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Joe Cocker: Night Calls

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Artist: Joe Cocker
Title: Night Calls
Released: 1991
Label: Capitol Records
Time: 54:18
Producer(s): David Tickle, Danny Kortchmar
Appears with:
Category: Blues
Rating: *******... (7/10)
Media type: CD
Purchase date:  2000.07.28
Price in €: 9,99
Web address: www.cocker.com

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[1] Love Is Alive (Garry Wright) - 3:57
[2] Little Bit Of Love (Rodgers/Kossokoff/Kirke/Fraser) - 2:30
[3] Please No More (D.Egan/G.Hansen) - 5:30
[4] There's A Storm Comming (J.Hadley/W.Wilson) - 4:11
[5] You've Got to Hide Your Love Away (J.Lennon/P.McCartney) - 5:05
[6] I Can Hear the River (Don Dixon) - 4:54
[7] Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me (Elton John/B.Taupin) - 5:32
[8] Night Calls (Jeff Lynne) - 3:30
[9] Five Women (Prince) - 5:37
[10] Can't Find My Way Home (Steve Winwood) - 3:22

Bonus tracks:
[11] Not Too Young To Die Of A Broken Heart (Brebt Bourgeois) - 4:22
[12] Out of the Rain (Tony Joe White)  4:39
[10] Guilty (Newman) - 2:46

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Joe Cocker - Vocals

Jeff Lynne - Multi Instruments, Producer
Jim Brock - Timbales
Ian McLagan - Hammond B3 Organ
John Miles - Organ, Hammond B3 Organ, Tambourine, Background Vocals
Mike Campbell - Guitar
Jim Keltner - Drums
Alejandro "Alex" Acuña - Percussion
Michael Baird - Drums
Benmont Tench - Hammond B3 Organ
Deric Dyer - Saxophone
Phil Grande - Guitar
Steve Holley - Drums, Tambourine
Rory Kaplan - Keyboards
Danny Kortchmar - Guitar, Producer
David Paich - Keyboards
Greg Phillinganes - Keyboards
Chris Stainton - Piano
Neil Stubenhaus - Bass
T.M. Stevens - Bass

Marti Jones - Background Vocals
Maxine Sharp - Background Vocals
New Life Community Choir - Background Vocals
The Water Sisters - Background Vocals

Chris Lord-Alge - Producer, Engineer
David Tickle - Producer, Engineer
Terry Manning - Producer, Engineer
Roger Davies - Producer
Albert Hammond - Producer
Michael Lang - Producer
Stewart Levine - Producer
Jeff Lynne - Producer
Charlie Midnight - Producer
Diane Warren - Producer
Richie Zito - Producer
Marc DeSisto - Engineer
Richard Dodd - Engineer
John Rollo - Engineer
Pat Robinson - Songwriter
 

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This is a well-chosen little collection of Cocker's post-comeback work, with stylistic nods to several mini-genres of the '80s and '90s. There's a little synth pop ("Shelter Me"), a couple of power ballads ("Feels Like Forever," "Don't You Love Me Anymore") and even an idiosyncratic, couldn't-be-by-anybody-else Jeff Lynne production. There's also a nod to Joe's R&B roots with a new version of Ray Charles' '50s hit "Unchain My Heart," and a '90s live version of "With a Little Help From My Friends" that sounds almost exactly like the more famous 1969 version from the Woodstock soundtrack.

CDUniverse.com



Cocker's rep has always been as a superb interpreter of other people's material. For Night Calls, the Sheffield native peaks with the opening track — a memory-engraving rendition of the Brian Adams/Diane Warren-penned "Feels Like Forever." It's the higher profile songs that ultimately disappoint on Night Calls. Cocker eventually works up a lather toward the end of "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away," but it never reaches the standard of other Beatles classics in his repertoire ("With a Little Help from My Friends," "She Came in Through the Bathroom Window"). The biggest let-down is the lack of commitment projected on Elton John's "Don't Let the Sun Go Down On Me." Still, even slumming Cocker sounds more real and soulful than, say, Michael Bolton in his wildest dreams.

Roch Parisien, AllMusic Guide



Cocker ist ein Phänomen. Erfahrungen, die andere längst umgebracht hätten, münzt er in bluesgetränkte Songs um, die stets für eine Gänsehaut gut sind. Ob er in Slow Motion Please No More bettelt, mit harschen Rockriffs Love Is Alive feiert oder erneut einen Beatles-Klassiker (You've Got To Hide Your Love Away) durch seinen Urschrei krönt - Cocker (siehe auch Seite 9) ist musikalisches Urgestein, das Produzenten-Asse wie Danny Kortchmar glücklicherweise urwüchsig beließen. Der dritte Frühling.

