Chords for Eddie Cochran - Interview THP

Eddie Cochran.
Eddie, we're visiting now with some of the friends and neighbors [Eb] at home on the television.
And [F] right here, about this time, we usually bring our guest star out and just ask a couple of questions like,
where are you from originally?
[Ab] I'm from Oklahoma.
[F] Oklahoma!
Never heard of the place.
[N] Well, how come I didn't run into you back there?
You probably wasn't born yet when me and Jimmy Wakely were singing on WKY.
Well, could be.
I'm only 20 years old.
20 years old.
My gosh, how could you get all that talent in 20 years?
Well, you've been on Town Hall Party before, you know that?
Yes.
A long time ago.
A long time ago.
I believe you and your brother was down here.
He's not really my brother, but at the time, you know, we were going under [Gbm] the name.
Cochran Brothers.
[Ab] [Eb] And you stepped out on your own and went on to Liberty Records and you're doing all right there, [N] boy.
We're all good luckies.
Some of the friends and neighbors, they might not be familiar with what we call the charts.
Charts we read in the trade papers [Gb] list the top 100 best [N]-selling records every week.
And Eddie Cochran has been in those charts, and I mean way up there near the top, for many, many weeks now.
And Eddie, we're all real proud of you, too.
Thank you very much.
I'm kind of glad to come back here, you know, and see all of you.
That's right.
And where did you go when you left Oklahoma City?
Well, for a while, I lived in Minnesota, and then I came out here.
I'm living out here now, Johnny.
You live in California now for the past several years.
That's right.
And you went on Liberty Records, when was that?
About two years ago.
About two years ago.
And in that short time, he's really hit the top, and that's certainly a credit to your work.
Eddie, and the way the friends and neighbors have turned out here tonight is a credit to you, too.
A lot of swell people out here.
It's always good to do a show like this.
Well, now let me ask you this.
You're going to be appearing in and around Los Angeles someplace else in the near future?
I think next week.
I think we're in Santa Barbara next Friday, pretty sure.
And then from there, we'll start working our way on up the coast and back east.
You're going to take a little tour up and down the coast and back east.
I know you've done several tours back east.
_ We just go out so far.
I don't think you'll find us back in Ohio and Illinois.
Eddie, I was hoping you'd bring them.
Yeah, bring them on up here.
Let's meet them.
[Gb] This is Big the Artist here.
Doing a fine job.
You was playing the—which one was you playing next?
[N] I was playing the piano.
You were playing the piano.
[Eb] They don't need the old-fashioned piano student anymore, do they?
No, I don't think so.
They've finally done away with that.
And how long you and Eddie been together?
[N] We've worked on and off now for a matter of months.
I think we'll be working pretty steadily with each other for a while in the future.
Well, I'm sure of that because you're really putting out some fine rock and roll type music there.
Are these boys on the records, Riggie?
By the way, these guys record themselves.
Come on in here.
These fellas record themselves under your own [E] name.
And we've got several record-putting locals [Gb] themselves.
Excuse me.
I think I have a bad feeling about this.
Well, you and me both, boy.
I'm working on one [Ebm] tossel tonight.
_ [Eb] Awful lot of people [N] have got this old glue bug around Los Angeles.
And it certainly tells.
I've noticed a lot of newscasters on there.
I've got it, too.
Are these boys on Liberty also?
No, we're on Dot.
[D] You're on the Dot record label.
That's right.
[Eb] Well, that's all right.
Dot's an awfully good company.
[D] I'm very fond of Dot because they put out a record not [N] long ago called Cimarron.
Did you ever hear that?
I sure did.
You crossed the Cimarron River back there in Oklahoma, hadn't you, Eddie?
You boys will be crossing it many times now, the way these records are selling,
the way they want you on these tours and backies.
Have you got some more of the boys back there?
I might go get some more of them out here.
Excuse me.
I'd like to meet everybody in the band.
How are you doing?
This [Ebm] is the boy that was drowning everybody out.
[F] That's right.
The sound man comes up to Eddie and says,
We'll talk to that drummer because he's drowned out our vocalists.
[Eb] That's what he told me and I felt bad [N] myself.
Oh, don't feel badly because that's the way we want it.
That's the way this rock and roll music is constructed.
It used to be the bass fiddle was the backbone of the orchestra,
but I believe in him worse the drum, isn't it?
That's true, yes.
So I'll tell you for sure you're doing a fine job.
How long have you been up there with Eddie?
_ Oh, it's been a while now.
Sometime.
You enjoy this type of music?
I do.
I'm going to ask you a question.
Come on up here, Eddie.
All I do is you'll have to pardon my tonsils too tonight.
Eddie, I'm going to ask you a question.
You may not want to answer it.
Maybe you don't know the answer, but I'm going to ask anyway.
All right.
How long do you predict that rock and roll music will stay?
Well, I think actually rock and roll will be here for quite some time, Johnny,
but I don't think it's going to be rock and roll as we [F] know it today.
[Gb] Do you think that rock and roll is something new?
[N] No, I don't.
I really don't.
I think it's been around for a long time, but nobody's actually recognized it.
It's kind of the way I look at it, rhythm and blues, you know,
and blues has been around for so long.
And then they kind of blended country and western music in with it.
I don't think it'll be around for a long time, but change it.
Were you around about, say, I mean, were you in the business around, say,
10 or 15 years ago when they called it boogie woogie?
I know what you're talking about.
And then somebody sent me an old album by Jimmy Rogers,
America's Blue Yonder, recorded back in 1929,
and he was singing a lot of blues.
Right.
And he had a saxophone in there on one of the records,
and it sounded just a slight touch of rock and roll.
It's possible.
So maybe we can sum up the discussion by saying that rock and roll has always been with us,
[Bb] and maybe we'll be safe in saying that it'll be with us for a long, long time.
Well, I hope so.
I really hope so, Donnie.
Eddie Clarkson