Eddie Cochran News

Q. A recent episode in the current season of "Dancing With the Stars" featured jitterbug routines.

The song, considered one of the first rock 'n' roll records, was written by Ike Turner's cousin, who is responsible for these somewhat coherent lyrics: "V-8 motor and this modern design / my convertible top and the gals don't mind." Turner's band backs Brenston, with Ike tickling the ivories.

Mount Pleasant resident Arthur Fredericks, 63, practices Tuesday in the living room at his Belmont Drive residence, playing rockabilly tunes and Elvis songs.

Entertainment Dicki Peterson, founder, frontman and bassist for the legendary rock group Blue Cheer, passed away yesterday in Germany after a battle with prostate cancer.

There are reunions and then there are reunions. One did not get the sense, on a windy October night at the Knitting Factory in 2006, that the ancient California proto-metal act Blue Cheer had taken many years off.

ROCKABILLY filly Imelda May will keep the beat at Sin City, Swansea on Saturday.

Here at Mix Position, we're a bit behind at reporting this news, but a current exhibit at the Blue Ridge Institute & Museum at Ferrum College explores the raucous history of rockabilly music in Virginia.

The music of legends such as Bill Haley, Eddie Cochran, Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly and Chuck Berry will be celebrated on Sunday, August 2, along with tributes to Brenda Lee and Connie Francis.

1969 - David Bowie released his album Space Odyssey . 1970 - The Who released "Summertime Blues,' a cover of the Eddie Cochran classic.

A note-able meeting Many teenage guitarists dream of going down in rock 'n' roll history.

Garage de Moriarti 20090628 embed this Garage de Moriarti Programa de Radio Chicharra Programa de Radio Chicharra It's summer! Playlist: 01 - The Debonairs - Lonely Is The Summer 02 - Eddie Cochran - Summertime Blues.

More than 50 years ago Eddie Cochran sang the teen anthem "Summertime Blues" in which he lamented "workin' all summer just to try to earn a dollar." For teens in 2009, the summertime blues may come not from working too hard, but from pounding the pavement trying to land a summer job in this recession-racked year.

" I'd like to help you, son, but you're too young to vote! " Without doubt, the most covered summer rock anthem of all time , here's the original Eddie Cochran version of Summertime Blues : Filed in The Basement

'Summertime Blues,' Eddie Cochran 'Summer in the City,' The Lovin' Spoonful 'Hot Fun in the Summertime,' Sly and the Family Stone 'In the Summertime,' Mungo Jerry 'Summer,' War 'Cruel Summer,' Bananarama 'Summertime,' D.J. Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince 'All Summer Long,' Kid Rock

BILLED as a British Grease, the show flashes back to 1961 and a bubbling brew of hormones, unrequited love and rock 'n' roll.

ROCK 'N' ROLL musical Dreamboats and Petticoats will be at the Congress Theatre from May 18-23 at 7.30pm. And we have four pairs of tickets to give away for the opening night's performance on May 18.