Koin TV News Feature Where We Live – Bobby Torres and the 50th anniversary of Woodstock

Joe Cocker’s band, Woodstock (3 Days of Peace & Music), Bethel, NY, 1969. Photo By ©Elliott Landy, LandyVision Inc. http://elliottlandy.com/

Watch the Koin TV News Feature “Where We Live” at 5:00pm – This story, reported by Ken Boddie, features Bobby Torres and the 50th Anniversary of Woodstock ’69 which is coming up in August. Joe Cocker introduced “Feeling Alright” as an “English variation of somebody’s head bashing tune”. In his introduction, Joe said “It features our conga player…I’d Like to give him a hand (a round of applause) for Mr. Bobby Please… a New York Cat as they say”. From then on, Bobby Torres became known as “Mr. Bobby Please”.  Watch the link below to hear the introduction and the song. In the still shot to the left, published here with permission from Elliott Landy – http://elliottlandy.com – you can see Bobby Torres on stage to the left at Woodstock in 1969. Bobby is sporting an afro, a styling tie-dyed shirt and purple pants with suspenders.