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Word: cockers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...finest and most popular of the current crop of English pop composer-singers, a wise, witty, upbeat force who neatly counterpoints Mick Jagger's pervading and well-publicized sympathy for the devil. As a soloist, Stewart displays one of those rare voices-a raspy, surcharged cross between Joe Cocker and Rod McKuen-that is instantly recognizable and that can draw all sorts of emotional magic from his own songs (Maggie May, Every Picture Tells a Story) as well as standards by Dylan (Only a Hobo) and Elton John (Country Comfort). As a sometime member of the good-time British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Vaudeville Rock | 10/30/1972 | See Source »

...delivered in response to reports of a secret Nixon slush-fund. The candidate makes no response to the charges, tries to account for his income and in what Darryl Zanuck reportedly called "the best performance I've ever seen," alleges that the only gift he's accepted is a cocker spaniel puppy for his daughters. "Regardless of what they say about it," he says, "we are going to keep...

Author: By Peter M. Shane, | Title: Nixon | 10/26/1972 | See Source »

...Cocker, Chris Stainton, Glen Campbell, Alan Spenner at the Boston Garden, Mon., March...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: music | 3/23/1972 | See Source »

...Stills 61. Mama's Pearl Jackson 5 62. Mr. Bojangles Nitty Gritty Dirt Band 63. So Far Away Carole King 64. Inner City Blues Marvin Gaye 65. Anticipation Carly Simon 66. I Really Don't Want to Know Elvis Presley 67. Lowdown Chicago 68. High Time We Went Joe Cocker 69. Sunshine Jonathon Edwards 70. Layla Derek and the Dominoes 71. What is Life George Harrison 72. Joy to the World Three Dog Night 73. Amos Moses Jerry Reed 74. Brand New Key Melanie 75. Albert Flasher Guess Who 76. I Am...I Said Neil Diamond 77. Try Some...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Tops of 1971 | 1/19/1972 | See Source »

...Free, Moira, yes. And flee, Thanatos! While we drink to James Yannatos. A nice new Bible would be For Peter and Charles P. Price, loast Muhammed Ali, and his awesome fight skill, Then drink a skoal to toast, every cabbie, cop The working class hero. A collile, or a cocker spaniel. For the Crimson's radical, Swanson, Daniel Then jet the huzzab grow st For John H. Updike, a new Some hot new news for Mary A week as Deacon Dake's won best pick For Harvard football and Joe Restic Raise benediction and raise orison For Samuel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Down the Hatch and Down the Chimney | 12/16/1971 | See Source »

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