Talvin Wayne Cochran was born on May 10, 1939, in Thomaston,

Influenced by the country and rhythm and blues music he
heard on the radio, Cochran fronted his first band - a group called the Rockin'
Capris - as a teenager, and eventually left high school to pursue music as a
full-time career. He relocated to Macon, Georgia, where he befriended the soul
singer Otis Redding and played bass guitar on Redding's early recording of
"Shout Bamalama" and its B-side, "Fat Girl."
He cut his first record, "My Little Girl," on Scottie in 1959. Cochran cut two singles for Gala in the early '60s ("Funny
Feeling" and "Liza Jane") before moving on to Confederate ("Linda Lu") and the Aire label ("Cindy Marie"). Cochran’s song “The Coo” earned a deal with King Records. He obviously loved cutting songs titled with women's names and the trend continued with "Little Orphan Annie."
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Wayne & Otis Redding |
Cochran became close friends with King label-mate James Brown, whose stage show and road band influenced his own performing style and inspired him to assemble his own soul revue, the C. C. Riders, which occasionally featured as many as 14 musicians plus two female backing vocalists, the Sheer Delights.
Although his single recordings for King (including "Goin' Back To Miami", a song which became a signature tune for the singer) were not commercially successful beyond local markets in the south, Cochran's energetic performances, rigorous touring schedule and appearances on television talk shows such as The Jackie Gleason

Cochran recorded an album for Chess Records entitled Wayne Cochran! in 1967, which featured the blue-eyed soul and rhythm and blues style he had perfected on the road with his revue, but backed by session musicians for most of the cuts instead of his touring band. This was followed by a return to King and two further LPs, Alive & Well & Living... In A Bitch of A World and the instrumental High & Ridin', both in 1970.


Significant singles included a remake of Bob & Earl's
"Harlem Shuffle," which bubbled onto the pop singles chart, and
"Sleepless Nights." Cochran went through years of turmoil before
becoming a born-again Christian and pastor; he started a ministry in 1981. He
had a Miami reunion with the C.C. Riders on July 26, 2001 and on August 1, 2001
in Hollywood, Florida.
He died after suffering from cancer in November 2017 in
Miramar, Florida at 78 years of age. At the time of his death, he was three
decades deep into serving as an evangelical minister in the Miami area. (Compiled and edited mainly from Wikipedia &
AllMusic)
3 comments:
For “Wayne Cochran – Get Down With It! (The White Knight Of Soul 1959-1972) go here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?v8chpq3qujcgg3z
1: Last Kiss
2: The Coo
3: Harlem Shuffle
4: Get Down With It
5: No Rest For The Wicked
6: Goin' Back To Miami
7: Some-A' Your Sweet Love
8: When My Baby Cries
9: Get Ready
10: Boom Boom
11: The Peak Of Love
12: I'm Leaving It Up To You
13: You Can't Judge A Book By The Cover
14: Big City Woman
15: Little Bitty Pretty One
16: I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man
17: Up In My Mind
18: Somebody's Been Cuttin' In On My Groove
19: Sleepless Nights
20: Sittin' In A World Of Snow
21: We're Gonna Make It
22: Life's Little Ups And Downs (part 2)
23: C.C. Rider
24: Riders Blues
A big thank you to Johnny caveman @ La Taberna Cavernicola blog for active link.
thank you 4 this cd -Aussie
Worth mentioning that Cochran also gave a career start to a young bassist named Jaco Pastorius. :)
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