Wayne Cochran

Yeah.

So, uh, e- examples are, uh, Teen Angel by Mark Dinning, Tell Laura I Love Her by Ray Peterson, Ebony Eyes by the E- Everly Brothers, Last Kiss by Wayne Cochran, uh, Dead Man's Curve by Jan and Dean, and Leader of the Pack, arguably the best one, by the Shangri-Las.

And most pop historians credit the, the death, uh, [laughs] no pun intended, of the teenage tragedy song to the British Invasion.

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And we did that for two and a half years.

You know, we traveled around and played clubs all over, you know, Mr. Kelly's and a lot of college concerts and the Chitlin Circuit and Vegas, you know, the old Flamingo for a couple of months at a time with both times with the Kim sisters and Wayne Cochran and the CC Riders.

Oh, yeah.

which was an incredible act.

Elvis Presley came to see the show twice, and I got to meet him and James Brown.

It was my college.

My buddy Jaco Pastorius used to speak so glowingly of Wayne Cochran and his act.

Yeah.

Where could my baby be? The Lord took her away from...

So that's sad, right? That's a Wayne Cochran.

That's the opposite end of the spectrum from this kind of music.

I like both.

Welcome to How We Heard It, the podcast about music, pop culture, movies, and more, with your hosts, Wayne Bledsoe and Chuck Campbell.

Howdy, California.

This is Chuck Campbell with...

Wayne Bledsoe and...

I'm John Baker.

So I decided to take a break from my weekly shout-out to a country to say hi to California.

Anyway, so today our topic is cars, songs about cars.

We all three immediately discovered that there are millions and millions of songs about cars.

That's the kind of lineup, you know.

Hendrix, Wayne Cochran, Procol Harum, Fleetwood Mac with Peter Green when it was still a blues band.

On the same stage on the same day, we had, well, it was us, Flatt & Scruggs, Steppenwolf, The Grateful Dead.

I remember that being, those acts were on the same stage on the same day.

Wow.

And then we went to other stages and saw Proko Harum and Wayne Cochran and Richie Havens.

Oh, my gosh.

Now, this is what you're putting a timestamp on this.