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Post by Sue Butcher on Oct 25, 2014 23:52:29 GMT
What was the date of Joe Cocker's first appearance on TOTP singing "A Little Help From My Friends"? I'd like to find out because it has legendary status in my family due to my Dad's reaction to Cocker's singing.
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Post by Joe Haynes on Oct 26, 2014 9:33:03 GMT
What was the reaction?
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Post by Kev Hunter on Oct 26, 2014 10:31:00 GMT
What was the date of Joe Cocker's first appearance on TOTP singing "A Little Help From My Friends"? I'd like to find out because it has legendary status in my family due to my Dad's reaction to Cocker's singing. Possibly 17th October1968. |
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Post by Peter Stirling on Oct 26, 2014 10:43:40 GMT
What was the date of Joe Cocker's first appearance on TOTP singing "A Little Help From My Friends"? I'd like to find out because it has legendary status in my family due to my Dad's reaction to Cocker's singing. It was shown on (IIRC) the Totps Tenth Anniversary Show Dec 1973 as a short clip and that show survives. |
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Post by Stephen Doran on Oct 26, 2014 13:33:04 GMT
Bought the single nice to know the date he was on totp performing it too i Changed schools roundabout that time .
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Post by chrisstratton on Oct 26, 2014 21:45:31 GMT
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Post by Sue Butcher on Oct 27, 2014 2:15:38 GMT
Thanks all. Stunned silence, and finally anger and disgust at the "Waaauugh!" He didn't like pop music generally, but passing out-and-out screaming off as singing was too much for him. Not my opinion of course, I just thought it was funny. |
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Post by Stephen Doran on Oct 27, 2014 9:27:59 GMT
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Post by Ray Langstone (was saintsray) on Oct 28, 2014 10:23:25 GMT
What was the date of Joe Cocker's first appearance on TOTP singing "A Little Help From My Friends"? I'd like to find out because it has legendary status in my family due to my Dad's reaction to Cocker's singing. Possibly 17th October1968. It was 17/10/1968. |
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Post by John Green on Oct 28, 2014 16:21:31 GMT
Thanks all. Stunned silence, and finally anger and disgust at the "Waaauugh!" He didn't like pop music generally, but passing out-and-out screaming off as singing was too much for him. Not my opinion of course, I just thought it was funny. Wasn't as though the song didn't start out with a warning... |
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Post by Tony Walshaw on Oct 30, 2014 9:07:12 GMT
It is a rock staple now. But the treatment of the song, and Joe's performance of it, both live and on the record, were radical at the time. Jimi Hendrix and Arthur Brown made a similar impression. Older generations were at best bemused, and likely to be a bit un-nerved.  |
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Post by Kev Hunter on Oct 30, 2014 13:49:44 GMT
It is a rock staple now. But the treatment of the song, and Joe's performance of it, both live and on the record, were radical at the time. Jimi Hendrix and Arthur Brown made a similar impression. Older generations were at best bemused, and likely to be a bit un-nerved. So true, Tony.. I saw Arthur Brown's first TOTP performance and was completely knocked sideways, even though I was only 11 at the time. In later decades I experienced the same 'wow' feeling from seeing a debut UK TV appearance which then changed the course of my listening, notably Alice Cooper on OGWT (1971), the Doctors Of Madness on Twiggy's show (circa '75/'76), the Sex Pistols on So It Goes ('76), Nirvana on The Word ('91) and Suede at the Brit Awards ('93). |
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Post by Chris Barratt on Oct 30, 2014 15:08:52 GMT
My Mum has always chuckled about her Aunt May's response to Joe on TOTP,
"Who on earth is this?"
"Joe Cocker"
"Well, he can Cocker off"
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Post by Liam Joseph on Oct 30, 2014 16:09:42 GMT
Jimi Hendrix and Arthur Brown made a similar impression. Older generations were at best bemused, and likely to be a bit un-nerved. So true, Tony.. I saw Arthur Brown's first TOTP performance and was completely knocked sideways, even though I was only 11 at the time. My younger brother, who was three at the time, burst into terrified tears when the God of Hellfire appeared on TOTP. Funnily enough he later became a huge Arthur Brown fan! |
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Post by Stephen Doran on Oct 31, 2014 10:46:05 GMT
no relation to jarvis then?
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