[nickcarraway]

Layla

Grammy Award Winner Rita Coolidge on Not Recieving Credit for Hit Song Layla

(Isolated Piano) The Layla "Coda"

[Governor Dinwiddie]

I don't see why not. Whatever floats your boat.

[Ge0ffrey]

Yes.

[Larry Lucido]

it’s what cemented Eric Clapton well and truly as a guitar-playing god

Clapton is very good, but that guitar work was Duane Allman

[stanne]

Long told story. Ya.

There are two guitars on that great coda. I recommend listening

[FLNittany]

There are no hits more colossal than Layla? It’s a good song, but I can think of a hundred better, given time.

[Pelham]

Layla ping

[Psalm 73]

Rita Coolidge had written those piano lines, Jim Gordon (the drummer) heard it and used it for Layla, (it was Jim Gordon on piano).

Jim Gordon died in prison a few years ago - was serving a life sentence for killing his mother with a hammer.

So, stealing a song was small potatoes for Jimmy....

[hecticskeptic]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVpT8Dmkndk
Near the end of this piece (7 1/2 minutes or so), it is stated that according to Bobby Whitlock (keyboardist for Derek and the Dominos) it was actually Rita’s sister who recorded the song.

[dznutz]

[Arkady]

Clapton ripped off so many artists from Jimmy Cliff to JJ Cale. And Layla sucks, 4-5 minutes of wasted radio time, it sounds like two separate songs pasted together to glom air play.

[logi_cal869]

...just pretty much an asshole...

So, by consequence, Eric Clapton is an asshole.

No surprise here.

[Carriage Hill]

“Time”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwJgWqLTeCw&list=RDBwJgWqLTeCw&start_radio=1

[GSWarrior]

Rita Coolidge was married to drummer Jim Gordon (Jump Into the Fire) who was later convicted of murdering his mother. He died in prison in 2023.

[bleach]

From the Tom Dowd bio pic. He has the tracks of Duane And Eric isolated on the multitrack.

https://youtu.be/iKPooc-ImiM

[Beowulf9]

Do they mean the last part, the piano part is what Coolidge and her partner wrote?

[Bullish]

While Clapton may be a decent guitar player it’s pretty well known that he’s not a very decent guy. At least he wasn’t back then. He stole George Harrison’s wife. Supposedly ‘Layla’ was written about Harrison’s wife at the time, Patty Boyd.

[captmar-vell]

Jim Gordon stole it and Robert Stigwood squashed any discussion about ownership. As an unrelated side-note John Travolta also didn’t have any use for Stigwood around this same time.

Meanwhile Gordon turned out to be a total psycho, so I would blame the combination of him and Stigwood.

I don’t blame Eric Clapton, but do think he should come out and make it right for Rita.

[minnesota_bound]

Bigger sound version.

Eric Clapton - Layla
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX5USg8_1gA

[subterfuge]

HATE Layla. It just goes on and on! But the acoustic version is okay.

[wardaddy]

A boomer

Guilty for sure

I hate those fookers