IT WAS GOOD!| FIRST TIME HEARING Derek &The Dominos - Layla REACTION
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- IT WAS GOOD!| FIRST TIME HEARING Derek &The Dominos - Layla REACTION
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“It was good!” might be a small understatement. Legendary Clapton/Duane Allman collab.
LOL!
It is a true Masterpiece.
Agree!
Absolutely Legendary!!
Total Masterpiece
The piano transition with Ray Liotta’s narration always sticks with me when I hear this song. RIP Ray Liotta.
Literally just about to type this song always makes me think of goodfellas and I read your comment haha, amazing scene ✌️
My favorite part of Goodfellas
The greatest song exit goes to the greatest Mob movie ever
Ya... this song really completed that scene in GF's
"When they found Carbone in the meat truck, he was frozen so stiff it took them three days to thaw him out for the autopsy"
The high slide guitar throughout this song that Amber is commenting on is provided by the best slide guitarist ever, Duane Allman.
Allman is great. I think Junior Brown May be better. Listen to ‘Freeborn Man’.
David Gilmour is also incredible on the slide guitar. His solo at the end of Pink Floyd’s “High Hopes” song is incredible
Only time I've heard the coda played as well as the original is a version done by Eric Clapton with Derek Trucks playing slide
Greg, on TH-cam, there is a clip of DA in an “isolated” (no other instruments) segment of his solo in Layla, before the second half begins. It is fascinating, you may have seen it.
Guess you never heard of Ry Cooder. Listen to his work on Sister Morphine by the Stones.
The entire album that Layla was on was incredible.
As well as the "Live at the Filmore" double album.
I like that song "I Am Yours." -- Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (1970)
Eric Clapton IS Derek, along with Carl Radle, Jim Gordon and Bobby Whitlock (3 of his band mates from Delaney, Bonnie & Friends).... however the individual that makes this entire album is the beyond magnificent "guest" Duane Allman - who is playing the higher-pitched slide and echos/refrains Clapton's vocals.... this song - actually, the whole album - was written as a tribute & plea of love to Patti Boyd Harrison, wife of Clapton's best friend, Beatle George Harrison.
Robert, if you haven’t already done so, read Eric and Pattie’s memoirs.
They were great even without Duane. Listen to the first 3 songs on the album. He wasn’t even there when they recorded them. Clapton plays 4 different guitar lines on Keep on Growing, each of which he laid down without any of the other lines playing; just the drums and bass. Sheer genius.
@@hak4890 thanx - I have already! have also had the great fortune of having seen Clapton 9 times and The Allman Bros.17 times (sadly, never had the chance to see Duane). Clapton may be "God", but Daune was the finishing component of what I consider the greatest album - "Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs".... with The Allman Brothers "Live at the Filmore East" a VERY close second - the common element being Duane Allman.
@@docbearmb true,. but Duane was the finishing touch - reworking Layla's opening (all his idea) & the echoing/refrains throughout the remainder.. actually, the best overall work is "Key to the Highway", just a warm-up tune that was caught by chance on a late-started tape (hence, the fade-in) by engineer Tom Dowd.... Clapton admitted Duane's presence drove him to his zenith - esp. on "Why Does Love...." -and made the album a complete masterpiece.
The music was co written by Rita Coolige, she never got credit but he hasn't denied it in public after all these decades and he would have it it weren't true th-cam.com/video/l50nkA3iRyI/w-d-xo.html
Layla has been around for over 50 years, & after hearing it thousands of times, you kind of take its greatness for granted. But listening to you guys hearing it with fresh ears reminds one of the brilliance of this tune. Hearing it with you makes me hear it like I heard it the first time. Thanks guys!
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I couldn't agree more! Well put. I was just thinking I hadn't really paid much attention to the beautiful piano piece it morphs into, in a long, long time. Mesmerizing.
