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Primarily known as a songwriter, Hank Cochran was born Garland Perry Cochran on 2nd August, 1935, in Isola, Miss. After his parents divorced when he was 9, he briefly lived with his father in Memphis entering St. Peter’s Orphan’s Home due to the tough economic times. He ran away several times before going to live with his grandparents. At 10, he was playing guitar and singing in church; at 12 he and his uncle hitched from Mississippi to New Mexico to work in the oilfields.
By his mid-teen years, Hank had moved to California, found a job working for Sears & Roebuck in L.A., and returned to school. At this time he began to look at music as a possible career.
He met a young guitar picking vocalist from Oklahoma City called Eddie Cochran (no relation) and they formed The Cochran Brothers, making friends with other musicians/songwriters like Bobby Bare and Harlan Howard. After moderate success, the duo disbanded and Hank moved to Nashville. Eddie, of course, became an icon of rock n roll and one of its’ early victims.
In January 1960 Hank got himself a job at Pamper Music, co-owned by Ray Price. Price remembers Cochran fondly as a friend as well as a former employee.
“I hate it,” Price said of his friend’s passing in July 2010. “He was really a good one. He had a great talent and he was there when he was needed. … What you saw with Hank is what you got, and it was all good. I don’t know anybody that didn’t like Hank.”
Price said he spoke with Hank on the Monday before he passed away. “We got to say goodbye,” Price said. “I knew it was coming and he did, too, but we didn’t want it to happen.”
By his mid-teen years, Hank had moved to California, found a job working for Sears & Roebuck in L.A., and returned to school. At this time he began to look at music as a possible career.
He met a young guitar picking vocalist from Oklahoma City called Eddie Cochran (no relation) and they formed The Cochran Brothers, making friends with other musicians/songwriters like Bobby Bare and Harlan Howard. After moderate success, the duo disbanded and Hank moved to Nashville. Eddie, of course, became an icon of rock n roll and one of its’ early victims.
In January 1960 Hank got himself a job at Pamper Music, co-owned by Ray Price. Price remembers Cochran fondly as a friend as well as a former employee.
“I hate it,” Price said of his friend’s passing in July 2010. “He was really a good one. He had a great talent and he was there when he was needed. … What you saw with Hank is what you got, and it was all good. I don’t know anybody that didn’t like Hank.”
Price said he spoke with Hank on the Monday before he passed away. “We got to say goodbye,” Price said. “I knew it was coming and he did, too, but we didn’t want it to happen.”
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