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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 would also go on to produce the album as well.
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 Catholic Bible contains 73 books; the additional seven books are called the Apocrypha and are considered canonical by the Catholic Church, but not by other Christians. When citing the Latin Vulgate , chapter and verse are separated with a comma, for example "Ioannem 3,16"; in English Bibles chapter and verse are separated with a colon, for ...
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 ...
"Crumblin' Down" is a rock song co-written and performed by John Cougar Mellencamp, released as the lead single from his 1983 album Uh-Huh. It was a top-ten hit on both the US Billboard Hot 100 and Canadian pop charts, and it reached #2 on the US Mainstream Rock charts.
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] In Australia, the single effectively became a double-A side when the B-side " Under the Boardwalk " received significant airplay and both tracks were listed ...
Chestnut Street District, an historic district in Salem, Massachusetts, U.S. Chestnut Street station (BMT Fulton Street Line) , formerly in Brooklyn, New York City, U.S. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad station (Philadelphia) , U.S., or Chestnut Street station
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]