Joe Cocker

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[move][glow=red,2,300]Songs in this topic from Joe Cocker
[/glow][/move]01 = Could You Be Love
02 = Unchain My Heart
03 = Chain of Fools
04 = Hymn for My Soul
05 = N´oubliez jamais
06 = Up Where We Belong
07 = You Can Leave Your Hat On
08 = Fire It Up
09 = Summer in the City
10 = With a Little Help from My Friends
11 = You Are So Beautiful
12 = Cry Me A River
13 = Delta Lady
14=  What becomes of a broken hearted




John Robert "Joe" Cocker, OBE (20 May 1944 – 22 December 2014) was an English singer and musician. He was known for his gritty voice, spasmodic body movement in performance and definitive versions of popular songs.

Cocker's cover of the Beatles' "With a Little Help from My Friends" reached number one in the UK in 1968. He performed the song live at Woodstock in 1969 and at the Party at the Palace concert for the Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II in 2002.

His version also became the theme song for the TV series The Wonder Years. His 1974 cover of "You Are So Beautiful" reached number five in the US. Cocker was the recipient of several awards, including a 1983 Grammy Award for his US number one "Up Where We Belong," a duet with Jennifer Warnes.

In 1993 Cocker was nominated for the Brit Award for Best British Male, in 2007 was awarded a bronze Sheffield Legends plaque in his hometown and in 2008 he received an OBE at Buckingham Palace for services to music.

Cocker was ranked number 97 on Rolling Stone's 100 greatest singers list.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs4aFC342io

"Could You Be Loved" is a song by reggae group Bob Marley and the Wailers. It was released in 1980 on their last album Uprising and is included on Bob Marley & The Wailers greatest hits album Legend. It was written in 1979 on an airplane while The Wailers were experimenting on guitar.

In the middle of the song, background singers quote a verse from Bob Marley's first single "Judge Not": "The road of life is rocky; And you may stumble too. So while you point a finger, someone else is judging you".

Instruments used on the original record of this song are guitars, bass, drums, acoustic piano, the Hohner clavinet and an organ, as well as the Brazilian cuíca.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0R9c5fFVtBI

Unchain My Heart" is a song written by Bobby Sharp (1924-2013) and recorded first in 1961 by Ray Charles and in 1963 by Trini Lopez and later by many others.

Sharp, a drug addict at the time, sold the song to Teddy Powell for $50. Powell demanded half the songwriting credit. Sharp later successfully fought for the rights to his song. In 1987, he was also able to renew the copyright for his publishing company, B. Sharp Music.

The song was a hit for Charles when released as a single in late 1961. Accompanied by his Raelettes, Charles sang about wanting to be free from a woman "who won't let (him) go". His band included longtime saxophonist David "Fathead" Newman. The song reached number nine on the pop singles chart and number one on the R&B singles chart and was the working title of Charles' 2004 biopic Ray.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ji2BClPBw0E

Chain of Fools" is a song written by Don Covay. Aretha Franklin first released the song as a single in 1967 and subsequently it appeared on many of her albums.

Asked by Jerry Wexler, producer with Atlantic Records, to create songs for Otis Redding, Covay recorded a demo of "Chain of Fools", a song he had written in his youth while singing Gospel with his brothers and sisters. The recording featured Covay singing and playing guitar, overdubbed with himself singing background. Listening to the demo, Wexler chose to place the song with Aretha Franklin rather than Redding.[2]
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Hymn for My Soul is the twentieth studio album by Joe Cocker, released in 2007.

It was produced byEthan Johns. Musicians on these special sessions included Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers' Benmont Tench, legendary drummer Jim Keltner, Mike Finnigan, ace guitarist Albert Lee, Dave Palmer, Greg Leisz,James Gadson, Bob Babbitt and Johns.

The songs include Cocker's signatures on George Harrison's "Beware of Darkness", Bob Dylan's "Ring Them Bells", John Fogerty's "Long As I Can See The Light" andStevie Wonder's "You Haven't Done Nothin'".
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Greatest Hits is a European greatest hits album by British rock musician Joe Cocker, released in November 1998 (see 1998 in music). The album includes three previously unreleased tracks, including a live recording with Eros Ramazzotti.
Vinyl edition of the album was released in 2015.

This Joe Cocker discography lists the recordings plus live appearances of John Robert "Joe" Cocker, OBE (20 May 1944 - 22 December 2014), the English rock/blues musician, composer and actor who came to popularity in the 1960s, and was most known for his gritty voice, his idiosyncratic arm movements while performing, and his cover versions of popular songs, particularly those of The Beatles.

He received several awards, including a 1983 Grammy Award for his song "Up Where We Belong", a duet which he performed with Jennifer Warnes. He was ranked No. 97 on Rolling Stone's 100 greatest singers list.
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"Up Where We Belong" is a Platinum-certified, Grammy Award-winning hit song written by Jack Nitzsche,Buffy Sainte-Marie, and Will Jennings.

