Chestnut Street Incident

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Chestnut Street Incident is the debut studio album by the American singer-songwriter John Mellencamp, and his first of six albums in which Mellencamp was credited as Johnny (later John) Cougar. It was released by MCA Records on October 1, 1976.Template:Sfn

Signing on with David Bowie's manager, Tony Defries, Mellencamp travelled to New York City to cut this first album. DeFries would also go on to produce the album as well. With the thinking that a name like "Mellencamp" wouldn't generate a lot of interest, DeFries changed Mellencamp's name to "Johnny Cougar."<ref name=wragpret>Template:Cite news</ref> Mellencamp would later go on to say that he had no idea about the name change until he saw the final product and that nobody had ever called him "Johnny" before. It would take Mellencamp 15 years to have his full real name on an album, Whenever We Wanted, in 1991.Template:Sfn Template:Sfn Template:Sfn Template:Sfn

Five of the tracks are covers from the '50s and '60s,Template:Sfn and six are original songs by Mellencamp. The 1998 Original Masters rerelease added two bonus songs that were also covers.Template:Sfn The album sold 12,000 copies when it was originally released, which would lead to MCA's refusal to release his next album, The Kid Inside, and drop Mellencamp.Template:Sfn

The 2009 CD reissue by Cherry Red Records added six bonus tracks recorded during the original album sessions.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Track listingEdit

All tracks composed by Johnny Cougar (a.k.a. John Mellencamp); except where indicatedTemplate:Sfn

"American Dream" – 2:21
"Oh, Pretty Woman" (Bill Dees, Roy Orbison) – 2:54
"Jailhouse Rock" (Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller) – 2:11
"Dream Killing Town" (Cougar, George M. Green) – 3:20
"Supergirl" (Aldo Legui, Bob Marcus) – 2:37
"Chestnut Street" – 3:18
"Good Girls" – 3:09
"Do You Believe in Magic?" (John Sebastian) – 2:38
"Twentieth Century Fox" (John Densmore, Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek, Jim Morrison) – 2:14
"Chestnut Street Revisited" – 5:22
"Sad Lady" (Cougar, George M. Green) – 3:26