I Gotta Be Good So I Can See My Baby Again Lyrics
| "Concluding Kiss" | |
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| Single by Wayne Cochran | |
| B-side | "Funny Feeling" |
| Released | 1961 |
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| Studio | UGA Campus (Athens, Georgia) (original version) |
| Genre | R&B |
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"Last Buss" is a song released by Wayne Cochran in 1961 on the Gala label. It failed to do well on the charts.[ii] Cochran subsequently re-recorded his vocal for the King label in 1963. Information technology was revived past J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers, Pearl Jam and several international artists, including the Canadian group Wed, with varying degrees of success. The vocal was one of several teen tragedy songs from that period. The vocal's opening lyrics mirror the opening lyrics of Septimus Winner'south "Der Deitcher's Canis familiaris".
Background [edit]
The vocal was supposedly based on the true story of Jeanette Clark and J.50. Hancock, who were both 16 years quondam when their car striking a tractor-trailer on a road in rural Barnesville, Georgia. The problem is that the song was recorded more than a twelvemonth earlier the accident supposedly happened. Clark and Hancock were on a appointment a few days before Christmas in 1962. A local gas station bellboy helping with the recovery of the bodies did non recognize his own daughter. Hancock and Clark'southward friend Wayne Cooper, who was riding with them, was killed instantly. Their 2 other friends, Gem Emerson and Ed Shockley, survived with serious injuries. Wayne Cochran'due south drummer had been dating Jeannette Clark'southward sister at the time of the wreck. The vocal was written by Wayne Cochran, who lived on Route 1941 in Georgia, about 15 miles from the crash site. Information technology was a decorated route, and Cochran witnessed many accidents on information technology. He was working on a vocal based on all the crashes he saw, and was about halfway washed with "Final Kiss" when he heard about the wreck in Barnesville. There was an intense emotional response from the customs later the tragedy, and Cochran used those feelings to finish the song, which he dedicated to Jeanette Clark.
Lyrical content [edit]
The narrator borrows his male parent's car to take his girlfriend out on a date, and comes upon a stalled machine in the road. Unable to end, the narrator swerves to the correct to avoid it, losing command and crashing violently in the process, knocking him and his girlfriend unconscious. The narrator later regains consciousness in the midst of a rainstorm, and finds several people at the scene of the blow. While partially blinded by the blood flowing from his injuries, the narrator is able to find his girlfriend, all the same lying unconscious. When he cradles his girlfriend lovingly in his arms, she regains partial consciousness, smile and request the narrator to "hold me, darling, for a petty while." The narrator so gives her the titular "last kiss" as she fades into death and enters the afterlife.
In the song'southward chorus, the narrator vows to be a adept person so that he may reunite with his love when his time comes, believing she has fabricated information technology into Heaven.
Original version [edit]
By Wayne Cochran, Joe Carpenter, Randall Hoyal & Bobby McGlon (1961)
In the summer of 1961, four friends traveled to the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, to record a song Wayne Cochran had written, with Joe Carpenter, Randall Hoyal and Bobby McGlon, called "Last Kiss". Wayne Cochran (vocals), Joe Carpenter (guitar), Bobby Rakestraw (bass), and Jerry Reppert (drums) recorded the vocal for the Gala label, a modest label based in Vidalia. When the labels for the 45s, Gala #117, were printed, the names of co-writers Joe Carpenter, Randall Hoyal and Bobby McGlon were left off.[ citation needed ] Cochran evidently never asked Gala to change the label, to include the other names; to this mean solar day Cochran is the only ane credited with writing "Final Kiss".
Cochran would continue to re-record the song for release on Aire Records (1962),[3] in a slightly different tempo, with some changes to the lyrics and for re-release on King Records in 1963. In all, Cochran recorded 4 versions of the song, the original, Gala #117, Boblo Records #101, Rex Records #5856, and Aire Records #150, released as "Last Kiss" b/westward "Edge of the Sea", with Cochran sharing vocals with an unnamed male vocaliser. The Aire disc was hands the about different version of all, with heavy reverb and a staccato drumbeat. Aire Records, located in Dublin, Georgia, credited the song to Perry Music, as did the Gala recording. The Boblo disc credited "Concluding Kiss" to Macon Music, while the King record cited Boblo-BMI. The Boblo record featured "Last Kiss 2" b/w "Hey! Babe" (Boblo 101-A), produced by Bobby Smith, offering another accept on the song, with different lyrics, a faster tempo, and different instrumentation. A fifth version of the song was cobbled from the Boblo recording, rechanneled for stereo, on Radical Musik Records, probably around 1973.