This song touches on so many different emotions with people. I’m 61 years old, and it is absolutely my all-time, forever, favorite song. It still gives me goose-bumps, and sometimes brings a little tear-drop in my eye. Layla will always be a Classic, but was really peaking in the Summer of ‘72; which was one of the best times for me. Sadly, I can’t ever keep from thinking about little Conor Clapton when I hear this song, even though that horrible tragedy was years later. And yes, Duanes’s slide guitar, and the little “bird chirp” at the end…. I’m enjoying being a new Subscriber; keep up the great work! 👍👍👏👏⭐️⭐️💛💛
I'm 69 so you know how long I've been listening to it and it still sounds just as good today as the first time I heard it.
@@bluesman3232 I feel like when I call it a “song”, it’s an injustice. It’s a “creation”…
I'm 61 this October, and I thank God I grew up when I did. Songs like 'Layla' bring back so many memories for me, and make me grateful for the music of that era.
@@MikeInMD1961 agree. I am very partial to ‘72; I was only 11, but even then I loved Layla, and so many other songs that year~
@@bluesman3232 If you were driving in 71 you remember that your car radio was always turned on, so the radio came on with the car. Every time you started the car in 1971, the instrumental ending of Layla was playing, every time.
The piano solo is EVERYTHING to me. Without it this song wouldn't be as great as it is, IMO.
Two of the greatest songs from this album, Layla & Bell Bottom Blues, were written for Patty Boyd. Clapton is great, BUT.... Duane Allman steals the show. That slide tear drop is perfection.
"Have You Ever Loved a Woman" was re-worked by Eric & JJ Cale to make it more about Patti - basically the whole album is about her and his love for her.
After the break-up of Cream, Clapton tried his hand with several groups, including Blind Faith and the husband-and-wife duo Delaney & Bonnie. In the spring of 1970, he was told that some members of Delaney & Bonnie's back-up band, including bassist Carl Radle, drummer Jim Gordon and keyboardist Bobby Whitlock, were leaving the group. Seizing the opportunity, Clapton formed a new group with Whitlock, Radle and Gordon. Naming themselves Derek and the Dominos, the band "made our bones", according to Clapton, while backing Harrison on his first post-Beatles solo album, All Things Must Pass.
During the recording of the Layla album, Duane Allman joined Clapton's fledgling band as a guest. Clapton and Allman, already mutual fans, were introduced by Tom Dowd at an Allman Brothers concert on 26 August 1970.The two hit it off well and soon became good friends. Dowd said of their guitar-playing chemistry: "There had to be some sort of telepathy going on because I've never seen spontaneous inspiration happen at that rate and level. One of them would play something, and the other reacted instantaneously. Never once did either of them have to say, 'Could you play that again, please?' It was like two hands in a glove. And they got tremendously off on playing with each other."[16] Dowd was already famous for a variety of work and had worked with Clapton in his Cream days (Clapton once called him "the ideal recording man"); his work on the album would be another achievement. For the making of his biographical film Tom Dowd & the Language of Music, he remixed the original master tapes of "Layla", saying, "There are my principles, in one form or another."
Clapton originally wrote "Layla" as a ballad, with lyrics describing his unrequited love for Boyd, but the song became a "rocker" when, according to Clapton, Allman composed the song's signature riff. With the band assembled and Dowd producing, "Layla" was recorded in its rock form. The recording of the first section consisted of sixteen tracks of which six were guitar tracks: a rhythm part by Clapton, three tracks of harmonies played by Clapton (the main power chord riff on both channels and two harmonies against that main riff, one on the left channel and one on the right channel), a track of solos by Allman (fretted solos with bent notes during the verses and a slide solo during the outro and one track with both Allman and Clapton playing duplicate solos (the 7-note "signature" riff doubled in two octaves and the 12-note "signature" riff doubled in unison). According to Clapton, Allman played the first seven notes of the 12-note "signature" riff fretted and the last five notes on slide in standard tuning. Each player used one input of the same two-input Fender Champ amplifier.
Shortly afterwards, Clapton returned to the studio, where he heard Jim Gordon playing a piano piece he had composed separately. Impressed by the piece, Clapton convinced Gordon to allow it to be used as part of the song. 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. Time" ended up on the 1973 album Chronicles by Booker T. and Priscilla Jones. 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. After Dowd spliced the two movements together "Layla" was complete.
