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  • He sounds a little like Elvis. Not a bad blues singer, for white guy.

  • Terrific version! No wonder Eddie Cochran was often so highly regarded as an artist!  It's too bad that we lost him so young so long ago.

  • Very cool rendtion. I'm one of those people who prefer this to Elvis's rockabilly version, but what people are saying about Elvis's influence can't be understated. I just like this style of music better than rockabilly. Plus you gotta hand it to Elvis for his stage presence; even when I was a little girl and would see those old movies he was in, I thought wow.

    But Eddie is very cool here indeed.

  • Oh yeah, that's bad ass!

  • eddie plays blues country rockabilly punk hardrock he was really artist elvis only shit!

  • Sounds like Clapton, but he was before Clapton. LoL!

  • THE BEST!!! No One...Sounds Like Mr Eddie Cochran..Sorry Elvis...But Eddie Has Something You Dont! 'COOLNESS' ,Elvis Is Elvis! But Eddie Is Mr Cool! <3 <3 <3

  • @JustaSideOrderOfLove Elvis' '55 rendition inspired eddie to sing milkcow blues boogie

  • Excellent enregistrement !!

  • Eddie Cochran is great. But the only talentless hack around here is a certain tasteless blogger. Elvis has pride of place...He is the FIRST rockabilly monster; by his example he encouraged so many young white guys to try, including Roy Orbison and Buddy Holly. Without Elvis, would Eddy Cochran ever have HEARD of Milkcow Blues or Money Honey?

    You know, there's really no reason, because you like X, to say Y sucks.

    Grow up.

  • @Fensterrud

    We have to grow up?

  • i dont know if you get much cooler than eddie cochran

  • eddie was sorta like a white chuck berry

  • Saw Eddie Cochran Live at the Brooklyn Paramount in 1959 

  • Great song thanks

  • ....and it doesnt matter who did what before who.

  • @overbrookXXX I agree with you, doesn't matter who did what before who, what matter is listen to the Rock.

  • I hate it when people compare great artists. He was better, they were better, on and on and on and on. What a fucking waste of time. They were all good in their own way.

  • Amazing.

  • My god! I have never heard someone so much "In the Zone" as Eddie is in this live version of 'Milk Cow'. What an incredible guitar lead solo in the middle! Jeesh!

  • Great, great version!

  • whatever he did he did it well, and good each time, and if your a fan then he was the one and only one, and why not he was on the top of his game !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • He would have be a man, he would have been the leader of a big old band, many people would have come from miles around, to hear him play his music 'till the sun go down ...

  • Some shades of Elvis tunes here.

  • happy birthday eddie,,,,

  • Brilliant

  • tremendous!

  • Un très grand talent nous a quitté un certain mois d'avril 1960...

  • original in the sense that he didn't just play pop...he explored everything

  • Best version is by Ricky Nelson with James Burton on guitar!

  • Eddie was the authentic voice of rock n roll, nobody sang it better or played it as well.

    He was the man.

  • @prescient8 He invented real distortion in the 50's in the way I see it.

  • @prescient8 He was great, but how earth can he be THE authentic voice of Rock N Roll when copied Elvis style? and please don't say he wasn't massively inluenced by Elvis.

  • @cameltrail He was beyonnd Elvis. Elvis was copying others himself. Check out some others in the time llike Conway Twitty's "Make Believe." CW was doing that style and Elvis did it too, but only for a short time, he came back from the Army and really wussed out. Cochran was dead, died, gone, or else Rock and Roll history would have been very different.

  • @deaddoc. Hi!"! Sorry, but as far as Conway Twitty´s "It´s only make believe", that song came a full two years after Elvis had done that type of delivery. The low voice, you know. Check out Presley´s voice in several of his 1956 ballads, most remarkably in "I was the one",or better still the entry to "Anyway you want me". And, if you need further convincing, check 1957´s , "That´s when your heartaches begin". In fact, when Twitty´s song came out, most, at first thought it was Elvis.

