Live in L.A. is a selection of the best live recordings of concerts performed by Joe Cocker

Joe Cocker

John Robert "Joe" Cocker, OBE is an English rock and blues musician, composer and actor, who came to popularity in the 1960s, and is most known for his gritty voice, his idiosyncratic arm movements while performing, and his cover versions of popular songs, particularly those of The Beatles...

 in 1972 with The Chris Stainton Band

Chris Stainton

Christopher "Chris" Stainton is an English session musician, keyboard player and songwriter, who first gained recognition with Joe Cocker in the late 1960s...

. It includes several live versions of Cocker's classics such as "High Time We Went" and "Hitchcock Railway", as well as new tracks like "Love the One You're With" and "Didn't You Know You've Got to Cry Sometime", "Early in the Mornin'" and "What Kind of Man are You". The electricity of live performance, which is the very essence of Joe Cocker, is captured on this album, providing a natural companion to his previous live classic Mad Dogs and Englishmen

Mad Dogs and Englishmen (album)

Mad Dogs and Englishmen is Joe Cocker's 1970 live album, featuring a fusion of rock and soul. The album title is drawn from the 1931 Noël Coward song of the same name. Mostly Cocker's album is made up of covers, drawing equally from rock and soul...

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Track listing

1. "Dear Landlord" (Bob Dylan
   Bob Dylan
   Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...
   
   )
2. "Early in the Mornin'
   Early in the Mornin' (Louis Jordan song)
   "Early in the Mornin" or "Early in the Morning" is a song that was recorded by Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five in 1947. It is an early example of a blues which incorporates Afro-Cuban rhythms and percussive instruments...
   
   " (Leo Hickman, Jourman, Dallas Bartley)
3. "Didn't You Know You've Got to Cry Sometime" (Nickolas Ashford, Valerie Simpson)
4. "St. James Infirmary
   St. James Infirmary Blues
   "St. James Infirmary Blues" is based on an 18th century traditional English folk song of anonymous origin, though sometimes credited to the songwriter Joe Primrose . Louis Armstrong made it famous in his influential 1928 recording.-Authorship and history:"St...
   
   " (Joe Primrose)
5. "Hitchcock Railway" (Dunn McCashen)
6. "Midnight Rider
   Midnight Rider
   "Midnight Rider" is a popular and widely covered song by The Allman Brothers Band, from their album Idlewild South. Written by Gregg Allman and Robert Kim Payne, the song has become a fixture of the band's live performances and an enduring standard...
   
   " (Gregg Allman
   Gregg Allman
   Gregory Lenoir Allman , known as Gregg Allman, is a rock and blues singer, keyboardist, guitarist and songwriter, and a founding member of The Allman Brothers Band. He was inducted with the band into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995 and received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Georgia...
   
   )
7. "What Kind of Man are You?" (Ray Charles
   Ray Charles
   Ray Charles Robinson , known by his shortened stage name Ray Charles, was an American musician. He was a pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s by fusing rhythm and blues, gospel, and blues styles into his early recordings with Atlantic Records...
   
   )
8. "High Time We Went" (Joe Cocker, Chris Stainton)
9. "Love the One You're With
   Love the One You're With
   "Love the One You're With" is a 1970 single by folk rocker Stephen Stills. The first release off his first solo album Stephen Stills, it rose to the top twenty of the pop singles chart, peaking at No. 14....
   
   " (Stephen Stills
   Stephen Stills
   Stephen Arthur Stills is an American guitarist and singer/songwriter best known for his work with Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills & Nash . He has performed on a professional level in several other bands as well as maintaining a solo career at the same time...
   
   )

Production notes

• Recorded live at Hollywood Bowl and Long Beach Arena, Los Angeles, California, 1972
• Produced by Nigel Thomas

Personnel

• Joe Cocker - lead vocals
• Chris Stainton
  Chris Stainton
  Christopher "Chris" Stainton is an English session musician, keyboard player and songwriter, who first gained recognition with Joe Cocker in the late 1960s...
  
   - keyboards
• Neil Hubbard
  Neil Hubbard
  Neil Hubbard is a British guitarist who performed with Juicy Lucy , The Grease Band, Bluesology, Joe Cocker, Roxy Music, Kokomo, B.B. King, Kevin Rowland, and Tony O'Malley; and played on the original 1970 concept album, Jesus Christ Superstar....
  
   - guitar
• Glenn Ross Campbell - steel guitar (2, 9)
• Jim Karstein - drums
• Jim Keltner
  Jim Keltner
  James Lee "Jim" Keltner is an American drummer known primarily for his session work. He has contributed to the work of many well-known artists...
  
   - drums (4, 5)
• Conrad Isidore - drums (2, 9)
• Felix Falcon - percussion
• Jim Horn
  Jim Horn
  Jim Horn is an American saxophonist and woodwind player. He was born in Los Angeles, and after replacing saxophonist Steve Douglas in 1959, he toured with member Duane Eddy for five years, playing sax and flute on the road, and in the recording studio...
  
   - saxophones, flute
• Bobby Keys
  Bobby Keys
  Bobby Keys is an American saxophone player, and has performed with other musicians as a member of one of the notable horn sections of the 1970s. He appears on albums by The Rolling Stones, The Who, Harry Nilsson, Delaney Bramlett, George Harrison's All Things Must Pass, Eric Clapton and Joe...
  
   - tenor saxophone
• Jim Price
  Jim Price (musician)
  Jim Price was, together with Bobby Keys and Jim Horn, one of the most in demand horn session players of the 1970s. He toured extensively with The Rolling Stones from 1970 until 1973, including their 1972 American Tour, and appears on the albums, Sticky Fingers, Exile on Main St. and Goats Head Soup...
  
  - trumpet
• Viola Willis - backing vocals
• Virginia Ayers - backing vocals
• Beverly Gardner - backing vocals