John Cougar Songs

One of america s most successful mainstream rock singers of the 1980s and 90s with a heartland blend of stonesy hard rock and folk.

John cougar songs. Mellencamp born october 7 1951 previously known as johnny cougar john cougar and john cougar mellencamp is an american musician singer songwriter painter actor and film director he is known for his catchy populist brand of heartland rock which emphasizes traditional instrumentation mellencamp rose to fame in the 1980s while honing an almost startlingly plainspoken writing. John mellencamp song list. John cougar mellencamp released his first studio in 1979 titled chestnut street incident. Music video by john mellencamp performing hurts so good.

Ain t even done with the night 1980 authority song 1983 between a laugh and a tear 1985 big daddy of them all 1989 blue charlotte 2014 crumblin down 1983 don t need this body 2008 easy target 2017 grandview 2017 hurts so good 1982 i need a lover 1978. John mellencamp lyrics 275 song lyrics sorted by album including cherry bomb pink houses jack and diane. In 1982 he hit number one pop and had his second number one rock song with jack diane which became his greatest hit. John mellencamp with me shell ndegeocello.

He now had the power to reach a compromise and became john cougar mellencamp. Later he finally took his real name just john. Once i need a lover became an australian hit riva in america decided to release john cougar s eponymous fourth album adding the song to the record as well. He became john cougar.

To his credit john is one of the founding members of farm aid to raise awareness about the loss of family farms and to raise funds to keep farm families on their land. Mellencamp is still producing albums today. Peaked at 17 on 09 05 1981. The 1980 album track cheap shot contained gripes about the name change.

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