With A Little Help From My Friends [Deep Cover]

It's time for another Deep Cover, a song so much identified by the cover version, that the original version is almost forgotten about. 


Sure "With A Little Help From My Friends" was a Beatles song, but it was a Ringo song. So when Joe Cocker took the song and sang it with every fiber of his being at Woodstock, he owned it from that moment on. 


From Wikipedia : 


There have been at least 50 cover versions of the song and it has achieved the number one position on the British singles charts three times: by Joe Cocker in 1968, Wet Wet Wet in 1988 and by Sam & Mark in 2004.


Joe Cocker's version was a radical re-arrangement of the original, in a slower, 6/8 meter, using different chords in the middle eight, and a lengthy instrumental introduction. It was used as the opening theme song of the American television series The Wonder Years and is one of Cocker's most famous songs. His cover was ranked number two in UpVenue's top 10 best music covers of all time in 2009.