Joe Cocker The Letter with Leon Russell Live on Mad Dogs & Englishmen

Live performance when Joe Cocker recorded The Letter for his Mad Dogs and Englishmen tour and album on March 17, 1970. Leon Russell and the Shelter People (from Delaney Bonnie and Friends) provided the backup. Later that year, Joe Cocker performed The Letter at the Fillmore East auditorium concert in New York City. The Letter reached #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1970. The Letter became Joe Cocker’s first top ten single in the U.S. Watch Joe Cocker perform Leon Russell’s Delta Lady in 1969: Mad Dogs & Englishmen personnel is Joe Cocker, Don Preston, Leon Russell, Rita Coolidge, Donna Washburn, Claudia Lennear, Denny Cordell, Daniel Moore, Pamela Polland, Matthew Moore, Nicole Barclay, Bobby Jones - vocals, Don Preston - guitar, Carl Radle - bass, Chris Stainton - Hammond organ, Jim Gordon, Jim Keltner, Chuck Blackwell - drums, Chuck Blackwell, Sandy Konikoff, Bobby Torres - percussion, Leon Russell - piano, Jim Horn, Bobby Keys - saxophone and Jim Price - trump