LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES- OCT 1, 2019- ON THIS DATE IN 1968 JOE COCKER RELEASED ONE OF THE GREATEST REMAKES…EVER . THE SINGLE ‘WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS.’ THE BEATLES RECORDED IT A YEAR EARLIER, BUT NEVER RELEASED IT AS A SINGLE. THE BEATLES WERE SO IMPRESSED WITH COCKER’S VERSION THEY SENT HIM A TELEGRAM OF CONGRATULATIONS AND PLACED AN AD IN THE MUSIC TRADES PRAISING THE SONG. THE SONG WAS SOULFUL AND FEATURED MASTERFUL GUITAR WORK FROM JIMMY PAGE AND A BRILLIANT GOSPEL CHOIR SINGING BACKGROUND VOCALS. THE SONG WENT TO NUMBER ONE FOR COCKER AND IN 2001 WAS INDUCTED INTO THE GRAMMY HALL OF FAME.
HERE’S THE LATE GREAT JOE COCKER PERFORMING ‘WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS’
