The more well known Joe Cocker performance of this song is the one he did at Woodstock - but I prefer this version because I think the band (especially the back up singers!) is bigger and sounds richer.
The story I heard was the backup singers were stuck in traffic at Woodstock, so the band members had to sing background, male singers in falsetto which is why it sounds so different
WAY better than Woodstock - and, I agree - poor Joe...with band members singin' backup at Woodstock....but, JOE'S performance is SO ICONIC in that performance! He always had that signature stiffness in his performances....RIP, JOE!!
This is clearly his best performance of the song. I think the story about the backup singers at Woodstock being stuck in traffic is an urban legend; AFAIK, the Grease Band didn't tour with backup singers. The following tour, "Mad Dogs and Englishmen," from which this cut comes, was on a much bigger scale -- a real extravaganza, with two drummers, a horn section, and bunch of backup singers -- 5 or 6, I believe.
@@billpo No it’s not. Did Joe write the lyrics? Arrange the strings? Create the lead, bass and rhythm guitar parts? No he didn’t. He did a fabulous version of someone else’s hard work. But it’s not better.
@@rickb.4168 Did the beatles arrange the strings? The answer is no. In order to be able to arrange any music, you need to be able to read and write music. Since the beatles by their own admission could not read nor write music. They arranged nothing when it comes to musical arrangements. The arrangement was by Leon Russell.
"Delta Lady", "Darling Be Home Soon", "Cry Me A River", "Feelin' Alright", "The Letter" , Night Moves, Unchain My Heart - you should give all these songs a try. Leon Russell wrote Delta Lady. Leon has great song like Roll Away The Stone, Stranger In A Strange Land, Hummingbird, Lady Blue.
Loved it! You guys had the same reaction at the start of the song as other reactors to Joe Cocker’s unique stage-mannerisms; once he starts singing, then everybody breaks into those same big smiles. Nice!
This song put Joe up there with the great artists of his day. The album, Mad Dogs and English Men was No.1 in the USA at the time, 1969. Everyone wanted to hear and see Joe Crocker!!!!
Among the first performances of this song by Joe, was at the legendary Woodstock rock festival, there he was backed by his "Grease Band". His female backing singers were stuck in traffic miles from the venue, so members of the Grease Band had sing the female parts. This tour was arranged at very short notice a few weeks later by Leon Russell, and one of the female singers is Rita Coolidge. The song was written by Lennon & McCartney, when they heard Joes version they apparently said "the song's his now".
This is one of the few performances that perfectly captures the idealism of the hippie movement. It's so sad that it gradually dissolved into disillusion.
Please review another, simpler but just as emotionally moving is his live version of "You are so Beautiful". Very simple, emotional, and it will move you. He's an emotional and emoting genius.
I'm glad you chose this video as opposed the the live performance at Woodstock. This one is so much better in my opinion. Now give Joe's version of "The Moons a Harsh Mistress" and "Guilty" a try to see the whole other side of this great musician. El Mirage, Arizona USA
"Because we're stupid, there is a simple answer to that." LMAO! Love you guys. Both of you, your emotional and visceral reactions to music is spot on. It reflects the exact intentional affections for which the artists strived. Love watching and listening to your reactions. Brava and bravo!
Joe Cocker was like a demented conductor of an orchestra, every gyration immediately performed by his band, a virtuoso performance. Great reaction as always guys.
Joe never knew he looked strange on stage until years later, people always thought he was high, drunk or handicapped. He was often drunk but the movements came naturally.
The ‘call-and-response’ emulates gospel songs which is why the song is so moving and spiritual - that and the fact that vocally everyone is 100% committed to their performances.
If someone ever asks for an example of what it means to sing from your soul, play this song. Just a masterpiece. I find it hard to believe he still isn't in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Thanks for the reaction.
I don't know how much truth there is to the story I heard - but, I'd heard that he had a ba-jillion people to tour with him, during this time period - and, they played a ba-jillion BANGER performances....and: EVERYONE came home just about PENNILESS! Hard to believe....such MOVING PERFORMANCES!!
My favorite video version of this song by far especially when the backup singers get totally into it. When they hold hands it makes my hair stand. Such a beautiful moment. Peace!
Love your reactions to this. Wow, both your faces when Joe started singing! And then you couldn't help but move in time to the beat, priceless. Joe was from my home city, Sheffield, Yorkshire, in the north of England. He was a gas fitter when he set out, never spoilt, totally 100% natural talent. A true one off, I saw him live in his later years, just the same as ever.
