Tribute To Eddie – HEINZ***

Come On & Dance/Cut Across Shorty/Don’t Keep Pickin’ At Me/Hush-A-Bye/I Remember/Look For A Star/My Dreams/Rumble In The Night/(Sorry) I Ran All The Way Home/Summertime Blues/Three Steps To Heaven/ Tribute To Eddie/Twenty Flight Rock/Just Like Eddie

Heinz Burt was the former bassist with the instrumental group The Tornados, created by legendary producer Joe Meek. He had intended to make a teen idol out of Heinz based around his appealing looks. Unfortunately, Heinz's limited vocal ability and poor stage presence scuppered Meek's plans. His only solo album Tribute To Eddie reached No. 10 on the NME album chart and includes the catchy UK No. 5 hit single Just Like Eddie.

"Heinz's only big hit Just Like Eddie was a tribute to then recently deceased rocker Eddie Cochran, and as the title of the album implies, much of the record is given over to Eddie Cochran covers, as well as producer Joe Meek's awkward self-penned Tribute To Eddie. Certainly none of this was going to position Heinz as any sort of substitute for Cochran, but Summertime Blues and Twenty Flight Rock chug along pretty nicely, and the non-Cochran composition Hush-A-Bye is one of Heinz's strongest little-known cuts. But basically the album is only for Joe Meek purists; Heinz's own material is better represented via compilations."

"Insofar as Heinz is remembered at all as a solo singer, it will be for his British top five hit Just Like Eddie, which is a tribute to Eddie Cochran."

"While it contained five covers of Eddie Cochran songs (Summertime Blues, Cut Across Shorty, Twenty Flight Rock, I Remember, Three Steps To Heaven), it wasn't a tribute album in the full sense. The title track is an original song by Joe Meek, while Heinz's big hit Just like Eddie is also featured, but I'm not convinced that the other six songs belong in an Eddie Cochran tribute album. Then again, tribute albums were in their infancy in those days so perhaps record buyers regarded this is a genuine tribute album back then."

"What a great catchy song is Just Like Eddie. I really like Heinz's solo stuff that I have heard. Underrated."

"Just Like Eddie is a great track from Heinz. Its a pity that tastes in music change. A lot of great artists fell by the wayside when Beatlemania hit."