  • @gallivant1234 I have no reason to negate anything you write here. I was very young then. I do remember that many thought that Conway Twitty sounded like Elvis. But it was a great song. Sometimes I post what I am thinking and wait to see what comes back. Elvis did copy others however, namely Black artists. He made the stuff safe for whites. Most rock and roll history I have read or seen as documentaries say that.

  • @deaddoc Thanks for your reply. In turn, all I ask of you is go to kindly go to "wikiquote" (not wikipedia) and just type in the search  "Elvis his musical style as a musician" . You can´t copy when you´re there and all you hear is exactly what African Americans heard. He wasn´t a white kid growing up and hearing the radio in a big or middle sized cities like NY, Atlanta, New Orleans, St. Louis or Nashville, but in Tupelo, MS. From age 5, that´s what he heard, and saw: the blues.

  • @cameltrail Elvis opened the door for everybody else to walk through. He was good yes, but Eddie was an amazing musician. He played all styles of music not just rock and roll. If you read books about him from his family and those who knew him they say he could listen to a song a couple of times and then play it. Today he would be labeled as a prodigy though he wouldn't like that term. He also played Segovia and show tunes and wrote many of his own songs.

  • @cameltrail Dude fuck Elvis. hes the eminem of the 50's. He was one of the first white boys to do black muisic and bcome succesful. Elvis cdnt write a tune if his life hanged in the balance. Eddie was the shit, and yes he was influenced by Elvis, sadly. It was nearly impossible not to be influenced by elvis simply bc he was one of the 1st to do it and do it well. I respect elvis but fuck him. Seriously.

  • @BaalofSouls "I respect elvis but fuck him." You man Cochran? Why isn't there room for everyone who WAS there? Cochran did some great stuff. And why must it be so vicious as "fuck" someone? Got some issues?

  • @deaddoc LOL none except that elvis never wrote a tune in his life.

  • @BaalofSouls Agreed, there. Amazing what timing, a pretty face, and some singing ability can do for one guy in a century.

  • @BaalofSouls  read the credits for All shook up!

  • @SuperAlpha45 so thats what 1 song he supposedly wrote during his ENTIRE career?? LMFAO, elvis is waaaaay overrated and played out

  • @BaalofSouls Millions of people disagree with your dumb ass, haha. To this DAY people can't get enough of Elvis. You are the minority. So your opinion is worthless ;)

  • @seonfox Obviously Baalofsouls is clueless. The only thing worse than clueless people are clueless people who insist on letting you know it.

  • @seonfox far from worthless. Music is opinion and always will be. Just bc elvis happened to be popular, so fucking what. So is Lil Wayne but you dnt see me buying his music bc I dnt like him and thats MY OPINION hahahahaha u, like many like elvis, I dont. FUCKING DEAL WITH IT

  • @BaalofSouls No, FUCK YOU.

  • @cameltrail nice response 5th grader. Ur a tool, go get ur picture taken at Grace Land, keep denying that eddie and buddy are not considerably and ridiculously better musicians. King of Rock my ass, just a decent vocalist taking riffs from REAL artists. Whats a 5 letter word for talentless hack? ahh yes, Elvis.

  • What an absolutely brilliant interpretation. I love eddir Cochrane

    Mikey xx#

  • la bagarre de johnny halliday n'est pas mal non plus

  • As much as I like Elvis, Buddy Holly and Chuck Berry, I believe Eddie was the most gifted of all the early rock and rollers. Brilliant guitarist, great voice and quality song writer. He had it all. It was tragic that he was taken away from us so early in his life.

  • a great great version. EDDIE FOREVER

  • What made Eddie different from Elvis is he could write his own material

  • @kevinocooldaddy But Elvis was still famous and good and brilliant and the opinion on Elvis fans Elvis made the cover's better like I do because I am a big big Elvis fan. But I love Eddie Cochran and a fan so do not think of this comment as a call for arguement or an arguement.

