The world would have no idea what to do with this guy today. The world had no idea what to do with this guy in the 60s. Talk about being a true original. 2024.
My Joe Cocker story is really my wife's. She managed the call center for Netlink, a satellite company back in the 90s. One day, an employee asked her to take a call from a guy he couldn't understand, "Joe somebody." My wife went to university in England so she had no problem understanding the accent on the other end of the phone. Joe Cocker had a ranch up in Vail and had a Netlink satellite. Whenever he wanted to order a pay-per-view or had a technical problem after that, he'd just call Donna. She told him she was a huge fan and always looked forward to hearing from him, so at the end of one of their calls he sang "You Are So Beautiful" over the phone to her.
One of the best covers of all time. Not sure too many people know that Dave Mason was only 19 when he wrote this song. Love them both. Saw Dave again last year in Annapolis, and he still has it, and he released a remake of this that is definitely worth checking out.
God love Joe, but that's what happens when you smoke 2 packs a day for over 40 years. He was smoking 2 packs a day until the 90's. Insane voice though, through and through.
In my opinion, this video "proves" that the "original voice" was a lot better than his voice through the years. He sang the highest and lowest in a really nicer and clearer way.
I'm picturing frantic activity as stages were built and choreography planned in a day or two after the musical guest arrived in town for the show It must have been bedlam
He had a great band. Always perfect. His first album was monumental. Brings back great memories. Turntables , candles , incense, wine, black lights and smoke.
My grandparents were born in 1895 and 1898, and they never missed Ed Sullivan. I’m trying to picture them watching this in 1969, my grandmother in her smock dress and my grandfather in his farmer overalls. How the world turns.
Boy even with all the Dancing going on all around him… and that Seinfeld Shirt, Cocker STILL manages to mesmerizes you with his Performance! OUTSTANDING 👏🏼
Just found this clip, Joe looking pretty swish in his glad rags. I put my new Cocker Happy LP on mums Stereo gram in 72, her Dad was a Jazz band member she loved music espevially the 60s afro Blues, hearing Joe not knowing who it was? she said these Afro Americans have got wonderful voices...I never corrected her until she played the LP weeks later & was confused as she read the cover...😂 Probably never hear another like Joe. RIP❤
So many worthy comments here. Even though Joe performed ever so modestly. Probably didn't even take any LSD that day. : ) Love and miss ya Joe! So grateful to be rocking with you in your videos. RIP Joe!
Visiting my cousin in New York in '69, her roommate Emily held up Joe Cocker's first album and said "This white boy's got soul!". And the rest was history ~
when Joe Cocker first appeared in the music scene, people wondered who the hell is this guy. Turns out he was fantastic with a voice all his own. His later concerts were his best. With Chris Stanton on piano!
I saw him live in a relatively small building. He looked pretty worn out from the road but it was a good show. The man really had a feel for the music.
Part of it was the ostentatious use of the color in the set design, lighting and costumes; the other was the Marconi Mark VII color cameras put into the Ed Sullivan Theatre in 1967 (while there was a special variant of the Norelco PC-70 - dubbed PC-71, with a mumetal shield to counter the magnetic field of a nearby subway substation transformer - in the studio whose performance CBS was pleased with, it seems they had to put the remaining Marconis - ordered for use in their O&O stations everywhere but New York - somewhere, as Philadelphia's WCAU-TV went with the infamous RCA TK-42 cameras whilst WBBM-TV Chicago, KMOX-TV St. Louis and KNXT Los Angeles all had Mark VII's installed in their respective studios).
Back in the early 80’s I saw her perform a show in Las Vegas. Of course it had all the “cuchi cuchi” and shtick she was known for for. But it also had a segment where she sat with a guitar and played and sang all alone on stage. That was awesome!
Always wondered ,why the spastic body movements..but now I know it was Joe's method of pulling that wonderful, magical voice up and out of his soul, loved you since hearing your Woodstock recording at 12 ,always will. Some sports were meant to sing, thank God he found his calling
This song is among the ten best songs I have ever heard in my life, I was 12 years old when this song was published and I remember it very well. I continue listening to him and I continue to be fascinated by the unmatched strength of him and Joe Cocker. Great video.
