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Uh Huh

UH HUH
 
 
Uh-Huh  is an 1983 album by John Cougar Mellencamp, a stage name for John Mellencamp.  It was Mellencamp’s seventh album and the first in which he used his real last name.  It charted at #9 on the Billboard 200.  Uh-Huh contained three Top 20 Billboard Hot 100 hits:  “Crumblin’ Down” (#9), “Authority Song” (#15), and “Pink Houses” (#8).  In 1989, it was ranked #32 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 100 Greatest Albums of the 80's.  (More from Wikipedia)
 
 
John Mellencamp was infuriated to find out that his first album, Chestnut Street Incident had been released under the name Johnny Cougar, and eventually, he set about to reinvent himself, well, back to being himself:  After another album under that name, and two under the name John Cougar, the next step was to release his two best albums, Uh Huh and Scarecrow under the name John Cougar Mellencamp; the opening track on Uh Huh, “Crumblin’ Down” is the first song of his that I truly loved.  
 
(July 2012)