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词条 You Are So Beautiful
释义

  1. Background

  2. Composition

  3. Live performances

  4. Personnel

  5. Chart history

     Weekly charts  Year-end charts 

  6. Other renditions

  7. In other media

  8. References

  9. External links

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| type = single
| artist = Joe Cocker
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| format = 7-inch single
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| label = A&M
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"You Are So Beautiful" is a song written by Billy Preston and Bruce Fisher that was first released in 1974 on Preston's ninth studio album, The Kids & Me. It was also the B-side of his single "Struttin'". Later that same year, English singer Joe Cocker released a slower version of the song on his album I Can Stand a Little Rain. Cocker's version was produced by Jim Price, and released as a single in November 1974.[1] It became one of Cocker's biggest chart hits, peaking at number five on the US Billboard Hot 100.[2]

Some sources credit Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys with contributing to the song's genesis. Wilson performed the song live with the Beach Boys from the late 1970s onwards. Kenny Rankin, Ray Stevens, Kenny Rogers, Bonnie Tyler and Brian Kennedy are also among the artists who have covered "You Are So Beautiful". The song has also been featured in numerous movies, television shows, and ads.

Background

Billy Preston wrote "You Are So Beautiful" with one of his regular collaborators, Bruce Fisher.[3] Preston's inspiration was his mother, who worked as a stage actress. According to his friend Sam Moore (who had assumed it was a standard love song), Preston was appalled to learn that Moore was using the song as a means to attract young women each time he sang it in concert. In Moore's description, Preston told him: "That song's about my mother!"[4] The composition incorporates part of Preston's 1969 song "Let Us All Get Together (Right Now)",[5] which he wrote with soul singer Doris Troy.[6]

According to Beach Boys biographer Jon Stebbins, although Dennis Wilson is not credited as a writer, he helped Preston finish writing "You Are So Beautiful".[7] Preston and Wilson are said to have collaborated on the song while attending a party where they discussed the concept of beauty.[7] In the opinion of Craig Hlavaty, writing for Houston Press, while Wilson never sought to claim a share of the song's authorship, "If you check out Wilson's solo work, you can hear where Wilson's mind took over 'Beautiful.'"[8] In a 2004 interview, when asked whether his brother Dennis was "one of the uncredited writers" of "You Are So Beautiful", Brian Wilson said: "He did not write that song."[9]

Dennis sang "You Are So Beautiful" as an encore at Beach Boys shows intermittently from 1975 until his death in 1983.{{citation needed|date=October 2014}} A live rendition, circa 1978, and an edited 1983 live rendition both appear in the film An American Band (1985). A live version was released on the group's album Live at Knebworth England 1980 in 2002.

Composition

"You Are So Beautiful" was originally published in the key of E♭ major in common time with a tempo of 70 beats per minute. Cocker's vocals span from B♭3 to E♭5.[10]

Live performances

Cocker performed the song along with Ray Charles in a 1983 television tribute to Charles, "A Man and his Soul.[11]

Personnel

  • Joe Cocker – lead vocals
  • Nicky Hopkins – piano
  • Dave McDaniel – bass
  • Jimmy Webb – arrangements

Chart history

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Weekly charts

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Chart (1975)Peak
position
Australian Kent Music Report32
Canadian RPM Top Singles[12]4
US Billboard Hot 100[13]5
US Billboard Adult Contemporary[14]12
US Cash Box Top 100[15]4
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Year-end charts

Chart (1975)Rank
Canadian RPM Top Singles[16]53
US Billboard Hot 100[17]65
{{col-end}}

Other renditions

  • Ray Stevens recorded it for his album Just for the Record (1976). Stevens' version reached number 16 on the Hot Country Songs charts.[18]
  • Kenny Rogers recorded the song as the closing track on his best-selling album We've Got Tonight (1983). It was also used as the B-side to the single release of the title track.
  • Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler recorded the song on her album Silhouette In Red (1993).[19]
  • Italian bluesman Zucchero Fornaciari included the cover of the song in his greatest hits album All the Best (2007).
  • Irish singer Brian Kennedy covered the song on his album Interpretations (2008).[20]
  • Hong Kong singer Susan Wong included a cover of the song on her smooth jazz / bossa nova album 511 (2009).[21]
  • In 2016 former Isley Brother Chris Jasper covered the song on his album Share With Me.
  • Bob James covered this song on his album Heads (1977).[22]

In other media

  • Television programs have used commercial recordings of the song. Seventies-themed sitcom The Wonder Years used a recorded version of the song in Season 6, Episode 16, "Nose", where it played at the end of the episode at a school dance where Kevin's friend Ricky loses a girl with a large nose just as Ricky had come to appreciate her.
  • The song was heard in Two and a Half Men Season 4, Episode 23, ("Anteaters. They're Just Crazy-Lookin'"), sung by guest Enrique Iglesias.[23][24]
  • An episode of Home Improvement ("Jill's Birthday") accompanied the song with a montage of photos of Jill Taylor (Patricia Richardson) in her early age.
  • The song played in Season 5, Episode 9 of Full House.
  • The film Modern Romance (1981) includes an instrumental version of the song in its opening and closing titles, and also uses Joe Cocker's version to underscore its final scene.
  • Joe Cocker's version was also used in the film Carlito's Way (1993) and plays during Gail's apartment scene and over the film's end credits.
  • In the American comedy movie The Little Rascals (1994), the song is sung by Alfalfa to Darla on a boat.
  • The XFL featured the song in a halftime stunt during a week 6 game between the Orlando Rage and Las Vegas Outlaws. The stunt promised a behind-the-scenes visit into the locker room of the Rage's cheerleaders at halftime. Instead, the cameraman knocked himself unconscious by running into the locker room door, followed by a dream sequence with little implied nudity, various fetish-related scenes, and a surprise cameo from Rodney Dangerfield. [25]
  • In 2016, the song appears in the season one finale of Quantico entitled "Yes", first sung by a drunk Caleb Haas (Graham Rogers) and Brandon Fletcher (Jacob Artist) celebrating their graduation, then leading into the Joe Cocker version for the remainder of the scene.
  • The song appears in a 2018 TV commercial for Toyota.[26]