The original opens with the audio of a screeching crash, and so the drums first, and the bass picks up the beat; in contrast, the terminal version sounds like a cross between a popular system and a reggae recording. Cochran loaded 45s in the trunk of his automobile, taking them forth to gigs, to sell to fans, although it didn't assistance much. Over the course of the four versions, Cochran expanded his (and his co-writers') concept of the song, seeking a wider audition. Cochran would after go on to Miami, where he found moderate success playing nightclubs, with his ring, CC Ryders. Jackie Gleason had Cochran on his tv prove several times. Cochran went into the ministry, in later years; he doesn't talk near his stone and roll years anymore.
On September 18, 1961, Billboard Music Week printed a review of the vocal "Concluding Buss"[4] and gave it three stars but said cypher about the song itself in the review. None of the records charted, declining even to reach the "Bubbles Under" level, although the record was a local hit in Georgia, before it disappeared.
Billboard had kind words for the B-Side, in its review of "Final Kiss" — giving four stars to the song called "Funny Feeling", on the flip side, written by Joe Carpenter and Milt "Pete" Skelton. The reviewer said, "Blues, chanted in relaxed fashion, with a funky guitar backing. Derivative only a good task."[4] "Funny Feeling" didn't brand an impression on disc jockeys, either.
J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers version [edit]
| "Last Kiss" | |
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| Single by J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers | |
| from the anthology Final Kiss | |
| B-side | "That'southward How Much I Love You" |
| Released | June 1964 |
| Recorded | 1964 |
| Studio | Accurate Sound Co. (San Angelo, Texas) |
| Length | ii:25 |
| Characterization | Josie |
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"Concluding Kiss" came to the attention of tape promoter Sonley Roush, a Texas promoter eking out a living, looking for the side by side big thing. Roush brought the vocal to a group that he booked around West Texas, the Cavaliers of San Angelo, with the proviso that vocalizer J. Frank Wilson was however with the band. Wilson joined the Cavaliers after his discharge from Goodfellow Air Forcefulness Base (San Angelo, Texas) in 1962, but had left for a while, unsure of the hereafter. Credit should be given also to Sid Holmes of San Angelo for founding the original Cavaliers band in c.1956. He subsequently discovered J. Frank Wilson in the early 1960s and invited him to join the ring and did sign him. Holmes, a fine rockabilly guitarist, besides taught hereafter Condescending Lewis Elliott to play bass guitar, and also brought Jim Wynne into the band to play pianoforte.
Sonley Roush would subsequently split the group to place lead vocaliser Wilson with another musician or 2. By this time Holmes had already left the group. Exist that equally it may, J. Frank Wilson (vocalizer), Gene Croyle (guitar), Roland Atkinson (drums), Lewis Elliott (bass), and Jim Wynne (piano), forth with Sonley Roush (managing director/promoter) and Ron Newdoll (studio possessor and engineer) were all present at Accurate Sound Recording studio in San Angelo around 1:00 pm in early August, 1964, when they made the record that would bring them lasting fame. The band worked all afternoon on the song, recording it over and over, with few pauses, for 3 straight hours, until Roush was satisfied with have number 64. The record was first released locally, on Le Cam Records (#722), then on Tamara Records (#761), becoming a local hit. Somewhen released on Josie Records (#923), a subsidiary of semi-major label Jubilee Records, the record became a national hit in the autumn of 1964.
Released on September five, 1964, Josie 923 spent 15 weeks on the charts, reaching number ii on Nov 7, held out of the elevation spot past "Infant Love", the 2d number 1 hit for The Supremes, which spent iv weeks in the acme spot. "Terminal Buss" would spend eight weeks in the pinnacle 10; the record selling over one million copies, and propelling the resulting album onto the album charts. The Le Cam #722-A disc running time is noted as 2m 14s, while both the Tamara Records #761 release and the Josie Records #923 platter have a time of 2m 25s, an 11-second difference.
