Cochran, Eddie - Three Stars Lyrics

there death especially Buddy Hollys death makes me cry stiil because JP Ritchie and Buddy left to soon

Tribute songs to Eddie Cochran:
The Stage-Waylon Jennings
I'm Alright-Charlie Gracie
Eddie-Marty Wilde
Just Like Eddie-Heinz
We'll Be Together Again-Sharon Sheeley (unreleased)

Is it wrong to cry?

You don’t hear music like this nowadays G we are going to miss you

Great song Eddie. R.I.P. Eddie God took you to soon.

Heaven must have a hell of a band !

60 Years they’ve been gone but the never died and never will..Like Beethoven, Mozart, Elvis, Harrison, Lennon, Mercury, Bach, Martin, Davis, and Sinatra, etc it is timeless. We might’ve lost the men here on Earth. But we’ll always have their work to enjoy.

These four stars along with elvis who toured with with buddy big bopper and Ritchie valens made the way music is today
I was brought up to sound and music of the great men.
And still listen to there music every day.
God bless then

ironic that within a year eddie would die a prematue, violent death.

ThErE R 4 StArZ N0w....... everyone in the comments

i have ask myselfe many times why didnt they stop on the hotel instead off go away in that terrible wheather conditions that was that ninght

It’s beautiful, the meaning of the song. We miss you all. R.I.P.

We miss you all, allways!

simply THE BEST

Showaddywaddy made this song famous in 1975. RIP Eddie, Buddy, Richie and the Big Bopper.

Fantastic music, still top after so many years!

This always brings a tear to my eye

Even better than Tommie Dee's version. Dedicated to the late Buddy, Richie and Bopper. One of the worse days in Rock and Roll history.....Feb 3, 1959

Ugh that part💔 when Eddie Cochran’s voice cracks while singing Buddy Holly I’ll always remember you, with tears in my eyes 😢

Eddie's had the idea that this song should be released as a charity record to help the families of his deceased friends, but Liberty Records decided not to,so It was shelved and released a few years later after Ed passed away. He really struggled during the recording. Bless Him, he was a Sweetheart!

Good song

Eddie cochran.
A legend like many of the great rock n roll artists taken way to young.
May you all r.i.p and ty for all those fabulous songs still sounding Great in
2019 😀

I read somewhere that these 3 were not your average Rock n Rollers .. Buddy Holly was a shy Nerdy guy, Ritchie a Hispanic, Big popper heavy set so to be where they were at that point in their life was because they truly had amazing talent.. I’m sure they would have gone far in their careers.. and very tragic Eddie Cochran fears of dying young as well is exactly what happened.. Rip all 4

60 years ago and here in Canada we have a good view of the stars and I see this group of four which are very bright and I think of them as Buddy Bopper Richie and Eddie loved the music a part of when I was young

Now, I know Eddie was very close to Buddy and Richie, but the line "you know what I like" referring to JP's Chantilly Lace always gets me very deep

I'm watching this on the anniversary of it being recorded. RIP Buddy Holly, Big Bopper, Richie and Eddie.

27 dislikes. What an insult!

Never heard this before. Sixty years ago today. 😓

IN MEMORIAM - 60 godina...
BUDDY HOLLY - September 7. 1936 – February 3. 1959.
THE BIG BOPPER - October 24. 1930 – February 3. 1959.
RITCHIE VALENS - May 13. 1941 – February 3. 1959.

I wish there was an actual video of Eddie recording this great song

60 years ago today we lost these three stars. Rest in peace.

Beautiful Song xxxx

I love this version much more than Tommy Dee's. I think it's because you can just hear the sadness in Eddie's voice. Sucks he to met a an early demise...such amazing talents all gone way way to soon.

The day the music died happened 60 years ago. February 3rd 1959-2019.

Beautiful!
Never forgotten.

60 years today , the day the music died

Very emotional song, it touches my heart deeply

Tomorrow is 60 years.☹☹☹

If there's a rock and roll heaven,
Well you know they've got a hell of a band!

Sadly that Eddie Cochran passed away too the 1950s 60s had its ups and downs because too many musicians passed away who where great musicians people human beings humble who supported their families and put their hometown on the map because they were unknown in each region and in the states who listened to different music they didn’t have technology but they sang for people and generations hope they understand how difficult it was to tour

People forget that Roger Peterson (as ill-equipped he was to fly that plane) also died in that horrible crash. Then there is a little one who never had a chance at life. Buddy's wife, Maria Elena was pregnant. She miscarried shortly after Buddy's death. RIP to all of them.

man this was basically the pre-american pie

Sad. You can definitely hear the pain in his voice of losing his friends. 😥

Eddie's pain when he sing this song!This is so sad 😢😢😢

I am 15 years old boy from Bulgaria and Rock'n'Roll is my life!I am crying now😭😭😭RIP LEGENDS

😞 ouvindo aqui no BRASIL

I heard him crying...so sad!!!

