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Encyclopedia > Chestnut Street Incident
Chestnut Street Incident
album cover
LP/CD by Johnny Cougar
Released 1976
Recorded 1975
Genre Rock
Length 39 m 45 s
Record label Original Masters
Producers
Professional reviews
AMG 1/5 link
John Cougar Mellencamp Chronology
Chestnut Street Incident
(1976)
The Kid Inside
(1977)

Chestnut Street Incident is the debut album for Johnny Cougar, later known as John Cougar Mellencamp, released in 1976 (see 1976 in music). Johnny Cougar - Chestnut Street Incident album cover Used on Wikipedia under fair use guidelines: Low resolution copy of the album cover RedWolf 23:10, Nov 26, 2004 (UTC) This is an album cover. ... 33â…“ LP vinyl record album The vinyl record is a type of gramophone record, most popular from the 1950s to the 1990s, that was most commonly used for mass-produced recordings of music. ... Interference colors. ... 1976 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1975 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... Musical genres are categories which contain music which share a certain style or which have certain elements in common. ... Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ... A minute is: a unit of time equal to 1/60th of an hour and to 60 seconds. ... The second (symbol s) is a unit for time, and one of seven SI base units. ... A record label is a brand created by companies that specialize in manufacturing, distributing and promoting audio and video recordings, on various formats including compact discs, LPs, DVD-Audio, SACDs, and cassettes. ... In the music industry, a record producer is responsible for completing a master recording so that it is fit for release. ... The All Music Guide (AMG) is a metadata database about music owned by All Media Guide. ... 1976 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1977 was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1977 calendar). ... John Mellencamp, Circa 1996. ... 1976 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... See also: 1975 in music, other events of 1976, 1977 in music, 1970s in music and the list of years in music // Events January-February January 7 - Kenneth Moss, a former record company executive, is sentenced to 120 days in the Los Angeles County Jail and four years probation for...


Track listing

  1. "American Dream" (Cougar) - 2:21
  2. "Oh, Pretty Woman" (Bees, Orbison) - 2:54
  3. "Jailhouse Rock" (Leiber, Stoller) - 2:11
  4. "Dream Killing Town" (Cougar, Green) - 3:20
  5. "Supergirl" (Legui, Marcus) - 2:37
  6. "Chestnut Street" (Cougar) - 3:18
  7. "Good Girls" (Mellencamp) - 3:09
  8. "Do You Believe in Magic?" (Sebastian) - 2:38
  9. "Twentieth Century Fox" (Doors) - 2:14
  10. "Chestnut Street Revisited" (Cougar) - 5:22
  11. "Sad Lady" (Cougar, Green) - 3:26
  12. "Hit the Road Jack" (Mayfield) - 2:32
  13. "I Need Somebody Baby" (Pop, Williamson) 3:43

Roy Orbison was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987. ...

Personnel

  • John Mellencamp - vocals, guitar
  • William Bergman - drums
  • Mike Boyer - guitar
  • Kirk Butler - synthesizer, percussion
  • Jerry Deupree - drums
  • Wayne Hall - saxophone
  • Michael Kamen - keyboards
  • Richard Kelly - guitar
  • David Mansfield - steel guitar, mandolin, violin
  • Hilly Michaels - drums
  • Mike Ranchie - guitar
  • Mick Ronson - guitar
  • Tom Wince - keyboards

  Results from FactBites:
 
John Mellencamp - Biography - AOL Music (1103 words)
Upon receiving the finished album in 1976, he was infuriated to learn that DeFries had billed the singer as Johnny Cougar.
Chestnut Street Incident was a bomb and MCA immediately dropped the singer.
The fiasco of his first album was enough to sour Mellencamp toward the industry for the remainder of his career.
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