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Joe Cocker: Heart & Soul

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Label: Parlophone Records
Released: 2004.10.12
Time:
 50:41
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): Jeffrey "C.J." Vanston
Rating: *********. (9/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.cocker.com
Appears with:
Purchase date: 2010.04.29
Price in €: 2,00





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[1] What's Going On (Benson/Cleveland/Gaye) - 5:13
[2] Chain of Fools (Covay) - 3:44
[3] One (U2) - 4:33
[4] I Who Have Nothing (Donida/Leiber/Rapetti/Stoller) - 4:01
[5] Maybe I'm Amazed (McCartney) - 3:22
[6] I Keep Forgetting (Leiber/Stoller) - 3:33
[7] I Put a Spell on You (Hawkins) - 4:31
[8] Every Kind of People (Fraser) - 4:18
[9] Love Don't Live Here Any More (Gregory) - 4:14
[10] Don't Let Me Be Lonely (Taylor) - 3:40
[11] Jealous Guy (Lennon) - 4:06
[12] Everybody Hurts (Berry/Buck/Mills/Stipe) - 7:51

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Joe Cocker - Vocals, Executive Producer

Eric Clapton - Guitar
Jeff Beck - Guitar

Bruce Eskovitz - Saxophone
John Miles - Keyboards
Jeff Baxter - Guitar
Gene Black - Guitar
Ray Brinker - Drums
Vinnie Colaiuta - Guitar, Drums
Shane Fontayne - Guitar
Bruce Gaitsch - Acoustic Guitar
Michael Landau - Guitar
Steve Lukather - Guitar
Nick Milo - Piano
Trevor Murrell - Drums
Ray Neapolitan - Bass
Rafael Padilla - Percussion
Dean Parks - Guitar
Lee Sklar - Bass, Bass Guitar
C.J. Vancston - Bass Guitar
Jeffrey "C.J." Vanston - Bass, Keyboards
Laurie Wisefield - Guitar
Michael Hart Thompson - Guitar

Robert Groslot - Conductor
Shelly Berg - Conductor
Alexander Adhami - Santoor
Jerry Goodman - Violin
Chris Botti - Trumpet
Nick Lane - Trombone
Chris Tedesco - Trumpet
Bill Churchville - Trumpet

C.C. White - Background Vocals
Bernie Barlow - Background Vocals
Terry Dexter - Background Vocals
Marjolein Cneut - Background Vocals
Jille Bemelmans - Background Vocals
Liv CanAelst - Background Vocals

Jeffrey "C.J." Vanston - Arranger, Producer, Engineer, Instrumentation
Ray Neapolitan - Executive Producer
Roger Davies - Executive Producer
Marc DeSisto - Engineer
Greg Ladanyi - Engineer
Doug Sax - Mastering
Robert Hadley - Mastering
C.J. Vancston - Audio Production
Jeri Heiden - Art Direction
Dave Carlock - Pro-Tools
Kevin Harp - Pro-Tools
Franck Vander Heijden - Arranger

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2004 CD EMI Music Distribution 866401
2004 CD EMI Music Distribution 66402

2004 studio album features guest appearances from Eric Clapton & Jeff Beck. Includes well known tunes from the likes of Paul McCartney, Marvin Gaye, John Lennon, & REM to name a few. EMI. 2004.

Since his soulful, slowed-down version of the Beatles' "With a Little Help from My Friends" put him on the pop-music map, Joe Cocker has been particularly savvy in choosing outstanding material. HEART & SOUL (2005) proves Cocker's uncanny knack for picking listener favorites--and ones that suit hisdistinctively rugged, raspy voice, no less--hasn't diminished over time. Contemporary rock-radio classics take the lion's share of the set here, with an exception made for Leiber & Stoller (Cocker's stirring rendition of "I [Who Have Nothing]" is particularly notable). The emotional depth and pathos inherent in U2's "One" and R.E.M.'s "Everybody Hurts" are perfect vehicles for the singer's impassioned approach and sandpaper pipes, and Cocker makes every pause and melodic nuance count with his gut-wrenching delivery. John Lennon's "Jealous Guy" and Paul McCartney's "Maybe I'm Amazed" - two post-Beatles classics - are dusted off and given fine readingshere. His versions of "What's Going On" and "Chain of Fools" effectively go toe-to-toe with the definitive versions by Marvin Gaye and Aretha Franklin, respectively. Cocker holds up admirably, and, in the end, turns in one of his most satisfying releases in years.



