Jamaica Say You Will is the fifth studio album

Album

An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 by Joe Cocker

Joe Cocker

John Robert "Joe" Cocker, OBE is an English rock and blues musician, composer and actor, who came to popularity in the 1960s, and is most known for his gritty voice, his idiosyncratic arm movements while performing, and his cover versions of popular songs, particularly those of The Beatles...

, released in 1975. It includes participation by Randy Newman

Randy Newman

Randall Stuart "Randy" Newman is an American singer-songwriter, arranger, composer, and pianist who is known for his mordant pop songs and for film scores....

; rhythm section on most of the songs is played by the Kingpins, formerly known for being saxophonist King Curtis

King Curtis

Curtis Ousley , who performed under the stage name King Curtis, was an American saxophone virtuoso known for rhythm and blues, rock and roll, soul, funk and soul jazz. Variously a bandleader, band member, and session musician, he was also a musical director and record producer...

' backing band, including Bernard "Pretty" Purdie

Bernard Purdie

Bernard Lee "Pretty" Purdie is an American session drummer, and is considered an influential and innovative exponent of funk...

 on drums. "(That's What I Like) In My Woman" is a fast-driven song with horns, "Where Am I Now" and "I Think It's Going To Rain Today" are sort of twin songs, as they're not separated.
"Oh Mama" is pure vocal blues, accompanied by a saxophone. The over-all influence is clearly black music, soul and blues in particular. The album winds up acoustically, with a simply arranged, folk-flavoured tune, "Jack-A-Diamonds".

Track listing

1. "(That's What I Like) In My Woman" (Matthew Moore) - 3:24
2. "Where Am I Now" (Jesse Ed Davis
   Jesse Ed Davis
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   ) - 4:14
3. "I Think It's Going to Rain Today
   I Think It's Going to Rain Today
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   " (Randy Newman
   Randy Newman
   Randall Stuart "Randy" Newman is an American singer-songwriter, arranger, composer, and pianist who is known for his mordant pop songs and for film scores....
   
   ) - 3:59
4. "Forgive Me Now" (Matthew Moore) - 3:24
5. "Oh Mama" (Jim Price
   Jim Price (musician)
   Jim Price was, together with Bobby Keys and Jim Horn, one of the most in demand horn session players of the 1970s. He toured extensively with The Rolling Stones from 1970 until 1973, including their 1972 American Tour, and appears on the albums, Sticky Fingers, Exile on Main St. and Goats Head Soup...
   
   ) - 4:10
6. "Lucinda" (Randy Newman) - 3:53
7. "If I Love You" (Daniel Moore
   Daniel Moore (Musician)
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   ) - 3:55
8. "Jamaica, Say You Will" (Jackson Browne
   Jackson Browne
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   ) - 4:15
9. "It's All Over But the Shoutin'" (Joe Hinton
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   , Johnny Bristol
   Johnny Bristol
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   ) - 3:54
10. "Jack-A-Diamonds" (Jim Price) - 3:35

Personnel

• Joe Cocker - vocals
• Ben Benay - guitar, harmonica
• Jim Price - keyboards, vocals
• Dan Sawyer - guitar
• Matthew Moore - vocals
• Jim Horn
  Jim Horn
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   - alto saxophone
• Daniel Moore
  Daniel Moore (Musician)
  Daniel Moore is an American musician, singer and songwriter.He co-wrote the song "My Maria" with B. W. Stevenson. Recorded by the latter, the song was a pop hit in 1973. Moore also wrote the song "Shambala", a song which was a hit for both B. W. Stevenson and Three Dog Night that same year...
  
   - guitar, vocals
• Henry McCullough
  Henry McCullough
  Henry McCullough Henry McCullough Henry McCullough (born Henry Campbell Liken McCullough, 21 July 1943, Portstewart, Northern Ireland is an Irish guitarist, vocalist and songwriter, who has played guitar in such bands as Sweeney's Men, Spooky Tooth, Paul McCartney & Wings, and The Grease Band. He...
  
   - guitar
• Trevor Lawrence - tenor saxophone
• Cynthia Barclay - vocals
• Bobby Keys
  Bobby Keys
  Bobby Keys is an American saxophone player, and has performed with other musicians as a member of one of the notable horn sections of the 1970s. He appears on albums by The Rolling Stones, The Who, Harry Nilsson, Delaney Bramlett, George Harrison's All Things Must Pass, Eric Clapton and Joe...
  
   - tenor saxophone
• Chris Stewart - bass
• Richard Tee
  Richard Tee
  Richard Tee was a pianist, studio musician, singer and arranger.Tee graduated from the High School of Music and Art and attended the Manhattan School of Music. Though better known as a studio and session musician, Tee led a jazz ensemble, the Richard Tee Committee, and was a founding member of the...
  
   - keyboards
• Chuck Rainey
  Chuck Rainey
  Chuck Rainey, is an American bass guitar session musician, known for playing with many well-known American musicians and acts, including Donald Byrd, Steely Dan, Quincy Jones, and Aretha Franklin.-Biography:Rainey's youthful pursuits included violin, piano and trumpet...
  
   - bass
• Steve Madaio - trumpet
• Sherlie Matthews
  Sherlie Matthews
  Sherlie Matthews is an American singer, songwriter and record producer, best known as a backing vocalist for Pop, R&B and Rock groups from the mid 1960s to the present time.-Early life:...
  
   - vocals
• Carol Stallings - vocals
• Jean Roussel - organ
• Cornell Dupree
  Cornell Dupree
  Cornell Luther Dupree was an American jazz and R&B guitarist. He worked at various times with Bill Withers, Donny Hathaway, King Curtis and Steve Gadd, appeared on David Letterman, and wrote a book on soul and blues guitar: Rhythm and Blues Guitar ISBN 0-634-00149-3...
  
   - guitar
• Peggy Sandvig - orchestration
• Nicky Hopkins
  Nicky Hopkins
  Nicholas Christian "Nicky" Hopkins was an English pianist and organist.He recorded and performed on noted British and American popular music recordings of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s as a session musician....
  
   - piano
• Bernard "Pretty" Purdie - drums
• Buzz Clifford - vocal
• Don Poncher - percussion
• Joanne Bell - vocals
• Jim Karstein - drums
• Clydie King
  Clydie King
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   - vocals
• Dave McDaniel - bass
• Venetta Fields
  Venetta Fields
  Venetta Fields is an American singer best known as session musician for leading rock and pop acts of the 1970s including Pink Floyd, Barbra Streisand, Steely Dan and the Rolling Stones...
  
  - vocals
• Joe Correro - drums
• Sid Sharp - strings