So glad I was able to grow up listening to music like this. Thanks for bringing it back and putting into words what a lot of us were unable to do back in the day.✌🏻💀
I first saw Joe Cocker perform this song at Filmore West in 1969 with his backup band The Grease Band. Then the following year at winterland on his Mad Dogs and Englishmen tour. Both were epic performances put on by Bill Graham. Winterland had twice the capacity, so was used for bigger shows. Filmore was a much more intimate setting, so it was great to have seen him there first.
You picked the better version I like this one better than the Woodstock performance one of the best albums in my collection try Space Captain, Delta Lady, The Letter,Bird on a Wire
Sadly Joe died, i think in Colorado where he lived. His version and that sung by Ringo on Sgt. Peppers is chalk and cheese, infact you could think it wasn't even the same song, great singer from my home County of Yorkshire, the steel city of Sheffield.
Yes, that's a bit of rock & roll history right there. Nice one D&A! You should treat yourselves sometime to the documentary about that tour, it was crazy, and then listen to Leon Russel's song about the experience called The Ballad Of Mad Dogs & Englishmen. I think there were something like 40 people on the tour with 48 performances, and they all went through something for sure. Leon's song about it is a bit wistful and bittersweet. Thank you for sharing this performance with us. I'm glad you enjoyed it. 🙂
This was the theme song to a TV called "The Wonder Years" all about growing up in the sixties it was true to life cause I will attest it great being a kid in the sixties for sure.
You are so right about that series being true to life. So many of those themes in that show I identified with because my age at the time portrayed(late sixties) was same as the lead character. I lived some of those same experiences and it was a great time to grow up.
You guys would love Joe Cocker's performance of "With a Little Help from My Friends" at Woodstock (1969), he puts everything into that performance too! Here it is, 6.7 million views... should be at least 670 million! ruclips.net/video/rUVEFkjqiEE/видео.html
so glad you chose this version of the song..... the Woodstock version didn't have his back up singers..... or the horns..... or Leon..... or that outro, maybe the best outro ever.
Yep, your response to that is perfect, and what it deserves. It's one of the great performances. His version at woodstock is also amazing. Really just a religious style experience, which the music really fits.
The song comes from the Beatles and was actually a pretty simple song. They had written it for their drummer, Ringo Starr, who didn't have a very wide vocal range. Joe Cocker turns the Beatles song into something completely different. He said he thought of what the song must sound like while he was on the toilet. But he may have thought he was a plumber while he was working. Jimmy Page played guitar on the studio version of Cockers with a Little Help. Joe Cocker has covered many songs but always did something entirely his own with the song material. After his time with the Mad Dogs, he returned to England, totally addicted to drugs and alcoholic. He himself once said that he missed 10 years of his life, almost the entire 1970s, when he was addicted to heroin. Fortunately, he got back on his feet in the 1980s and was able to start a second career.
This is the best live and its hard to find. They keep taking it down and all other reactors do the woodstock version. I’m am happy you guys get to enjoy one of the finest live video EVER by any artist❤️🤘
Leon never was seen much with a guitar ,he was the piano man that influenced Elton John in a large way..Jim Gordon drummer,you gotta check out his history from amazing to pure tragedy
He sung this as his final song at the famous Woodstock festival but his backing singers didn't arrive on time which in my view spoilt his performance. But the audience loved it. Some who attended claimed that he was better than Jimi Hendrix. The recorded version would be great for you to listen to as the lead guitarist was Jimmy Page from Led Zeppelin. It was a monster hit world wide. I'm an Australian and never missed a Joe Cocker performance in my country. R.I.P. Joe😢
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The arrangement was by Leon Russell, the fellow in the top hat playing lead guitar.
The more well known Joe Cocker performance of this song is the one he did at Woodstock - but I prefer this version because I think the band (especially the back up singers!) is bigger and sounds richer.
The story I heard was the backup singers were stuck in traffic at Woodstock, so the band members had to sing background, male singers in falsetto which is why it sounds so different
The whole performance is better, including Joe.
WAY better than Woodstock - and, I agree - poor Joe...with band members singin' backup at Woodstock....but, JOE'S performance is SO ICONIC in that performance! He always had that signature stiffness in his performances....RIP, JOE!!
100%.
This is clearly his best performance of the song. I think the story about the backup singers at Woodstock being stuck in traffic is an urban legend; AFAIK, the Grease Band didn't tour with backup singers. The following tour, "Mad Dogs and Englishmen," from which this cut comes, was on a much bigger scale -- a real extravaganza, with two drummers, a horn section, and bunch of backup singers -- 5 or 6, I believe.
I'm so grateful to be older . The music of my youth had meaning and soul .
FACTS!!! I'm WITH YA!!
