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1961 song by Wayne Cochran

"Last Buss"
Single by Wayne Cochran
B-side	"Funny Feeling"
Released	1961
Recorded	July 1961 (original version) 1963 (Macon, Georgia) (re-recorded version)
Studio	UGA Campus (Athens, Georgia) (original version)
Genre	R&B
Label	Gala (original version – 1961) Rex (re-recorded version – 1963)
Songwriter(s)	Wayne Cochran Joe Carpenter[i] Randall Hoyal Bobby McGlon

"Last Kiss" is a song released by Wayne Cochran in 1961 on the Gala label. Information technology failed to do well on the charts.^[two] Cochran after re-recorded his song for the Male monarch label in 1963. It was revived past J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers, Pearl Jam and several international artists, including the Canadian group Midweek, with varying degrees of success. The vocal was i of several teen tragedy songs from that period. The song's opening lyrics mirror the opening lyrics of Septimus Winner's "Der Deitcher'due south Canis familiaris".

Groundwork [edit]

The song was supposedly based on the true story of Jeanette Clark and J.50. Hancock, who were both 16 years one-time when their motorcar hit a tractor-trailer on a road in rural Barnesville, Georgia. The problem is that the song was recorded more a year before the accident supposedly happened. Clark and Hancock were on a engagement a few days before Christmas in 1962. A local gas station attendant helping with the recovery of the bodies did not recognize his own daughter. Hancock and Clark's friend Wayne Cooper, who was riding with them, was killed instantly. Their two other friends, Jewel Emerson and Ed Shockley, survived with serious injuries. Wayne Cochran'southward drummer had been dating Jeannette Clark'southward sister at the fourth dimension of the wreck. The song was written by Wayne Cochran, who lived on Route 1941 in Georgia, about 15 miles from the crash site. It was a busy road, and Cochran witnessed many accidents on it. He was working on a song based on all the crashes he saw, and was about halfway washed with "Last Buss" when he heard near the wreck in Barnesville. At that place was an intense emotional response from the community afterward the tragedy, and Cochran used those feelings to stop the song, which he defended to Jeanette Clark.

Lyrical content [edit]

The narrator borrows his father's machine to take his girlfriend out on a date, and comes upon a stalled car in the road. Unable to stop, the narrator swerves to the right to avoid it, losing command and crashing violently in the process, knocking him and his girlfriend unconscious. The narrator later regains consciousness in the midst of a rainstorm, and finds several people at the scene of the accident. While partially blinded by the claret flowing from his injuries, the narrator is able to detect his girlfriend, notwithstanding lying unconscious. When he cradles his girlfriend lovingly in his artillery, she regains fractional consciousness, smile and asking the narrator to "hold me, darling, for a little while." The narrator then gives her the titular "last kiss" equally she fades into expiry and enters the afterlife.

In the vocal's chorus, the narrator vows to be a good person so that he may reunite with his love when his time comes, assertive she has made it into Heaven.

Original version [edit]

Past Wayne Cochran, Joe Carpenter, Randall Hoyal & Bobby McGlon (1961)

In the summer of 1961, four friends traveled to the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, to tape a song Wayne Cochran had written, with Joe Carpenter, Randall Hoyal and Bobby McGlon, called "Terminal Kiss". Wayne Cochran (vocals), Joe Carpenter (guitar), Bobby Rakestraw (bass), and Jerry Reppert (drums) recorded the song for the Gala label, a small label based in Vidalia. When the labels for the 45s, Gala #117, were printed, the names of co-writers Joe Carpenter, Randall Hoyal and Bobby McGlon were left off.^{[ commendation needed ]} Cochran evidently never asked Gala to change the label, to include the other names; to this solar day Cochran is the only one credited with writing "Terminal Kiss".

Cochran would proceed to re-record the vocal for release on Aire Records (1962),^[three] in a slightly different tempo, with some changes to the lyrics and for re-release on King Records in 1963. In all, Cochran recorded 4 versions of the vocal, the original, Gala #117, Boblo Records #101, King Records #5856, and Aire Records #150, released as "Last Kiss" b/w "Border of the Sea", with Cochran sharing vocals with an unnamed male vocalizer. The Aire disc was easily the near different version of all, with heavy reverb and a staccato drumbeat. Aire Records, located in Dublin, Georgia, credited the vocal to Perry Music, as did the Gala recording. The Boblo disc credited "Final Kiss" to Macon Music, while the King record cited Boblo-BMI. The Boblo tape featured "Last Osculation II" b/w "Hey! Baby" (Boblo 101-A), produced by Bobby Smith, offering some other take on the song, with different lyrics, a faster tempo, and different instrumentation. A 5th version of the vocal was cobbled from the Boblo recording, rechanneled for stereo, on Radical Musik Records, probably around 1973.

