"FEELIN' ALRIGHT" ● Joe Cocker

JOE COCKER / Publicity Photo A&M Records / IVOX MEDIA collection

"FEELIN' ALRIGHT" ● Joe Cocker

The Song● Feelin Alright

Writer● Dave Mason

Producer● Denny Cordell

Recorded● September 1968 at A&M Studios in Los Angeles

Released● May 1969

Players●
:: Joe Cocker -- vocals
:: David Cohen -- guitar
:: Carol Kaye -- bass
:: Artie Butler -- piano
:: Paul Humphries -- drums
:: Laudir -- tumba, maracas
:: Brenda Holloway, Merry Clayton -- backing vocals

Album● With A Little Help From My Friends (A&M, 1969)

Also On● Mad Dogs & Englishmen (A&M, 1970) and many compilations

With A Little Help From My Friends ●

With a Little Help from My Friends is Joe Cocker’s debut album, released in April 1969. It was certified gold in the US and peaked at number 35 on the Billboard 200. The title track was written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney and originally performed by the Beatles on the album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band; it has been inducted into both the Grammy Award Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

The song "Feelin' Alright," which was already a hit for the band Traffic, was the second single released from Joe Cocker's debut album With A Little Help From My Friends.

Cocker's "Feelin' Alright" peaked at Number 69 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The single convinced organizers of the Woodstock festival to add Cocker to the lineup. His performance there was one of the defining moments of the festival, and including it in the Woodstock movie helped establish the singer as a star in the U.S.

The song also earned Cocker an appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1969. Cocker's unusual stage mannerism prompted Sullivan show producers to position a phalanx of dancers between the singer and the camera, "protecting" America from a close-up view of the singer's spastic tics and flailing limbs.

Cocker wasn't kidding when he titled his album With A Little Help From My Friends. Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page, Steve Winwood, and other notables appeared on the project (though not on this cut), immediately raising Cocker's profile on the music scene.

"Feelin' Alright" finally made the Billboard Top 40 in 1972, when the rereleased single peaked at Number 33. With A Little Help From My Friends peaked at Number 35 on the Billboard 200.

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