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Monday, June 22, 2009
How did this guy make it to 2009?
In a 1988 interview the master of the soul music cover told me he listens to nearly 500 songs before making his selections. Besides this ditty here Cocker has re-popularized Randy Newman’s “You Can Leave Your Hat On,” “You Are So Beautiful,” (co-written by the late Billy Preston) and the Box Top’s “The Letter,” among others.
Cocker, now, 65, said there is no guaranteed method for knowing a song is right for him.
“Otherwise we’d all have hits,” he growled back in ‘88. “I go by lyrics that I like and songs that have a hook that are just a bit different. I have to do things I like to sing.”
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