Other great rock songs that namecheck that we’ve chosen to include are, CCR‘s, ‘Proud Mary’ and their cover of Dale Hawkin’s ‘Suzie Q’: The Ozark Mountain Daredevils, ‘Jackie Blue’: a trio from the Rolling Stones, ‘Angie’, ‘Ruby Tuesday’ and ‘Lady Jane’ and Grand Funk‘s underrated ‘Sally’. According to Betts, “She was Hispanic and somewhat dark and mysterious-and she really used it to her advantage and played it to the hilt.” Betts saw a headstone with the inscription upon it at the Rose Hill Cemetery, a place frequented by band members during their early days to relax and write songs. Dickey Betts wrote the song about Boz Scaggs’s girlfriend, with whom Dickey was also involved with.
If you want to hear one of the best, just listen to Frank Sinatra’s ‘Elizabeth’ or there’s Brian Wilson’s ‘Caroline No’.Īnother great rock song that name checks a woman is the Allman Brothers, ‘In Memory of Elizabeth Reed’. Often these songs to a specific girl have been written in the first flush of love, Rick Nelson‘s ‘Hello Mary Lou’, being a perfect example as is Buddy Holly’s ‘Peggy Sue’.īut there’s also classic songs about rejection, like ‘Eloise’ by the Damned (originally a hit by Barry Ryan), Tom Jones‘s ‘Delilah’ or the Everlys’ ‘Cathy’s Clown’. Whatever the detail of the story behind the song it remains one of rock’s great love songs. After laying down his song Clapton returned to the studio to hear the Dominos’ drummer, Jim Gordon playing a piano piece that he immediately loved and decided he wanted to add it to ‘Layla’ to complete the track Gordon had in fact borrowed the melody from his former girlfriend Rita Coolidge. Clapton was inspired to write the first part of the song having been given a copy of the Persian classical poet, Nizami Ganjavi’s book. ‘Layla’ is Clapton’s love song to Pattie Boyd, who at that time was married to George Harrison she later married Clapton in 1979 (Pattie has had more songs written about her than most women).
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