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May 4, 2009 9:56 PM

Do you remember the 60s? Joe Cocker at Woodstock truth revealed

Completely random and unrelated to politics or Mother's Day, but it made me laugh out loud - and I'm always grateful for those moments :)

I am the sum of my parts, and one of those parts is hippie and we are approaching the 40th anniversary of Woodstock, which I missed because I was 8-months-pregnant with Samantha and just a little too unhip to throw all caution to the wind - which is maybe why I cried when I saw Joe Cocker break into this unforgettable performance and laughed at the cutting-edge interpretation.  Forwarded from my dear sister-in-law Catherine:

What was Joe Cocker actually trying to communicate in his  version of "A Little Help from My Friends" at  Woodstock nearly 40 years ago?  Was he speaking in tongues, in code to the Soviets, simply sputtering the gibberish of a  drunkard, addressing an unknown civilization on another  planet, or perhaps speaking in a language that he made up  simultaneously as he sang on that infamous day?

 The solution has been found!!

 An elite group of 32 linguists from virtually all English  speaking lands have worked around the clock in a small room  in Hoboken N.J. since 1969 to uncover the definitive translation of Mr Cocker's complex verbal and musical  offering on that special day. They have finally  reconstructed, to the best of their ability, the definitive  translation.  The answer to the questions that have nagged  our collective unconscious since the 1969 Woodstock album  are now revealed--please listen with respect:

  Do you remember the Sixties? - If you or your parents are aging Baby boomers, watch this now!

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Comments

That is hilarious! I am old enough to remember Woodstock, but I didn't get into it at all!

Posted by: Nancy Larson | May 4, 2009 11:04 PM

Thanks for the laugh today!

Posted by: Marian | May 5, 2009 4:21 PM

I wasn't around for the sixties...but dude. That was HILARIOUS. Awesome.

Posted by: Sandy | May 5, 2009 6:41 PM

Thanks Barbara! That was ROTFL hilarious! Joe actually lives in a small town near me here in CO now and seems to have "normalized" a bit. He does a yearly fund raiser concert here locally for children called Cocker Kids Foundation. I think he would also laugh heartily at this clip. Keep up the great work here on your blog. I love it!

Posted by: Kelly | May 6, 2009 1:34 AM

Oh, Barbara! I laughed until I cried!! I think I wore out my Woodstock album from all the times I played it as a kid. Oh, that was funny!

Posted by: Cheryl (Copper's Wife) | May 6, 2009 10:33 PM

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