When he came to popular attention in the late '60s, Joe Cocker reinvigorated and to a certain extent reinvented the art of interpretive singing at a time when it seemed to have been put in the shade permanently by the rise of singing songwriters led by Bob Dylan and the Beatles. Just when it seemed that no one but the songwriters themselves had the right to sing their songs, Cocker came along giving a gruff, pleading rendition of the Beatles' "With a Little Help From My Friends" that stood in stark contrast to Ringo Starr's happy-go-lucky version. But on his many albums, Cocker usually made sure to balance his carefully selected covers of well-known material with previously unknown tunes so that he was able to originate some material. On Heart & Soul, which marks the 60-year-old singer's return to major-label status (it was released on EMI internationally in October 2004 and on Universal's New Door imprint in the U.S. in February 2005), he doesn't bother with the new stuff; this one's all standards. The songs date from the 1950s, '60s, '70s, and '90s, and are drawn from R&B, pop/rock, and alternative rock stalwarts ranging from Screamin' Jay Hawkins to former Beatles, and contemporary acts U2 and R.E.M.. Producer Jeffrey C.J. Vanston makes a point of referencing the hit versions of the songs in the arrangements, which leave room for the talents of a who's-who of guest guitarists including Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, and Steve Lukather. Cocker's familiar growls and cracked crooning make the songs his own, as usual, and as usual he claims the material without any sense of exclusivity. He never makes you forget the accomplished singers who did these songs before (sometimes more than one of them -- "I Keep Forgettin' [Every Time You're Near]" has had seemingly definitive readings by both Chuck Jackson and Michael McDonald, while "Jealous Guy" is associated not only with its author, John Lennon, but also Roxy Music's Bryan Ferry). Nor does he necessarily improve on those singers; could anyone turn in a more memorable version of "What's Going On" than Marvin Gaye? But that isn't really the point. It's not like his version of "With a Little Help From My Friends" was better than the Beatles', either. It was just different, and it made listeners hear the song in a different way. That's what an interpretive singer does, and it's what Cocker successfully does here, too. At a time when McDonald has enjoyed a career resurgence re-singing the Motown songbook, there is clearly a place for Cocker among adult listeners and on the adult contemporary charts, and that's why he's back on the majors. He does not disappoint.

William Ruhlmann - All Music Guide



While Rod Stewart was busy chasing American songbook classics up the charts in Cole Porter drag, 60's Brit-soul colleague Joe Cocker pursued a more contemporary and compelling set of standards. The material here stretches from the soulful American r&b hits that first inspired the gritty-voiced singer to their modern progeny, emotive ballads like REM's "Everybody Hurts" and the compelling studio/live takes of U2's "One" that bookend the album. Cocker revisits old inspirations Lennon ("Jealous Guy" recast as warm, Caribbean-rhythmed r&b) and McCartney (a grand, if less inspired "Maybe I'm Amazed"), but it's on more vintage material like "Chain of Fools" and Lieber-Stoller's "I Keep Forgetting" and "I (Who Have Nothing)" that Cocker truly invests his considerable interpretative instincts. Jeff Beck solos with tasteful, typically elastic lyricism on the latter, while fellow ax icon Eric Clapton torches "I Put A Spell On You" with his own bluesy fire. But as brilliant as Cocker and his session cohorts (who also include Steve Lukather and Dean Parks) often are, their efforts sometimes skid on C.J. Vanston's way-too-slick production; aiming for the middle of the road, Vanston instead drives material like James Taylor's "Don't Let Me Be Lonely" and Cocker's otherwise lovely read of "Everybody Hurts" towards a ditch.

Jerry McCulley - Amazon.com


Joe Cocker has had an ace up his sleeve ever since he exploded into international prominence in 1969. Possessing a gloriously gritty voice and passionate performance style, this perennial blue-eyed soulster has also always displayed unerring taste in the repertoire he records. Heart and Soul is not only no exception to the rule, it may well be the best example of Cocker’s second-nature discernment when it comes to a just-right song. Here Cocker returns to the mother’s milk of his art: timeless R&B classics and well-crafted pop-rock ballads. Cocker digs deep into a song’s tissue, finding himself in the words and music of others. He visits the turf of Aretha Franklin (“Chain of Fools”), Paul McCartney (“Maybe I’m Amazed”), and John Lennon (“Jealous Guy”); pays tribute to two recently deceased legends, fellow Anglo belter Robert Palmer (“Every Kind of People”) and Nina Simone (“I Put a Spell on You”); and brings his inimitable magic to contemporary favorites like U2’s “One” and R.E.M.'s “Everybody Hurts.” It’s obvious that all these songs, whatever their vintage, are personal favorites. Assisting the ageless singer in this most heartfelt of projects are two other Brit-rock giants: guitarists Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck.

