Somethin' Else - Eddie Cochran

Somethin' Else - Eddie Cochran

2:10

single, 1959

Written by Sharon Sheeley and Bob Cochran

Hey, lookee here!  What's all this?  In this rattling rockabilly number, the narrator wishes he could date a girl he's long pined after, but she's out of his class.  But!  But if he got a flash car, she'd go for him: "I'll buy that car that I been wanting so / Get me that girl and we'll go ridin' around."  We are living in a material world, and I guess she's a material girl.  He works hard, gets the car, works up the courage to knock.  It's a simple song with no twists, but I like the primitive guitar and crashing, metallic percussion.  

Nervous Breakdown - Eddie Cochran

Nervous Breakdown - Eddie Cochran

2:20

Never To Be Forgotten, 1960

Written by Eddie Cochran

This album was released posthumously; Cochran died in a car wreck at the age of 21.  This is a rockabilly number that musically sounds a lot like "Summertime Blues" to me.  It concerns a young fellow who's stuttering and shivering and quivering.  He sees the doctor, and is diagnosed with Too Much Being Rowdy and Staying Out Late.  So he decides to take the cure.  "No more girls for a week or two / No more runnin' 'round with the usual crew."  I like the way he draws out "a, a, neeerrrvouss breaakkdown."  The Who were fans of Eddie.