Thank you for sharing this history behind Layla one of R&R most passionate compositions, and now as the saying goes we know the 'rest' of its story.. Well done!
Great post.
Nailed it.Well told
Technical
Love the background story. Love background for lots of songs and musicians
This song comes out in a lot of movies, “Goodfellas” being one of them. Please add it to the movie list. One of the greatest movies ever by one of the best directors (Martin Scorsese).
Have you noticed how many "Goodfellow" and "Godfather" actors have died all at once lately? 😳
Scorsese's greatest masterpiece.
@@scottfrench4139 Truth.
Goodfellas is AWESOME! But it is extremely violent and definitely not a family flick.
@@sueparras6028 - True! That one's definitely just for mom & dad!
Duane Allman on slide guitar was genius! He didn't pick up a guitar until well in his teens and tragically died in a motorcycle accident at 23 leaving behind a rich musical legacy.
Duane started playing guitar at age 14.
They ought to Jessica by the Allman Brothers. Talented group hit by double tragedy,sadly,when in their prime.
He didn’t start playing slide guitar until he was injured in a horse accident and Greg took him a bottle of painkillers as he was listening to a blues album and he dumped the painkillers out of the glass pill bottle and started using it to play slide guitar.
@@bretdalton3268was a Taj Mahal album 😊
Masterpiece! Eric Clapton wrote this about George Harrison's wife who would later leave George and marry Eric
And then they divorced
The same woman George wrote "Something" about. That's always blown my mind because they're two of my favorite songs.
This may be the superior version but you have to check out the "Unplugged" version as well.
And George and Eric remained friends. That is the amazing part to me.
@@cebridges Bell Bottom Blues and Wonderful Tonight are also about her
This song is simply, a masterpiece. Patty Boyd must have been a hell of a woman. She inspired no less than four songs, "Layla", from Eric Clapton, and "Something" by George Harrison, among them.
She is still alive and kicking ...
Duane Allman’s sweet slide guitar, the beautiful piano outro, the urgency of Eric Clayton’s vocal at the beginning make this timeless. Of my faves how can you not get lost in this brilliant composition ❤️✌️
AND that driving hard rocking, desperate rhythm guitar during the first 'fast' half.
The piano outro was pilfered by Jim Gordon from Rita Coolidge....you could look it up.
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Consistently considered as one of the greatest songs of all time. Oh, The FEELS!!! The reason why I called my daughter Layla.
I have a Layla too! She is 30.
Did either of you know the history of the name? That her story was the basis of Romeo and Juliette?
The Professor of Rock has an interesting tale of what this song is really about. Thereʼs more to this than the story of Eric Clapton and Patty Boyd and George Harrison.
Very interesting story behind Derek and the Dominoes.
@just...you're correct!
Clapton read the work of Persian poet, Nizami Ganjavi, who wrote a tale titled, "The Story of Layla and Majnun".
A classic story of unrequited love that paralleled his own love for Pattie Boyd.
The rest is history...musically speaking.
Well spotted!
Jay & Amber, you'll love their "Bell Bottom Blues" and "Blues Power"!!!
Bell Bottom Blues also written for Patti Boyd after she asked Eric to pick her up a pair of bellbottom jeans while in America. 👍✌️🇨🇦
Bell bottom blues is an all time fav of mine!!
Yes, Bell Bottom Blues is the best!
Bell Bottom Blues also co-written with the underrated keyboard player Bobby Whitlock
Amber you have an artistic take always! Over the technical side, which doesn’t always have to be perfect, the emotional response to the music is almost always spot on. The song is about forbidden love, though never stated. But you get it by the angst and tension created by the music. You must write or paint or something, because you’re very in tune with your comments and your visceral response to these old tunes.
Thank you for that. I actually have loved to write since I was a child
Clapton wrote this for George Harrisons wife who he was madly in love with. He also wrote Bell Bottom Blues and you look wonderful tonight about her. George Harrison wrote Something for her. Dwayne Allman (Allman Brothers RIP) plays slide guitar on this too.