One of the very few tracks that have actually made me tear up (more than once). I'm a huge fan of all three of em.
But what makes me the most emotional is Cochrans performance. Especially on the second verse.

I am surprised there was no proper tribute song to Eddie after he tragically died.

Bawling 😭😭😭😭

Surely Eddie was the biggest loss? History will recall that Eddie's monumental influence on what would become the British Invasion bands of the 1960's into America was beyond question!

HarryWebb46 get real. He wasn’t ten percent the influence that Holly was. Take Holly out of the picture and you don’t have a Lennon, McCartney, Clapton, Jagger, Elton John et al. Cochran was a third rate Elvis and didn’t write his own material. Not comparable at all.

@The Fonz That's TOTAL BS! You are clearly infatuated by the the Ghost of Elvis Presley! ! am not. I now see him for what he was, a manufactured record company money machine! Eddie was the real deal!

Eddie Cochran was killed in just 1 year and 2 months after the loss of Buddy, RItchie and J.P RIchardson (Big Bopper)

It's really putting shivers down my spine, keeping in mind that soon he would join them.

no surrender

I heard that Richie told his people to never release this song. So it went unheard by the public until after his death, when the record company put it out (sometime in the early 60's).

This is a gorgeous song Eddie Cochran wrote....so full of emotion and sadness after Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper died. Sadly, Eddie followed shortly after. I remember that The Beatles were so excited to be perfoming with Eddie on his Britain tour. They were fsns of his and they were devastated. Side note.... Paul got into John's band in 1959 by playing and singing Twenty Flight Rock.

Loretta Najarian song was written by Tommy Dee

rock n roll is here to stay. no more words to be said rest in peace boys everyone sends thier love always

Omigosh I have Sirius Xm on and La Bamba is playing!!!

Tommy Dee did the original version and had a small hit with it.

Very moving and heartfelt.

What a beautiful song in memory of those young rock n roll stars and Eddie did them proud. Gee were gonna miss you all :,-( the song may have ended but the melody linger's on.

yeah the tragic events that night altered rock n roll forever and though budy was my fave i still loved the songs of richie and the big boper and eddie will be singing along in heaven an awesome foursome

There a four stars now Eddie Cochran is my favorite singer ever music back then is way better then now who agrees

Didnt showaddywaddy do three steps to heaven Not three stars Both great songs though

We lost Eddie 1 year later

Ima cry!!!

58 years ago today! Rip

3rd february,1959 buddy holly ,ritchie, big bopper was taken from us, i was a teenager then and eddie cochran sung three stars,eddie was killed a little later at chippenham,wilts and there ia a momorial at rowden hill, chippenham, thanks for all the pleasure you have given us all these years and the music has not faded away,that ,ll be the day

Eddie Cochran so sad that you followed them too soon as well.

Robb F s

Multiple takes had to be done on this song as Cochran kept breaking down. The release was put together from the various takes.

I always get sad when he sings about Ritchie. Can someone please tell me why I feel so close to Ritchie I akways have been since I was growing up. I am not joking I feel like Ritchie was my brother.

It's Four stars not three stars because Eddie passed away just a few years later in a car crash. Rest peace boys. Rocking in the heavens above

he died the next year. sad

And they will be remembered they are gone but not forgotten.

That is sacred Rocknroll death, better than a cancera. All stars let behind them a nice body ans pure rocknroll soul.

if you could listen closely, you could hear someone pad him in his back at 02:20

tonylocs13 Yeah i heard it too

If that was a "pat on the back" it was a damn hard one to be so audible on the recording.

you can tell how broken up Cochran is mentioning valens and holly :'(

When I hear this song it makes me feel like this wasn't long ago. I'm sure it will always be like this.Forever they live on

What a great tune and tribute!! two greasy thumbs way up !!

4 stars now Eddie. R.I.P. guys

what the hell are you guys talking about? Me and a friend had a very nice dinner and visit with Eddie back about 1990! what the hell?

Ron Remy maybe that was Brian Setzer.

he was only 17 ritchie valens

So sad the way they left us

Yep; the truly sad thing is that it was so preventable.

still makes me cry to hear this

Same here fiona, even Eddie was tearing up during the recording of this song coz Buddy and Ritchie were his best friends, though it's kind of ironic that he made this song and then died in a car accident a year later making it four stars now

Cheesy Tube Eddie Cochran Big Bopper Richie Valens and Buddy Holley are in heaven talking to each other now there are four stars making it five stars when Elvis Presley dies in 1977

well yeah in fact bill haley is also up there with them

so many stars up there now

i miss them all

I don't like him because of his looks but for his respect

Every night I cry into my pillow wishing that they wher hear because I love Ritchie Valenzuela and I'm only 10😍😍😍😍😍😍😭😭😭😭😗😗😘😘😘

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Rest in peace, beautiful souls... Four stars, now.

