setzer Orchestra. This man, Brian, has been Eddie fan for all his life with a tattoo. Please listen Brian´s verson about Our hero Eddie´s song and as for me Brian did SOBhelluva great job.!! No question about it he truly loves Eddie. Brian is still playing rockabilly today. I love Eddie and Brian! Youtube Stray cats summer time blues and you find out.

[MICHAELTHEDEVIL1]

kid this is MUSIC!!!! this is awesome stuff right here and i heard it on a game called mafia 2 :) amazing!!!

[maggottron333]

@MICHAELTHEDEVIL1 Alot of the music on Mafia II is music I heard years ago and loved. But with radio and video games, you can't very well get the title and artist each time.

[locomanloco]

ooo man this song is too short hittin repeat like crazy

[GanaLaMana]

This is the first time I've heard the original.... Everybody and their mom has covered this, but Cochran does it best.

[ed1cat1]

Was there anyone cooler than Eddie? I don't think so.

[FeignofCordor]

@ed1cat1

The Fonz...perhaps :)

[rubbersoul44055]

@ed1cat1 Buddy Holly but only by a little.

[area59429]

TOP NOTCH!!!!

[Alexsodie]

The guy left to Eddie, stops clapping to scratch himself 0:08 xD

[bellgardens53]

@Alexsodie Scratch...Seems more like he whisk away something from his eyes, but good eyes for details. lol

[paulinus43ad]

classic FIFT,,,,,,,,,,,DOES IT GET ANY BETTER

[bellgardens53]

@paulinus43ad No. This IS the best. Period!

[paulinus43ad]

@bellgardens53 yep,,,

[bellgardens53]

@paulinus43ad Mmmmm...

[SKOUNDREL81]

cool, so cool

[a1b1c2d352]

"I'd like to help you son, but you're too young to vote."  Classic.

[icemanz44]

Eddie Cochran you are still the coolest! Elvis was cool, but you could jam on that guitar much better! Gone onto a better place, but certainly not forgotten,,,,

[Atlasgdl27]

Now I know why The Who covered this song. Love the rift.

[jstinnett75]

This man is cooler than polar bear's toenails.

[Wellch]

I do not know if this question have been answered or not.. But what was the name of the person did the talking in his bass/baritone voice ?

[straycatttt]

@Wellch I've been wondering that as well. I tried Google without luck.  Looks like that guy plays piano as well. Bass player with glasses looks like he's annoyed and chatting while playing...probably hot up there and poor stage travel conditions, also maybe not accustomed to being on video....Eddie was great though.

[beeroosterm]

@straycatttt Bass player is Guybo Smith. And he does look damned annoyed

[straycatttt]

@beeroosterm Thanks for that info! With that, I did more research and now think the dude on piano and deep voice interludes was Dick D'Agostin? Their backing band was named "Dick D'Agostin and the Swingers."

[oddjobjujitsu]

@Wellch hi just a quick reply to your question..about the bass voice.....it was eddie.......eddie had a naturely deep voice anyway.....eddie also sang the bass lines on gene vincent's GIT IT .... and a couple of others listen to it closley and you can tell it's eddie

[jwandhistools]

Elvis minus the drugs and fat.

[Youcanonacanon]

Did anyone else come here because of Troll?

[paulmccartney7ElvisP]

This is rock and roll!! <3 Happy Birthday Eddie Cochran :')

[krzysiek0563]

Happy birthday Eddie! We will always remember about you...

[mr9396]

i wish i was alive around this time, so i don't have to listen to all this SHIT on the radio.

[brianbude]

one of the greats!

[fusejockey]

Great song no matter what style: see Blue Cheer - - -

Sweet :o)-

[notahemi]

84 people watched this because they wanted to see what Darryl Rhoades was talking about in the youtube video "New Country Music".

Must confess I didn't know where The Who got the song.

[asgaard636]

A great clip of a great artist: Ultra cool E.C.!

