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Teenage Heaven

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"Teenage Heaven"
Single by Eddie Cochran
from the album The Eddie Cochran Memorial Album
B-side"I Remember"
ReleasedFebruary 1959
RecordedJanuary 1959
GenreRock and roll
LabelLiberty 55177
Songwriter(s)Eddie Cochran
Jerry Capehart
Producer(s)Eddie Cochran
Eddie Cochran singles chronology
"C'mon Everybody"
(1958)
"Teenage Heaven"
(1959)
"Somethin' Else"
(1959)

"Teenage Heaven" is a 1959 song by Eddie Cochran and Jerry Capehart.[1] It was the A-side of Liberty F-55177 and was featured in the movie Go, Johnny Go!.[2] This single rose to number 99 on the Billboard charts.[3] The B-side's "I Remember" was also recorded and filmed for the movie but was left out. It would be Cochran's last charting single during his lifetime.[4]

Personnel

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Chart performance

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Chart (1959) Peak
position
US Billboard Hot 100 99

References

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  1. ^ Cochran, Bobby (2003). Three Steps to Heaven: The Eddie Cochran Story. Hal Leonard Corporation. pp. 129, 235. ISBN 978-0-634-03252-3.
  2. ^ Bullman, Lee (2023-12-19). Eddie Cochran: In Person!: The Lost Treasures of a Rock 'n' Roll Legend. Weldon Owen International. p. 109. ISBN 979-8-88674-180-3.
  3. ^ "Song artist 867 - Eddie Cochran". Tsort.info. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  4. ^ Pollock, Bruce (2014-03-18). Rock Song Index: The 7500 Most Important Songs for the Rock and Roll Era. Routledge. p. 356. ISBN 978-1-135-46296-3.
  5. ^ "Eddie Cochran biography". Eddiecochran.info. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  6. ^ Scherman, Tony, Backbeat: The Earl Palmer Story, foreword by Wynton Marsalis, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C., 1999
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