Sweetie Pie | |
Cover: | Sweetie Pie Eddie Cochran London Records 45.jpg |
Caption: | UK 45 single release on London Records. |
Type: | single |
Artist: | Eddie Cochran |
Album: | Never to Be Forgotten |
A-Side: | Lonely |
Released: | August 1960 |
Recorded: | May–August, 1957 |
Genre: | Rock and roll, rockabilly |
Label: | Liberty Records |
Producer: | Simon Jackson |
Prev Title: | Three Steps to Heaven |
Prev Year: | 1960 |
Next Title: | Weekend |
Next Year: | 1960 |
"Sweetie Pie" is a song written by Eddie Cochran, Jerry Capehart, and Johnny Russell and recorded by Eddie Cochran. It was recorded in 1957 and released posthumously as a single on Liberty F-55278 in August 1960. In the UK the single rose to number 38 on the charts.[1] [2] [3] [4] The U.S. release did not chart. The flip side, "Lonely", reached number 41 on the UK singles chart. Keld Heich has recorded the song in 2010.[5]
The song appeared on the 1962 Never To Be Forgotten album, the 1979 Eddie Cochran Singles Album compilation, the 1999 Eddie Cochran: Legends Of The 20th Century collection on EMI, the 2005 The Best of Eddie Cochran album on EMI, and the 2009 Bear Family Records box set Somethin' Else: The Ultimate Collection.