I don’t care what anyone says but when you start talking and listening to Joe Cocker you start with the Woodstock performance of With a Little Help From My Friends !
A poor tortured soul who had the most wonderful gift. I had the great privilege of seeing him live twice and he is utterly captivating. He never gave less that 110% in all of his performances.
That voice...soul all day❤ you guys would like You Can Leave Your Hat On! And if you can find the studio version of this song that last note he hits a falsetto that shoots straight to the heart😊
Two legendary live performances from Joe are "With a Little Help From My Friends" at Woodstock and his duet with Jennifer Warnes singing the Oscar-winning "Up Where We belong" at the Night of the Proms, Antwerpen.
How can a imperfect voice be the most MOST perfect for certain songs??!! Moments happen where I need to hear some tunes LOUD like certain RUSH songs, Little River Band, Iron Maiden and FEELING ALRIGHT by Mr Joe Cocker is freaking AMAZING!! Great Channel Bars!! Peace 🕊️☮️♾️😎
You guys need to hear Joe Cocker more in his element of rocking blues. The raw intensity of his vocals are always on full display, but my personal favorites will give you some indication as to why. YOU CAN LEAVE YOUR HAT ON from the movie 9 and 1/2 Weeks will have Sam feeling alright. UNCHAIN MY HEART is a cover of the Ray Charles classic that has Joe Cocker and Clarence Clemmons, from Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, walking into a dead bar late in the evening and leaving a mushroom cloud of soul in their wake. I LOVE this video. Keep going. And enjoy
one of the funniest things i saw in my young life {70's} was watching S.N.L. and john Belushi was doing his impression of joe singing with his spastic movements when suddenly joe showed up behind him , he joined in with john and finished the song , both spasming out , funniest , most heart warming moment to experience . we all were aware of joes freaky movements but we also knew that's how deeply he felt the music and who could laugh at that ?.
I was lucky enough to meet Joe AND Stevie Ray Vaughan when they toured together , Anchorage Alaska July 1990...one month before Stevies death. Both were absolute gems. Didnt get Joes autograph but got Stevies. GREAT REACTION GUYS...keep rolling
'Up Where We Belong' duet w/Jennifer Warnes is rapturous! Joe was a working-class lad from Sheffield, England who sang in pubs. In his later years he lived on a ranch in Colorado, U.S.A., where he died in 2014. He was 70. We loved him and we miss him.
This song means so much to me! My Father was a singer and piano player back in the day. He would play several gigs a week in the late '60s and early '70s! He slowly got away from it as he got married and had us kids, four of us! He got to watch us grow up loving music. He always had great music playing in the house. It was the best thing he could have done for me. I'm also a singer and musician. Music is the air that I breathe! On my 16th Birthday, my Dad took me out to dinner, just him and I. As we were driving back home, this song came on the radio. He hardly ever sang anymore. I think because he missed it so much. On this special day, he sang it to me from start to finish! It made us both cry. Then came my wedding day... I told him we should pick a song for our father/daughter dance, but he said I should pick the song. We hadn't ever talked about the song after my 16th Birthday, so I was pretty sure it wouldn't have crossed his mind that I would choose it. As we were called to the dance floor, the song started to play. My dad immediately knew what it was and instantly started to tear up. We danced while everyone was watching us. We didn't have a chance at holding back the tears. My dad told me how proud he was of me, that he could see how happy I was, and that my Husband was truly the one meant for me. After the dance, my mother asked why I picked that song... I said because Dad sang it to me on my 16th Birthday. She said "He did?" I told her it was memory that was just ours, so I thought it would be perfect for our dance. My husband and I celebrated our 30th Wedding Anniversary, the end of April! I still tear up every time I hear this song. The serenade and the dance will always be two of the greatest moments of my life! Oh, and my first dance with my hubby was 'Lady', by Kenny Rogers!
This was very mellow. To really get a good feel for Joe Cocker you really need to watch with a Little help from my friends at Woodstock. He puts his whole heart, soul and body into that performance
Saw him live once, great show. Shame on the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame for not having this man among it's ranks. Joe has some great tunes, he shot to stardom with his awesome cover of "With a Little Help from My Friends" so you have to do that. The Live Woodstock version for sure. A couple of great studio takes and worth a listen as well are 'Feelin' Alright' and 'When The Night Comes' just to name two. Cheers.
Great reaction, Sam and Phil! Joe always seems so authentic to me. He sang with his whole body. His Woodstock performance is amazing. BTW, Chakra Khan covers some Joe Cocker.
Written by the late Billy Preston. RIP to him. Great 👍 The late Joe Cocker sang a song 🎵 which was on the soundtrack to the movie 🎥 Teachers 40 years ago 🎂. He was gone 30 years later. RIP to him. Suggested video 📹: Joe Cocker sings Edge of a Dream on Solid Gold.
This song is credited to Billy Preston and Bruce Fisher, released in 1974 on Billy Prestons 9th studio record. I love Joe Cocker's reggae influenced record Stingray (1976) that never got the attention it deserved IMO. Joe Cocker basically made a living off of covers. Some must-listens by this artist: Feeling Alright, She Came In Thru The Bathroom Window, Catfish (About the pitching legend Catfish Hunter), The Jealous kind, Look What You've done, and A song For You (A song by Leon Russell, Ray Charles, and Willie Nelson) are just a few from this unique artist. I always enjoy your reactions, TY
Keyboard musician Billy Preston wrote this song, he worked with the Beatles on their last two albums, and was in their documentary, Get Back. he also worked on many George Harrison solo Albums...i used to sing this to my daughter whenm she was little.