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.45cat.com/record/1641s|title='You Are So Beautiful' by Joe Cocker: Record Details|publisher=45cat|accessdate=2018-12-21}}
2. ^{{cite book |title= Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001|last=Whitburn |first=Joel |authorlink=Joel Whitburn |year=2002 |publisher=Record Research |page=58}}
3. ^{{cite AV media notes|url=|first=John|last=Tobler|title=I Wrote a Simple Song/Music Is My Life|others=Billy Preston|pp=7, 8|year=2011|type=CD booklet|publisher=BGO Records|id=}}
4. ^{{cite AV media|people=Wakeman, Rick (presenter); Wilson, John (producer)|year=2010|title=Billy Preston: That's the Way God Planned It|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wqb5d|medium=Radio 4 on Music documentary|time=|publisher=bbc.co.uk}}
5. ^{{cite book|last=Winn|first=John C.|year=2009|title=That Magic Feeling: The Beatles' Recorded Legacy, Volume Two, 1966–1970|publisher=Three Rivers Press|location=New York, NY|isbn=978-0-307-45239-9|p=284}}
6. ^{{cite AV media notes|url=|first=Andy|last=Davis|title=That's the Way God Planned It|others=Billy Preston|p=|year=2010|type=CD booklet|publisher=Apple Records|id=}}
7. ^{{cite book|last=Collins|first=Ace|title=Music for Your Heart: Reflections from Your Favorite Songs and Hymns|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hXoaAAAAQBAJ|date=2013|publisher=Abingdon Press|isbn=978-1-4267-7604-5|page=154}}
8. ^1 {{cite web|last=Hlavaty|first=Craig|title=The Secret History of 'You Are So Beautiful'|url=http://blogs.houstonpress.com/rocks/2012/06/the_secret_history_of_you_are.php|work=Houston Press|accessdate=2013-02-26}}
9. ^{{cite web|url=http://earcandymag.com/brianwilson-2004.htm|author=Ronnie|title=Interview with Brian Wilson (10-16-04)|publisher=Ear Candy|date=2004|accessdate=December 12, 2018}}
10. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/mtd.asp?ppn=MN0087394 |title=Joe Cocker - You Are So Beautiful |website=musicnotes.com |accessdate=February 9, 2019 |deadurl=no }}
11. ^{{cite web |last=Lynch |first=Joe |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6415045/joe-cocker-essential-moments-woodstock-snl |title=R.I.P. Joe Cocker: 7 Essential Moments, From Woodstock to 'SNL' |publisher=Billboard |date=December 22, 2014 |accessdate=September 26, 2018 |deadurl=no }}
12. ^{{cite web|url= http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.3948a&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.3948a.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.3948a|title=Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada |website=Collectionscanada.gc.ca |date= |accessdate=2017-05-24}}
13. ^{{cite|url=http://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/1975-03-29|title=Music: Hot 100 - Billboard Hot 100 |date=March 29, 1975 |accessdate=April 14, 2018 |work=Billboard}}
14. ^{{cite|url=http://www.billboard.com/charts/adult-contemporary/1975-04-12|title=Adult Contemporary Chart - Billboard|work=Billboard}}
15. ^Cash Box Top 100 Singles, April 5, 1975
16. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.5173a&type=1&interval=20&PHPSESSID=enic7sdhqrbeuu9iiip880d0j4|title=Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada|work=collectionscanada.gc.ca}}
17. ^Musicoutfitters.com
18. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/ray-stevens/chart-history/country-songs |title=Hot Country Songs |publisher=Billboard |date=June 26, 1976 |accessdate=November 25, 2018 |deadurl=no }}
19. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/silhouette-in-red-mw0001000618 |title=Bonnie Tyler - Silhouette in Red |publisher=Allmusic |accessdate=December 22, 2018 |deadurl=no }}
20. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/interpretations-mw0001607141 |title= Brian Kennedy - Interpretations |publisher=Allmusic |accessdate=March 9, 2019 |deadurl=no }}
21. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/511-mw0001309031 |title=Susan Wong - 511 |publisher=Allmusic |accessdate=April 29, 2018 |deadurl=no}}
22. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/heads-mw0000188358 |title= Bob James - Heads |publisher=Allmusic |accessdate=November 21, 2018 |deadurl=no }}
23. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=two-and-a-half-men&episode=s04e23 |title=Two and a Half Men S04E23 Episode Script - Anteaters. They're Just Crazy-lookin' |publisher=Springfield! Springfield! |accessdate=April 22, 2018 |deadurl=no}}
24. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhTWUvX2zVw |title=Enrique Iglesias Serenades Charlie's Girlfriend - Two and a Half Men |publisher=YouTube/Comedy Central U |date=January 1, 2015 |accessdate=April 22, 2018 |deadurl=no}}
25. ^https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LuT7b6Vxkw
26. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.ispot.tv/ad/dgYq/toyota-so-beautiful |title=Toyota TV Commercial, 'So Beautiful' |work=ispot.tv |year=2018 |accessdate=September 4, 2018 |deadurl=no}}

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