  • That lead guitar verse was rockin'. Those chops are definetely ahead of their time. Now this is Rock -n- Roll.

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  • A true Rock'n'Roll pioneer. RIP, Eddie.

  • seems like someone I'd get along with

  • What a treat thanx man!

  • elvis version was revolutionary, an entirely new style, rockabilly. Eddie's version is like a standard blues

  • Paul McCartney & Keith Richards called Eddie the King.

  • @bagoona ....Well i'm sorry to correct you but i can't stand by watch someone dish out wrong information but......paul Mcartney & keith richards called Elvis the KING........look it up

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  • You play better than Eddie. Fair play boy, you must be a genius...or need to live in the real world with the rest of us.

  • for real, this guy don't know shit about rock n roll to even compare himslef, Keith Richards, Paul McCartney and other greats have all said Eddie was King

  • I look just like hm and I play better guitar

  • @Syzygy60 Dry up dude, yo profile states Age 50. While the coolest lookin & soundin young Eddie Ray Cochran wrote recorded and played this and all styles of music and instruments including sesion work from when he was 14, as good as many and better n most by the time he checked out decades too early at just 21 ! Milk it Eddie baby...

  • what album is this on

  • Hi GHub99.

    I have a version of this on the Myway Album from 64` on vinyl of course. I think you can get this version on the 8cd box set from bim bam records it seems to have everthing he ever recorded on the 8cds costs £140. Good hunting

  • if i had to choose one picture that should discribe rock n roll, it would be the picture of Eddie you can see at 1:45

  • Fantastic, one very cool dude.

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  • Cochran went to Teenage Heaven Elvis followed Shortly. Both were talented spirits that will ever rock our souls.

  • yeahhh good version but elvis better version yeahh ,i love elvis y eddie corhan vivan forever

  • reminds me a little of rory gallagher

  • Because Eddie Cochran was one of his biggest influences... he was neighbour of my ex-wife in Cork, Ireland.

  • check out the best version of all, by rick nelson and of course james burton shredding the hell out of his telecaster!

  • "polygamous1"....What 60's...?

  • damn realy thats great i wish i would have seen him before he died ,,,

  • I saw Eddie do this one live at Taunton, UK, just a week before his tragic death in Wiltshire.

  • eddie the greatest

  • Its a good version, but Elvis 56' version is better. I love Eddie too! I love "Too tired to rock"

  • You mean 20th flight rock, right?...

    "...So I walked one, two flight, three flight, four, five, six, seven, flight eight, flight more up on the twelfth I started to drag

    fifteenth floor I'm a-ready to sag, get to the top, I'm too tired to rock"

  • wow, i'd completely forgotten about that comment, time flies! yeah i obviously mean that track, coudlnt remember the name of it, thanks!

  • I like this version. Eddie Cochran is the best !

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  • I remember watching this performance at the time. "Oh Boy!" British tv show I believe.

    A real eye-opener for it's time.

  • thats buddy holly

  • this is my favorite version of this song, at least of the ones i have heard so far!

  • Love Eddie. Some say an Elvis knock-off but so what ....Bless you Eddie

  • BUT THE reality was spoken by John Lennon he said B4 ELVIS THERE WAS NOTHING everybody copied the KING n Eddie was one of the best so was Gene vincent Johnny kidd n the pirates the 50s was america's but the 60s was Britain's DEFENATELY

  • C'mon man, dont take it literally. He also said that if rock and roll have to be defined in two words these words must be Chuck Berry... Before Elvis were Fats Domino, Chuck, Bo, Ike Turner, Little Richard, Jackie Preston, Bill Haley, Joe Turner, Louis Jordan, Hank Williams... I need to follow?... I don't see in Buddy Holly's view of rock and roll any trace of Elvis, for example. Of course Elvis is the king, but he was not a god, just a rock and roller.