Joe Cocker is one hell of a singer....pours hi whole heart and soul into his songs. Been a fan since he owned beatles song "With a Little Help From My Friends"
One of those performers you could tell put EVERYTHING INTO HIS WORK!!! My mom first introduced me to him & I went down a rabbit hole of learning about him & listening to his songs because he's such an interesting person & incredible & unique singer😎 There's a great documentary called Joe Cocker: Mad Dog with Soul that's worth a watch & famously John Belushi has played him a few times on SNL & even performed together which would be a cool reaction video. So glad you're giving this legend a listen!
Joe was like Janis...a one of a kind through which music poured from somewhere deep within....like so few. He wasn't looking to sing beautiful...which makes it beautiful. Watch "A Little Help From My Friends" live. It is a Beatles song he transformed...you can see the pure music coursing through him.
Joe Cocker - You Are So Beautiful... it is fine that you start with his live versions. He displays raw emotion. Fantastic. It always depends on the song what is better. Example . The studio version of Smoke On Water sounds dead and dull where as the Live version from the made in Japan album sounds alive. A Whiter Shade Of Pale was iconic decades before the live version for a reason that gets covered up by the absolutely beautiful live version. I have both versions but for decades, I have just been hearing that haunting organ in the studio version in my mind.
I was fortunate to see Joe live. He did amazing covers of a lot of songs. I believe that Paul McCartney said that his cover of "A little Help From My Friends" is better than the Beatles version.
The studio version has just as much raw emotion as his live performances. I used the studio version for a video celebrating my daughter's first birthday and it never fails to bring tears.
there is a tnt made for tv movie called "door to door" starring william h macy that is the "true" story of a door to door salesman who was born with cerebal palsy. there is a scene about two thirds of the way through the movie where the salesman is selling to a young mother holding her new born after having gotten the news that morning that his own mom had died and joe cocker singing you are so beautiful is the movie "score" for the scene and every time i see that movie that scene makes me tear up and "cry like a little girl". i have heard several different artists sing this song in my 60+ years ... i think even elvis has a cover of this .... and mr cocker's version is and always has been my favorite version of this song. it's one of the few joe cocker songs that i can actually understand the words ... most of joe cocker's records that I've heard have been largely unintelligible to me ... a like bob dylan😅
60 minutes did a interview with him one time and he came across as such a humble and nice person who just wanted to go out there and perform. He poured a lot of emotion into every song. Still brings tears my eyes. RIP Joe C..
If you liked this song you might want to check out his duet with Jennifer Warnes for the song "Up Where we Belong" from the movie "An Officer and a Gentleman."
Hearing Joe not only sing the song, but watching him FEEL the song... never fails to bring a lump to my throat, a tear to my eye and a smile to my face all at the same time. And I wholeheartedly agree with all the others who have said to check out his version of "I get by (with a little help from my friends)"
Written by Dennis Wilson,he forgot about it,then heard cockers version on the radio.Dennis always sung it as the last song in concert ,with the Beach Boys.
I was a dj in Manchester before going to Uni. I was asked to help book the bands for Freshers’ Ball. I got lucky and was able to get Joe Cocker and the Grease Band AND Jethro Tull. An amazing night. What a way to start Uni life.
John Robert "Joe" Cocker's most famous song a rearrangement is a cover from the Beatles, "A Little Help From My Friends". ""You Are So Beautiful" is a song credited to Billy Preston and Bruce Fisher that was first released in 1974 on Preston's ninth studio album, The Kids & Me." "According to differing family stories, Cocker received his nickname of Joe either from playing a childhood game called "Cowboy Joe", or from a local window cleaner named Joe." All info is from Wikipedia.
The song was written and first performed by Billy Preston, whom many considered the unofficial fifth Beatle, but like Johnny Cash and Hurt the song became Cocker's the moment he sang it.
I see that you like this exceptional artist Joe Cocker, you should listen to the last 2 hits before he passes away which are extras "Fire it up" and "I come in peace" but less known to the general public because they are studio recordings, he unfortunately was not able to sing them in public because his illness took over before, for me this gentleman and Tina Turner were my favorite voices and I had the pleasure of seeing them live during my stay in Vienna, Austria in 1996 and 1997
In '70, the night my girlfriend and I decided to take some acid and go to the Fillmore in SF to see him was when we had only heard him on the radio and on his album - we had never seen him live - at the time 'air guitar' was not a labelled thing but 'spastic gyrations' was and we were in no condition to watch him and had to retreat to the cafe and just listen to the rest of the of the great show. We got to watch him and the grease band eat after the show.
Joe couldn't play an instrument but certainly felt it. This cover by Cocker is the reason Negan first went to his dark side in "The Walking Dead". I also like Cocker's cover of "The Letter". That video is amusing because he's all over the place with his wonderful spastic performance while the great Leon Russell plays the keyboard in a nonchalant, almost sleepy, way.