Thank God for UA-cam. I always thought that Joe Cocker started his career in the 1980s. I see now that he had a very long career way back from 1960s. I must admit i barely recognized him as a very young man.
I saw Joe perform at the Denver Pop Festival with the Grease Band a few months after this Ed Sullivan gig. He was back to being his old grubby, disheveled self in true hippie garb, and he was playing that herky-jerky air guitar as he belted out one great song after another. He also played the following night. I do admire, though, how he was able to smooth all that out for Ed -- his dancing in place while singing is great, very rhythmic. It really is a nice up-close look at Joe singing a great song. Dave Mason's original was good, but just like With a Little Help From My Friends he changes it up and owns it. Magnificent.
I've been waiting for this since it was announced that the Ed Sullivan Archives were going to be released. So glad we didn't have to hold out for too long. This is Joe's first US TV appearance. In four months he'll be all mutton chops, tie dye, dripping with sweat and still fierce as hell. Why, oh why did the Ed Sullivan Show channel and UA-cam allow the end to be obscured with stupid ads?
Better than Dave Mason,that is for sure.For some reason ,I could not figure out why,now I know.He pronounces words so you can understand them.Mason partially does,mumbles the rest of the time.
Joe Cocker performed at my little hometown early 90s, he absolutely belted every classic hit from his vault. What an incredible 3 minute video,shades of 1969,Woodstock era. RIP Joe
Maybe so but I’d say here he’s more of Tom Jones meets Ray Charles and I mean that as a compliment. My grandparents were from Sheffield. Cheers from Montreal.
@@johngore7744 That’s an interesting blend. But it sounds good. Btw, I’m from Montreal. It’s always great to hear from fellow Canadians. I miss Canada.
One of my favorite songs of any genre...hadn't seen this. Love the dancers! This is Joe singing live lead vocal to the original studio recording, and what a great job Joe did here! The musicians are going through the motions [some more believably than others]. By the way, famed Wrecking Crew bassist Carol Kaye was on the studio recording...what a fantastic bass line she played on this! I notice Joe was a very good looking man in his young years.
@@Music--ng8cd thanks for your question. The recording is outstanding for 2 reasons. The age of the recording; it's nearly 60 years old. And the era it was recorded. The technology then was no where near what we have today Plus the camera work and editing was top notch for it's time also
I also remember the first time I heard Joe Cocker. I still really enjoy his music! Had his own unique sound. Brings back some great memories for me. He had the soulful sound of a man who survived some ups and downs of life. Joe was the man.
This is the first time I've seen young Cocker looking clean shaven and trendily dressed. Plus I could understand every word he sang for a change. Love the guy but he was definitely a shock to the system especially with Mad Dogs and Englishmen.
Joe shows you that people's perceptions of each other, their disabilities, their imperfections, flaws and faults, are not and were never really there. How we perceive each other is an obstacle to our understanding. It can be easily put aside when we become accustomed to the reality of that person and who they really are inside or outside or which ever way they are. I mean, look at what he can do and we all have something, even if we just feel it, expression is a human thing. Or maybe a natural thing.
Nice. We can forgive them for miming all but his voice because he sings so well over the recording of Leon and company. A great voice, a great song, a great performance.
He sure cleaned up nice after his performance at Woodstock. I loved him then and even more now. I miss him. I still have his first vinyl album which I bought new at the time. His version of "With a Little Help from my Friends" was approved by the Beatles before he recorded it. What a class act. He even had a great sense of humor when he performed on SNL (the old, original and best cast when it focused on entertainment instead of politics) with John Belushi, who mirrored his body movements. Many decades later, his performance in the movie, "Across the Universe" in different characters showed even more of his talent.
The world would have no idea what to do with this guy today. The world had no idea what to do with this guy in the 60s. Talk about being a true original. 2024.
For damn sure!
My Joe Cocker story is really my wife's. She managed the call center for Netlink, a satellite company back in the 90s. One day, an employee asked her to take a call from a guy he couldn't understand, "Joe somebody." My wife went to university in England so she had no problem understanding the accent on the other end of the phone. Joe Cocker had a ranch up in Vail and had a Netlink satellite. Whenever he wanted to order a pay-per-view or had a technical problem after that, he'd just call Donna. She told him she was a huge fan and always looked forward to hearing from him, so at the end of one of their calls he sang "You Are So Beautiful" over the phone to her.
