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From:  Karen Mercedes <dalila@R...>
Date:  Mon Jan 7, 2002  2:37 pm
Subject:  Re: [vocalist] Celebrity and Mortality

Nat King Cole did indeed compose a number of songs, but he also performed
songs by other composers. For example, Cole was so impressed by Jimmy
McHugh's songwriting that he recorded at least four of McHugh's songs.

As for George Harrison - I can't help thinking that, while certain of "the
dead" never deserve to be spoken well of, George Harrison doesn't come
close to being in that category. I'm not sure what dragging up an old
discussion of his lawsuit over "My Sweet Lord" is intended to accomplish,
except that someone clearly has an agenda that involves making themselves
feel more important somehow by belittling one of pop music's great
songwriters (he did write more than *that song* after all), guitarists,
and inspirations.

Harrison played an important part in my youthful spiritual life, and for
that - and the most glorious of his songs, and his contribution to the
Beatles, I am not just willing to forgive him his one lapse into the murky
territory of unconsciously (or even consciously) borrowing a riff from
another song (which in any case, he certainly raised above the level of
just another unsophisticated Motown love ditty), but am going to remain
grateful for his existence until the end of my own.

Karen Mercedes
http://www.radix.net/~dalila/index.html
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What lies behind us, and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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