LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-NOVEMBER 16, 2019..ON THIS DATE FIFTY ONE YEARS AGO WE WERE FIRST INTRODUCED TO JOE COCKER WHEN THE GRAVELLY VOICED SINGER RELEASED HIS FIRST SINGLE, A REMAKE OF THE BEATLES ‘WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS.’ THIS IS PAUL MCCARTNEY COMMENTING ON COCKER’S VERSION:”it was just mind blowing, totally turned the song into a soul anthem and I was forever grateful for him for doing that.” IN 2001 COCKER’S VERSION OF THE SONG WAS INDUCTED INTO THE GRAMMY HALL OF FAME. THIS IS COCKER PERFORMING ‘WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS’ CIRCA 1969 AT WOODSTOCK WHERE IT BECAME AN ANTHEM FOR A GENERATION
