Posted in 1970s, Events dear boy. Events, Music at 10:00 on 14 November 2016
Now it’s Leon Russell……
Never as commercially successful in his own right as he perhaps deserved his songs are better known in their cover versions.
For Joe Cocker’s take on Delta Lady see here.
This is a much less rocky track perhaps most famous in its performance by The Carpenters.
Leon Russell: A Song For You
Leon Russell: 2/4/1942 – 13/11/2016. So it goes.
Posted in 1960s, 1970s, Music, Reelin' In The Years at 18:00 on 21 December 2012
Another one from 1970, following on from last week’s 60s Boxtops song.
Joe Cocker is perhaps most famous for his reworking of the somewhat bland, almost throwaway, With a Little Help From My Friends from the Beatles’ Sergeant Pepper, making that song into something unforgettable (though eminently parodyable) and in his “Mad Dogs and Englishmen” incarnation also had a 1960s hit with the Leon Russell song Delta Lady, but they later also transformed the Boxtops hit The Letter.
Joe Cocker: The Letter
Here, for comparison purposes, is the version by the Box Tops:-
The Box Tops: The Letter
