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Chestnut Street Incident is the debut studio album by Johnny Cougar released in 1976. [3]Signing on with David Bowie's manager, Tony Defries, Mellencamp travelled to New York City to cut this first album.
Album details Peak chart positions Certifications; US [1] AUS [2] CAN [3] 1976 Chestnut Street Incident. Release date: October 1, 1976; Label: MCA — — — 1978 A Biography. Release date: March 6, 1978; Label: Riva — 19 19 1979 John Cougar. Release date: July 27, 1979; Label: Riva; Released as Miami in Australia; 64 77 77 RIAA: Gold [4 ...
The Kid Inside is the sixth studio album by American singer-songwriter John Cougar.It was released January 27, 1983 by MainMan Records. It was recorded in 1977 for MCA Records and was intended to be the follow-up to his debut album Chestnut Street Incident, but MCA declined to release the album and dropped John Cougar Mellencamp from the label.
DeFries insisted that Mellencamp's first album, Chestnut Street Incident, a collection of cover versions and some original songs, be released under the stage name "Johnny Cougar", claiming that the name "Mellencamp" was too hard to market. [10] Mellencamp reluctantly agreed, but the album was a commercial failure, selling only 12,000 copies. [11]
A Biography is the second album by the American musician Johnny Cougar. [3] Recorded in London, it was released in the UK and Australia by Riva Records on March 6, 1978.. Due to poor sales of Mellencamp's debut album, Chestnut Street Incident, A Biography did not receive a U.S. release upon its 1978 debut.
Uh-Huh is a 1983 album by John Cougar Mellencamp and a transition from his early work under the names Johnny Cougar and John Cougar. It was Mellencamp's seventh studio album and the first in which he used his real last name. It charted at No. 9 on the Billboard 200.
John Cougar is the third studio album by John Cougar. [3] It was his first album to be released by his new record company Riva Records. [5] Released in 1979, following the success in Australia of the single "I Need a Lover" from his previous album A Biography (which did not receive a U.S. release), John Cougar included the aforementioned track for U.S. audiences, as well as a re-working of A ...
Two songs: "Walk Tall" and "Thank You", were recorded exclusively for this album. No songs are included from Mellencamp's 1976 debut album Chestnut Street Incident or 1977's The Kid Inside. Also omitted is Mellencamp's cover of "Without Expression", which was released on his previous compilation album The Best That I Could Do 1978–1988.