  • benitojauregi you are right-buddy doesnt seem to have any trace of elvis in his music-i rate buddy very high as does paul mc'cartney -he was as a good a song writer as we have ever seen and had a sound way ahead of its time-which still holds up today-i have enever rated elvis -but i do rate eddie cochran,bo diddley and buddy holly....infact bill haley and little richard inspired elvis-so he copied them and others-not the other way around-eddie cochran was even covered by sid vicious cos he rocks

  • Well Steve, I desagree. Elvis was not a god but he was much more than a mere copycat. He was the first white perfomer to play the blues as part of his enviromment legacy. Bill Haley played it first, but he has no r'n'b heritage himself, he took the sound from black artists trying to become more succesful, Elvis sang the blues because he learnt it and enjoy it since he was a child back in Tupelo, and the way he played the blues with his hillbilly sound becomes something later called rockabilly

  • @benitojauregi How much I really like Eddie you are right here. I rate both (in the '50s) at the top among the rockers but also the originators like JLL, Chuck Richard, Fats et cetera

  • Check your facts...Elvis recorded at least a year before Little Richard.

  • You check your facts, buddy... The first recordings of Little Richard were done back in 1952 when Elvis was driving a truck...

  • Im referring to rock and roll songs, Little Richard's recordings before Elvis were a combo of Blues/Jazz/Boogie, Rock and Roll is a combination of Blues/Country/Gospel, you need to tune your ears

  • You stated this..."Check your facts...Elvis recorded at least a year before Little Richard"...be responsible of your own words, my friend. On the other hand my ears are perfectly tuned, as well as my guitar, my bass and my double bass... If you want to check how tuned am I just tell me where can I send you a link to show you how to do it, babe!...

  • @benitojauregi That may be the case, but Presley´s earliest blues influences, when he recorded at SUN, in 1954, did not come from Littrle Richard, Fats Domino, Berry, Charles, or Diddley. They came from those that influenced those 5. The first time Presley heard Berry, was in 1955, and he loved his sound, but by that time, Presley had already three singles under his belt, and none of Presley´s early work resembled, in any shape or form, anything Berry, or Richard did. Not until 1956.

  • elvis wrote 1 song, he was not a musician, you know?

    The label made his sound and not he

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  • well said nzoneaffe u understand and realise he was the first hyped up sex symbol and nothing else besides-in his interviews he even answers a question by saying its so hard to buy hard rocking songs -and he argued endlessly with the colonel his manager because he only gave him embaressing songs to sing from about 59 onwards -he was just a cabaret act an entertainer -not a musician not a song writer and famous for being a sex symbol nothing else-unlike eddie cochran who really rocks n buddy to

  • Elvis was not a hyped up sex symbol as you put it. Prudes of the 50s thought Elvis was sexually suggestive in his dancing and singing. There was no marketing focussed on Elvis's sexuality at all, in fact it was played down. Embarrassing songs, you mean like In the Ghetto, Suspicious Minds, Are you Lonesome Tonight and I could list much more. So how many gold records does Eddie Cochran have? 4 or 5 maybe? Elvis has 151...enough said

  • This time I agree :-). For me Elvis is one of the cornerstones of popular music not only because he was cutie and shook his ass. His early days were fantastic, and as a performer and as a singer he is one of the best ever... But I find Suspicious mind, in the ghetto, burning love, guitar man, always on my mind, If I can dream, and all the 70's stuff very good material too, and those days is when he becomes the better rock singer I've ever heard.

  • @benitojauregi lol, I heard an Elvis interview in which he said that he wished he had never recorded Suspicious Minds, "I hate that d___ song".

  • @benitojauregi Why does everyone forget that Elvis was a BIG deal as for as racial integration? Black artists worshipped him because of what he did in opening the doors for ""their'" music. This fact is all but forgotten.

