Teenage Heaven

"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.

"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)

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
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