Artist: Joe Cocker
Title: The Long Voyage Home: The Silver Anniversary Collection (Box)
Label: A & M
Release Date: 1995
Format: flac
Long Voyage Home: The Silver Anniversary Collection is nearly the definitive Joe Cocker anthology, covering his recording career from the late '60s to the mid-'90s, featuring material from all the labels he recorded for -- A&M, Elektra, Island, and Capitol. After an early single from 1964 (a version of the Beatles' "I'll Cry Instead"), the set skips ahead to his late-'60s recordings with his Mad Dogs & Englishmen troupe. From there, the collection doesn't miss many of Cocker's greatest hits or favorite album tracks. In addition to the familiar tracks, there are a handful of unreleased cuts.
DISC 1:
01. With a Little Help From My Friends
02. I'll Cry Instead
03. Those Precious Words
04. Marjorine
05. Bye Bye Blackbird
06. Just Like a Woman
07. Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
08. Do I Still Figure in Your Life - (previously unreleased)
09. Feelin' Alright - (previously unreleased)
10. I Shall Be Released - (previously unreleased)
11. Something's Coming On - (previously unreleased)
12. I Don't Need No Doctor - (previously unreleased)
13. Let It Be - (previously unreleased)
14. Delta Lady
15. She Came in Through the Bathroom Window
16. Hitchcock Railway - (previously unreleased)
DISC 2:
01. Dear Landlord - (previously unreleased)
02. Darling Be Home Soon
03. Something - (previously unreleased)
04. Wake up Little Susie - (previously unreleased)
05. The Letter
06. Space Captain
07. Cry Me a River
08. Let's Go Get Stoned
09. Please Give Peace a Chance
10. Blue Medley: I'll Drown In My Own Tears / When Something Is Wrong With My Baby / I've Been Loving You Too Long
11. The Weight - (previously unreleased)
12. High Time We Went
13. Black-Eyed Blues
14. Midnight Rider
DISC 3:
01. Woman to Woman
02. Something to Say - (previously unreleased)
03. She Don't Mind - (previously unreleased)
04. Pardon Me Sir
05. Put Out the Light
06. I Can Stand a Little Rain
07. The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
08. You Are So Beautiful
09. Guilty
10. I Think It's Going to Rain Today
11. Jamaica Say You Will
12. The Jealous Kind
13. Catfish
14. A Song For You
15. Fun Time
16. I'm So Glad I'm Standing Here Today
17. Ruby Lee
18. Many Rivers to Cross
DISC 4:
01. So Good, So Right
02. Up Where We Belong
03. I Love the Night
04. Civilized Man
05. Edge of a Dream
06. You Can Leave Your Hat On
07. Unchain My Heart
08. I've Got to Use My Imagination
09. I'm Your Man
10. When the Night Comes
11. Can't Find My Way Home
12. Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me
13. You've Got to Hide Your Love Away
14. Love Is Alive
15. With a Little Help From My Friends
Personnel includes:
Joe Cocker, Jennifer Warnes - vocals
Jimmy Page, Bryan Adams, Tony Visconti, Albert Lee, Cornell Dupree - guitar
Randy Newman - piano
Matthew Fisher, Stevie Winwood - organ
Robbie Shakespeare - bass
Sly Dunbar, Clem Cattini, B. J. Wilson, Mike Kelly, Kenny - drums
Merry Clayton, Bonnie Bramlett, Rita Coolidge, Robert Palmer, Madelene Bell - background vocals
Sunny Wheetman, Su Wheetman, Rosetta Hightower - background vocals
Richard Tee, Gordon Edwards, Steve Gadd, Eric Gale
Leon Russell & The Shelter People
The Chris Stainton Band
The Crusaders
The Grease Band includes:
Henry McCulloch - guitar
Chris Stainton - piano, organ, bass
Tommy Eyre - piano, organ
Alan Spenner (bass
Kenny Slade, Bruce Rowlands - drums