[ExitLeft522]

i love how the who made a cover of this and then van halen and rush make a cover of the whos version...weird

[jstinnett75]

eddie was one cool ass cat wasn't he. another legend gone way too soon. rip eddie!!!

[Magahlia]

Nossa, como ele morreu jovem! : (

[Magahlia]

Meu, que som bom!!!!!!!!

[sakoop96]

21 people thought there was a cure for the Summertime Blues

[bigwatto95]

I first heard Alan Jackson's cover of this.... THIS IS AWESOME

[esperance92]

J'adore et ne m'en lasse pas !

[Juicefani11]

@LegeAwesome @akirascf1 He's using Gretsch 6120 with a P90 pickup, gold painted Bigsby and a pickguard which was modified a bit.

[Juicefani11]

@LegeAwesome @akirascf1 He's using Gretsch 6120 with a P90 pickup, gold painted Bigsby and a pickguard which was modified a bit. :D

[akirascf1]

Ibanez AFS75T orsome like that i think

[jdmderick]

i love this thanks for the upload!!

[CrayzMark]

.too cool. much rather listen to this than to elvis.

[paulmccartney7ElvisP]

died so young .. would have been so big! :')

[Rettungsliegerfan]

19 ppl tought the dislike button is a download button :D

[MisterMasterShafter1]

Three more things. Never put Twenty Flight Rock in the same sentence as Heartbreak Hotel. Cochran never had a "huge hit" in his life. Elvis had many.

Cochran wrote about 1/3 of his songs, the rest were covers, and not particularly good ones. Elvis' original songs were golden, and his covers were golden. Total reinterpretations of the orignals in most cases. More huge hits in '56 alone than Cochran any kind of hits in his entire career.

Cochran couldn't follow Elvis on stage except to sweep up.

[Tiberius0001]

@MisterMasterShafter1 WTF, Is he high or something? Cochran couldn't carry Elvis' jockstrap! Like comparing Bobby Darin to Sinatra! Compare Elvis' 50s output alone with Cochran's and there IS no comparison! And Elvis' Sun stuff was not fucking "rockabilly," it was a fusion of white country and black blues/R&B, and THAT was the sound true Rock came from! 80% of Rock scholars point to it. And Cochran did NOT write "Twenty Flight Rock," which was well after "Heartbreak Hotel" and way after Sun.

[MisterMasterShafter1]

@Tiberius0001 I don't know what ringring is, other than misinformed. You're dead on about Elvis' Sun cuts. Listen to any of the other Sun artists. Cash, Jerry Lee, Perkins, Orbison, whoever. None of their records sound like Elvis', Sun or early RCA.

Elvis' reek of the fusion of black & white sounds you referred to. A unique fusion that is non-existent in the other guys' records. A sound that would change popular music forever. The sound Sam Phillips heard the first time he heard Elvis.

[Tiberius0001]

@MisterMasterShafter1 Amen, and "revisionist history" is exactly what it is. For those who were there and/or who know about the era, this modern day revisionist crap is crap. The quotes and stories from other rock stars about Elvis, from anybody worth paying attention to, from El's contemporaries and long after, are endless. In the end they all say the same thing. Buddy Holly's "without Elvis, none of us could have made it", or Lennon's "Before Elvis, there was nothing." and countless others.

[MisterMasterShafter1]

@Tiberius0001 You got it. Anything else is simply retarded. Aside from being the biggest, best, and the one who led the way for everyone else, and because of this, Elvis also took the lion's share of the harsh attacks by the press and the older generations in the 50s.

He won Ed Sullivan over after Sullivan was around him a while and saw he wasn't a punk thug, but make no mistake, it wasn't a coincidence he was drafted. The establishment figured out that was the only way they could stop him.

[Tiberius0001]

@MisterMasterShafter1 Amen to all of this as well.

