Mad Dogs & Englishmen (album)
1970 live album by Joe Cocker / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Mad Dogs & Englishmen is a live album by Joe Cocker, released in 1970. The album's title is drawn from the 1931 Noël Coward song of the same name and Leon Russell's "Ballad of Mad Dogs and Englishmen". Only four songs of the 16 on the original album were drawn from his first two studio albums. Besides the contributions of bandmate and musical director Leon Russell, it draws equally from rock (the Rolling Stones, Traffic, Bob Dylan, the Beatles) and soul (Ray Charles, Sam & Dave, Otis Redding, the Box Tops). Accompanying Cocker is a choir, a three-piece horn section and several drummers.
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Mad Dogs & Englishmen | ||||
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Live album by | ||||
Released | August 1970 | |||
Recorded | 27–28 March 1970 | |||
Venue | Fillmore East, New York City | |||
Genre | Rock, soul music, blues | |||
Length | 78:44 136:30 (2005 Deluxe Edition) | |||
Label | A&M | |||
Producer | Denny Cordell, Leon Russell | |||
Joe Cocker chronology | ||||
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The single "The Letter"/"Space Captain", recorded during rehearsals, was released to coincide with the tour. The album yielded the single "Cry Me a River"/"Give Peace a Chance." "Ballad of Mad Dogs and Englishmen"/"Let It Be" was a single from the movie soundtrack that featured Leon Russell and Claudia Lennear. The Leon Russell song was also released on his album Leon Russell and the Shelter People.
In 2005, Mad Dogs & Englishmen was released as a two-disc deluxe edition set through Universal Records to commemorate the album's 35th anniversary.[1]
In 2006, Mad Dogs & Englishmen was released as a six-disc box set under the title Mad Dogs & Englishmen: The Complete Fillmore East Concerts by Hip-O Select. Both early and late shows from March 27 and 28, 1970, were released in their entirety.