John Cougar - MCA 1976 with insert LP "Chestnut Street Incident" - Signed Cover
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JOHN COUGAR - ALBUM - CHESTNUT STREET INCIDENT - 1976 **First Album
*In our opinion this Album is considered to be in Very Good condition.
*Cover is signed by, John Cougar - Mellencamp Larry Crane - Guitarist David Parman - Bass/Vocals Terry Sala - Drummer Wayne Hall - Saxophone
**All Signatures are Originals.
Performing as Johnny Cougar and John Cougar (1976–1982)
After about 18 months of traveling back and forth from Indiana to New York City in 1974 and 1975, Mellencamp finally found someone receptive to his music and image in Tony DeFries of MainMan Management. DeFries insisted that Mellencamp's first album, Chestnut Street Incident, a collection of covers and a handful of original songs, be released under the stage name Johnny Cougar, suggesting that the bumpy German name "Mellencamp" was too hard to market. Mellencamp reluctantly agreed, but the album was a complete failure, selling only 12,000 copies. Mellencamp confessed in a 2005 interview: "That (name) was put on me by some manager. I went to New York and everybody said, 'You sound like a hillbilly.' And I said, 'Well, I am.' So that's where he came up with that name. I was totally unaware of it until it showed up on the album jacket. When I objected to it, he said, 'Well, either you're going to go for it, or we’re not going to put the record out.' So that was what I had to do... but I thought the name was pretty silly."
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