I'm 68 and I totally agree and blessed to have lived in a time of the greatest music. Now the rest of being older sucks. Ha. Peace!
That is the understatement of the year! I didn't know how much I got and would continue to get throughout my life from this type of music.
A must watch is Joe singing " You Are So Beautiful" Try not to cry.
OMG - I KNOW, RIGHT??
Oh yeah!!! Andrei and Dominika please do a reaction to this!!! ❤
The only person to do a Beatles song better than the Beatles.
Different than the Beatles.
No cover can ever be better. It always lacks the original spark, originality.
@@rickb.4168this IS better than
@@billpo No it’s not. Did Joe write the lyrics? Arrange the strings? Create the lead, bass and rhythm guitar parts?
No he didn’t. He did a fabulous version of someone else’s hard work. But it’s not better.
@@rickb.4168 No, it's really better.
@@rickb.4168 Did the beatles arrange the strings? The answer is no. In order to be able to arrange any music, you need to be able to read and write music. Since the beatles by their own admission could not read nor write music. They arranged nothing when it comes to musical arrangements. The arrangement was by Leon Russell.
RIP joe cocker and the late great leon russell😢🤘❤️
Joe Cocker and Leon Russell, and many other great musicians on that Mad Dogs tour.
You have no idea how many 60/70's famous musicians are on stage playing and singing backup here.
"Delta Lady", "Darling Be Home Soon", "Cry Me A River", "Feelin' Alright", "The Letter" , Night Moves, Unchain My Heart - you should give all these songs a try. Leon Russell wrote
Delta Lady. Leon has great song like Roll Away The Stone, Stranger In A Strange Land, Hummingbird, Lady Blue.
Perhaps Sheffield’s most successful plumber
Great performance, not only Leon Russell in the band but I'm pretty sure that the backup singer with the long hair is Rita Coolidge.
Yep that's her, proud to say Rita went to high school in the same town I grew up in Nashville Tennessee. She later became Kris Kristofferson.
I believe the black backup singer is Leon's wife, Mary.
I thought it was Claudia Lennear (inspiration for 'Brown Sugar')
Indeed, that is Rita
@@terrycunningham8118 I'm pretty sure you're right.
What a man !!! An ex plumber from my home city, Sheffield, a local legend !! We’re all so proud of him
As you should be!
Loved it! You guys had the same reaction at the start of the song as other reactors to Joe Cocker’s unique stage-mannerisms; once he starts singing, then everybody breaks into those same big smiles. Nice!
Good choice; it's a Beatles tune. Now try "Cry Me a River" from the same concert film. You'll love it.
This song put Joe up there with the great artists of his day. The album, Mad Dogs and English Men was No.1 in the USA at the time, 1969. Everyone wanted to hear and see Joe Crocker!!!!
SUCH a GREAT PERFORMANCE, HERE!!! RIP, JOE!! YOU are SORELY MISSED!! Enjoy, You-Two!! HUGS!
Among the first performances of this song by Joe, was at the legendary Woodstock rock festival, there he was backed by his "Grease Band". His female backing singers were stuck in traffic miles from the venue, so members of the Grease Band had sing the female parts. This tour was arranged at very short notice a few weeks later by Leon Russell, and one of the female singers is Rita Coolidge. The song was written by Lennon & McCartney, when they heard Joes version they apparently said "the song's his now".
love the emotion that comes through in your reactions.
He blew Woodstock apart. The Americans couldn’t believe him
Interestingly, he returned to England to gas fitting to make ends meet.
This is one of the few performances that perfectly captures the idealism of the hippie movement. It's so sad that it gradually dissolved into disillusion.
This is the best reaction ever on RUclips!! Fantastic 👍🇬🇧
Please review another, simpler but just as emotionally moving is his live version of "You are so Beautiful". Very simple, emotional, and it will move you. He's an emotional and emoting genius.
I'm glad you chose this video as opposed the the live performance at Woodstock. This one is so much better in my opinion. Now give Joe's version of "The Moons a Harsh Mistress" and "Guilty" a try to see the whole other side of this great musician.
El Mirage, Arizona USA
Check out "the letter" by Joe Cocker, you will both love it!
"Because we're stupid, there is a simple answer to that." LMAO! Love you guys. Both of you, your emotional and visceral reactions to music is spot on. It reflects the exact intentional affections for which the artists strived. Love watching and listening to your reactions. Brava and bravo!
Joe Cocker was like a demented conductor of an orchestra, every gyration immediately performed by his band, a virtuoso performance. Great reaction as always guys.
Joe never knew he looked strange on stage until years later, people always thought he was high, drunk or handicapped. He was often drunk but the movements came naturally.
