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.
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.
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.
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.
He had a great band. Always perfect. His first album was monumental. Brings back great memories. Turntables , candles , incense, wine, black lights and smoke.
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
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 👏🏼
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 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.
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!
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.
The one and only! Mad Dog! What a powerful and wonderful voice he had! The world will always miss him! Thank you for posting this marvelous video! Greetings from Mexico!
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.
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.
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.
My hat go's off to Joe Cocker, i saw him live in VancouverB.C. back in 2000 when he did the opening for the Steve Miller Band. Joe put on one hell of a show for 1 full hour and WOW was he something!!!! Im so glad i got the chance to see him live before he passed away, R.I.P. JOE COCKER!!!
Wow - what a killer grove. The bass player is so awesome in this song!..think we'll ever see this in any American Idol/Americas got talent set??? I doubt it. 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 ~
Does it get any better? Smokin' Joe Cocker does a Dave Mason song with the legendary L.A. Wrecking Crew behind him? Wow. I played songs on the radio from coast to coast and have to say this is an all time favorite. Who couldn't love it?
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.
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).
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 an extraordinary talent Joe Cocker was, and I feel so lucky to grow up in the 60's and 70's , I just wish I would have seen him live, Like at Woodstock in 1969! I don't think that Joe needed these dancers, but man are they awesome, especially the dancer in the lavender dress, she is so hot, and she looks like Suzanne Pleshette . What great times these were! Thank you so much for your music Joe Cocker, RIP.
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.
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.
No matter what you say about his on stage act the man is monumental and what he did in the music industry I forever love him when he's a link between me and my beloved mother who passed away in 96 rest in peace Joe cocker 1944 till 2014
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.
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❤
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!
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.
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!
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!
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??😊
Let's get this guy into the Rock and Roll hall of fame. Way overdue.
There's just something about the combination of the 60's fashion and dancing that I love. And Joe Cocker is incredible.
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.
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.
I love how the dancers display the lifting freedom of Joe's soul in this song.
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 🥰
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 was ABSOLUTELY AMAZING. His voice will be played 1000 yrs from now and that generation will be amazed too.
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.
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.
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.
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
Man! That is one HOT soundstage... everyone is on fire here. Maybe the funkiest, hippest number I ever saw on Ed Sullivan's show...?
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 👏🏼
I've been listening to him for 60 years now. I had all his albums I also saw him at Woodstock. Thank you
Such a legendary voice.
Yes, a great Soul raspy range ...-Mr. Joe Cr💖cker: legendary Icon.-🎶🎼
Right on!
Agreed💯%
His timing is impeccable although his arms have a timing of their own. Love this man!
Notice they are right on beat
There are those who entertain.
Amd then there are those
like Joe Cocker,
Who truly believe in what they do.
April 1969. What a great year it was.
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.
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.
Amazingly powerful voice! Thanks for all the great music Joe!
I can't help watching SNL & Jim Belushi sliding out & imitating Joe. AWESOME MASTERPIECES ❤
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
Oh man the 60s and 70s more than rocked-It was a movement the likes the world never seen or experienced.
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 clip is pure fantasy! His moves, the choreography, his outfit...
I don't get tired to see it and listen to it...😍
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!
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.
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.😅
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?
No matter what Joe sang, it became a Soul classic.
He owns every song he sings - which is a real talent.
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.
The one and only! Mad Dog! What a powerful and wonderful voice he had! The world will always miss him! Thank you for posting this marvelous video! Greetings from Mexico!
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.
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.
This man could turn any song into gold. That voice cannot be duplicated ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Wow I’m a millennial and just learning his music. I heard this song growing up and never knew he sang it! What a voice, what a career!
Finally!! The famous Joe Cocker with the dancing ladies clip!!
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.
on his way to being a superstar then. still miss him. RIP joe, gone but never forgotten.
Out-frigging-standing! Joe could belt it out like no one else!
This is the best. I'm just looping it and dancing to it in my office. Joe, wow dude. God bless you.
what a great vibe ! Joe was an amazing performer....mesmerizing ! I just love the dancing, fun fun fun ! Warm greeetings all the way from Brazil
This was really cool!!! The Dancing and snap shot of a culture in time!!! What a an Effort all out and all around!!
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.
My hat go's off to Joe Cocker, i saw him live in VancouverB.C. back in 2000 when he did the opening for the Steve Miller Band. Joe put on one hell of a show for 1 full hour and WOW was he something!!!! Im so glad i got the chance to see him live before he passed away, R.I.P. JOE COCKER!!!
Wow - what a killer grove. The bass player is so awesome in this song!..think we'll ever see this in any American Idol/Americas got talent set??? I doubt it. RIP Joe!
First time seeing this and just had to turn it up,its fab ! I'll forgive his dress sense
All time king of the "covers".
Honoring one of the greatest today!
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 ~
I love Joe Cocker.
Priceless memories. May you Rest In Peace, Joe, Amen!
What a voice for the ages. A Dave Mason song rocked out. The dancers giving their best and the band is rock solid
Wow. He was in top form. I had never heard a young Joe. Thanks :)
Does it get any better? Smokin' Joe Cocker does a Dave Mason song with the legendary L.A. Wrecking Crew behind him? Wow. I played songs on the radio from coast to coast and have to say this is an all time favorite. Who couldn't love it?
For me it was the first time I seen Mr. Cocker, I was 20 ish, blew me away, made a fan for life
I would love to be dancing there! My 1st concert in about 72, I was in grade 9 baby, his band was brilliance!.
Is that Chris Stainton on keys??? Unbelievable good!
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.
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.
This was really really good. Didn't know Joe Cocker performed on Ed Sullivan.
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 an extraordinary talent Joe Cocker was, and I feel so lucky to grow up in the 60's and 70's , I just wish I would have seen him live, Like at Woodstock in 1969! I don't think that Joe needed these dancers, but man are they awesome, especially the dancer in the lavender dress, she is so hot, and she looks like Suzanne Pleshette . What great times these were!
Thank you so much for your music Joe Cocker, RIP.
Love the way he dances
He fills my heart with such joy, completely. One more time.
Absolutely fabulous! Cocker, the dancers and everything..
Wow..this performance is really where it's at! When ever I'm down I'm going to listen to this for a lift. What a soul soother! Take me back to 1969.
At 70 I remember when Joe set us on fire with this…..there’s only one Joe and he’s awesome !!
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.
THERE WILL NEVER BE ANYONE AS TALENTED AS JOE COCKER!!!
Exactly mate
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.
Oh,God,i'm in heaven again.Absolutely AWESOME.A billion thanx.
Four months before Woodstock. Far out man. ✌😊
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.
No matter what you say about his on stage act the man is monumental and what he did in the music industry I forever love him when he's a link between me and my beloved mother who passed away in 96 rest in peace Joe cocker 1944 till 2014
What a great time to be alive
I like the way Joe uses emphasis and anger in his singing.
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.
Oh how I miss Joe Cocker. No one like him. Love the Grease Band to.
Hello Rose how are you doing!!
Wonderful song and dancing too!
Thanks Joe 💕😊
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❤
This, & You Can Keep Your Hat On are my favorite Cocker tunes. Love seeing him here!
Ed Sullivan was always so groovy. Love the prancing dancers.
Just found this, and wow, a hecka performance. Rock on and groovy...
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 ❤
Wow. What a blast from the past.
Great !!!!!
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 just love watching this performance of Joe Cocker!
Such a unique and clear voice when he was a young man.
Love the way the dancers dance!! Very attractive to the eyes 👀🤝💪 such a classic😩🤝
Oh my goodness. I loved him! RIP! 😍😍😍
much groovier times indeed