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 The 100 Greatest Albums of the 80's. 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 The 100 Greatest Albums of the 80's. false 2024-02-27 19:18:21 Uh‐Huh 6.7 2005 2005-03-29 2005-03-29 37 Hard Rock Pop Rock Rock Rock And Roll 113775 2126737 60b1659a-574a-4ed8-a6ba-0939d8cb9ba8 0aad6b52-fd93-4ea4-9c5d-1f66e1bc9f0a 3fe5a460-8fed-3766-8046-569abc5e7e2c /media/data/media5/Music/John Mellencamp/Uh‐Huh (1983)/folder.jpg John Mellencamp AlbumArtist /config/metadata/People/J/John Mellencamp/folder.jpg John Mellencamp Artist /config/metadata/People/J/John Mellencamp/folder.jpg John Mellencamp John Mellencamp 1 Crumblin’ Down 03:34 2 Pink Houses 04:43 3 Authority Song 03:49 4 Warmer Place to Sleep 03:47 5 Jackie O 03:03 6 Play Guitar 03:23 7 Serious Business 03:25 8 Lovin’ Mother fo Ya 03:06 9 Golden Gates 04:04 10 Pink Houses (acoustic) 03:44 John J. Mellencamp (born October 7, 1951), previously known as Johnny Cougar, John Cougar, and John Cougar Mellencamp, is an American singer-songwriter. He is known for his brand of heartland rock, which emphasizes traditional instrumentation. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008, followed by an induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2018. Mellencamp found success in the 1980s while "honing an almost startlingly plainspoken writing style" that, starting in 1982, yielded a string of Top 10 singles, including "Hurts So Good", "Jack & Diane", "Crumblin' Down", "Pink Houses", "Lonely Ol' Night", "Small Town", "R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A.", "Paper in Fire", and "Cherry Bomb". He has scored fourteen Top 20 hits in the United States. In addition, he holds the record for the most songs by a solo artist to hit number one on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, with seven. Mellencamp has been nominated for 13 Grammy Awards, winning one. He has sold over 60 million albums worldwide with 30 million of those in the US. His latest album of original songs, Orpheus Descending, was released in June 2023. Mellencamp is also one of the founding members of Farm Aid, an organization that began in 1985 with a concert in Champaign, Illinois, to raise awareness about the loss of family farms and to raise funds to keep farm families on their land. Farm Aid concerts have remained an annual event over the past 37 years, and as of 2023 the organization has raised over $60 million.