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"Teenage Heaven"
Single by Eddie Cochran
from the album The Eddie Cochran Memorial Album
B-side"I Remember"
ReleasedFebruary 1959
RecordedJanuary 1959
GenreRock and roll
LabelLiberty 55177
Songwriter(s)Eddie Cochran
Jerry Capehart
Producer(s)Eddie Cochran
Eddie Cochran singles chronology
"C'mon Everybody"
(1958)
"Teenage Heaven"
(1959)
"Somethin' Else"
(1959)

"Teenage Heaven" is a 1959 song by Eddie Cochran and Jerry Capehart. It was the A-side of Liberty F-55177 and was featured in the movie Go, Johnny Go! The single rose to number 99 on the Billboard charts.[1] The B-side "I Remember" was also recorded and filmed for the movie but was left out.

Personnel[2]

  • Eddie Cochran: vocal, guitar
  • Dave Shriver: electric bass
  • Gene Riggio: drums
  • Jim Stivers: piano
  • Plas Johnson: tenor saxophone
  • according to Tony Scherman's biography of Earl Palmer, he was the drummer on this session.[3]

Chart performance

Chart (1959) Peak
position
US Billboard Hot 100 99

Notes

  1. ^ Tsort music charts history
  2. ^ Eddie Cochran 1959 sessions at Remember Eddie Cochran
  3. ^ Scherman, Tony, Backbeat: The Earl Palmer Story, forward by Wynton Marsalis, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C., 1999