I think I just peed my pants a little...lucky lady!!
Adorable story❤
What fabulous memories.
Love it!
Wow. Something to tell the grandkids. Great story. Thx for sharing.
Ol' Ed really knew what acts would draw "the youngsters " to his shew!
There is so much going on in this recording .
Drums , piano ,Joe cocker,of
course , the dancers and the song itself .
Colorful times...
Let's get this guy into the Rock and Roll hall of fame. Way overdue.
I love these dancers as well, and the musicians do too. Love the energy from the girl in the dark brown hip hugger corduroys....sheesh
One of the best covers of all time. Not sure too many people know that Dave Mason was only 19 when he wrote this song. Love them both. Saw Dave again last year in Annapolis, and he still has it, and he released a remake of this that is definitely worth checking out.
Joe Cocker sang and performed like a man possessed by the spirit of the music that flowed through him. I love the man. RIP Joe.
He was possess by the 'spirit' for the better part of his 1st career. It wasn't the spirit of music though.... it was the spirit of Whiskey.
If it walks like a duck, quacks likes a duck, but it's not a duck, it's probably possessed by the evil spirit of a duck! lol
77 years old just found this! DAMN!!!!!!!!?
This is so appropriately stated! It sums up his soulful style of singing.
I loved John Belushi's impersonation of Joe!
R.I.P Joe Cocker (May 20, 1944 - December 22, 2014), aged 70
You will be remembered as a legend.
Never will forget the first time I heard this. I was a young teen. 65 today. It was on a really GOOD stereo and it was loud. Still love it..
Yesss! Still best heard loud!
Sum 1,000. Watt speakers??😊
Goodness, he was only 24 when this aired. That unique voice always made him sound older.
God love Joe, but that's what happens when you smoke 2 packs a day for over 40 years. He was smoking 2 packs a day until the 90's.
Insane voice though, through and through.
His voice sounded that way since he was 12 ….He was born with that fabulous instrument 🥰
Doesn't matter who wrote or performed the song first, once Joe did it, it was his.
Preach!
This.
Beatles produce a hit, Joe Cocker takes and says "this is mine now". Literally topped the original on every song he ever covered.
Utterly iconic - no one could make a song sound like he did.
Original is from Traffic by Dave Mason.
Ray charles
Ray charles
Yes indeed your absolutely right. To me he was fantastic.
Mr. Joe Cocker Definitely Deserve to be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Sadly they have to make room for such "rock and roll" icons as LL Cool J.
Yes they should..
10 times over
Man what a fkn unique talent lol,love it
Not before all of the black people he ripped off go in. Great voice but be real.
One of the greatest voices in rock and roll history. A true icon.
Absolutely.
Agree with that,what I find a little weird is I can understand everything he sings,not like some people
This is the first time I saw Joe Cocker as a young man. I would have never recognized him except for his voice.
In my opinion, this video "proves" that the "original voice" was a lot better than his voice through the years. He sang the highest and lowest in a really nicer and clearer way.
April 1969. What a great year it was.
I love how the dancers display the lifting freedom of Joe's soul in this song.
I like how the backup dancers moves are well choreographed while Joe Cocker is just up there doing his own thing.
I'm picturing frantic activity as stages were built and choreography planned in a day or two after the musical guest arrived in town for the show
It must have been bedlam
Joe Cocker was ABSOLUTELY AMAZING. His voice will be played 1000 yrs from now and that generation will be amazed too.
Once Joe covers your song he owns it!
oh my never a truer word said joe cocker a one in a million
This is so true! Even "A Little Help From My Friends". Go figure. It was never the same again after Joe Cocker did his cover.
@@marcia153I doubt if the Beatles ever performed it again after Joe Cocker.
Such a legendary voice.
Yes, a great Soul raspy range ...-Mr. Joe Cr💖cker: legendary Icon.-🎶🎼
Right on!
Agreed💯%
I have never seen Joe this young or in a setting like this! The dancers are hilarious! 😆
Everything about this was hilarious.
it's like a "Star Trek" episode..."beam me up Scotty"....freekin' bizarre
That's how it looked in the 1960s, nowdays it does look funny, but the whole genre was being invented at the time. A great time to grow up.
