Willie Dixon - I can't quit you, baby

Willie Dixon - I can't quit you, baby
from Album: I am the blues

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Music

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• blues

[PictishPrince]

@licandres01 No, Zeppelin stole music from Black American artists banned from 'white radio' in the us just as Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, and countless other artists did. Granted, those thieving artists made the music more popular, but they could have at least paid the people who wrote the music.

[lukeaaronfreeman101]

Hugh Laurie sent me here!!

[mashui99]

@tbcass Maybe it's cause i wasn't there when the album when i originally came but on my copies of the cd's it sure as hell gives them songwriting credit. Also, in the 60's and 70's bands covered everyone freely then. Willie Dixon's songs had been literally dozens of times without him getting paid. He sued them because they hugely famous and rich. If they were moderately successful like the Yardbirds he wouldn't have cared, and in fact didn't.

[tbcass]

@mashui99 No it was not covering it was stealing. What's the difference? Zeppelin actually took WRITING credit for the songs to AVOID PAYING ROYALITIES thus depriving the original artists from income they deserved. Zeppelin on the other hand flew around the world on jets,living the high life of sex and drugs. Some of the artists sued Zeppelin and won by the way. Other artists like the stones gave proper credit where credit was due.

[lordfluxington]

@PictishPrince Zeppelin REVERED the blues greats... as did Clapton, Green, Mayall, Korner etc etc. I find it strange you don't list Hendrix or any of the other 1000s of african americans who covered Dixon and House etc, yet you have a problem with the English covering them. Is this a racial thing for you?

[mashui99]

@PictishPrince It wasn't stealing, it was covering. tThere's a huge difference. Blues, rock, basically all kinds of artists covered each other left and right back then. Look at some of those early rock n roll records, or a Led Zeppelin one. It clearly states they're covers. They did to show the influence it gave them and the love and respect they had for the blues. Even Willie Dixon himself did cover songs.

[BishopArkansasRed]

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[BishopArkansasRed]

@1goldbaby also elvis stole from blackmen - OTIS BLACKWELL and ROY HAMILTON! roll the google and see fror yourself!

[onthinice766]

pure emotion

[1goldbaby]

@bluejazz51 elvis stole the style from "jackie wilson (roll the tapes)...he certainly did not come up with what he was doing on his own ...

[1goldbaby]

it is a difference in covering a song than just downright stealing a song/style from artists and taking the credit.

[1goldbaby]

@blutus11 i totally agree with you ,some people just want the credit and do not want to give it where it is due but we all know where the music came from and who started it ,we don't need them to admit it cos i wouldn't want to admit that i copied and stole songs /syles from those artists..i would be too ashamed...i could not come up with myown stuff.