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Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 22, 2014 10 Comments
He died today. The BBC reports:
Singer Joe Cocker, best known for his cover of the Beatles' With A Little Help From My Friends, has died aged 70, his agent has confirmed. The Sheffield born singer-songwriter had a career lasting more than 40 years with hits including You Are So Beautiful and Up Where We Belong. His agent Barrie Marshall said Cocker, who died after battling lung cancer, was "simply unique". Sir Paul McCartney said he was a lovely guy who "brought so much to the world". Cocker's friend Rick Wakeman, keyboard player for the rock band Yes, called his rendering of With a Little Help From My Friends "sensational" and said: "He had a voice that was just unique."
He'll always be most remembered for his rendition at Woodstock of With A Little Help From My Friends: It was more than a rendition. It became something of a cultural icon:

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 20, 2014 7 Comments

It's okay to sing along...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 06, 2013 8 Comments

If you are reading this on a Saturday over a holiday weekend then the video below from Legal Insurrection reader and sometimes commenter Bill Dyszel probably applies to you. You may remember Bill from these classics previously featured here: Top 10 Patriotic Junk Food Songs Mercurial Redemption, An...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 24, 2013 7 Comments

Longtime readers know that Boney M and I go way back. For some reason I couldn't get this song out of my head last night. The words are from Psalms 137:1: By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. https://youtu.be/ta42xU2UXLA Which continues: If...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 26, 2013 3 Comments

I took the long way home all afternoon into evening. Thanks to the other contributors for helping out. I heard the news that George Jones died: ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 22, 2013 8 Comments

I previously have written how I saw Richie Havens live at My Father's Place when I was in high school, at the time we ran several of his songs as Videos of the Day in late January 2012: I saw Richie Havens at My Father’s Place...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 27, 2013 9 Comments

Van Cliburn died today at age 78. The name lives on with the piano competition named after him. RIP, tall Texan: Renowned American classical pianist Van Cliburn died Wednesday morning at the age of 78 after a battle with bone cancer, publicist and longtime friend Mary Lou Falcone...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 05, 2012 9 Comments

One of the greats. I have so many of his albums ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 25, 2012 30 Comments

Even more than Rebecca Black's Friday and Anne's Chick-fil-A guys. PSY's Gangnam Style becomes most watched YouTube video of all time with 805 million views: South Korean rapper PSY's Gangnam Style has become YouTube's most viewed video of all time. YouTube said in a posting on its Trends...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 18, 2012 26 Comments

Bruce Springsteen is all in for Obama again: If any doubt remained about how central the state of Ohio is to President Obama's reelection campaign, the sight of Bruce Springsteen and former President Clinton on stage at Cuyahoga Community College on Thursday made it clear...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 08, 2012 16 Comments

We have featured The Iveys before to a very good reader reaction. The band members are the cousins of LI reader, photographer (also, here, here) and West Texas correspondent Danelle, who also happens to be one of the first to email me whenever I get a national media reference,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 02, 2012 11 Comments

Lyrical genius behind the Burt Bacharach legend, died yesterday: Hal David, the renowned pop music lyricist whose prolific collaboration with composer Burt Bacharach produced a wealth of enduringly memorable hits in the 1960s and early '70s, including "Walk On By," "What the World Needs Now Is...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 26, 2012 22 Comments

Thanks to Windbag in the Tip Line for the link to this music video by the group The Voters. Why hasn't this video gone viral?  It only has 9800 views on YouTube. Spread the link via the share function on the YouTube page, or spread this post via the Twitter...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 03, 2012 17 Comments

Featuring commenter LukeHandCool's daughter.  She must have a beautiful mother. ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 20, 2012 12 Comments

This one hurts.  I grew up knowing so many of the Bee Gees early songs by heart. The New York Mining Disaster 1941 was one of my favorites, and one of the most underappreciated: Robin Gibb passed away today. He will be missed. From Rolling Stone: Robin Gibb, one-third...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 18, 2012 12 Comments

Dick Clark passed away this morning in Los Angeles. For those of us of a certain age, he was MTV before there was MTV (and when MTV actually played music). ...

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