Honoring the Spirit of Jocko

JockoMade Music

Jocko’s passion for life extended to his passion for music. The music today includes songs that Jocko loved, that he often sang (loudly), that gently remind us of all that he was, and that honor him and our memory of him. Jocko took comfort in music, a part of his quest for the sublime and a search for anything that could match his blazing spirit and all he had to offer the universe - whether poignant, dramatic, philosophical, or uplifting. He could lose his mind over a Sondheim lyric in one moment, cry over the power of Judy Garland’s voice in another, and finish it out with a Whitney dance off. These songs are a tribute to his power, his magic, the depth of his kindness, his romance, his purposefulness, his dedication to creating a home where everyone was welcome, and his yearning for a better world. And that we all miss him, we really really miss him. Jocko was our dreamer who made the world, and our worlds, better - more joyful and more beautiful. May his memory be a blessing and may this music be a reminder of him.

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Smile
by Diana Ross

Songwriters: Charlie Chaplin, John Turner, Geoffrey Parsons

“Smile, though your heart is aching…”

The Man That Got Away
by Judy Garland

Songwriters: Gus Kahn, Walter Donaldson

“There is nothing sadder than the one-woman man looking for the man that got away…”

Nature Boy
by Natalie Cole

Songwriter: eden ahbez

"The greatest thing you'll ever learn Is just to love and be loved in return"

Take Me to the World
by Judy Collins

Songwriter: Stephen Sondheim

“Take me to the world - somewhere I can walk for miles. I'll hold your hand and know I'm not alone”

Any Place I Hang My Hat is Home
by Barbra Streisand

Songwriters: Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen

“There's a voice in the lonesome wind…

“I'm going where a welcome mat is - no matter where that is - 'cause any place I hang my hat is home”

On the Street Where you Live
by Dean Martin

Songwriters: Frederick Loewe, Alan Jay Lerner

“People stop and stare - they don't bother me, for there's nowhere else on earth that I would rather be

Let the time go by - I won't care if I can be here on the street where you live.”

Anyone Can Whistle
by Tom Wopat

Songwriter: Stephen Sondheim

“Maybe you could show me how to let go - lower my guard, learn to be free.

Maybe if you whistle, whistle for me.”

Being Alive
by Voctave (featuring David Phelps)

Songwriter: Stephen Sondheim

“Someone to need you too much, Someone to know you too well

Someone to pull you up short…To put you through hell…

To give you support… is being alive”

It All Fades Away
by Jennifer Nettles (featuring Brandi Carlile)

Songwriter: Jason Robert Brown

“There are places I have travelled and so many things I've seen, and it all fades away but you…”

Children Will Listen
by Eleri Ward

Songwriter: Stephen Sondheim

“Careful the things you say, Children will listen

Careful the things you do, Children will see and learn”

Rise Up
by Andra Day

Songwriters: Jennifer Decilveo, Cassandra Monique Batie

“All we need is hope and for that we have each other. Rise Up.”

Crowded Table
by The Highwomen

Songwriters: Lori Mckenna, Natalie Nicole Hemby, Brandi Marie Carlile.

“I want a house with a crowded table and a place by the fire for everyone.”

Over the Rainbow
by Eva Cassidy

Songwriters: Harold Arlen, E.y. Harburg

“Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue…

and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.”

A Million Dreams
by Pink

Songwriters: Benj Pasek, Justin Paul

“I think of what the world could be - a vision of the one I see

A million dreams is all it's gonna take…a million dreams for the world we're gonna make.”

Beautiful City
by Hunter Parrish

Songwriter: Stephen Schwartz

“Out of our night of struggle can we see a ray of hope - one pale thin ray reaching for the day...”

The Impossible Dream
by Luther Vandross

Songwriters: Mitch Leigh, Joseph Darion

“And the world will be better for this

That one man, scorned and covered with scars

Still strove with his last ounce of courage

To reach the unreachable star”

If I Can Help Somebody

Songwriter: Alma Bazel Androzzo

“If I can help somebody, as I'm singing the song, you know my living shall not be in vain”

Pure Imagination

Songwriters: Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley

“There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination

Living there, you'll be free, if you truly wish to be”

Amazing Grace

Songwriters: John Newton, Traditional

“'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear and grace my fears relieved

How precious did that grace appear the hour I first believed”

Sunday

Songwriter: Stephen Sondheim

“As we pass through arrangements of shadow

Toward the verticals of trees,

Forever…In our perfect park”

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Closer To Fine
by Brandi Carlile & Catherine Carlile

Songwriters: Emily Ann Saliers, Amy Elizabeth Ray

“There’s more than one answer to these questions, pointing me in a crooked line.

And the less I seek my source for some definitive, the closer I am to fine’

Higher Love
by Whitney Houston

Songwriters: Steve Winwood, Will Jennings

“There must be a higher love - down in the heart or hidden in the stars above.”

This Is Me
by Keala Settle

Songwriters: Benj Pasek, Justin Paul

“I know that there's a place for us - for we are glorious”

If We Only Have Love
by Dionne Warwick

Songwriter: Jacques Brel

“If we only have love, then tomorrow will dawn, and the days of our years will rise on that morn.”

Corner of the Sky
by Matthew James Thomas

Songwriter: Stephen Schwartz

“Rivers belong where they can ramble

Eagles belong where they can fly

I've got to be where my spirit can run free

Got to find my corner of the sky”

We Found Love
by 2CELLOS

Songwriter: Calvin Harris

Upside Down
by Diana Ross

Songwriters: Bernard Edwards, Nile Rodgers

“Upside down

Boy, you turn me inside out

And, 'round and 'round”