J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers had their get-go and only commercial success with "Last Kiss". Their cover version reached the top 10 in October, staying for eight weeks. It eventually reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100 charts,[5] and also earned the band a gold tape. Roush took a reconstituted version of the band, J. Frank Wilson, Gene Croyle, Bobby Wood, Jerome Graham, and Phil Trunzo, on a brutal promotional bout, in support of the tape.
On a concert trip to Ohio, the band had just left Parkersburg, Due west Virginia, heading to Lima, Ohio, for a performance at the Candy Pikestaff Club. At about 5:15 a.thou., Roush evidently fell asleep at the wheel. The motorcar drifted across the centerline and rammed caput-on into a trailer truck. Roush was killed instantly, but Wilson, sitting in the front end seat, and Bobby Wood (vocalist / piano) from Memphis, sitting in the dorsum, both suffered serious injuries, including broken ribs and a broken ankle. Wilson went on with the tour, though, taking merely a week off. People still remember him coming out on the stage on crutches to sing "Final Buss" and "Hey, Little One". The blow had a curious effect on tape sales, withal, pushing the song to number 2 (it had previously stalled at number 3) on the national charts.[6]
The Concluding Kiss anthology encompass shows Wilson kneeling over the young adult female portraying the dying girl. Supposedly, start printings of the cover showed blood trickling down the girl's confront, but it was air-brushed out by the record company for fright that alienating parents would limit sales of the anthology.
Wilson, with or without the Cavaliers, continued to record until 1978. He died on Oct 4, 1991, due to alcoholism caused past business organization stresses and pain caused from his injuries in the car wreck. He was 49 years old.[7] [8]
Chart performance [edit]
Wednesday version [edit]
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| Single by Wednesday | ||||
| from the album Last Kiss | ||||
| B-side | "Without You" | |||
| Released | Nov 1973 | |||
| Genre | Pop | |||
| Label | Ampex | |||
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| Producer(south) | John Dee Driscoll | |||
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In 1973, "Final Kiss" was covered past the Canadian group Wednesday. Their version reached number two in Canada and number 34 in the The states. It is ranked as the 27th biggest Canadian hit of 1973.[15] Their version climbed upwards the charts very slowly, and spent iii weeks longer on the American charts than the Cavaliers' much bigger hit.[16]
As a result of the popularity of Wed'southward rendition, the Cavaliers' version was re-released (Virgo 506) at the terminate of 1973. Information technology reached number 92 in January 1974, spending a full of five weeks on the Billboard Hot 100. The original hitting version re-charted 5 weeks after the version past Midweek entered the charts.
Charts [edit]
Pearl Jam version [edit]
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| Single by Pearl Jam | ||||
| from the album No Boundaries: A Benefit for the Kosovar Refugees | ||||
| B-side | "Soldier of Love" | |||
| Released | June viii, 1999 (1999-06-08) | |||
| Recorded | September 19, 1998 | |||
| Studio | Constitution Hall (Washington, D.C.) | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock | |||
| Length | 3:16 | |||
| Label | Epic | |||
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| Producer(south) | Pearl Jam | |||
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"Last Kiss" was too covered by American rock band Pearl Jam for the 1999 charity album No Boundaries: A Benefit for the Kosovar Refugees.[xx] It would later appear on the group's 2003 rarities anthology Lost Dogs. This version was successful, especially in Australia, where it topped the ARIA Singles Chart for seven weeks. It also reached number i in Iceland for half-dozen weeks and peaked at number 2 in the United States and Canada, making it the band's highest-charting unmarried in either country.