Duane
Between George (Beatles) and Eric, there are 10 songs written about/inspired by Pattie Boyd. Quite the muse❤️
@@leannmiller7153 yes she was.
I forgot about bell bottom blues. So basically 4 absolute classics are written about the same woman
@@stuartaustin8130 Leann says a total of 10 songs were written about her.
This is absolutely the BEST version of Layla, takes me back to such good times 👍
This will always be my favorite version of Layla by Eric Clapton. Obviously, both Eric and Duane Allman are guitar geniuses (Eric being one of my favorites), but Duane's slide guitar sounds like the guitar is weeping for unrequited love. It is so haunting. And cannot forget to mention the beautiful keyboards played by Bobby Whitlock. This song is epic! And one of the most beautiful (instrumentation) songs ever recorded. You're right on, Amber. Thank you for reacting to this!
I do really love the acoustic version from the 90's as well.
Both are fabulous
that's Jim Gordon on keyboards, not Bobby Whitlock
@@robertheerbrandt7812 you've got it backwards.
@@FirstGaCav - and what part is that? the piano piece was composed & played by Gordon, who had written it as a solo piece for his failed relationship.
@@robertheerbrandt7812 and stolen from Rita Coolidge
Greatest intro riff ever! Wow. Eric as always, amazing. From the heart, this one is a gem. Glad you heard this version, although the acoustic version of Layla is amazing, done years later, too!
Eric Clapton was in love with George Harrison’s wife at the time. This song was written about her. She eventually divorced Harrison and married Clapton. A classic song. Thank you peace ✌️
And Harrison famously said, "Well, at least she didn't leave me for some jerk."
Didnt he also write "wonderful tonight" about her and also George wrote "something" about her. So basically shes the inspiration for 3 of the greatest songs ever
George actually gave his wife to Eric whom was his best friend, because George saw that Eric was heart broken over her.
Got what he wanted and then divorced her.
@@Paul197A She divorced him -- his alcoholism & drug abuse made him impossible to live with. He only cleaned up and got his shit together after their breakup. And he and George continued to call themselves "husbands-in-law" -- because their friendship stayed strong.
This is an absolute masterpiece. The contrast between the song and the outro is mystifying. Duane Allman is on another plane. He is sliding to notes that only he could find. I will always love this piece.
One of my top 5 all-time favs. In the 70s, radio would cut off the piano ending and you’d only hear it on FM stations and even then late at night. Brilliant start to finish. Thanks folks!
I'm 47 years old, and, in my opinion, this is the greatest rock song of all time! I love this song so much I named my daughter after this. I'm in the car and this comes on, the volume gets cranked. In the house I demand silence. This is just sheer perfection in every way!
FINALLY!! So many times I’ve requested this, because Jordan just had to hear that piano exit, and cuz y’all like Eric Clapton. Having Duane Allman on guitar is just the cherry on top 🍒 Thanks for the reaction RS ❤️
Song was written for Pattie Boyd, whoo was married to Clapton's and a Beatle George Harrison. They eventually married and the 2 guys remained friends for life.
Pattie Boyd has probably had more hit songs written about her by music legends than any other person on this planet. A biography worth reading.
It must be lined with gold..... just sayin'
Good idea. She was so adorable George married her when she was only 18. Something -the greatest song ever written according to Frank Sinatra was written for Pattie. And this one
Patti's sister Jennifer was not left out. Donovan wrote Jennifer Juniper about her.
Songs about Pattie Boyd Harrison
For You Blue - The Beatles.
I Need You - The Beatles.
It's All Too Much - The Beatles.
Layla - Derek & the Dominos.
She's Waiting - Eric Clapton.
Something - The Beatles.
Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad - Derek & the Dominos.
Wonderful Tonight - Eric Clapton.
