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Eddie Cochran - Portrait Of A Legend (2005)

Fine-looking and fine-sounding collection of unreleased stereo versions and alternate takes, this is nonetheless unnecessary for all but Cochran completists. In the spirit of numerous Beatles bootlegs (though this LP is quite official), these are in the main studio recordings with small (sometimes minute) differences in the mixing, or stereo versions which are not easy to come by on official releases, although mono versions of the exact same takes are plentiful. There are plenty of fine songs here ("Weekend," "Summertime Blues," "C'mon Everybody," "Three Steps to Heaven"), but they're better heard both in their more common versions, and in the context of a coherent anthology. And if you need to settle for just one version of "Summertime Blues" or "C'mon Everybody," why spring for the "Summertime Blues" without the echoed vocal, or "C'mon Everybody" missing a guitar overdub? ~ Richie Unterberger, AMG

Album Details: Rockstar Records Ltd (UK) 2005
Covers: Back en front.

Tracks:

01 - Pretty girl
02 - Weekend
03 - Jeannie, Jeannie, Jeannie
04 - Ah, pretty girl
05 - I've waited so long
06 - Hallelujah I love her so
07 - Little angel
08 - Pretty girl
09 - Cherished memories
10 - Three steps to Heaven
11 - Cut across shorty
12 - Cherished memories
13 - Jam sand-witch
14 - I almost lost my mind
15 - That's my desire
16 - Skinny Jim
17 - Lonely
18 - Summertime blues
19 - Love again
20 - Think of me
21 - Somethin' else
22 - Boll weevil song
23 - Cut across Shorty
24 - Teenage Heaven
25 - My way
26 - My way
27 -  Hallelujah I love her so
28 - C'mon everybody
29 - Nervous breakdown
30 - Blue suede shoes
31 - Long tall Sally
32 - Teenage cutie
33 - Cotton picker
34 - Rock'n'roll blues (backing track)
35 - Pretty girl