Look at how pretty & slender all of them are! Thirty yrs from now the youth will be laughing at how people in 2023 danced.
Hilarious compared to what?
Todays dancers?
He had a great band. Always perfect. His first album was monumental. Brings back great memories. Turntables , candles , incense, wine, black lights and smoke.
Y un churro de mota 😅
Yes, and our own imagination, to envision whatever, after we read the album cover. No MTV & videos to distract from Hearing the Music.
Henry McCullough on lead guitar - would later become the lead guitarist for Wings (Paul McCartney). Terrific player, R.I.P.
Chris Stainton on keys.
Jimmy Page and Steve Winwood played on that album.
His pitch and timing is flawless. Unbelievable what he can sing live.
DITTO MAN SOME OF THE BEST PIPES EVER. LOVED THIS GUY. MY GENERATION.
I agree, but this performance was obviously lip synced.
Joe Cocker on Ed Sullivan. Never imagined it. Did he shake Ed's hand??
Man! That is one HOT soundstage... everyone is on fire here. Maybe the funkiest, hippest number I ever saw on Ed Sullivan's show...?
My grandparents were born in 1895 and 1898, and they never missed Ed Sullivan. I’m trying to picture them watching this in 1969, my grandmother in her smock dress and my grandfather in his farmer overalls. How the world turns.
My grandmother was born in 1914 and when the Beatles appeared on Sullivan in 64, she loved em! I was 10.
And Elvis, James Brown, the Doors, the Stones and the Rascals
I bet Grandpa was shaking his head at the outfit.....
A lot of musical history was seen live on Ed sullivan. I wonder if a live variety show like Ed Sullivan could succeed today.
That’s a cool memory you shared - a little snippet of how multiple generations used to view TV together - a bygone era.
John Belushi impersonated Joe best 😆
There's just something about the combination of the 60's fashion and dancing that I love. And Joe Cocker is incredible.
There are those who entertain.
Amd then there are those
like Joe Cocker,
Who truly believe in what they do.
This is an awesome video! Joe Cocker’s vocals are just so great and so are the groovy dancers! Love it!
First time seeing this and just had to turn it up,its fab ! I'll forgive his dress sense
Hey Jerry, look at Joe rocking that puffy shirt.
His timing is impeccable although his arms have a timing of their own. Love this man!
Notice they are right on beat
Boy even with all the Dancing going on all around him…
and that Seinfeld Shirt,
Cocker STILL manages to mesmerizes you with his Performance! OUTSTANDING 👏🏼
Ed Sullivan was always so groovy. Love the prancing dancers.
Eric Clapton said that Joe Cocker was the best male voice to come out of Britain. I have to agree.
Just found this clip, Joe looking pretty swish in his glad rags. I put my new Cocker Happy LP on mums Stereo gram in 72, her Dad was a Jazz band member she loved music espevially the 60s afro Blues, hearing Joe not knowing who it was? she said these Afro Americans have got wonderful voices...I never corrected her until she played the LP weeks later & was confused as she read the cover...😂
Probably never hear another like Joe. RIP❤
I've been listening to him for 60 years now. I had all his albums I also saw him at Woodstock. Thank you
What a voice. ❤
He can feel every note deeply. How spiritual it would be to be in his presence.
Those dancer were throwing shapes at him.
Too bad JESUS/YESHUA is missing in this message.
Is that Chris Stainton on keys??? Unbelievable good!
I love Joe Cocker.
No matter what Joe sang, it became a Soul classic.
musica muy buena y escenografia decadentemente gringa
I can't help watching SNL & Jim Belushi sliding out & imitating Joe. AWESOME MASTERPIECES ❤
So many worthy comments here. Even though Joe performed ever so modestly. Probably didn't even take any LSD that day. : )
Love and miss ya Joe! So grateful to be rocking with you in your videos. RIP Joe!
Visiting my cousin in New York in '69, her roommate Emily held up Joe Cocker's first album and said "This white boy's got soul!". And the rest was history ~
Oh man the 60s and 70s more than rocked-It was a movement the likes the world never seen or experienced.
when Joe Cocker first appeared in the music scene, people wondered who the hell is this guy. Turns out he was fantastic with a voice all his own. His later concerts were his best. With Chris Stanton on piano!
