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
Mad Season (song) passes off the band members, and then they leave. This suggests that they didn't really care about the band; they just wanted the passes. Mad Season (song) "Mad Season" is the title-track and third single off Matchbox Twenty's second album, "Mad Season". It was released on April 16, 2001. The song peaked at #48 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 and #76 on the UK Singles Chart. Thomas told "Billboard" magazine that the song took a more universal tone but was originally about "the wild ride that the band has been on since success hit. The whole idea came from out