Eddie Cochran – On The Air

Eddie Cochran On the Air front cover
Eddie Cochran On the Air front cover
Eddie Cochran On the Air back cover
Eddie Cochran On the Air back cover

This record came out in 1987. As I said earlier, my favorite of the eight sides in the Eddie Cochran 20th Anniversary Album box set was the last side — as Discogs puts it, “Recordings and interview snips from the British television programme ‘Boy Meets Girls,’ from January and February 1960,” with host Marty Wilde. I played that side so much that, unfortunately, it has some noticeable wear. (On a college student budget, my turntable was barely adequate, and my styluses rarely replaced.) So I was pleased to find this album sometime in the late ’80s — apparently I found it in some store’s cut-out bin — that has exactly the same material as that final side, plus an entire extra side filled with American radio interviews from 1957, interspersed with studio recordings. I can’t say that I’ve played it very much, but I’m glad to have it.

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