Video: 'Summertime Blues'

(Friday, March 28, 1958) — “Summertime Blues,” a song written by American rockabilly artist Eddie Cochran and his manager Jerry Capehart, was recorded by Cochran today at Gold Star Recording Studios in Hollywood, California, for release on July 21, 1958.

Covered by many artists in the following decades, the song is ranked number 73 in Rolling Stone‘s “500 Greatest Songs of All Time.”