Singin' To My Baby is the first album

LP album

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 by Eddie Cochran

Eddie Cochran

Eddie Cochran , was an American rock and roll pioneer who in his brief career had a small but lasting influence on rock music through his guitar playing. Cochran's rockabilly songs, such as "C'mon Everybody", "Somethin' Else", and "Summertime Blues", captured teenage frustration and desire in the...

, released on Liberty Records

Liberty Records

Liberty Records was a United States-based record label. It was started by chairman Simon Waronker in 1955 with Al Bennett as president and Theodore Keep as chief engineer. It was reactivated in 2001 in the United Kingdom and had two previous revivals.-1950s:...

 in mono

Monaural

Monaural or monophonic sound reproduction is single-channel. Typically there is only one microphone, one loudspeaker, or channels are fed from a common signal path...

 in November of 1957. The catalogue number was LRP 3061. It was the only album by Eddie Cochran released during his lifetime which was cut short on April 17, 1960. The album was re-issued by Liberty in 1981 as a ten track album omitting I'm Alone Because I Love You and Have I Told You Lately That I Love You. The catalogue number was LN-10137.

Content

The album contained the hitsingle Sittin' In The Balcony

Sittin' In The Balcony

"Sittin' In The Balcony" is a song written and performed by John D. Loudermilk under his artist name Johnny Dee. It was released in January 1957 on the Colonial records label.-Eddie Cochran version:...

 which rose to number 18 on the Billboard chart in 1957.

Track listing

Side one

1. Sittin' In The Balcony
   Sittin' In The Balcony
   "Sittin' In The Balcony" is a song written and performed by John D. Loudermilk under his artist name Johnny Dee. It was released in January 1957 on the Colonial records label.-Eddie Cochran version:...
   
   
2. Completely Sweet
3. Undying Love
4. I'm Alone Because I Love You
5. Lovin' Time
6. Proud Of You

Side two

1. Mean When I'm Mad
2. Stockings And Shoes
3. Tell me why
4. Have I Told You Lately That I Love You
5. Cradle Baby
6. One Kiss

Personnel

• Eddie Cochran
  Eddie Cochran
  Eddie Cochran , was an American rock and roll pioneer who in his brief career had a small but lasting influence on rock music through his guitar playing. Cochran's rockabilly songs, such as "C'mon Everybody", "Somethin' Else", and "Summertime Blues", captured teenage frustration and desire in the...
  
   - guitars, ukelele, vocals
• Perry Botkin - rhythm guitar
  Rhythm guitar
  Rhythm guitar is a technique and rôle that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with singers or other instruments; and to provide all or part of the harmony, ie. the chords, where a chord is a group of notes played together...
  
  
• Connie "Guybo" Smith - double bass
  Double bass
  The double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2...
  
  
• The Johnny Mann Chorus
  Johnny Mann
  Johnny Mann is an American arranger, composer, conductor, entertainer, and recording artist.-Career:...
  
  - backing vocals

External links

• Eddie Cochran US discography on Remember Eddie Cochran