It was recorded by Joe Cocker (lead vocals) and Jennifer Warnes(lead and background vocals) for the smash 1982 film An Officer and a Gentleman.
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"You Can Leave Your Hat On" is a song written by Randy Newman and appearing on his 1972 album Sail Away.

According to an Allmusic review by Mark Deming, the song is "a potent mid-tempo rock tune" and "a witty and willfully perverse bit of erotic absurdity".

Cocker recorded "You Can Leave Your Hat On" for his 1986 album Cocker. Released as a single, Cocker's version peaked at #35 on Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks, and it was featured in the 1986 Adrian Lyne film 9½ Weeks during the striptease scene.
A music video was released which featured footage of the striptease scene from 9½ Weeks and scenes with Cocker and his band performing the song. In some countries, the song itself is considered a strip tease anthem, as being still used by both male and female stripper
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3ZdSla6KPY



Joe Cocker Live is a live album by Joe Cocker, released in 1990 (see 1990 in music). It was recorded live 5 October 1989 at Memorial Auditorium in Lowell, Massachusetts with the exception of the last two tracks which were recorded in the studio. The album was re-released in 2011 under the title Joe Cocker's Greatest Hits Live.
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With a Little Help from My Friends is the debut album by singer Joe Cocker, released in 1969.

It was certified gold in the US and peaked at number 35 on the Billboard 200. In the UK, the album charted in May 1972 at number 29 when it was re-released as a double pack with Cocker's second LP Joe Cocker!.

The title track was written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney and originally performed by the Beatles on the album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band; it has been inducted into both the Grammy Award Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.  Cocker's version was the theme song to the television series The Wonder Years during the 1980s and 1990s.

In 2015, the Audio Fidelity company released a limited reissue of the album in hybrid SACD format as a tribute to Cocker.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spsVigJCvNU

You Are So Beautiful" is a song written by Billy Preston and Bruce Fisher. Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys contributed to the song's genesis, but his official credit was omitted. It was first recorded by Preston and made popular by Joe Cocker. Preston who grew up playing the organ in church, originally wrote the lyrics about God.

Preston's original version first appeared on his 1974 album The Kids & Me and as the B-side on the 45rpm pressing of his pop hit, "Struttin'". Cocker's producer, Jim Price, created a slowed-down arrangement for Cocker's version, which first appeared on the album, I Can Stand a Little Rain (released later in 1974). In 1975, the Joe Cocker version was released as a single and peaked number five on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and number twelve on the Easy Listening chart.

The Cocker version helped the album become a successful and was his biggest hit until his duet with Jennifer Warnes, "Up Where We Belong", which reached #1 in 1982.
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Cry Me A River is an American popular song, written by Arthur Hamilton, published in 1953 and known for the execution of Julie London. This number should not be confused with the eponymous song by Justin Timberlake.

Hamilton wrote the song after Julie London, with whom he had been together in high school, had told him that her husband, director and producer Jack Webb, sought new jazz and blues songs for a future production titled Pete Kelly's Blues. The bluesy song would be sung by Ella Fitzgerald in the film; but ultimately it was not used.

After Julie London divorced Jack Webb in 1954, she taught jazz pianist and know future second husband Bobby Troup, who persuaded her to record an LP for Liberty Records with jazz standards. Cry Me A River was the only new song on the album Julie Is Her Name. It was released as a single and immediately became Liberty's first big hit; it climbed to number nine on the Billboard charts. Julie sang it in the film The Girl Can not Help It. In 1960 she released a new version of the song on the single.

The song has since himself become a standard and dozens of artists have recorded, including Ella Fitzgerald in 1961, Joe Cocker on his LP Mad Dogs and Englishmen, Aerosmith on the album Rock in a Hard Place, and Susan Boyle to name but a few. A French translation, entitled "Pleurer des rivières" was recorded by Eddy Mitchell and Viktor Lazlo.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LGeoLvNces
Joe Cocker - Delta Lady
Woman of the country now I've found you
Longing in your soft and fertile delta
And I whisper sighs to satisfy your longing
For the warmth and tender shelter of my body
Oh you're my, yes you're my Delta Lady
Yes, you're my, me oh my, Delta Lady

Please don't ask how many times I found you
Standing wet and naked in the garden
And I think of days and different ways I held you
Held you closely to me, yes our heart was beating
Oh you're my

Oh, and I'm over here in England
But I think of you, think about you
Because I love you

There are concrete mountains in the city
And pretty city women live inside them
And yet it seems the city scene is lacking
I'm so glad you're waiting for me in the country
Oh you're my
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Joe Cocker -  Feeling Allright

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoAO0851FwA

Joe Cocker recorded it in his debut album With a Little Help from My Friends in 1969. He also amended the title of the original from "Feelin' Alright?" to "Feeling Alright". The song was the opening track on the album.
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A remake of this beautiful song wit a great song style and a complete set of this song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spsVigJCvNU
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