All time king of the "covers".
I saw him live in a relatively small building. He looked pretty worn out from the road but it was a good show. The man really had a feel for the music.
F A N T A S T I C
Love the over saturated color designed specifically for the new color TVs.
Part of it was the ostentatious use of the color in the set design, lighting and costumes; the other was the Marconi Mark VII color cameras put into the Ed Sullivan Theatre in 1967 (while there was a special variant of the Norelco PC-70 - dubbed PC-71, with a mumetal shield to counter the magnetic field of a nearby subway substation transformer - in the studio whose performance CBS was pleased with, it seems they had to put the remaining Marconis - ordered for use in their O&O stations everywhere but New York - somewhere, as Philadelphia's WCAU-TV went with the infamous RCA TK-42 cameras whilst WBBM-TV Chicago, KMOX-TV St. Louis and KNXT Los Angeles all had Mark VII's installed in their respective studios).
trippy man!
@@wmbrown6 wow. If I asked you what time it is, would you tell me how to build a watch? Lol.
Nice explanation of the technical aspects of what it took to create the images of the day.
Amazingly powerful voice! Thanks for all the great music Joe!
He owns every song he sings - which is a real talent.
Back in the early 80’s I saw her perform a show in Las Vegas. Of course it had all the “cuchi cuchi” and shtick she was known for for. But it also had a segment where she sat with a guitar and played and sang all alone on stage. That was awesome!
Always wondered ,why the spastic body movements..but now I know it was Joe's method of pulling that wonderful, magical voice up and out of his soul, loved you since hearing your Woodstock recording at 12 ,always will. Some sports were meant to sing, thank God he found his calling
What a great time to be alive
Love the way he dances
Rock and roll
Эта музыка помогает жить!
Finally!! The famous Joe Cocker with the dancing ladies clip!!
much groovier times indeed
I love that footage like this survives. I love the internet and UA-cam for making it available. And I looooove wh9ever posted it. Thanks a bunch.😅
This song is among the ten best songs I have ever heard in my life, I was 12 years old when this song was published and I remember it very well. I continue listening to him and I continue to be fascinated by the unmatched strength of him and Joe Cocker. Great video.
Written by Steve Winwood .First performed by Traffic .
Owned by Joe Cocker
This is a song written by Dave Mason.
You must be old as dirt 😂
@@dorothymartin4316Written by Dave Mason, of Traffic. Winwood may have helped.
Thank God for UA-cam. I always thought that Joe Cocker started his career in the 1980s. I see now that he had a very long career way back from 1960s. I must admit i barely recognized him as a very young man.
Honoring one of the greatest today!
Four months before Woodstock. Far out man. ✌😊
I saw Joe perform at the Denver Pop Festival with the Grease Band a few months after this Ed Sullivan gig. He was back to being his old grubby, disheveled self in true hippie garb, and he was playing that herky-jerky air guitar as he belted out one great song after another. He also played the following night. I do admire, though, how he was able to smooth all that out for Ed -- his dancing in place while singing is great, very rhythmic. It really is a nice up-close look at Joe singing a great song. Dave Mason's original was good, but just like With a Little Help From My Friends he changes it up and owns it. Magnificent.
I've been waiting for this since it was announced that the Ed Sullivan Archives were going to be released. So glad we didn't have to hold out for too long. This is Joe's first US TV appearance. In four months he'll be all mutton chops, tie dye, dripping with sweat and still fierce as hell.
Why, oh why did the Ed Sullivan Show channel and UA-cam allow the end to be obscured with stupid ads?
Forever the Soul Energizer Icon Mr. Joe CR🌟CKER.
Indeed!
Why the stupid ads? In show business there's "show" and there's "business." Deal with it.
Because it's not about you, it's about business.
Better than Dave Mason,that is for sure.For some reason ,I could not figure out why,now I know.He pronounces words so you can understand them.Mason partially does,mumbles the rest of the time.
Joe Cocker performed at my little hometown early 90s, he absolutely belted every classic hit from his vault. What an incredible 3 minute video,shades of 1969,Woodstock era. RIP Joe
I’m so glad I got to see him perform. He does such a great John Belushi!
