You Are So Beautiful

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For the song by Donna Summer, see You're So Beautiful.
"You Are So Beautiful"
File:You Are So Beautiful single cover.jpg
Single by Joe Cocker
from the album I Can Stand a Little Rain
Released 1974
Recorded 1974
Genre Pop, blue-eyed soul
Length 2:41
Label A&M
Writer(s) Billy Preston, Bruce Fisher
Producer(s) Jim Price
Joe Cocker singles chronology
"Midnight Rider"
(1972)		 "You Are So Beautiful"
(1975)		 "Up Where We Belong"
(1983)

"You Are So Beautiful" is a song written by Billy Preston and Bruce Fisher. Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys contributed to the song's genesis, but his official credit was omitted. It was first recorded by Preston and made popular by Joe Cocker. Preston who grew up playing the organ in church, originally wrote the lyrics about God.[citation needed]

Preston's original version first appeared on his 1974 album The Kids & Me and as the B-side on the 45rpm pressing of his pop hit, "Struttin'". 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. It would be his biggest hit until his duet with Jennifer Warnes, "Up Where We Belong", which reached #1 in 1982.

Authorship

Though not officially credited as the song's writer, Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys and Preston spontaneously collaborated on the words and music to the song at a party.[1] Wilson never sought to reclaim his share of the song's authorship.[2] The song's tone has been related to the style of his solo material.[2]

Without instrumental accompaniment, Wilson sang "You Are So Beautiful" as an encore at Beach Boys shows intermittently from 1975 until his death in 1983.[citation needed] A live rendition was released on the group's live album Good Timin': Live at Knebworth England 1980 in 2002.

Renditions

In other media

Television programs have used commercial recordings of the song, along with versions sung in person by fictional characters and by professional singers. On Knots Landing (Season 11, Episode 270), the song played as a drunk Danny Waleska ran over Pat Williams with his car.[citation needed] 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. 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. On the season six Three's Company episode "Strangers in the Night," Jack Tripper tries to impress a woman by lip syncing to his friend Larry's performance of the song.[6] Marge Simpson sings it to Homer at the very end of the Simpsons episode Simpson and Delilah — a performance included in one of the Simpsons compilation albums — later, Homer's sometime assistant Karl arranges for someone to come and sing the song to Marge, making it look like this is Homer's anniversary present to her.[citation needed] Singer Enrique Iglesias performed as the handyman Fernando in the sitcom Two and a Half Men in the 2007 episode "Anteaters. They're Just Crazy-lookin'," and singer Babyface performed the song during the marriage ceremony of Martin and Gina of Martin. The song played in Season 5, Episode 9 of Full House and was mentioned in an episode[which?] of Desperate Housewives where it was revealed to have been Karl and Susan Mayer's song.[citation needed]

Televised reality competition programs have used the song multiple times over the years. Jessica Sanchez sang this on British Week on American Idol. 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. Tim Hockenberry performed the song on his season 7 audition of America's Got Talent. Johnson & Jodeyne skated to "You Are So Beautiful" in week 9 of DOI & on the DOI tour.Donna Allen sung "You Are So Beautiful" on Season 5 of The Voice during the blind auditions making Adam and Christina the only two to turn their chairs. And Tofiq Hajiyev sung "You Are So Beautiful" on Season 1 of The Voice Azerbaijan during the blind auditions making Tunzale,Mubarz,Manan and Faig the four to turn their chairs.

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 play's over the film's end credit's. Ian Harrison's recording played at a school dance during the UK movie Get Real (1999). In-person performances on film include Seann William Scott's in Evolution (2001) and the 1994 comedy The Little Rascals, where Alfalfa Switzer (Bug Hall) performed the song in his first scene. In January 2016, Kentuckian Jordan Smith, after winning The Voice in its fall 2015 season, performed the song with David Foster accompanying on the piano at the People's Choice Awards.

References

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  5. ↑ Zucchero - All The Best Album
  6. ↑ Three's Company transcript - Season 6, Episode 12: Strangers in the Night.

External links

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