JOE COCKER Joe Cocker LP REGAL ZONOPHONE 1970 UKorig CLARENCE WHITE-LEON RUSSELL

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JOE COCKER

with THE GREASE BAND: CHRIS STAINTON, ALAN SPENNER, BRUCE ROWLANDS,

HENRY McCULLOCH, plus LEON RUSSELL, MILT HOLLAND, SNEEKY PETE,

CLARENCE WHITE, PAUL HUMPHRIES, MERRIE CLAYTON, RITA COOLIDGE, etc.

After starting out as an unsuccessful pop singer (working under the name Vance Arnold), Joe Cocker 

found his niche singing rock and soul in the pubs of England with his superb backing group, the Grease Band. 

He hit number one in the U.K. in November 1968 with his version of the Beatles' "A Little Help from My Friends." 

His career really took off after he sang that song at Woodstock in August 1969. A second British 

hit came with a version of Leon Russell's "Delta Lady" in the fall of 1969 (by then, Russell was Cocker's 

musical director) and both of his albums, With a Little Help from My Friends (April 1969) and 

Joe Cocker! (November 1969), went gold in America. In 1970, his cover of the Box Tops hit "The Letter" 

became his first U.S. Top Ten. Cocker's first peak of success came when Russell organized the 

Mad Dogs & Englishmen tour of 1970, featuring Cocker and over 40 others 

and resulting in a third gold album and a concert film 

 "JOE COCKER"

Produced by Denny Cordell and Leon Russell

1970      LP        REGAL ZONOPHONE RECORDS   STEREO  SLRZ 1011

MADE IN ENGLAND    ORIGINAL PRESSING

First pressing released on the red Regal Zonophone label with boxed EMI logo on front cover 

Released in a laminated (on front) single cover with flipback on rear

printed by Garrod & Lofthouse

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Barcode: none

LABEL: REGAL ZONOPHONE -  RED LABEL w/SILVER STRIPE - SILVER TEXT

Catalog on cover: (rear) SLRZ 1011 (1E 062 ? 90788)

Catalog on labels: SLRZ. 1011 (YCARX.61) / SLRZ. 1011 (YCARX.61) 

Matrix / Runout (Side A, Stamped): YCARX 61-1U     G 1

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Stamped): YCARX 62-1U     G 1

On labels: Made in Gt. Britain

The Gramophone Co. Ltd. All rights of the manufacturer........of this record prohibited

?1970

(A New Breed Production)

Produced by Denny Cordell and Leon Russellfor Straight Ahead Productions

Rights Society / Publishing: Feldman, Mecolico, BIEM, NCB, 

Carlin Music Corp., Northern Songs, etc.

On Back Sleeve: File under POPULAR : Male Vocal

?1970

Produced by Denny Cordell and Leon Russell for Straight Ahead Productions

A New Breed Production

Notes by John Mendelsohn-Rolling Stone

*©1969-by the New York Times Co., Reprinted by permission

Regal......A Company of the EMI Group

Made and Printed in Great Britain

6911 TPS   Printed and made by Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd. SLRZ 1011

tracklisting

Side 1: DEAR LANDLORD - BIRD ON THE WIRE - LAWDY MISS CLAWDY

SHE CAME IN THROUGH THE BATHROOM WINDOW - HITCHCOCK RAILWAY

Side B: THAT'S YOUR BUSINESS - SOMETHING - DELTA LADY

HELLO, LITTLE FRIEND - DARLING BE HOME SOON

  grading

RECORD VG+, NEAR EX but (please, read above description)

SLEEVE VG+ but (please, see pictures and read above description)

Joe Cocker's first three albums form the bedrock of a career that spans over three decades. 

While Cocker certainly wasn't always in top form during this stretch -- thanks to alcohol problems 

and questionable comeback moves in the '80s and '90s -- his early records did inform the classic 

pub rock sound later credited to proto-punk figures like Graham Parker and Brinsley Schwarz. 

On those early records, Cocker mixed elements of late-'60s English blues revival recordings 

(John Mayall, et al.) with the more contemporary sounds of soul and pop; a sound fused in no small 

part by producer and arranger Leon Russell, whose gumbo mix figures prominently on this eponymous 

release and the infamous Mad Dogs & Englishmen live set. Russell's sophisticated swamp blues 

aesthetic is felt directly with versions of his gospel ballad "Hello, Little Friend" and Beatles-inspired 

bit of New Orleans pop -- and one of Cocker's biggest hits -- "Delta Lady." Following up on the 

huge success of an earlier cover of "With a Little Help From My Friends," Cocker mines more 

Beatles gold with very respectable renditions of "She Came in Through the Bathroom Window" 

and "Something." And rounding out this impressive set are equally astute takes on Dylan's 

"Dear Landlord," Leonard Cohen's "Bird on the Wire," and John Sebastian's "Darling Be Home Soon." 

Throughout, Cocker gets superb support from his regular backing group of the time, the Grease Band. 

A fine introduction to the singer's classic, late-'60s and early-'70s period...(AllMusic)