What is your favorite Joe Cocker original song?
 

Amazing when you think about how he made a career doing other people's greatest hits.

Trick question. He covered songs.

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exactly my point

No - they became greatest hits with him performing them. I saw him live during his comeback in the 80s in Montreux - one of the most memorable concerts in my life.

He wrote "Ain't it High Time We Went", the only song I remember that was not a cover, so it must be my favorite.

Oh man, that was funny.

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The Mad Dog was such an iconic musician and performer. He took great songs and added meat and texture to them until they morphed into something totally fresh and new. We cover a lot of his work in the style of Joe. He also surrounded himself with excellent musicians and managed to squeeze their best work out of them.

Him and Joe Walsh are the only two epileptic rock n' rollers I know

Does he have any original songs?

This. Saw him in 2008. His 'covers' often charted higher than the originals.

How about the opposite, name a band/performer that never did a cover, all original?

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Feeling Alright -- written by Dave Mason(Traffic reached #123 on the US chart). Joe Cocker #33 in 1972)

I'm only superficially familiar with their music, but did Pink Floyd cover other bands?

Even more interesting might be to look into how many people wrote covers for other bands.

Eagles?

Did you already forget about "Take it Easy?" Written/recorded by Jackson Browne.

The Traveling Wilburys.

How about Neil Diamond? Wrote most if not all of the Monkee's hits.

devo

Well played sir!

Also Carol King, Bob Dylan, etc.

Well, Devo did cover Jimmy Hendrix (Are You Experienced), somewhat covered Johnny Rivers (Secret Agent Man), and of course, The Rolling Stones (Satisfaction). Also covered The Kingston Trio (It Takes A Worried Man) and Neil Young in there somewhere.

I've got a lot of their work on CD, and cannot think of any covers they did.
Maybe early on with Syd... 65/66?

Most bands do start out playing some covers while touring the bars and stuff - right?

We gotta be careful here. A cover is one thing, writing a song that someone else records and releases is another.

Technically, a "cover" is a song that has been recorded and released by a previous artist, and does not necessarily have to be written by the original artist.

Well, I learned something new today. Two points to ossi

There was a video of the two of them on stage together doing "feelin alright" but NBC has that video blocked.

My post above, #11.

I know this song was co-written by Bryan Adams et al. but it ranks as one of my favourites.
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Cheers
JB

Pink Floyd might be one of the rare bands that never recorded covers. I suspect they did play covers live in the early days though.