Origin and recording [edit]
The idea to cover "Last Buss" came about after vocalizer Eddie Vedder found an onetime record of the song at the Fremont Antique Mall in Seattle, Washington.[21] He convinced the rest of the band to endeavour out the song and information technology was performed a few times on the band's 1998 bout. The band eventually recorded the song at a soundcheck at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland in September of that year and released it as a 1998 fan club Christmas single.[22] The band spent merely a couple of chiliad dollars mixing the vocal.[23] Bassist Jeff Ament said, "It was the nearly minimalist recording we've e'er washed."[24]
Release and reception [edit]
In 1998, the cover of "Terminal Buss" began to be played by radio stations and was ultimately put into heavy rotation across the US. By popular demand the cover was released to the public equally a unmarried on June 8, 1999, with the proceeds going to the help of refugees of the Kosovo War.[22] The cover was featured on the 1999 charity compilation album, No Boundaries: A Benefit for the Kosovar Refugees.[25] The song helped earn about $10 one thousand thousand for Kosovo relief.[23]
The encompass would end up reaching number two on the US Billboard Hot 100, behind "If Y'all Had My Love" past Jennifer Lopez. This remains Pearl Jam'south highest-peaking song on the Billboard Hot 100. It peaked at number four on the Top 40 Mainstream chart. The vocal reached number five on the Billboard Mainstream Stone Tracks chart and number ii on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. The "Last Buss" unmarried has been certified gold by the RIAA.[26]
Outside the Us, the song reached number two on the Canadian RPM Top Singles chart and became the ring's highest-charting song in Canada. It afterwards charted on the RPM Rock Written report, where information technology reached number four and stayed at that place for ii weeks. In Europe "Concluding Buss" reached number 42 in the United Kingdom and number 77 in kingdom of the netherlands. In Australasia, "Last Kiss" peaked atop the Australian ARIA Singles Chart for seven weeks and became a acme-twenty success in New Zealand. It likewise reached number one in Iceland, staying at the superlative for six weeks.
Christopher John Farley of Fourth dimension said, "It's a spare, morose song with Vedder'south voice warbling lovelorn over a straight-alee drum vanquish. Going back to nuts has put Pearl Jam back on top."[20] Regarding the cover, guitarist Stone Gossard said, "You tin try album later on anthology to write a striking and spend months getting pulsate sounds and rewriting lyrics, or you can become to a used record store and pick out a single and fall in love with it."[27] Pearl Jam included "Last Kiss" on the 2003 B-sides and rarities album, Lost Dogs, and on the 2004 greatest hits album, rearviewmirror (Greatest Hits 1991–2003).
Live performances [edit]
Pearl Jam outset performed its comprehend of "Last Osculation" alive at the ring's May 7, 1998, concert in Seattle, Washington, at ARO.space.[28] Live performances by Pearl Jam of "Last Kiss" can exist found on diverse official bootlegs and the Live at the Gorge 05/06 box set.
Runway listing [edit]
- "Last Kiss" (Wayne Cochran) – iii:15
- "Soldier of Love" (Buzz Cason, Tony Moon) – two:54
- *Recorded live on September 19, 1998 at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C.
Charts and certifications [edit]
Release history [edit]
Other embrace versions [edit]
The song has a long tradition in Latin American popular music. The most popular version was recorded in 1965 past Mexican singer Polo, (ex-member of Los Apson) with the title of "El Último Beso" in Spanish translated past the Mexican Television receiver Manager and tennis instructor Omero Gonzalez, this Spanish version has been covered by several bands: Los American's, Los Johnny Jets, Los 007, Los Doltons, likewise singers as Argentine Leo Dan, and the Colombian singers Alci Acosta (his recording became a hit in Colombia) and Harold Orozco in 1967 as well as José "Joseíto" Martínez in 1990, song with which he won a Congo de Oro in the Barranquilla Carnival.[57] Mexican singer-songwriter Gloria Trevi released her version of the vocal in 1989, peaking at number 36 on the Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart.
During the late 1970s, "Last Kiss" was covered by the Asparagus Valley Cultural Society and was also sometimes performed every bit the encore to their prove.[58]
In 2011, Trent Dabbs recorded a encompass of "Last Osculation" for the hit television serial The Vampire Diaries in Season two, episode eighteen: "The Last Trip the light fantastic toe".
Meadow Ryann covered this on her debut comprehend album, Wings.
Cœur de Pirate covered the vocal for the soundtrack of the 2014 season of the Canadian TV show, Trauma.
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