Chords for Eddie Cochran - Jerry Capehart talks about Eddie

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Eddie Cochran and Sitting in the Balcony, again Eddie's producer, Jerry Capehart.
That was Eddie's first [A] hit.
[F#] Johnny Man, by the way, did the arrangements on that.
With _ Eddie playing guitar and Connie Smith, or Eddie's bass player, Guybo, who was also Eddie's best friend,
and myself playing on a cardboard box.
Back in 1958, [A#] Eddie cut his biggest hit, an anthem of teenage [E] frustration.
Eddie came by [N] my apartment and we were having rehearsal the evening before.
Recording was scheduled the next day.
_ _ So I said, well, why don't we write something?
So summer's coming, okay, there's never been a blues song written about summer, so let's write a song, as I told him, called Summertime [D#] Blues.
So Eddie says, hey, [D#] you know, I've got this really great riff on the guitar, and [A#] that's the part of [D#] Summertime Blues where it goes_
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you gotta work, [G#] please.
_ Sometimes I wonder what I'm gonna do, but there ain't no [Dm] cure for the [D#] summertime blues.
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[G#] _ _ [A#] _ [D#] _ _ Everything [G#] Eddie Cochran ever did in his life had to have humor in it or he [A] wouldn't do it.
For [G#] example, his favorite _ performer at that time _ [N] was the Kingfish from the Amos and Andy days.
And the low voice that you heard on [Gm] Eddie's version of Summertime Blues was really his salute to the [E] Kingfish.
Summertime Blues, which clocks in at just under two [B] minutes, is often used as an example of the essence of [E] rock and roll.
Direct, natural, powerful communication through simple musical means.
I think Summertime Blues was [F#] really indicative of Eddie's _ [A] _ image with his fans.
[C] I think that song gave him his individuality.
[F#] We had no [E] idea that his image would become what it has become.
_ Eddie was, as you know, at the time of [A] his death, he just really had become a [E] superstar.
At that moment in time, it seems that he was just snatched away at the time that he made it.
Had Eddie lived, he would have probably [G] been as important a name in the industry as [A] you could really mention today.
The 1960 [B] car crash that claimed Eddie Cochran's life essentially ended the Rockabilly era, the era of Buddy Holly [F#] and Gene Vinson.
[G#m] It's all [C#] for _ [G#m] you.
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[F#] _ Well, you go your way and I'll go [C#] mine.
Now and forever, till the end of time, [F#] I'll find somebody new.
Baby, we'll say we're through [C#] and you won't matter [F#] _
anymore.
_ _ _ [C#] You won't matter [F#] anymore.
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_ It [Cm] Really Doesn't Matter Anymore, written [G] by Paul Anka [F] and sung [F#] by Buddy Holly.
Then on [D#m] February 3rd, _ 1959, Buddy Holly was killed in a plane crash, [E] along with Richie Valens and the [F#] Big Bopper.
[B] _ More than a decade later, Don [F] McLean was to call it The [A#m] Day The Music [F] Died in [F#] American Pie, a song dedicated to the memory of Buddy [B] Holly.
An even more personal tribute came from a close friend, who [F#] himself would later be killed in an auto crash.
_ Look up in the sky, _ _ _ [E] _ [Bm] up towards the north, _ _ [B]
there are three _ stars, _ [C#] brightly _ _ [F#] shining _ forth.
[B] _ They're _ shining oh so bright, from _ heaven _ [E] _ _ above. _
Gee, _ we're gonna [B] miss you, [F#] _ everybody _ _ [B] sends their love.
_ _ Well, Eddie was crying when he [F#] recorded it, he really was.
He was in tears himself.
[B] And _ it was a tremendously moving thing to _ _ be in the booth listening to it.
Eddie Cochran's producer, Jerry Capehart.
Three Stars was written about Buddy Holly, _ Richie Valens and the Big Bopper.
You recall they were killed in an airplane accident.
[F#] Eddie was supposed to have been on that plane with them and wasn't, so he [B] always felt that he was, I guess, on borrowed time at that point.
_ Gee, _ [C#] we're gonna miss you, [F#] _ everybody _ _ [B] sends their love.
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