The original opens with the audio of a screeching crash, then the drums start, and the bass picks upwardly the beat out; in contrast, the terminal version sounds like a cantankerous between a pop arrangement and a reggae recording. Cochran loaded 45s in the trunk of his machine, taking them along to gigs, to sell to fans, although information technology didn't assistance much. Over the form of the four versions, Cochran expanded his (and his co-writers') concept of the vocal, seeking a wider audience. Cochran would after keep to Miami, where he plant moderate success playing nightclubs, with his band, CC Ryders. Jackie Gleason had Cochran on his television testify several times. Cochran went into the ministry, in later years; he doesn't talk about his rock and roll years anymore.

On September 18, 1961, Billboard Music Week printed a review of the song "Last Kiss"^[four] and gave it three stars merely said nothing about the vocal itself in the review. None of the records charted, declining even to reach the "Bubbling Under" level, although the record was a local hit in Georgia, before it disappeared.

Billboard had kind words for the B-Side, in its review of "Last Kiss" — giving four stars to the song called "Funny Feeling", on the flip side, written past Joe Carpenter and Milt "Pete" Skelton. The reviewer said, "Blues, chanted in relaxed mode, with a funky guitar bankroll. Derivative but a good job."^[4] "Funny Feeling" didn't make an impression on disc jockeys, either.

J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers version [edit]

"Last Buss"
Danish vinyl unmarried
Single by J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers
from the album Terminal Kiss
B-side	"That'south How Much I Dear Yous"
Released	June 1964
Recorded	1964
Studio	Accurate Sound Co. (San Angelo, Texas)
Length	2:25
Label	Josie
Songwriter(s)	Wayne Cochran Joe Carpenter[ane] Randall Hoyal Bobby McGlon
Producer(s)	Sonley Roush Ron Newdoll

"Last Buss" came to the attention of record promoter Sonley Roush, a Texas promoter eking out a living, looking for the next big thing. Roush brought the song to a group that he booked effectually West Texas, the Cavaliers of San Angelo, with the proviso that singer J. Frank Wilson was notwithstanding with the band. Wilson joined the Cavaliers after his discharge from Goodfellow Air Force Base (San Angelo, Texas) in 1962, only had left for a while, unsure of the future. Credit should be given also to Sid Holmes of San Angelo for founding the original Cavaliers band in c.1956. He afterward discovered J. Frank Wilson in the early 1960s and invited him to join the ring and did sign him. Holmes, a fine rockabilly guitarist, also taught future Cavalier Lewis Elliott to play bass guitar, and too brought Jim Wynne into the band to play piano.

Sonley Roush would subsequently split up the group to identify lead vocalizer Wilson with some other musician or 2. By this time Holmes had already left the group. Exist that as it may, J. Frank Wilson (vocalist), Cistron Croyle (guitar), Roland Atkinson (drums), Lewis Elliott (bass), and Jim Wynne (piano), along with Sonley Roush (manager/promoter) and Ron Newdoll (studio owner and engineer) were all nowadays at Authentic Sound Recording studio in San Angelo effectually 1:00 pm in early August, 1964, when they made the record that would bring them lasting fame. The band worked all afternoon on the song, recording it over and over, with few pauses, for three straight hours, until Roush was satisfied with take number 64. The record was start released locally, on Le Cam Records (#722), then on Tamara Records (#761), becoming a local hitting. Somewhen released on Josie Records (#923), a subsidiary of semi-major label Jubilee Records, the record became a national striking in the fall of 1964.

Released on September 5, 1964, Josie 923 spent 15 weeks on the charts, reaching number 2 on Nov vii, held out of the tiptop spot by "Baby Beloved", the second number 1 hit for The Supremes, which spent 4 weeks in the top spot. "Final Kiss" would spend eight weeks in the top ten; the record selling over ane million copies, and propelling the resulting album onto the anthology charts. The Le Cam #722-A disc running time is noted every bit 2m 14s, while both the Tamara Records #761 release and the Josie Records #923 platter have a fourth dimension of 2m 25s, an xi-2nd deviation.