[oddjobjujitsu]

@MisterMasterShafter1 wow! that's harsh.....i'm a huge elvis fan and i am also a huge cochran fan....Elvis had the early start when R'n'R was in it's early days he capitolized on it and the rest is history...Eddie on the other hand only really got going in 57....his best work was prob 58-59 ..R'n'R as it's purest form was rapidly changing and from 59 it has lost most of it's rawness.....eddie only had prob 5-6 years in the business before his death .. yet he wrote many of his own tunes T.B.C

[rivera48721]

Oh my god what a thrill to see this, I didn't know this clip existed

[danalovesjoe5555]

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[694fov]

One of the true greats of rock

[lordofchaozz]

haha this makes me proud to be a cochran(e)

[gilllianlewis730]

I WAS TOO YOUNG TO REMEMBER EDDIE (WHEN HE WAS ALIVE) HOWEVER, THIS ONE OF MY ALL TIME FAVOURITE ROCK & ROLL SONGS. (BEST COVER VERSION IS BY THE WHO (1970)

[RogellParadox]

As I said in other videos, 18 people prefer Justin Baby 'singing' Baby, baby, baby, ohhh

[TheDavidG54]

@RogellParadox I think I hate you, as your comment made me look at that video.

[RogellParadox]

@TheDavidG54 ?????

[MusicandDancing4Ever]

That's real artistry here. He doesn't have to jump all over the stage to move you like artists today, these guys back then just played that driving rhythm and sung with grit and moved you by getting you out of your seat, that's rock and roll, I don't know what they call it today, because it ain't rock and roll. People should add Eddie to the day the music died, because he died young as well.

[xEdddie]

@MusicandDancing4Ever i added him to "The Day Music Died" in My head.

[dkd1954]

Well, all I know is that they were having fun while they were playin' rock 'n' roll. Now the music is too: 'Oh, everybody look at me'. I'm still playin' my records and y'all can have this whatever it is.

[davsan33]

brill

[shadowkarman]

SIN DUDA DE LO MEJOR EL Y OTROS SON LOS PRECURSORES DEL R Y R, BUEN TEMA, VER LOS DEMAS.

[XanderTheDutchGuy]

boner

[1FenderGuy]

@XanderTheDutchGuy LOL! i got 5 boners at school today listening to this on my iPod the teacher said that i need to stop getting boners its funny!

[09bnunez]

never got the credit he dissevered, one of the early rockers of the rockera, r.i.p.eddie cochran

[juanbbien]

One of my all time favourite songs,very simple but effective,the great Eddie Cochran Regards john c

[kcilam57]

encore un grand qui est parti beaucoup trop tot

[actuary33]

This is when music was MUSIC...agreed?

[freethoughtmusic]

@actuary33 Agreed!

[pedrorivas2020]

@actuary33 mmmmmmmmm NO!

[beeroosterm]

@actuary33 Just say it: Rap sucks hardest!

[DrakeKesda]

@actuary33 Music is still....... MUSIC... You're just thinking that those times happen themselves instead of people making them happen. Shut up about saying "MUSIC TODAY SUCKS" because you're simply not looking hard enough. Music was great back then and it's still great now.

[actuary33]

@DrakeKesda dont be an asshole...im guessing your some punk kid, wowed by todays belles and whistles. This is look at a time when one man with a vision and with a guitar, can create magic....I doubt todays about suicide and banging the other guys wife can hold up....idiot

[foxley1968]

god i love eddie

[LHcountryboy1]

Aaah, HERE it IS----jest ain't no kure for the Original toon---{that's the Ole' Skool ya'll} =D

[madams12f]

there aint no cure for OUR summertime blues....these words really fit the times:

-- MY congressman's on a JUNKET 2 Israel pd 4 by FAT CATS who get a TAX write off..

"I'm gonna take two weeks, gonna have a fine vacation

I'm gonna take my problem to the United Nations

Well I called my congressman and he said quote,

'I'd like to help you son but you're too young to vote'

Sometimes I wonder what I'm a gonna do

But there ain't no cure for the summertime blues"

- "Summer Time Blues" by Eddie Cochran

[MushroomKingdom919]

He was so cool. Everyone compares him to Elvis, but I get more of a James Dean vibe.