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Single:
Delta Lady entered the Australian singles chart* on 1 November 1969 and peaked at #34.
Album:
Delta Lady was recorded by Joe Cocker for his 1969 album Joe Cocker! which was co-produced by Leon Russell. A version also appeared on Joe’s 1970 concert album Mad Dogs & Englishmen which entered the Australian albums chart* on 7 December 1970 and peaked at #3.
Songwriter:
Leon Russell
Producers:
Denny Cordell, Leon Russell
Record label of Australian release:
Festival
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
BONUS SONG BELOW – Delta Lady by Leon Russell
Songfacts:
The “Delta Lady” in this song is Rita Coolidge, who was born in Tennessee and moved to Memphis in 1967, where she met Leon Russell. They started dating, and in 1969 Russell wrote this quite sensual song about her. He was doing arrangements and playing keyboards on Joe Cocker’s second album at the time, so he contributed this song, which Cocker released as the first single from the set. Rita Coolidge is one of the backing vocalists on the track.
Russell included the song on his first solo album the following year.
Read more: www.songfacts.com/facts/joe-cocker/delta-lady
Lyrics:
Woman of the country now that I found you
Longing in your soft and fertile delta
And I whisper sighs to satisfy the longin’
For the warmth and tender shelter of my body
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This song is also on our Spotify playlist Bang a Gong – the 60s
Also on Bang a Gong from the album Joe Cocker!: She Came in Through the Bathroom Window
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BONUS SONG
Delta Lady by Leon Russell
Album:
The song is on Leon Russell which entered the Kent album charts on 1 May 1972 and peaked at #9.
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