Greatest Love Songs

Performer: Joe Cocker
Artist: Jimmy Page; Leon Russell; Bonnie Bramlett; Rita Coolidge; Richard Tee; Ray Parker, Jr.; Eric Gale; Jimmy Webb; Jennifer Warnes
Distributor: Universal Distribution

Notes: Personnel: Joe Cocker, Jennifer Warnes (vocals); Dean Parks (acoustic guitar); Tony Joe White (electric guitar, harmonica); Leon Russell, Chris Stainton (guitar, piano, organ, bass); Jimmy Page, Sneaky Pete Kleinow, Clarence White, Jay Graydon, Ray Parker, Jr., Cornell Dupree, Barry Rerynolds Phil Grande (guitar); Sam Rivers (soprano saxophone); Deric Dyer (saxophone); Richard Tee (piano, organ, keyboards); Tommy Eyre, Jimmy Webb, Greg Matheson (piano); C.J. Vanston (Fender Rhodes piano, Hammond B-3 organ, synthesizer); Billy Preston (Hammond B-3 organ); Wally Badarou (keyboards); Chuck Rainey, Gordon Edwards, Robbie Shakespeare, Darryl Jones (bass); Sly Dunbar (drums); Bonnie Bramlett, Rita Coolidge (background vocals). Producers include: Denny Cordell, Leon Russell, Jim Price, Rob Fraboni, Chris Blackwell. Compilation producer: Bill Levenson. Recorded between 1969 & 1998. All tracks have been digitally remastered. Personnel: Dean Parks (guitar, acoustic guitar); Chris Stainton (guitar, piano, organ, keyboards); Leon Russell (guitar, piano, organ); Cornell Dupree (guitar, congas); Clarence White, Phil Grande, Jay Grayton, Eric Gale, Henry McCullough, Jimmy Page, Michael Landau, Mikey Chung, Sam Rivers, Sneaky Pete Kleinow, Tim Pierce, Barry Reynolds (guitar); Tony Joe White (electric guitar, harmonica); Deric Dyer (saxophone); Steve Gadd (soprano saxophone, drums, percussion); Richard Tee (piano, organ, keyboards); Greg Matheson, Jimmy Webb , Nicky Hopkins, Tommy Eyre (piano); C.J. Vancston (Fender Rhodes piano, organ, synthesizer); Matthew Fisher (organ); Wally Badarou (keyboards); Jamie Muhoberac, John Miles (synthesizer); Paul Humphries, John "J.R." Robinson , Jim Keltner, Kenny Aronoff, Ollie Brown, Sly Dunbar, Steve Holley, B.J. Wilson, Bernard "Pretty" Purdie, Jack Bruno, Bruce Rowland (drums); Sticky Thompson, Lenny Castro, Milt Holland, Rafael Padilla (percussion); Clydie King, Sherlie Matthews, Alexandra Brown, Rita Collidge, Joey Diggs, Lamont VanHook, Merry Clayton, Patrice Holloway, Venetta Fields, Daniel Moore, Mortonette Jenkins, Marlena Jeter, Bonnie Bramlett (background vocals). Photographer: James Minchin. Unknown Contributor Role: Cornell Dupree. Arranger: Jim Price. At once rousing and intimate, Joe Cocker's Greatest Love Songs gathers some of his most romantic performances from the '60s through the '90s, including the classic "You Are So Beautiful" and his hit duet with Jennifer Warnes, "Up Where We Belong." Covers of rock love songs like "Just Like a Woman," "Something," and "Darling Be Home Soon" dominate the album, and Cocker's warm, soulful delivery makes each of these tracks a highlight. "That's the Way Her Love Is," "Heart Full of Rain," and some of the other more recent performances on the collection suffer from over-production and don't quite equal the spark of Cocker's previous material; fortunately, Greatest Love Songs features a fair portion of his earlier work, with songs like "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress," "Performance," and "If I Love You" also among the collection's standouts. Spanning smooth ballads and fiery declarations of love, Greatest Love Songs is a cohesive but nuanced compilation of Cocker's romantic side. ~ Heather Phares

The purveyor of the most blood-curdling scream in pop music history (on his epochal cover of the Beatles "A Little Help From My Friends"), the deeply soulful Joe Cocker is also one of rock's most gifted interpretive singers, with a live show that is the stuff of legend. Cocker's stage trademark is a heaving, herky-jerky style, one cribbed from Ray Charles's passionate motions at the piano. After a breakthrough performance at Woodstock, he enjoyed a wave of success in the 1970s, peaking with the aching ballad (and eventual wedding standard) "You Are So Beautiful." After a brief hiatus, Cocker reemerged, duetting with Jennifer Warnes on "Up Where We Belong," the theme from AN OFFICER & A GENTLEMAN, one of the biggest hits of 1982.

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