© Audio



Nichts Neues von Joe Cocker, doch das bedeutet bei dem Kraftpaket aus der englischen Stahl-Stadt Sheffield eigentlich nur Gutes. Wieder schwingt sich die unverwechselbare Reibeisenstimme in mächtigem Gospel-Rock ("Love Is Alive") und schummrigen Blues-Balladen ("Night Calls, "Five Women") zu Darbietungen voll knisternder Spannung auf. Neben Blind Faiths "Can't Find My Way Home" und Elton Johns "Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me" finden sich auch Lennon & McCartney wieder im Programm: "You've Got To Hide Your Love Away" interpretiert Cocker mit der typischen schleppenden Schwere und berstenden Intensität wie seinerzeit "With A Little Help From My Friends". ** Interpret.: 07-09 ** Klang.: 07-09

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Der für sein irres Gekreisel, seine Reibeisen-Stimme und einen destruktiven, seine Songs mit einem verzweifelten Unterton durchtränkenden Alkoholismus bekannte Joe Cocker, kreierte einen ganz eigenen Bluessound, der kaum zu übertreffen war. Diese Sammlung beinhaltet sein späteres Material. Nun, da die Dämonen unter Kontrolle gebracht waren, hat er sich in einen zeitgenössischen Sänger für Erwachsene verwandelt, der auf Befehl Pathos produzieren kann. Die einfache Eleganz seines Duetts mit Jennifer Warnes, "Up Where We Belong", katapultierte ihn wieder ins Rampenlicht. Er hat die schlimmen Tage überwunden, aber er verfügt immer noch über diesen traurigen, einsamen Ton, den nur jemand haben kann, der sie erlebt hat.

Rob O'Connor - Amazon.de



Zwei grundverschiedene Kopplungen stehen für Fans von Joe Cocker im Regal. Für das Curb-Label von 1968 bis 1975 eingespielte Blues- und Bluesrock- Songs wie "Whith A Little Help From My Friends" oder "You Are So Beautiful" finden sich auf der CD "Lovesongs & Ballads" (Edel CUB 9806- 2/Ideal, AAD, 75:10, I:07-10, K:05-08, R:10). "The Best Of" mit allen seit 1983 für Capitol aufgenommenen Hits ("Up Where We Belong", "Civilized Man" oder "Shelter Me") beweist, wie der Mann aus Sheffield trotz stark am Mainstream orientierter Kompositionen seine Glaubwürdigkeit als größter weißer Bluessänger unserer Tage bewahrt hat. ** Interpret.: 08-09 ** Klang.: 05-08

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 L y r i c s


LOVE IS ALIVE

Well, I think it's time to get ready
To realize just what I have found
I've been only half of what I am
It's all clear to me now

My heart is on fire, my soul's like a wheel that's turnin'
My love is alive, My love is alive

There's somethin' inside that's makin' me crazy
I'll try to keep it together
'Cause what I say may not happen the same way
Not to be for ever and ever

My heart is on fire, my soul's like a wheel that's turnin'
My love is alive, My love is alive

My love is alive
My love is alive

Is there a movie inside my mind
Reflectin' the love that you shine on me
Hold on now, to that feelin'
Let it flow, let it run, yeah

My heart is on fire, my soul's like a wheel that's turnin'
My love is alive, My love is alive

My love is alive
My love is alive


LITTLE BIT OF LOVE

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PLEASE NO MORE

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THERE'S A STORM COMMING

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YOU'VE GOT TO HIDE YOUR LOVE AWAY

Here I stand head in hand
Turn my face to the wall
If she's gone I can't go on
Feelin' two-foot small

Everywhere people stare
Each and every day
I can see them laugh at me
And I hear them say

Hey you've got to hide your love away
Hey you've got to hide your love away

How could I even try
I can never win
Hearing them, seeing them
In the state I'm in

How could she say to me
Love will find a way
Gather round all you clowns
Let me hear you say

Hey you've got to hide your love away
Hey you've got to hide your love away


I CAN HEAR THE RIVER

It's so cold on this balancing beam
I lose my breath each time I scream
All the time that it takes on this cliff
I simply wish that you were here

I must be in love with you
Be in love with you
Be in love with you
I must be in love with you

I think you're the reason
I can see the water
I don't feel so lonely
That I hear the river

