Posted in 1960s, Events dear boy. Events, Friday On My Mind, Music at 12:00 on 23 December 2014
I was sorry to hear of the death of one of Sheffield’s finest, Joe Cocker. I’ve mentioned before his hit with the radical reworking of the Beatles’ song With a Little Help From My Friends and also his Mad Dogs and Englishmen tour.
From that tour here’s the live version of Delta Lady.
Joe Cocker (Mad Dogs and Englishmen): Delta Lady
John Robert (Joe) Cocker: 20/5/1944 – 22/12/2014. So it goes.
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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
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