Joe's fantastic cover of this Beatles song was a huge hit for him here in Canada 🇨🇦 in 1970. It reached #2 here.
The ‘call-and-response’ emulates gospel songs which is why the song is so moving and spiritual - that and the fact that vocally everyone is 100% committed to their performances.
A little piece of trivia for you both...Jimmy Page played guitar on this track when Joe Cocker recorded his cover of this Beatles classic in studio.
If someone ever asks for an example of what it means to sing from your soul, play this song. Just a masterpiece. I find it hard to believe he still isn't in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Thanks for the reaction.
One of just a few singers that can bring me to tears.
I don't know how much truth there is to the story I heard - but, I'd heard that he had a ba-jillion people to tour with him, during this time period - and, they played a ba-jillion BANGER performances....and: EVERYONE came home just about PENNILESS! Hard to believe....such MOVING PERFORMANCES!!
No autotune, smoke machines or crazy stuff...just straight up, pure talent!
I feel sorry for today's youth. I'm sure there is some great music, but there also seems like a plethora of rotten.
You two always have such a pure, real and wholesome reaction to the great music of my era (I am 69). Keep rocking!
Love Joe Cocker 🎵🎶 💗
Absolutely the BEST reactions ....EVER 💞🎵🎶
My favorite video version of this song by far especially when the backup singers get totally into it. When they hold hands it makes my hair stand. Such a beautiful moment. Peace!
When they say the music of the late 60s early 70s changed the world…now you understand why
when the Beatles heard his version they agreed it should be his song
Love your reactions to this. Wow, both your faces when Joe started singing! And then you couldn't help but move in time to the beat, priceless. Joe was from my home city, Sheffield, Yorkshire, in the north of England. He was a gas fitter when he set out, never spoilt, totally 100% natural talent. A true one off, I saw him live in his later years, just the same as ever.
Definitely the best version of this, so glad you got to hear this one.
So glad I was able to grow up listening to music like this. Thanks for bringing it back and putting into words what a lot of us were unable to do back in the day.✌🏻💀
The guy with the blue top hat is Leon Russell, Rita Coolidge is one of the back up singers. Cocker is surrounded by heavy weight talent on that stage.
The whole double album Joe Cocker The Mad Dogs and Englishmen is supreme. Recomended.
There are so many stories behind this Tour, and the people involved..The talent on that stage is out of this world!
Real music and fantastic artists.no phoney sound effects.
I first saw Joe Cocker perform this song at Filmore West in 1969 with his backup band The Grease Band. Then the following year at winterland on his Mad Dogs and Englishmen tour. Both were epic performances put on by Bill Graham. Winterland had twice the capacity, so was used for bigger shows. Filmore was a much more intimate setting, so it was great to have seen him there first.
You picked the better version I like this one better than the Woodstock performance one of the best albums in my collection try Space Captain, Delta Lady, The Letter,Bird on a Wire
Sadly Joe died, i think in Colorado where he lived. His version and that sung by Ringo on Sgt. Peppers is chalk and cheese, infact you could think it wasn't even the same song, great singer from my home County of Yorkshire, the steel city of Sheffield.
Yes, that's a bit of rock & roll history right there. Nice one D&A! You should treat yourselves sometime to the documentary about that tour, it was crazy, and then listen to Leon Russel's song about the experience called The Ballad Of Mad Dogs & Englishmen. I think there were something like 40 people on the tour with 48 performances, and they all went through something for sure. Leon's song about it is a bit wistful and bittersweet. Thank you for sharing this performance with us. I'm glad you enjoyed it. 🙂
Joe Cocker rented a room over a pub just a few miles away from where I am right now.
Such a powerful and emotional performance…EPIC…RIP Joe…
I said a tear to this song when I was 10 because I was a little bit of a weird kid and now I'm 55 and it still makes me cry.
This was the theme song to a TV called "The Wonder Years" all about growing up in the sixties it was true to life cause I will attest it great being a kid in the sixties for sure.
Amen!
You are so right about that series being true to life. So many of those themes in that show I identified with because my age at the time portrayed(late sixties) was same as the lead character. I lived some of those same experiences and it was a great time to grow up.
Glad you picked this one, I like it a little bit more than the Woodstock version 👍🙂
'She Came In Through the Bathroom Window" 'Feeling Alright' 'Hitchcock Railway" 3 great songs from ' The Joe Cocker Experience '
Bottled lightning! S level! Blew Beatles out of the water! - so good
What a great reaction!!!!!
You guys would love Joe Cocker's performance of "With a Little Help from My Friends" at Woodstock (1969), he puts everything into that performance too!
