Mad Dogs & Englishmen (album) Mad Dogs & Englishmen (album) Mad Dogs & Englishmen is a live album by Joe Cocker, released in 1970. The album's title is drawn from the 1931 Noël Coward song of the same name. Only four songs of the 16 on the original album were drawn from his first two studio albums. Besides the contributions of bandmate and musical director Leon Russell, it draws equally from rock (the Rolling Stones, Traffic, Bob Dylan, the Beatles) and soul (Ray Charles, Sam and Dave, Otis Redding). Accompanying Cocker is a choir, a three-piece horn section and several drummers. The single "The Letter"/"Space
Sticks and Stones (Titus Turner song) Sticks and Stones (Titus Turner song) "Sticks and Stones" is an R&B song, written by Titus Turner. The song is best known in a 1960 version by Ray Charles, who added the Latin drum part. It was his first R&B hit with ABC-Paramount, followed in 1961 with "Hit The Road Jack". The song was also covered by Jerry Lee Lewis, The Zombies, Wanda Jackson and The Kingsmen, as well as Joe Cocker on "Mad Dogs and Englishmen", and Elvis Costello in 1994 on the extended play version of "Kojak Variety". In 1997, jazz singer Roseanna Vitro included the tune in