William Pearl - Barnes & Noble
 

 L y r i c s


What's Going On

Mother, mother
There's too many of you crying
Brother, brother, brother
There's far too many of you dying
You know we've got to find a way
To bring some lovin' here today - Ya

Father, father
We don't need to escalate
You see, war is not the answer
For only love can conquer hate
You know we've got to find a way
To bring some lovin' here today

Picket lines and picket signs
Don't punish me with brutality
Talk to me, so you can see
Oh, what's going on
What's going on
Ya, what's going on
Ah, what's going on

In the mean time
Right on, baby
Right on
Right on

Father, father, everybody thinks we're wrong
Oh, but who are they to judge us
Simply because our hair is long
Oh, you know we've got to find a way
To bring some understanding here today
Oh

Picket lines and picket signs
Don't punish me with brutality
Talk to me
So you can see
What's going on
Ya, what's going on
Tell me what's going on
I'll tell you what's going on - Uh
Right on baby
Right on baby


Chain Of Fools

Chain, chain, chain
Chain, chain, chain
Chain, chain, chain yeah, chain of fools

For five long years
I thought you were my man
but I found out
I'm just a link in your chain

You got me where you want me
I ain't nothin' but your fool
You treated me mean,
oh babe you treated me cruel

Chain, chain, chain
Chain, chain, chain
Chain, chain, chain yeah, chain of fools

Now, every chain
has got a weak link
I might be weak child
oh, but I gave you strenghy

Now,you tell me to leave you alone
My papa says "Come on home"
My doctor says "Take it easy"
But your lovin'is much too strong

I'm welded to ya

Chain, chain, chain
Chain, chain, chain
Chain, chain, chain yeah, chain of fools

One of these mornings
that chain is gonna break
But until then, I'm gomma take all I can take

Chain, chain, chain
Chain, chain, chain...


The One

So a time has come
and you lost your way
The light is gone and live is insane
A change is on the way
If your on the road or here at home
You've got to know, you got someone who loves you
All along the way

Refr:

It's one for the other forever true
Keepin the nights on the run
And lover to lover light on the move
Higher and higher finding that we are the one
We are the one

I don't even know anything
But how I feel the way that I do
I found me in you
And when time is up and the world is gone
I know one thing will carry on
I wont be there I'll be there with you

Refr:

It's one for the other forever true
Keepin the night on the run
And lover to lover light on the move
Higher and higher finding that we are the one
We are the one (2x)

I've got to make it
I've got a song to write
I've got a lot to say
I've got someone who loves me
All along the way

Refr:

It's one for the other forever true
Keepin the night on the run
And lover to lover light on the move
Higher and higher finding that we are the one
We are the one (3x)


I (Who Have Nothing)

I, I who have nothing
I, I who have no one
Adore you and want you so
I'm just a no one with nothing to give you but, oh
I love you

He, he buys you diamonds
Bright, sparkling diamonds
But, believe me, dear, when I say
That he can give you the world but he'll never love the way
I love you

He can take you any place he wants
To fancy clubs and restaurants
But I can only watch you with
My nose pressed up against the window pane

I, I who have nothing
I, I who have no one
Must watch you go dancing by
Wrapped in the arms of somebody else when, darling, it's I
Who loves you

I love you
I love you
I love you


Maybe I'm Amazed

Baby, I'm amazed at the way you love me all the time,
And maybe I'm afraid of the way I leave you.

Maybe I'm amazed at the way you pulled me out of time,
You hung me on the line.
Maybe I'm amazed at the way I really need you.

Baby, I'm a man, maybe I'm a lonely man
Who's in the middle of something
That he doesn't really understand.

Baby, I'm a man,
And maybe you're the only woman who could ever help me.
Baby, won't you help me to understand?
Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh.

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Oh, oh, oh,
Oh, oh, oh, oh,
Oh.

Baby, I'm a man, maybe I'm a lonely man
Who's in the middle of something
That he doesn't really understand.

Baby, I'm a man,
And maybe you're the only woman who could ever help me.
Baby, won't you help me to understand?
Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh.

Maybe I'm amazed at the way you're with me all the time,
Maybe I'm afraid of the way leave you.

Maybe I'm amazed at the way you help me sing my song,
Right me when I'm wrong-
Maybe I'm amazed at the way I really need you.


