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Title: Ultimate Collection
Release date: 13 January, 2004
Record label: A&M/Hip-O Records
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1 With A Little Help From My Friends
2 Feeling Alright
3 Delta Lady
4 She Came In Through The Bathroom Window
5 The Letter
6 Cry Me A River
7 You Are So Beautiful
8 I'm So Glad I'm Standing Here Today
9 Sweet Little Woman
10 Many Rivers To Cross
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After 19 original albums, decades of hit singles, and a career marked by truly classic records, Joe Cocker, one of rock?s most intense and passionate performers, has chosen 20 of his favorites for his most expansive career retrospective to date. Joe Cocker: Ultimate Collection (A&M/Hip-O Records), released January 13, 2004, offers most of his biggest hits and more from 1968 to 2000, spanning his years on A&M, MCA, Island, Capitol, Sony and Eagle Records.
In addition, the package?s booklet spotlights an essay by J.P. Bean, author of the September 2003-published Joe Cocker: The Authorized Biography, along with song annotations and rare photos.
Ultimate Collection features his unforgettable renditions of songs written by The Beatles ("With A Little Help From My Friends," "She Came In Through The Bathroom Window"), Leon Russell ("Delta Lady"), Jimmy Cliff ("Many Rivers To Cross"), Randy Newman ("Sail Away," "You Can Leave Your Hat On"), Lovin? Spoonful ("Summer In The City"), Leonard Cohen ("First We Take Manhattan"), John Hiatt ("Have A Little Faith In Me") and Billy Preston ("You Are So Beautiful"). Even though others recorded them first, the version of the song we remember is usually his. Also heard are such artists as Jimmy Page, Brenda Holloway, Rita Coolidge, Bonnie Bramlett, Sly & Robbie, Clarence Clemons and Bryan Adams, along with Newman, Russell, Cliff and Preston.
Cocker?s debut album, With A Little Help From My Friends (1969), featured his studio version of that '60s anthem which he sang at Woodstock and Traffic?s "Feelin? Alright" (U.S. Top 40). Later that year, he again went Top 40 with "She Came In Through The Bathroom Window" and released "Delta Lady." In 1970, Cocker and Russell assembled a tribe of musicians and their live performances became an album and landmark concert film: Mad Dogs & Englishmen featured The Box Tops? "The Letter" (Top 10) and Dinah Washington's "Cry Me A River" (Top 20). In 1974 he scored with his #5-charting cover of "You Are So Beautiful."
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Ultimate Collection picks up in the next decade with "I?m So Glad I?m Standing Here Today," a duet with The Crusaders. From the acclaimed Sheffield Steel are "Sweet Little Woman" and "Many Rivers To Cross." Also in 1982 he earned his biggest hit to date, his #1 duet with Jennifer Warnes, "Up Where We Belong," the love theme from An Officer And A Gentleman which scored both a Grammy and an Oscar. Other '80s tracks are "Shelter Me," "You Can Leave Your Hat On" (which accompanied a scorching scene in 9? Weeks) and the Top 20 Bryan Adams/Jim Vallance/Diane Warren-penned "When The Night Comes."
The '90s are represented by "Now That The Magic Has Gone," a new rendition of "Unchain My Heart" he recorded for a "best of" album (note: this was a remix w/ some overdubs) , "Summer In The City," "Have A Little Faith In Me," "Sail Away" and "First We Take Manhattan."
Today, Joe Cocker is not only one of rock?s ultimate survivors but remains one of its genuine icons.
ALBUM
1.WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS
From A&M album WITH A LITTLE HELP
FROM MY FRIENDS, released May 1969.
2. FEELIN? ALRIGHT
From A&M album WITH A LITTLE HELP
FROM MY FRIENDS, released May 1969.
3. DELTA LADY
From A&M album JOE COCKER!,
released November 1969.
4. SHE CAME IN THROUGH THE
BATHROOM WINDOW
From A&M album JOE COCKER!,
released November 1969.
5. THE LETTER Live
From A&M album MAD DOGS &
ENGLISHMEN, released September 1970.
6. CRY ME A RIVER Live
From A&M album MAD DOGS &
ENGLISHMEN, released September 1970.
7. YOU ARE SO BEAUTIFUL
From the A&M album I CAN STAND A
LITTLE RAIN, released August 1974.
8. I?M SO GLAD I?M STANDING HERE TODAY
with The Crusaders
From the MCA album THE CRUSADERS -
STANDING TALL, released 1981.
9. SWEET LITTLE WOMAN
From the Island album SHEFFIELD STEEL,
released July 1982.
10. MANY RIVERS TO CROSS
From the Island album SHEFFIELD STEEL,
released July 1982.
11. UP WHERE WE BELONG
Duet with Jennifer Warnes
From the Island soundtrack album
AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN,
released November 1982.
12. SHELTER ME
From the Capitol album COCKER,
released March 1986.
13. YOU CAN LEAVE YOUR HAT ON
From the Capitol album COCKER,
released March 1986.
14. UNCHAIN MY HEART 90?s version
90?s version from the Capitol album
THE BEST OF JOE COCKER, released March 1993.
15. WHEN THE NIGHT COMES
From the Capitol album ONE NIGHT OF SIN,
released August 1989.
16. NOW THAT THE MAGIC HAS GONE
From the Capitol album NIGHT CALLS,
released July 1992.
17. SUMMER IN THE CITY
From the Sony Music Entertainment
album HAVE A LITTLE FAITH, released
September 1994.
18. HAVE A LITTLE FAITH IN ME
From the Sony Music Entertainment
album HAVE A LITTLE FAITH, released
September 1994.
19. SAIL AWAY
From the Sony Music Entertainment
album ORGANIC, released October 1996.
20. FIRST WE TAKE MANHATTAN
From the Eagle Entertainment album
NO ORDINARY WORLD, released October 1999.
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