J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers had their first and just commercial success with "Terminal Kiss". Their cover version reached the top ten in October, staying for 8 weeks. It somewhen reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100 charts,^[v] and as well earned the band a gold tape. Roush took a reconstituted version of the band, J. Frank Wilson, Cistron Croyle, Bobby Wood, Jerome Graham, and Phil Trunzo, on a brutal promotional bout, in back up of the tape.

On a concert trip to Ohio, the band had just left Parkersburg, Westward Virginia, heading to Lima, Ohio, for a functioning at the Candy Cane Club. At most 5:15 a.m., Roush apparently cruel comatose at the wheel. The car drifted beyond the centerline and rammed head-on into a trailer truck. Roush was killed instantly, merely Wilson, sitting in the forepart seat, and Bobby Woods (vocalist / piano) from Memphis, sitting in the back, both suffered serious injuries, including broken ribs and a broken talocrural joint. Wilson went on with the tour, though, taking simply a calendar week off. People still remember him coming out on the phase on crutches to sing "Final Kiss" and "Hey, Little 1". The accident had a curious upshot on record sales, all the same, pushing the song to number 2 (it had previously stalled at number 3) on the national charts.^[6]

The Last Kiss anthology comprehend shows Wilson kneeling over the young woman portraying the dying girl. Supposedly, first printings of the cover showed blood trickling down the girl'southward confront, merely it was air-brushed out past the record company for fearfulness that alienating parents would limit sales of the album.

Wilson, with or without the Cavaliers, continued to record until 1978. He died on October 4, 1991, due to alcoholism caused by business organisation stresses and pain caused from his injuries in the machine wreck. He was 49 years old.^{[seven] [8]}

Chart performance [edit]

Wednesday version [edit]

"Concluding Kiss"
Single by Wednesday
from the album Last Kiss
B-side	"Without You"
Released	November 1973
Genre	Pop
Label	Ampex
Songwriter(s)	Wayne Cochran Joe Carpenter[i] Randall Hoyal Bobby McGlon
Producer(s)	John Dee Driscoll
Wednesday singles chronology
"Hang On Daughter" (1971) "Terminal Kiss" (1973) "Teen Angel" (1974)

In 1973, "Final Kiss" was covered by the Canadian group Midweek. Their version reached number two in Canada and number 34 in the United states of america. It is ranked equally the 27th biggest Canadian hit of 1973.^[15] Their version climbed upwardly the charts very slowly, and spent three weeks longer on the American charts than the Cavaliers' much bigger striking.^[sixteen]

As a result of the popularity of Midweek'southward rendition, the Cavaliers' version was re-released (Virgo 506) at the end of 1973. It reached number 92 in Jan 1974, spending a total of v weeks on the Billboard Hot 100. The original striking version re-charted five weeks after the version by Wednesday entered the charts.

Charts [edit]

Pearl Jam version [edit]

"Final Buss"
Unmarried by Pearl Jam
from the album No Boundaries: A Benefit for the Kosovar Refugees
B-side	"Soldier of Love"
Released	June 8, 1999 (1999-06-08)
Recorded	September nineteen, 1998
Studio	Constitution Hall (Washington, D.C.)
Genre	Culling rock
Length	3:sixteen
Label	Epic
Songwriter(southward)	Wayne Cochran Joe Carpenter[1] Randall Hoyal Bobby McGlon
Producer(s)	Pearl Jam
Pearl Jam singles chronology
"Wishlist" (1998) "Terminal Kiss" (1999) "Nothing every bit It Seems" (2000)

"Last Kiss" was as well covered by American rock band Pearl Jam for the 1999 charity album No Boundaries: A Benefit for the Kosovar Refugees.^[20] It would afterward appear on the group's 2003 rarities album Lost Dogs. This version was successful, especially in Commonwealth of australia, where information technology topped the ARIA Singles Chart for seven weeks. It also reached number one in Iceland for half dozen weeks and peaked at number two in the United States and Canada, making information technology the band's highest-charting single in either country.

