Single:
With a Little Help from My Friends entered the Australian singles chart* on 2 November 1968 and peaked at #8. The song was #65 on the Top 100 of 1968.
Album:
The song is on With a Little Help from My Friends.
Songwriters:
John Lennon, Paul McCartney
Producer:
Denny Cordell
Record label of Australian release:
Festival
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
Live performance filmed at the Metropol in Berlin on 31 October 1980:
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Wikipedia:
Joe Cocker’s version of With a Little Help from My Friends was a radical re-arrangement of the original Beatles version, featuring drums by Procol Harum’s BJ Wilson, guitar lines from Jimmy Page and organ by Tommy Eyre.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/With_a_Little_Help_from_My_Friends#Joe_Cocker_version
Songfacts:
John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote this song. The Beatles released it on their album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band but never released it as a single. The Beatles were so impressed with Cocker’s version that they sent him a telegram of congratulations and placed an ad in the music papers praising it.
Read more: www.songfacts.com/facts/joe-cocker/with-a-little-help-from-my-friends
Lyrics:
What would you do if I sang out of tune
Would you stand up and walk out on me?
Lend me your ears and I’ll sing you a song
And I’ll try not to sing out of key
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