''Singin' to My Baby'' is the first

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Eddie Cochran Ray Edward Cochran (; October 3, 1938 – April 17, 1960) was an American rock and roll musician. Cochran's songs, such as "Twenty Flight Rock", "Summertime Blues", " C'mon Everybody" and " Somethin' Else", captured teenage frustration and desire ...

, released on

Liberty Records Liberty Records was a record label founded in the United States 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 revival ...

in mono in November 1957. The catalogue number was LRP 3061. It was the only album Eddie Cochran released during his short lifetime (which ended on April 17, 1960).

Content

The album contained the hit single "

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" which rose to number 18 on the

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in 1957.

Track listing

1981 reissue

The album was re-issued by Liberty in 1981 as a ten-track album, omitting "I'm Alone Because I Love You" and "

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". The catalogue number was LN-10137.

Personnel

– guitar,

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, vocals *

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– rhythm guitar *

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– double bass * The Johnny Mann Chorus – backing vocals ''Eddie Cochran's 1957 Sessions'' at ''Remember Eddie Cochran''
Retrieved 22 June 2013

Chart performance

References

External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Singin' To My Baby Eddie Cochran albums Liberty Records albums 1957 debut albums