On a night like tonight in the park
I sit alone out in the dark
On the days I'm waiting for you
It seems that

Water must break through
I must be in love with you
Yes be in love with you
I can hear the river
I can see the water

I must be in love with you
When I'm near the river
I see the bridges
I can feel the morning
I can almost touch you
When I'm near the river
Be in love with you
I can hear the river

Can see the water
I don't feel so lonely
When I'm near the river
I hear the river tide

Now that I feel the morning
I don't feel so lonely
When I'm near the river
Hear the tide


DON'T LET THE SUN GO DOWN ON ME

I can't light no more of your darkness
All my pictures seem to fade to black and white
I'm growing tired and time stands still before me
Frozen here on the ladder of my life

Too late to save myself from falling
I took a chance and changed your way of life
But you misread my meaning when I met you
Closed the door and left me blinded by the light

Don't let the sun go down on me
Although I search myself, it's always someone else I see
I'd just allow a fragment of your life to wander free
But losing everything is like the sun going down on me

I can't find the right romantic line
But see me once and see the way I feel
Don't discard me just because you think I mean you harm
But these cuts I have they need love to help them heal


NIGHT CALLS

The night gang started working
With a mile of southern road
As I watched
I got to thinking
You ain't never coming home
I looked out of nowhere
There was nobody at all
To get me help
To get through to you

I'm here making night calls
Night calls
Making night calls
Night calls
Making night calls
I gave

I tried too hard to reach you
But you must be moving fast
All my hopes about the future
Will just live on
Into the past
You know that it ain't easy
And the twilight starts to fade
Shouldn't you
The chill of the morning
Thinking of the plans we made

Oh, night calls
Making night calls
Let it ring
The night calls
Making night calls
Oh, night calls
Give up those night calls


FIVE WOMEN

It took 5 women 2 getcha off of my mind
It took 5 months, a plenty good wasted time
But it just took 5 minutes when I saw your face again
2 fall in love all over, I guess with U I'll never win

March was a cold one in more ways than one
Went down 2 the nightclub lookin' 4 the sun
Lookin' 4 a light that could brighten up a day
That's been darker than a hole since U went away

April usually brings showers
This time it was a hurtin' kind
This woman said she wanted my baby
I told her I'd have 2 be deaf, dumb, and blind
2 fall in love with someone that I barely knew
The baby would never really have a father
Cuz I still, cuz I still, cuz I still, still, still, huh
Be stuck on U

It took 5 women 2 getcha off of my mind
Get off my mind, baby
Fallin' in love all over... U I'll never win

May was her name, she was jumpin'
Jumpin' from plane 2 plane
Actress or model or somethin'
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June brought an Easter bunny
Needless 2 say, hmph, that girl was late
Told a made-up story 2 a busy-body of our only date
What a sketch!

July was a heartbreak, extraordinary
Said I met this woman whose kiss was somethin' scary
It felt so much, so much like yours
But it only made me, made me want U more
She's gone, she's gone but U're still here
I want U very..., huh, it's U I fear

But it took 5 women 2 get U off my mind
It took 5 months, 5 months, a plenty good wasted time
But it just took 5 minutes and I saw your face again
I fell in love all over with U, I guess I'll never win
(I'll never win)


CAN'T FIND MY WAY HOME

Come down off your throne and leave your body alone.
Somebody must change.
You are the reason I've been waiting so long.
Somebody holds the key.

  But I'm near the end and I just ain't got the time
  And I'm wasted and I can't find my way home.

Come down on your own and leave your body alone.
Somebody must change.
You are the reason I've been waiting all these years.
Somebody holds the key.

  Chorus

But I can't find my way home.
But I can't find my way home.
But I can't find my way home.
But I can't find my way home.
Still I can't find my way home,
And I ain't done nothing wrong,
But I can't find my way home.


NOT TOO YOUNG TO DIE OF A BROKEN HEART

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OUT OF THE RAIN

out of the rain,
under the shelter i've been so long where the sun don't
shine standing at the cross-roads,
could have went ither way but now i've found you and the storm is behind

out of the rain, out of the rain

over the wall,
i'm out in the open back on the right track,
i'm feeling no pain you took a sparrow and let it fly with the eagles
i can see a long ways,
i feel love again

out of the rain, out of the rain

there was a time
i was taking no prisoners standing with a cold heart,
standing alone it took your sweet love to pull me out of the canyon
i believe i can make it now, i feel like i belong

out of the rain, out of the rain out of the rain, out of the rain
 

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