Joe Cocker

Joe Cocker!

CD CLASSICS A&M US CD 2503

1987 13 TRK Collection (mostly, if not all, 70's recordings)

LP COCKER HAPPY (Collection) FLY UK HIFLY 3

1970 12 TRK Collection

7" CRY ME A RIVER / GIVE PEACE A CHANCE A&M US AM-1200-S

1971? 2 TRKS with pic sleeve

CD GREATEST HITS A&M US CD 3257

1987 12 TRK Collection (70's recordings)

CD JOE COCKER A&M US CD 3326

1969 10 TRKS ('86 issue) 2nd album

LP JOE COCKER REGAL ZO UK SLRZ 1011

1970 10 TRKS UK original, stereo - 2nd album

LP LIVE IN L.A. CUBE FR 2326 041

1972 9 TRKS Live, '76 issue

CDx2 MAD DOGS & ENGLISHMEN A&M US 6002.2

1970 19 TRKS Live – so, this isn’t a re-master, but it has more songs? Or just different indexing?

LPx2 MAD DOGS & ENGLISHMEN A&M DE 80813 XT

1970 14 TRKS Live

7" MARJORINE / NEW AGE OF THE LILLY, THE REGAL ZO UK RZ 3006

1968 2 TRKS no pic sleeve

CD MILLENNIUM COLLECTION A&M US 541606.2

2000 11 TRK Collection

CD WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS A&M US 490419.2

1969 12 TRKS ('99 issue) (2 x bonus tracks) 1st album

LP WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS CUBE DE INT 136.305

1969 10 TRKS re-issue, 1st album

7" WOMAN TO WOMAN / MIDNIGHT RIDER CUBE UK BUG 25

1972 2 TRKS no pic sleeve

I don’t remember if I first saw or heard of Joe Cocker via the Woodstock film, but it was around that time. I also certainly heard him on the FM radio, or playing in hippie record stores. More white R&B than ‘rock’, it still sounded unique to my young ears. I wonder if he’ll ever write an autobiography? I, for one, would buy / read it.

The new century is moving forward, Mr. Cocker is still alive – and the newest record by him that I can fully support is his ’72 song “Woman to Woman”, which I heard played a lot at the time. Which album is it on? I’m not sure that I have that one.

I never saw the “Mad Dogs & Englishmen” film at the time – I believe my intro to Leon Russell was either hearing him with Joe Cocker or in the Bangla Desh film. Certainly by ’72, Mr. Russell had “Tightrope” on the radio – and he came into his own in a very mainstream yet acceptable way. And I have a legit DVD of the “Mad Dogs…” film.

Hip-O Select, a custom label of Universal – has released a 6CD set of the concerts that the 2LP/2CD of “Mad Dogs & Englishmen” was culled from. $60. I wonder if I’ll find a cheap one of those in a used bin somewhere? They’re also finally re-releasing the CD of “Joe Cocker!”, his 2^nd album – but no bonus tracks (the re-issue of his debut, “With A Little Help From My Friends” has 2 x cool bonus tracks). And Mr. Cocker is a “Millennium Collection” artist – so can I get rid of the other two collections I have on CD? I definitely want to keep “Woman to Woman” on both vinyl and CD (and I don’t think it’s on the “Millennium Collection”).

- RK