JOHN MELLENCAMP HITS PROFESSIONAL

'The most American artist I've seen since Bob Dylan,' anyone? Mellencamp wasn't having it, and while he acknowledged his debut record wasn't any great shakes, he felt DeFries' strategy didn't do him any favors.ĭue to the failure of 'Chestnut Street Incident,' MainMan balked on releasing Mellencamp's follow-up album, 'The Kid Inside.' (They eventually put it out in 1983 in an obvious cash grab.) He was then dropped by MCA and by MainMan, leaving him holding the proverbial bag. Starting all over again after being 'washed up and over by mid-twenties,' Mellencamp went with a compromise of sorts when choosing a new stage name, calling himself John Cougar because, once again, he was a man who didn't do pet names. John Mellencamp was a rock music writer and performer. His manager dubbed him Johnny Cougar out.

JOHN MELLENCAMP HITS PROFESSIONAL

His professional music career began in earnest in 1976 when MCA Records released his first album, The Chestnut Street Incident. There was also DeFries' tendency to promote the raw, not-yet-polished Mellencamp with all sorts of hyperbole. Words & Music: John Mellencamps Greatest Hits John Mellencamp 1,098 Audio CD 23 offers from 9.30 The Best That I Could Do 1978-1988 John Mellencamp 1,206 Audio CD 170 offers from 1.49 Strictly A One-Eyed Jack John Mellencamp 818 Audio CD 46 offers from 6.95 Scarecrow Remastered John Mellencamp 437 Audio CD 31 offers from 3. John Mellencamp and John Cougar alphabetical song list, find chart hits and find other popular songs by John Mellencamp and John Cougar at Tunecaster Music Encyclopedia. Born Octoin Seymour, Indiana, John Mellencamp fell in love with music at an early age and was gigging in local bars and fronting a soul band by the time he was 14. Worse, the then-24-year-old was blasted by the press as a second-rate copycat of another young upstart who would also become legendary for his all-American sound - Bruce Springsteen. John Mellencamp (born 7 October 1951 in Seymour, Indiana) is an American singer and a songwriter, known for a long and successful recording and performing career highlighted by a series of 1980s hits, including 'Jack & Diane', and by his role in the Farm Aid charity event.Mellencamp currently lives in Bloomington, Indiana.

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