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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.
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.
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"R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A.", subtitled "A Salute to 60's Rock", is a rock song written and performed by John Mellencamp. It was the third single from his 1985 album Scarecrow and a top-ten hit on both the Billboard Hot 100 and Top Rock Tracks charts, peaking at number 2 [4] and number 6 respectively. [5]
The song appeared on his 1978 album A Biography, which was not released in the United States. [2] After becoming a top 10 hit in Australia, the song was later included on his 1979 follow-up album John Cougar [3] to introduce it to U.S. audiences, and was released there as a single, becoming his first U.S. top 40 hit when it reached No. 28 on the Billboard Hot 100 in December 1979.
Producer Don Gehman stated in a 2011 interview that American Fool was fraught with layers of problems. "We had 20 or so songs, we had a record company that was hoping we were making a Neil Diamond‑type album, and after we spent two or three months in the studio recording these songs and mixing them to the best of our ability, I can remember an A&R guy in a pink shirt coming in to listen to ...
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.