@@mattdandersn wait what? Great now I gotta spend all day making up jokes about it. Patti Boyd has had more songs written about her than Courtney Love AND heroin😂
Our reaction to this when it came out was that it was mind blowing. I hate to say this, but not much out there can compare to Layla. This is almost as good as it gets for music from this era. In London the graffiti on the walls said “Clapton is God”. Layla is a masterpiece of rock music.
Many of us who grew up as 60's lovers would consider this THE ANTHEM of the decade!
Released in 1970.
Cool but it's not a 60's song.
@@mikedonoghues4018 Close enough...
OMG in the 70's our local radio station ran a show every Sunday night called the Dr. Demento Show. This song immediately followed every single week and was what I fell asleep to for several years growing up! Then Eric did the acoustic remake of Layla in 1992 - you'll have to check it out because it is completely different from the Derek and the Dominos version - it is truly like a different song. I'll never forget the first time I heard it - I was so confused lol!
The last part of the song is one of the most beautiful pieces of music I've ever heard. Peace and Love RSR!
You were right about "forbidden love." This song was about Pattie Boyd, George Harrison's wife. Clapton was in love with his good friend's wife and wrote this song about it. He eventually stole her away from Harrison. Boyd was also the inspiration for Harrison's great hit, "Something."
Nothing better than a little shot of Clapton with a side of Allman for a night cap!!
As beautiful as the first time I heard it. ❤
RIP Duane, we still rockin ya!! 😎
The instrumental was used in the movie : Good Fellas . That's why this song is also known as the Good Fellas song.
Please ! Do yourself a favor and listen to this song unplugged. Completely different , yet awesome. Clapton did a whole album “unplugged” and it’s a banger. This was written for George Harrison’s wife. He fell in love with her.
I always thought of the first part of the song as him being upset that she couldn't see how hard he was trying to fight for her love, and vocally showing his frustration but, the middle of the song as saying, " ... listen to me ... I'm down on my knees ... begging", and then the end of the song was saying, "cause I love you ... can't you see that" ??? Now, Amber, you seem to be seeing it exactly how I always have. Isn't music wonderous and beautiful ???
Eric Clapton's vocals and Duane Allman's epic slide guitar solo is like music of the gods
Even after all these years of hearing this song, the second half still gives me goose bumps. I absolutely love the first half but the instrumental part of this one is what really moves me.
For my generation, this is better than good. It is a masterpiece that will be heard for as long as people exist.
This was written about Patty Boyed , which at the time was George Harrison's wife he was in love with her. George wrote a song or two about her.
They can't help themselves, when 95% of music is garbage in comparison, what do you expect youngen's to know.
In the early 1990s, Eric released an acoustic version. Different but still fun.
Great choice ! Can't do this without getting to "Bell Bottom Blue's",and "I Looked Away" from the same album... Thank you and have a great evening
That piano and that guitar weeping at the end always get me. I keep wanting it to keep going forever, but all things must come to an end. Such a great song and the end is just majestic.
The lyrics are based on the book by Persian poet Nizami, Layla and Majnun, about a man in love with a woman who cannot have her because her parents object. When they cannot be together, he goes insane. Clapton's situation with Pattie was different, but he liked the title and the theme of unattainable love.
And Derek Trucks, IMHO the successor to Duane Allman, along with Susan Tedeschi and their band are doing a 4 album set based on that story called I Am The Moon, awsome music
I never knew that!
Great info.
@@michaellockhart554 Yes. 3 of the 4 are out and the 4th comes out next week!
They came up with the idea of looking at this from Layla's point of view.
Clapton's producer on Layla was Tom Dowd. They were in the middle of recording this album when Dowd took Clapton to see this new guy , Duane Allman play. Clapton was so amazed he got Dowd to let them meet. Duane was shocked and in amazement that.." hey That's Eric Clapton" that he was awestruck. They immediately hit it off and Clapton invited him to sit in on the recording. The rest is history. Layla and other assorted love songs is the greatest guitar album in rock history. If you can find the song Key to the Highway and listen to them swap back and forth on guitar, you will be amazed. And, if you notice how the song just starts to get louder in the beginning, it is because Dowd walked in one morning and heard Allman and Clapton just ripping ot up. He ran down the hall yelling " HIT RECORD!! HIT RECORD!! And instructed the guy in the booth to be running tape whenever they were in there playing. What a great album from start to finish!!!