MovieMakingMan. U mean VICE/VERSA!!
Haha. In reality Belushi wasn't fit to clean Joe's shoes!
Maybe so but I’d say here he’s more of Tom Jones meets Ray Charles and I mean that as a compliment. My grandparents were from Sheffield. Cheers from Montreal.
@@johngore7744 That’s an interesting blend. But it sounds good. Btw, I’m from Montreal. It’s always great to hear from fellow Canadians. I miss Canada.
THERE WILL NEVER BE ANYONE AS TALENTED AS JOE COCKER!!!
Exactly mate
Yo tengo 64 años y tuve la oportunidad de verlo en el poliedro de Caracas y me trae gratos recuerdos saludos desde Venezuela
One of my favorite songs of any genre...hadn't seen this. Love the dancers! This is Joe singing live lead vocal to the original studio recording, and what a great job Joe did here! The musicians are going through the motions [some more believably than others]. By the way, famed Wrecking Crew bassist Carol Kaye was on the studio recording...what a fantastic bass line she played on this! I notice Joe was a very good looking man in his young years.
A great song from Traffic given a great treatment by a great voice
Out-frigging-standing! Joe could belt it out like no one else!
Priceless memories. May you Rest In Peace, Joe, Amen!
This man could turn any song into gold. That voice cannot be duplicated ❤❤❤❤❤❤
The recording is outstanding
Better than the album?
@@Music--ng8cd thanks for your question.
The recording is outstanding for 2 reasons.
The age of the recording; it's nearly 60 years old.
And the era it was recorded. The technology then was no where near what we have today
Plus the camera work and editing was top notch for it's time also
I also remember the first time I heard Joe Cocker. I still really enjoy his music! Had his own unique sound. Brings back some great memories for me. He had the soulful sound of a man who survived some ups and downs of life. Joe was the man.
I had a vagus nerve stimulation surgery 4 months ago. I relate to Joe a lot because of his medical conditions. Thank you everyone
This is the first time I've seen young Cocker looking clean shaven and trendily dressed. Plus I could understand every word he sang for a change. Love the guy but he was definitely a shock to the system especially with Mad Dogs and Englishmen.
This is some groovy shit
Joe shows you that people's perceptions of each other, their disabilities, their imperfections, flaws and faults, are not and were never really there. How we perceive each other is an obstacle to our understanding. It can be easily put aside when we become accustomed to the reality of that person and who they really are inside or outside or which ever way they are. I mean, look at what he can do and we all have something, even if we just feel it, expression is a human thing. Or maybe a natural thing.
Nice. We can forgive them for miming all but his voice because he sings so well over the recording of Leon and company. A great voice, a great song, a great performance.
At 70 I remember when Joe set us on fire with this…..there’s only one Joe and he’s awesome !!
FINALLY!!! I've been waiting for this clip for years!
Você não merece o menor perdão. Eu realmente não acredito nisso. Parabéns, eu caí nessa :D
@@elevyncruz I can't understand
@@beatlesss9592 traslate, bruh.
This video makes me feel groovy and outta' sight!!
"...RIGHT ON!"
Love it when he notices the dancers coming out, surprised. He looks back and gives them that “how you doing” nod.
This was really cool!!! The Dancing and snap shot of a culture in time!!! What a an Effort all out and all around!!
When I was maybe 10 years old in the early 1970's, I LOVED his singing.
What weird dancers they had for this show! Haha
Joe could sure belt out a song.....RIP
He sure cleaned up nice after his performance at Woodstock. I loved him then and even more now. I miss him. I still have his first vinyl album which I bought new at the time.
His version of "With a Little Help from my Friends" was approved by the Beatles before he recorded it. What a class act.
He even had a great sense of humor when he performed on SNL (the old, original and best cast when it focused on entertainment instead of politics) with John Belushi, who mirrored his body movements.
Many decades later, his performance in the movie, "Across the Universe" in different characters showed even more of his talent.
Love those dancers
Great Joe Cocker. But I have to say that is real dancing. As a dancer in the the 60’s and 70’s. I love it ❤
All the giddy colours ! Fab ❤
This clip is pure fantasy! His moves, the choreography, his outfit...
I don't get tired to see it and listen to it...😍