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xke38
Which version of Layla do you mean? Bobby Whitlock plays on the original Derek and the Dominos version and is credited as songwriter together with EC.
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xke38
Which version of Layla do you mean? Bobby Whitlock plays on the original Derek and the Dominos version and is credited as songwriter together with EC.
Bobby Whitlock is not credited as a co-songwriter - that would be *Jim Gordon who "wrote" the latter part of the tune.
I don't think Nicky plays on the studio version, unless it was uncredited...
*Some controversy surrounding the second part as to who actually wrote it though.
Via wiki: Layla
"Shortly afterward, Clapton returned to the studio, where he heard Jim Gordon playing a piano piece he had composed separately. Clapton, impressed by the piece, convinced Gordon to allow it to be used as part of the song.[12] Though only Gordon has been credited with this part, according to Whitlock, "Jim took that piano melody from his ex-girlfriend Rita Coolidge. I know because in the D&B days I lived in John Garfield's old house in the Hollywood Hills and there was a guest house with an upright piano in it. Rita and Jim were up there in the guest house and invited me to join in on writing this song with them called 'Time'. ... Her sister Priscilla wound up recording it with Booker T. Jones. ... Jim took the melody from Rita's song and didn't give her credit for writing it. Her boyfriend ripped her off."[21] "Time" ended up on the album Chronicles by Booker T. and Priscilla Jones which was released in 1973. Whitlock's story was echoed by Coolidge herself in her 2016 autobiography. The claim is also substantiated in Graham Nash's 2014 autobiography Wild Tales.
"Layla's" second movement (the "Piano Exit") was recorded roughly a week after the first, with Gordon playing his piano part, Clapton playing acoustic guitar and slide guitar, and Allman playing electric and bottleneck slide guitar.[15][19] After Dowd spliced the two movements together,[15] "Layla" was complete".
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MelBelli
Do I recall correctly that it’s Jack Nitzsche playing keys in the Godard movie?
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Hairball
Regarding Jim Gordon, what a fantastic drummer, and his sessionography is amazing...but then things got very weird...
From Best Classic Bands: Jim Gordon
From Billboard: Jim Gordon
From Rolling Stone: Jim Gordon
From wiki (see discography): Jim Gordon
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Wry Cooter
Jim Gordon plays the piano on the "Layla" coda. It serves the track, but he's no Nicky Hopkins.