Joe Cocker

Joe Cocker is an album released by Joe Cocker in 1972. It was issued in the U.S. on A&M; Records. Although A&M; has so far never made the album available on CD in the U.S., it licensed the recording to UK-imprint Cube Records, which issued the album on CD (with a different cover and titled Something to Say) in Europe; that CD is currently out-of-print. The album's main claim to fame might be the fact that one of its tracks, "Woman to Woman", was ... more

Joe Cocker is an album released by Joe Cocker in 1972. It was issued in the U.S. on A&M; Records. Although A&M; has so far never made the album available on CD in the U.S., it licensed the recording to UK-imprint Cube Records, which issued the album on CD (with a different cover and titled Something to Say) in Europe; that CD is currently out-of-print. The album's main claim to fame might be the fact that one of its tracks, "Woman to Woman", was the basis for Tupac Shakur's successful hit single "California Love". All tracks composed by Joe Cocker and Chris Stainton; except where indicated Upon the album's release, the tracks that garnered the most attention at radio were "Black-Eyed Blues", "Woman to Woman", and the cover of Gregg Allman's "Midnight Rider", which charted on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 27. Later, in 1996, the horn-and-piano riff from "Woman to Woman" was sampled by Tupac Shakur in his song "California Love"; it was a smash hit for Tupac, reaching #1 on... less