“A Little Help From My Friend”Vadia
From Vadia’s Mixtape Vol. 1 (2013)
Vadia Rhodes, aka Vadia, gives Joe Cocker’s already gospelized version of the Beatles classic an inspirational lyric to boot.
The Sacramento, California-based singer and her father, Pastor Essex Hubbard, raise the gospel temperature towards the end with a shouting duet on Jesus, the friend who will never leave or forsake you. Hubbard quotes John 15:13 (“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends”) to give the song a biblical context.
“A Little Help From My Friend” is on Vadia’s Mixtape Vol. 1, a five-track EP of love songs re-purposed with inspirational messages. “Friend” and an cover of Bill Withers’ “Use Me Up” that converts love into discipleship, are the most lyrically effective and vocally demonstrative of the five.
Written by : Bob Marovich
Bob Marovich is a gospel music historian, author, and radio host. Founder of Journal of Gospel Music blog (formally The Black Gospel Blog) and producer of the Gospel Memories Radio Show.
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