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Mellencamp picked the songs for the album and also came up with the title for the album. [3] The album reached No. 33 on the Billboard 200 . [ 4 ] This album and Rough Harvest came about because, after leaving Mercury Records for Columbia Records , Mellencamp still owed the label two more albums.
Mellencamp's first album to chart on the Billboard 200 was the self-titled John Cougar album in 1979; the album was certified gold by the RIAA. Mellencamp's major commercial breakthrough came in 1982 with American Fool , which reached number one on the Billboard 200 and yielded two singles, " Hurts So Good " and " Jack & Diane ", which reached ...
It is a retrospective of Mellencamp's career at the time of its release, and features at least one song from each of his studio albums released between 1978's A Biography and 2003's Trouble No More. Two songs: "Walk Tall" and "Thank You", were recorded exclusively for this album.
Mellencamp's 1991 album, Whenever We Wanted, was the first with a cover billed to John Mellencamp; the "Cougar" was finally dropped for good. Whenever We Wanted yielded the Top 40 hits "Get a Leg Up" and "Again Tonight," but "Last Chance," "Love and Happiness," and "Now More Than Ever" all garnered significant airplay on rock radio.
Nothin' Matters and What If It Did is the fourth studio album by singer-songwriter John Mellencamp under his stage name John Cougar. Produced by soul pioneer Steve Cropper, the album includes the Top 40 hits "Ain't Even Done with the Night", which reached No. 17 on the Billboard Hot 100 as the album's second single, and "This Time", which peaked at No. 27 as the album's lead single.
Foregoing the big-crowd energy of anthems like “R.O.C.K. in the USA” or “Authority Song” for an acoustic “Longest Days,” with Mellencamp like some old-timer on a front porch imparting ...
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.
"Hurts So Good" is a song by American singer-songwriter John Mellencamp, then performing under the stage name "John Cougar". The song was a number two hit on the Billboard Hot 100 [3] for the singer/songwriter. It was the first of three major hit singles from his 1982 album American Fool.