You Are So Beautiful
| "You Are So Beautiful" | ||||
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| Single by Joe Cocker | ||||
| from the album I Can Stand a Little Rain | ||||
| Released | 1974 | |||
| Recorded | 1974 | |||
| Genre | Pop, adult contemporary | |||
| Length | 2:41 | |||
| Label | A&M | |||
| Writer(s) | Billy Preston, Bruce Fisher, Dennis Wilson (uncredited) | |||
| Producer | Rob Fraboni | |||
| Joe Cocker singles chronology | ||||
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"You Are So Beautiful" is a song written by Billy Preston and Bruce Fisher, and Dennis Wilson of The Beach Boys. It was first recorded by Preston and made popular in a version by Joe Cocker.
Preston's original version first appeared on his 1974 album, The Kids & Me. Cocker's producer, Jim Price created a slowed-down arrangement for Cocker's version, which first appeared on the album, I Can Stand a Little Rain (released later in 1974). Released as a single, the Joe Cocker version reached number five on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in 1975 and helped the album become a hit.
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[edit] "You Are So Beautiful" and Dennis Wilson
According to Beach Boys member Dennis Wilson's biographer, Jon Stebbins, Wilson claimed that he and Preston spontaneously collaborated on the words to the song at a party.[1] Wilson sang the song as an encore at Beach Boys shows intermittently between 1975 and 1983.
[edit] Renditions
- In 1993, Bonnie Tyler recorded a version similar to Joe Cocker's on her album Silhouette In Red.
- In 2006, saxophonist Jimmy Sommers released a cover from his Standards album "Time Stands Still."[2][3]
- It is also on Zucchero's All the Best Album.[4]
- Captain and Tennille covered the song in 1995 on their "Twenty Years of Romance" CD.
- Diana Ross covered the song in 2006 on her "I Love You" CD.
- Westlife covered the song in 2006 for their album, The Love Album.
- Babyface covered the song in 1993 on his "For The Cool In You" CD.
- Cows covered the song in 1991 on an Amphetamine Reptile Peel Sessions CD.
- Trombonist Urbie Green recorded 'You are so beautiful' in 1977 on his album Señor Blues with Grover Washington Jr & David Matthews' Big Band (CTI Super7079)
- Perry Como recorded the song in his 1983 album "So It Goes".
- Doris Day included the song on her 2011 album My Heart.
[edit] In other media
As with many other popular songs, You are has been briefly featured in several movies and TV programs:
- On an episode[which?] of Full House.
- On the sitcom Two and a Half Men in the 2007 episode "Anteaters. They're Just Crazy-lookin" sung by Enrique Iglesias as the handyman Fernando.
- An episode[which?] of Desperate Housewives where it was revealed to have been Karl and Susan Mayer's song.
- Used in the film Carlito's Way.
- UK movie Get Real played Ian Harrison version in the school's ball.
- In the Simpsons episode Simpson and Delilah Marge sing it to Homer at the very end of the episode.
- Seann William Scott sings the song in the movie "Evolution" (2001).
- Bug Hall performed the song in the 1994 movie "The Little Rascals".
- Danny Gokey performed the song on American Idol during the week of the top 3 and was eliminated the next night.
- Boy Band One Direction covered the song in week eight of The X Factor UK's seventh series.
- Singer Babyface performed the song during the marriage ceremony of Martin and Gina of Martin.
- Johnson & Jodeyne skating to You Are So Beautiful in week 9 of DOI.
- Though not directly used, the Saint Seiya OVA Legend of Crimson Youth features at the end credits a song called "You are my reason to be". At one point the phrase "You are so beautiful to me" is sung.
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