Here it is, 6.7 million views... should be at least 670 million! ruclips.net/video/rUVEFkjqiEE/видео.html
Joe has many great songs!!!! Go down the rabbit hole and you will love it!!!!!!!❤😊
so glad you chose this version of the song..... the Woodstock version didn't have his back up singers..... or the horns..... or Leon..... or that outro, maybe the best outro ever.
singers of the 60's just needed their voice .
Thanks James, I've never seen this before!!! I thought Woodstock was insane, WOW!!
Yep, your response to that is perfect, and what it deserves. It's one of the great performances. His version at woodstock is also amazing. Really just a religious style experience, which the music really fits.
Thank you for the reaction. My wife eyes are full with tears
feeling alright is one of my favorite songs by joe.his style is very unorthadox.he really gets invested in it and puts all his soul out there.
You need to listen to "You Can Keep Your Hat On"
One of the backup singers is the fabulous Rita Coolidge who later married Chris Christopherson.
The song comes from the Beatles and was actually a pretty simple song. They had written it for their drummer, Ringo Starr, who didn't have a very wide vocal range. Joe Cocker turns the Beatles song into something completely different. He said he thought of what the song must sound like while he was on the toilet. But he may have thought he was a plumber while he was working. Jimmy Page played guitar on the studio version of Cockers with a Little Help. Joe Cocker has covered many songs but always did something entirely his own with the song material. After his time with the Mad Dogs, he returned to England, totally addicted to drugs and alcoholic. He himself once said that he missed 10 years of his life, almost the entire 1970s, when he was addicted to heroin. Fortunately, he got back on his feet in the 1980s and was able to start a second career.
He is so good. He gets into his songs so deeply......Great performer
Honest, raw emotion.
This is the best live and its hard to find. They keep taking it down and all other reactors do the woodstock version. I’m am happy you guys get to enjoy one of the finest live video EVER by any artist❤️🤘
Jimmy Page from Led Zeppelin plays the lead guitar on the original studio version.
Leon never was seen much with a guitar ,he was the piano man that influenced Elton John in a large way..Jim Gordon drummer,you gotta check out his history from amazing to pure tragedy
great example of feeling a sing, truly feeling... you should check out the recording of this song at woodstock for another version.
He sung this as his final song at the famous Woodstock festival but his backing singers didn't arrive on time which in my view spoilt his performance. But the audience loved it. Some who attended claimed that he was better than Jimi Hendrix.
The recorded version would be great for you to listen to as the lead guitarist was Jimmy Page from Led Zeppelin. It was a monster hit world wide. I'm an Australian and never missed a Joe Cocker performance in my country.
R.I.P. Joe😢
I learned the verse/melody on piano…so nice! I would love to play the whole song even if it’s just the chords; I would be happy 😃
Woodstock Festival put him on the map...just saying:)
The Beatles version, sung by Ringo, is a pleasant ditty. This turns a ditty into a masterpiece. One of my all time favourites.
I also hope you react to "Feelin' Alright" from this same tour..Amazing!
From this show.. do the letter please
The Mad Dogs and Englishmen tour was one big party!!!!
I witnessed Joe singing this live in 1969. This brings it all back.
You are So Beautiful by Joe Cocker. It's incredible and moving ❤❤
Hard to believe Leon Russell put this group together in 10 days, that’s all the time he was given and he hit this ball right out of the park!❤
Leon Russell is one of the most underrated musicians of 20th century.
He does a great cover of "She Came In Through The Bathroom Window" also.
You will also love Edgar Winter Group - ‘Dying to Live”, “Good Morning Music”, “I’ve Got News for You”
This was a great era in music, just so much fun.
This version is the best Joe Cocker version, which is to say the best version of this song ever. Thanks to The Beatles, of course.
You can Leave Your Hat On is great too - official video from movie" 9 and one half weeks"
Seeing musicians sing when they're tripping.. completely out of it.. brings back many memories!
Great live version.
Love Y'all! Please check out Joe later on in his career 🙏 "When the night comes" would be a great place to start. Spread the love 🐶😎🇺🇸
I loved it when you said you wanted to run...... but as you know I never run, even for a bus ! xxx This version sends you to heaven
I am a spoiled rotten brat! This is music of my youth. Such good times, such good music!!
Such a beautiful, heartfelt reaction. Do the hole doco yourselves
That was the anthem of the people
He sang with his whole body. Wonderful to see live. He will be missed.
Great reaction, isn't it amazing how music can move us. Thanks
Top hat guitar player is Leon Russell who sang a song for you reaction 😊