  • polygamous1 before Elvis there was nothing?(no music). LMAO.

  • polygamous1 did u know that elvis toures supporting bill haley? so before elvis there was bill haley and also carl perkins who elvis covered-elvis bought sex appeal to music -because he shook through sheer fear not purposely and the girls loved his shakin legs lol. little richard and bill haley both inspired elvis and played rock n roll before him. so elvis copied them not them copying elvis-all elvis ever did was bring sex-appeal into teenage music

  • @steve273 I would disagree because at Sun; Elvis, Scotty and Bill Black molded country music and Blues.

    Eddie does a great job with playing it a straight blues, but Elvis, Scotty and Bill created a whole different sound with their version that was a mix of country and blues and vocally Elvis' version has Eddies beat.

  • Country music and blues were already molded in the 20's and 30's, nothing new. And some of the 1940's so-called 'country-boogies' were very close to Carl Perkins' version of rock-a-billy. And, Jerry Lee Lewis' 1952 (!!!) 'New Orleans Boogie' sounds more 'black' than any 'white' performer achieved before him.

  • @rarejll - 'nothing new?' hmm... what makes you think Eddie was trying to sound 'black'? Nothing you have said alters the fact that Eddie's music was eventually indeed 'new' and special. You seem to be missing the point in your attempt to give us a potted musical history lesson. Eddie liked and was able to understand lots of different musical genres. He learnt from them. He could play in them. He had fun with them. This is a great example of him doing just that.

  • Eddie and Buddy were the greatest.....

    sooner1944

  • I love Eddie Cochran. Carl Perkins was better.

  • way cooler than any british rocker from the hippie wimp 60s brian jones too circa 66

  • Even the bass sounds so delicious for that time! Unbelievable overall!

  • My god what a great guitar solo that was, why didnt he show off his guitar skills more often?

  • He did, many times, he was a session musician apart from cutting his own stuff,way ahead of his , and others, time.

    Jaybop

  • the riff master.

  • Ahead of his time? Eddie was great but this is nothing compared to the 30's versions by Kokomo Arnold and Robert Johnson.

  • he is the man,god bless eddie, flattop brothers

  • who da fuck is this presley guy??? Eddie is the king of rock'n'roll!!!!!!!!!

  • Many pics here are from the UK tour. Esp where he have those leather pants and those close ups in dark white shirt/dark tie with/without cigarette

    Tnx!

  • fuck he was talented!

  • eddie was certainly the first real guitar hero

  • um. are you kidding?? chuck berry

  • chuck was an excellent songwriter and singer but i can't agree with you he wasn't a guitar herO. he don't play very well and at last he play any time the same thing.

  • berry was a good guitarist..but unfortunatly he was very often out of tune with the rest of the band..due to his ego he thought everybody should be in tune with him...not really possible if there is a piano there shame really because on his day chuck plays some amaizing guitar...still Eddie is my hero and i like him better ..due to more variation

  • @eugenecraddock  Ever heard of Chuck Berry??

  • @eugenecraddock Yeah, Eddie Cochran was great. You know who sounds a lot like him, George Thorogood. He must have studied this close.

  • @deaddoc Agreed. george totally rips eddie the fuck off. Its almost not cool.

  • Thnaks for posting this video and song. Even though I have Eddie Cochran's greatest hits CD I had never heard him playing this song. The version I was used to hearing was the one done by Elvis Presley.

    The guitar solo is fantastic, sounds like a Yardbirds' solo. That just goes to show, as others have mentioned here, that Eddie Cochran was ahead of his time on his guitar work.

  • Many Thanks to Jvnicks and Twentyflightgeezer for their posts of Eddie live in the UK in 1960. What a true, rare treat.

    You are always missed, Eddie./

  • For sure - Eddie was ahead of his time. I've read somewhere that all those you mention, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, and George Harrison had Eddie Cochran as their guitar hero. Many more I expect. After all, Eddie was a genius really - not many singer/music/songwriters so to speak of from that era who can compare!

