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Joe Cocker
Solo artist Crookes United Kingdom
Joe Cocker is an artist from Crookes. Joe Cocker has 101 chart appearances on 58 radio countdowns from 20 stations on RockLists, spanning 1987–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “With a Little Help from My Friends”, which appears on 37 lists with a best position of #16. The station that charted Joe Cocker most often is 100.7 WZLX (Boston, MA), with 20 appearances.
Joe Cocker, born in 1944 in Crookes, Sheffield, had a voice like gravel in a bucket of whiskey and a stage act to match, all flailing arms and full-body spasms, as if the soul was trying to shake its way out of him. His debut album took the Beatles' "With a Little Help from My Friends" and turned a cheery singalong into a gospel-blues exorcism, and it went to number one in the UK and made him a star almost overnight. He sang it at Woodstock and the Isle of Wight in 1969, and it would follow him for the rest of his life, later turning up as the theme for The Wonder Years.
Most of his best-known songs were other people's, "Feelin' Alright" among them, though he wrote his own material too, often with Chris Stainton. His second album grabbed another Beatles tune, "She Came In Through the Bathroom Window", along with "Delta Lady", and a slapdash 1970 US tour with an all-star band put together by Leon Russell became the live double album Mad Dogs & Englishmen.
The hits kept coming, from "You Are So Beautiful" in 1974 to "Up Where We Belong", a duet with Jennifer Warnes that won a Grammy in 1983, and he was still at it with Cocker in 1986 and One Night of Sin in 1989. He made 22 studio albums over 43 years, received an OBE, and died in 2014; the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted him in 2025.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Joe Cocker on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | With a Little Help from My Friends | 37 | #16 | – | – | |
| 2 | Feeling Alright | 31 | #142 | – | – | |
| 3 | The Letter | 8 | #222 | – | – | |
| 4 | With a Little Help Fro | 3 | #216 | – | – | |
| 5 | She Came in Through Th | 3 | #336 | – | – | |
| 6 | She Came In Through The Bathroom Window | 5 | #328 | – | – | |
| 7 | Delta Lady | 3 | #349 | – | – | |
| 8 | Cry Me A River (Live) | 2 | #555 | – | – | |
| 9 | A Little Help From My Friends | 2 | #276 | – | – | |
| 10 | When the Night Comes | 1 | #187 | – | – | |
| 11 | Bathroom Window | 1 | #415 | – | – | |
| 12 | Woman to Woman | 1 | #1103 | – | – | |
| 13 | You Can Leave Your Hat On | 1 | #609 | – | – | |
| 14 | You Are So Beautiful | 1 | #721 | – | – | |
| 15 | Dear Landlord | 1 | #1970 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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