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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 ...
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]
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.
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.
The title of "Lonely Ol' Night" was inspired by a scene in the 1963 film Hud starring Paul Newman, based on the 1961 novel Horseman, Pass By by Larry McMurtry.John Cougar Mellencamp had seen the film many times as a young man, and its portrayal of Newman's character Hud Bannon's strained relationship with his father Homer Bannon (Melvyn Douglas) affected Mellencamp deeply, inspiring many of ...
It was released as the second single from Mellencamp's ninth studio album, The Lonesome Jubilee (1987). [3] "Cherry Bomb" is a nostalgic song that reflects on Mellencamp's teenage years hanging out at the Last Exit Teen Club. [4] [5] The single was released in the United States in October 1987, backed with the B-side "Shama Lama Ding Dong". [6]