  • I played "Eddie's Blues" ( what a gem ) for a friend some years ago and he was very much into Hendrix, Clapton et al. I asked him who he believed did this instrumental and he said without a blink, Eric Clapton! So Eddie was a bit ahead of his time I would say.

  • Eddie really could do a blues song if he wanna.

  • great clip and song, amazing you know, just the real deal, no bullshit and propaganda associated with these days and its music,LESS IS MORE and Cochran knew this and had it..

    COOL EDDIE!!!!

  • Eddie Cochran is just the business!!!!

  • Oh My!

  • This is best played version of blues for this song. The guitar work flows so smoothly like the windmill of life that never grinds on waters that have past.

    Sincerely, Jim Goodfellow-Johnston, a humble knowledge thief of a writer.

    EDDIE made this song a classic!!!

  • fantastic version. the great EDDIE COCHRAN.

  • ein schöner blues und eine schöne interpretation von eddie.

    danke an gangerollo und jvnicks

  • Another great video gangerollo.

    Great to hear Eddie singing a different version of "Milkcow Blues".

  • this is an old blues tune from a guy known as kokomo arnold, robert johnson recorded it too, then later done by presley, then eddie, I love blues, also when it is given the rock treatment!

  • Yup. Kokomo was there ( Damn cool name, no Mr Brown, black, Harrison, Penniman, jest Kokomo ) Now you gotta admiot guys and gals that this is greath greatsch guitar groowll... treatmenth by a white guy of 20. In 1960!!!! F..k me!! I give´my hand if EC could'a live 2 yrs longer...to 1962 and see the shadowing/vanishing/erasing of orig/vintage Rockn' Roll. The music that is rockn'roll. After that it was gone.

  • i like brian setzer and elvis,but Eddie is the best for my!

  • Ok, the shrieks start at 0:48 approx. Wonder if she still recalls it in present time? Or maybe got a bunch of kids and forgot all about it. Hope not. BTW, where in UK was this live performance? Wonder if any live footage filmed by BBC still gather dust in a vault. I know they re-recorded the tapes, as it was not considered important at that time ( Rockn'roll still considered a fad ) but I hope some 'techican' missed it. Does anyone on this planet know more about this? Gimme info ASAP, if.

  • Absolutely fantastic. eat your heart out Stevie Ray Vaughan.

    Mikey xx

  • the sound of leading guitar is way ahead of early rock and roll

  • how many months or days before his death?

  • Setzer is really brilliant and I like his style but hey! when you listen to Eddie songs you realise that he is simply the best :). Listen to Eddie's singing and playing with that great Gretsch sound and that cool voice. Simply Fantastic!.

  • What A sound, Eddie Is Probably The Only True White Bluesman.

  • Edhallick.. are you kidding me??? All Brian Setzer did was continue to bring the mostly underground Rockabilly scene to the next generation... you are entitled to your own opinio... but in MY opinion... yours is a little skewed.

  • Setzer, never ripped him off, just inspired by the fantastic Eddie.

  • 28grey, you are absolutely right. Setzer never ripped off Ed anything. Might even having folks get more intrested about the orig stuff by Eddie. And that ain't bad. I've always been fascinated by that girl crying "iiiee" at 2:15

  • Go Eddie, Go!!

  • This is the guy Brian Setzer ripped off.

  • This recording simply blows my mind, Eddie was way ahead of his time! Maybe time hasn't caught up to him yet..pure talent!

  • @jvnicks tHIS WAS MUSIC AT ITS FINEST NOW WE LISTEN TO NOISE WITH A BEAT CALLED RAP

  • Amazing guitaring on this track...what can you say apart from often immitated, but never equalled. Real class.

  • Eddie was amazing! Hard to believe he's be turning 70 this year. EDDIE COCHRAN FOREVER!!!

  • simply the best.

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