John Mellencamp's longtime bandleader Mike Wanchic joined UCR to discuss 'Uh-Huh,' released on Nov. 8, 1983.

John Mellencamp’s recording career began as Johnny Cougar in the mid-’70s, ... He appeared on multiplatinum albums such as 1983's 'Uh-Huh,' 1985's 'Scarecrow' and 1987's 'The Lonesome Jubilee.' ...

His 1983 album Uh-Huh was the first where Mellencamp added his surname to the credits. (He was John Cougar Mellencamp for a few more albums before finally losing the “Cougar” on the 1991 album ...

His third album was called John Cougar, and with Uh Huh in 1983 he changed his named to the longer John Cougar Mellencamp. By 1990, he had dropped the Cougar part of his name altogether. Videos by ...

The first album under John Cougar Mellencamp was Uh-Huh, released in 1983. His next album, Scarecrow, in 1985 was a blend of social consciousness featuring a wide variety of genres. His next album, ...

While recording 1983’s Uh-Huh, Mellencamp insisted that his real surname be added to his stage name. By 1991’s Whenever We Wanted, Mellencamp had fully excised the ‘Cougar’ from his albums, continuing ...

The 1983 album, Uh-Huh, featured his new name as John Cougar Mellencamp and went multi-platinum with three Top 20 Billboard hits. Mellencamp spent the 1980s writing the soulful songs that he loved.

Following American Fool was the highly anticipated Uh-huh, another smash hit of an album."Pink Houses" was the album's second single, and while it didn't quite make it to the top of the chart, it ...