Origin and recording [edit]

The idea to cover "Last Buss" came about subsequently singer Eddie Vedder found an old tape of the song at the Fremont Antiquarian Mall in Seattle, Washington.^[21] He convinced the residuum of the band to try out the vocal and it was performed a few times on the ring's 1998 bout. The band eventually recorded the song at a soundcheck at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland in September of that twelvemonth and released it as a 1998 fan club Christmas single.^[22] The band spent just a couple of thousand dollars mixing the vocal.^[23] Bassist Jeff Ament said, "It was the well-nigh minimalist recording we've ever done."^[24]

Release and reception [edit]

In 1998, the comprehend of "Last Osculation" began to be played by radio stations and was ultimately put into heavy rotation beyond the US. By pop demand the encompass was released to the public as a unmarried on June viii, 1999, with the proceeds going to the aid of refugees of the Kosovo War.^[22] The cover was featured on the 1999 charity compilation album, No Boundaries: A Benefit for the Kosovar Refugees.^[25] The song helped earn about $10 million for Kosovo relief.^[23]

The cover would end up reaching number ii on the The states Billboard Hot 100, backside "If Yous Had My Dearest" by Jennifer Lopez. This remains Pearl Jam's highest-peaking vocal on the Billboard Hot 100. It peaked at number 4 on the Top 40 Mainstream chart. The song reached number 5 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and number two on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. The "Last Kiss" single has been certified golden past the RIAA.^[26]

Outside the United States, the song reached number ii on the Canadian RPM Superlative Singles chart and became the ring's highest-charting song in Canada. It later charted on the RPM Rock Report, where information technology reached number 4 and stayed there for two weeks. In Europe "Terminal Kiss" reached number 42 in the Britain and number 77 in holland. In Australasia, "Last Kiss" peaked atop the Australian ARIA Singles Chart for vii weeks and became a top-twenty success in New Zealand. Information technology also reached number ane in Iceland, staying at the summit for vi weeks.

Christopher John Farley of Fourth dimension said, "Information technology's a spare, morose song with Vedder'southward vocalization warbling lovelorn over a straight-ahead drum beat. Going back to nuts has put Pearl Jam back on top."^[20] Regarding the cover, guitarist Stone Gossard said, "You can try album later anthology to write a hit and spend months getting drum sounds and rewriting lyrics, or you can go to a used record store and pick out a single and fall in love with it."^[27] Pearl Jam included "Concluding Kiss" on the 2003 B-sides and rarities album, Lost Dogs, and on the 2004 greatest hits album, rearviewmirror (Greatest Hits 1991–2003).

Live performances [edit]

Pearl Jam first performed its encompass of "Last Kiss" live at the band'southward May vii, 1998, concert in Seattle, Washington, at ARO.space.^[28] Live performances by Pearl Jam of "Concluding Kiss" can be constitute on various official bootlegs and the Live at the Gorge 05/06 box set.

Track list [edit]

1. "Concluding Kiss" (Wayne Cochran) – 3:xv
2. "Soldier of Beloved" (Fizz Cason, Tony Moon) – ii:54
3. *Recorded alive on September 19, 1998 at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C.

Charts and certifications [edit]

Release history [edit]

Other cover versions [edit]

The song has a long tradition in Latin American popular music. The most popular version was recorded in 1965 past Mexican singer Polo, (ex-member of Los Apson) with the title of "El Último Beso" in Spanish translated by the Mexican TV Director and tennis teacher Omero Gonzalez, this Castilian version has been covered by several bands: Los American'south, Los Johnny Jets, Los 007, Los Doltons, likewise singers every bit Argentine Leo Dan, and the Colombian singers Alci Acosta (his recording became a hitting in Colombia) and Harold Orozco [es] in 1967 likewise as José "Joseíto" Martínez in 1990, song with which he won a Congo de Oro in the Barranquilla Funfair.^[57] Mexican singer-songwriter Gloria Trevi released her version of the vocal in 1989, peaking at number 36 on the Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart.

During the late 1970s, "Last Kiss" was covered by the Asparagus Valley Cultural Society and was too sometimes performed as the encore to their evidence.^[58]

In 2011, Trent Dabbs recorded a encompass of "Last Kiss" for the striking goggle box serial The Vampire Diaries in Season two, episode 18: "The Last Dance".

Meadow Ryann covered this on her debut cover anthology, Wings.

Cœur de Pirate covered the vocal for the soundtrack of the 2014 season of the Canadian Goggle box show, Trauma.

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