If you mean Eddie Cochran as #4, then you are correct.

I only wish we could have had them here on earth for a little longer. their music meant so much to so many. now when I look at the stars, I'll look for buddy Ritchie jp, and eddie.

With Eddie Cochran himself dying the following year in a stupid car accident, that makes 4.

gee, he was in a car with Gene Vincent. i really do start to think that that was some kind of planned murders of all rock'n'roll stars

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s to take out all the

this song is so sad when you hear the words but i love it ty and yes Eddie is singing it with with his sorrow heard in his voice

57 Years Ago today we lost all three of those stars. Shine Bright forever.

56 takes another.

60 years today. ♥️🌷🌷🥀🌹

It's 60 years now. 1959-2019!

3 February 2016 .
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“Shall we mourn here deedless forever a shadow-folk mist-haunting dropping vain tears in the thankless sea” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion .
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Let us remember when the world bright, and "Rock" was fun, Will

RIP ... all 4 of you... on this anniversary...

Its so horrible that these talented young men died such awefull young deaths.  Modern musicians cant match the kind of talent and ability they had, inventing new material and creating work.  I hear some rapper thinking he's talented but he cant make his yelling and monotonous drone compare to someone like this.

Yeah, isn't it ironic how rap rats, oops, 'stars' kill themselves and each other. Long live real music, Pre-rap/slop/hop and 'new' country.

Not just ultra talented, it great human beings.

This event had badly shaken Eddie, (Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens were some of Eddie's best friends) he was even going to give up going on tours, because he believed that he would also die on one. Sadly, he was right and died  in a car crash that occurred at 11:50 p.m. in Bath, England. The man driving the taxi was speeding and the cab had blown a tire, lost control, and crashed into a lamp post. Eddie was sitting in the center of the back seat and he threw himself over his fiancée, Sharon Sheeley, to protect her. He was then ejected from  the car when the door flew open. Eddie died the next day at 4:10 p.m. in the St. Martin's Hospital. Sharon and singer, Gene Vincent survived the crash as well as the driver, who was fined £50, suspended from driving for 15 years, and went to jail for six months. I was able to go to the rock 'n roll hall of fame last weekend, and I got to see one of Eddie's shirts, and his guitar as well. Eddie will always be in our hearts.

Rowden Hill Chippenham, Wiltshire. There is a memorial plaque near the crash site. Google have got it wrong.

not many people here but me (17 in these days) & some friends listened their songs by American Forces Network - army radio in Munchen, West Germany. Just over the Iron courtain. I.P., Prague CZ.

Gene Vincent was tough sailor & rocker he had been survived 2 road accident even thought make him limped for the rest of his life

Janu Kumoro he died in Bath at st martins hospital, the crash happened at rowden hill Chippenham

You just pasted this from Wikipedia ffs

what a moving performance.

I can only imagine the pain Eddie went through singing this song. Buddy and Ritchie were both close friends of his, and when they died, it really struck him hard. Even in this song, you can hear him breaking into tears, and it's sad to think not long after he recorded this song, he as well came to a tragic end. I guess there are four stars, now.

SO TRUE.

The plane crash happened February 3rd, Eddie recorded this song Feb. 5th, with profits intended for the families of the three. After the recording was finished however, Eddie told the producer he'd never record another song again if this were ever released.

Dillon Hunt they did a behind the music on buddy richie and the big bopper and the narrator said that eddie cochran never got over buddy’s death

I can also imagine it has well, but you also have to applaud his bravery in singing this i am also hard song for him to record. You can tell it in his voice, somehow he never met the Big Bopper. And I bet when he learned of Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens' death in the plane crash, it had to hit so hard. And now that are 4 as he died early too, and even younger then Budd Holly.

@Rege Suchma Buddy's wife never got over his death, she couldn't even go to his funeral in fact to this day she's never been to his grave.

Eddie was the biggest loss of all!

I doubt that bro Buddy was

I agree

All of them was a big loss

Eddie and Buddy were good friends and he never listened to a Buddy Holly song after Buddy's passing till the day of his fatal crash. He always knew his ending

I didn't know this was his last recording. Wow. I also just found out he was 22 as well, somehow I never noticed that. Dammit I'm already older than these guys.

enigmath it wasn’t.

Lovely song that brings tears to the eyes.