If anybody in America had missed the message as much as that time, The Who’s efficiency at Woodstock in 1969 served discover of their brilliance as a reside act. There was a uncooked power of their stage supply that was then captured in prolonged kind on disc, on the next 12 months’s fabled Dwell At Leeds album. On July 11, 1970, a track from it grew to become a brand new entry on the Billboard Sizzling 100, as they paid tribute to Eddie Cochran with their distinctive remake of “Summertime Blues.”
In The Who’s fingers, the good rock’n’curler’s seminal 1958 hit grew to become a sturdy car for the person skills of the Daltrey–Townshend-Entwistle-Moon powerhouse. Cochran wrote the track with Jerry Capehart and it went on to win a spot in each the Grammy and Rock & Roll Halls of Fame. But The Who weren’t the primary band to chart with a latter-day, rocked-up model of it.
A patchy observe file
Blue Cheer, the arduous rock band from San Francisco, had their first and largest US singles chart entry with a canopy of “Summertime Blues” in 1968, when it went to No.14. The Who’s observe file with singles in America was considerably patchy, and their earlier 1970 single “The Seeker” had solely reached No.44. The band revived the track for his or her The Who Hits 50! tour from 2014 onwards, and it was a part of their return to the Isle of Wight Competition.
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Dwell singles had been a considerably dangerous enterprise at the most effective of instances, however with Dwell At Leeds promoting nicely within the US, Decca launched “Summertime Blues” as a forty five and noticed it enter the Sizzling 100 at No.80. It climbed as excessive as No.27 for 2 weeks in August, by which era it was peaking at No.38 as a UK single on Observe. Quickly, The Who could be making their unique look on the Isle of Wight Competition, and including one other memorable bookmark of their epic reside story.
Purchase or stream “Summertime Blues” on Dwell At Leeds.