   

I Keep Forgetting

I keep forgetting you don't love me no more
I keep forgetting you don't want me no more
I keep forgetting that you told me that you
Didn't want me around anymore
But these stupid old feet
Just head for your street
Like they've done so many times before
And this stubborn old fist
At the end of my wrist
Keeps knocking on your front door

I keep forgetting you don't love me no more
I keep forgetting you don't want me no more
I keep forgetting about those heartbreaking nights
Ant those heartbreaking things that you said
Though it's plain as can be
You're finished with me
I can't believe our love is dead
Though I know in my heart
We've drifted apart
I just can't get it through my head


I Put A Spell On You

I put a spell on you
'Cause you're mine

You better stop the things you do
I ain't lyin'
No I ain't lyin'

You know I can't stand it
You're runnin' around
You know better daddy
I can't stand it cause you put me down

I put a spell on you
Because you're mine
You're mine

I love ya
I love you
I love you
I love you anyhow
And I don't care
if you don't want me
I'm yours right now

You hear me
I put a spell on you
Because you're mine


Every Kind Of People

Said the fight to make ends meet
Keeps a man upon his feet
Holding down his job
Trying to show he can't be bought
It takes every kind of people
To make what life's about
Every kind of people
To make the world go 'round
Someone's looking for a lead
In his duty to a King or creed
Protecting what he feels is right
Fights against wrong with his life
There's no profit in deceit
Honest men know that
Revenge do not taste sweet
Whether yellow, black or white
Each and every man's the same inside
It takes every kind of people
To make what life's about
Every kind of people
To make the world go 'round
You know that love's the only goal
That could bring a peace to any soul
Hey, and every man's the same
He wants the sunshine in his name
It takes every kind of people
To make what life's about
Every kind of people
To make the world go 'round
It takes every kind of people
To make what life's about
Every kind of people
To make the world go 'round...


Love Don't Live Here Any More

You abandoned me
Love don't live here any more
Just look back and see
Love don't live here any more

When you lived inside of me
There was nothing in the world you wouldn't do for me
Trouble seemed so far away
Then you changed and went away
And you abandoned me
Love don't live here any more
Just look back and see that
Love don't live here any more
Any more

Love don't live here any more
Just emptiness and memories over what we had before
Why did you have to go away
Find another place to stay
You abandoned me
Love don't live here any more
Just look back and see
Love don't live here any more
Yeah

Through the windows in my eyes
Everyone can see the loneliness inside of me
Don't you know I need you so
Why did you have to go
And abandon me
Love don't live here any more
Just look back and see that
Love don't live here any more
Yeah, don't live here any more
Love don't live here, don't live here any more
Any more

You went away and left me
Now love don't live here any more
Any more
Love don't live here any more


Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight

Do me wrong, do me right. Tell me lies but hold me tight.
Save your good-byes for the morning light, but don't let me be lonely tonight.

Say goodbye and say hello. Sure enough good to see you, but it's time to go.
Don't say yes but please don't say no, I don't want to be lonely tonight.

Go away then, damn you, go on and do as you please,
You ain't gonna see me getting down on my knees.
I'm undecided, and your heart's been divided, you've been turning my world upside down.

Do me wrong, do me right, right now, baby. Go on and tell me lies but hold me tight.
Save your good-byes for the morning light, morning light,
but don't let me be lonely tonight.
I don't want to be lonely tonight, no, no, I don't want to be lonely tonight.

I don't want to be lonely tonight.


Jealous Guy

And my heart was beating fast
I began to lose control
I began to lose control

I didn't mean to hurt you
I'm sorry that I made you cry
Oh no, I didn't want to hurt you
I'm just a jealous guy

I was feeling insecure
You might not love me anymore
I was shivering inside
I was shivering inside

I didn't mean to hurt you
I'm sorry that I made you cry
Oh no, I didn't want to hurt you
I'm just a jealous guy

I didn't mean to hurt you
I'm sorry that I made you cry
Oh no, I didn't want to hurt you
I'm just a jealous guy

I was trying to catch your eyes
Thought that you was trying to hide
I was swallowing my pain
I was swallowing my pain

I didn't mean to hurt you
I'm sorry that I made you cry
Oh no, I didn't want to hurt you
I'm just a jealous guy, watch out
I'm just a jealous guy, look out babe
I'm just a jealous guy


Everybody Hurts

When the day is long and the night, the night is yours alone,
When you're sure you've had enough of this life, well hang on.
Don't let yourself go, everybody cries and everybody hurts sometimes.

Sometimes everything is wrong. Now it's time to sing along.
When your day is night alone, (hold on, hold on)
If you feel like letting go, (hold on)
When you think you've had too much of this life, well hang on.

Everybody hurts. Take comfort in your friends.
Everybody hurts. Don't throw your hand. Oh, no. Don't throw your hand.
If you feel like you're alone, no, no, no, you are not alone

If you're on your own in this life, the days and nights are long,
When you think you've had too much of this life to hang on.

Well, everybody hurts sometimes,
Everybody cries. And everybody hurts sometimes.
And everybody hurts sometimes. So, hold on, hold on.
Hold on, hold on. Hold on, hold on. Hold on, hold on.
[Repeat & fade]
(Everybody hurts. You are not alone.)
 

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