"Time" ended up on the 1973 album Chronicles by Booker T.
Jim took the melody from Rita's song and didn't give her credit for writing it. Her sister Priscilla wound up recording it with her husband, Booker T. Rita and Jim were up there in the guest house and invited me to join in on writing this song with them called "Time". I know because in the Delaney & Bonnie 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. Jim took that piano melody from his ex-girlfriend, Rita Coolidge. Though only Gordon has been officially credited with this part, the band's keyboardist Bobby Whitlock claimed: You don't have money to fight this." She hasn't heard from Clapton himself but believes he is aware of the situation. She tried to contact Clapton, but was told by his manager Robert Stigwood, "What are you gonna do? You’re a girl. Clapton, impressed by the piece, used it as part of the song in the coda section which she found out by hearing the song over the PA system a year later. Once they met with Clapton, Coolidge played the piece she composed for him and she gave him a cassette. In 2016, Coolidge stated that she recorded a demo with her boyfriend, the band's drummer Jim Gordon, before they went to England to record with Clapton. "Layla" Ĭoolidge didn't receive songwriting credits for the piano coda in the 1971 single " Layla" by Eric Clapton's band Derek and the Dominos. She became known as "The Delta Lady" and inspired Russell to write a song of the same name for her. She was featured in Joe Cocker's Mad Dogs and Englishmen tour and album, singing Russell's and Bonnie Bramlett's song " Superstar." Coolidge did not receive songwriting credits for "Superstar" which later became a hit for The Carpenters. There, she became a backing singer for artists including Leon Russell, Joe Cocker, Harry Chapin, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Dave Mason, Graham Nash, and Stephen Stills. Early career Īfter singing around Memphis (including a stint singing jingles), Coolidge was discovered by Delaney & Bonnie, who worked with her in Los Angeles. She is a member of Alpha Gamma Delta sorority. Coolidge is a graduate of Florida State University. She attended Nashville's Maplewood High School and graduated from Andrew Jackson Senior High in Jacksonville, Florida.
She is of Cherokee and Scottish ancestry. She is the daughter of Dick and Charlotte Coolidge, a minister and schoolteacher, with sisters Linda and Priscilla, and brother Raymond. Life and career Early life Ĭoolidge was born in Lafayette, Tennessee.
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