Eric and a guitar... Still one of the all time bests! Thanks for bringing back old memories! You should listen to Clapton's Unplugged version of this; slower, smoother, and in the way he originally intended it to be heard.
I liked that transition music…..it made me tradition waiting for something….. it was very expectorant!
Anything from the Unplugged concert is fantastic! It’s Eric at his best…
Yes, I agree about the Unplugged series...
This song is the equivalent to music as the David of Michelangelo is to art.
You know what makes me super happy? You guys are leveling up your ears! You're listening ACTIVELY to the music, and that will without a doubt unlock the magic in the music! This was awesome!
Duane Allman’s slide solo @ 4:30 just rips!! Bass man is tight too!! Love you guys!! Keep them coming!!
I can't believe it's been 52 years since this first came out in 1970. I was a sophomore in high school then and remember how huge this song was back then. Clapton who was originally with the British rock group "Cream" would go on to perform with other bands besides his great solo career. Mr. Slow Hand is one of the world's greatest guitarists. What more is there to say about the great Eric Clapton. Awesome!
Before CREAM, Clapton was with the Yardbirds and John Mayhall's Blues Breakers. He was already a legend by the time he did the CREAM project.
@@wadsworthaaron And don't forget Blind Faith.
This girl gets it !!! So wonderful to watch her enjoying this work of art... Love the small smile of appreciation as she grooves on the coda
Something about this song just tugs at my heart and I'm not sure why. The second half fills me with a beautiful nostalgic melancholy for something, someone, or some place from my youth that I don't think I remember or may not have existed in the first place. But the feeling is there.
I was trying to make a comment but couldn’t come up the right words. I couldn’t have said it better. A very moving masterpiece 🎶
I so agree!! 💞🎶 👏
Lovely.... 🙂
Amen brother, I feel the exact same way, good music is absolutely magical.
I agree. It almost feels like when I hear Mainstreet by Bob Segar. Sad, but at peace.
When you put 2 of the greatest guitarists of all time together, and such a heartfelt song. Duane Allman on slide is just sublime.
This song came out in 1970 ~ I was 14 then. 52 years have passed and this song is still pure magic. Those of us "of a certain age" were blessed to grow up during this evolution of musical styles ~
@jessicalee, first time I heard this was the summer of 1972, when it was released as a single. So, Layla for me will forever be associated with that amazing summer when I was 16 going on 17. I think that makes us the same age? Class of '73 here!
I PITY the young people who have such luminaries as... nicki minaj or... Bieber for their 'music'.
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You were 14 I was 19had seen Eric in Cream so was a huge fan! This song and the entire album as we used to say blew me away!!!!
Agree! I was 14 in '70, also (Class of '74) ❤️
Me too! Class of 74!
"bell bottom blues" and "have you ever been down and out" are a must. This is one of the best albums ever made!
This song is part of my holy trinity of GOAT rock songs along with Stairway To Heaven and Freebird. It doesn’t get any better than those. Added bonus, Duane Allman from The Allman Brothers played the “slide” guitar 🎸 on Layla.
In the 90s I was touring a recording studio in Miami with a friend and the guy showing us around brought me to a piano and told me it was the one they used at the end of Layla. It was still something they used and I got to play it for a minute.
Clapton's association with various bands went on for quite a while. From the Yardbirds to John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers to Cream to Blind Faith and finally to Derek and the Dominos before he finally broke out as a solo artist in 1970.
Don't forget delanie and Bonnie 😀
The guitar riff was made by duanne allman, based on a vocal line by albert King on his song "as the years go passing by"
I bought the Derek & The Dominos album soon after its release in 1971, and nearly wore it out on my turntable. "Layla" was a favorite of mine then, and still is. BTW, I really enjoyed reading Pattie Boyd's (Layla's) book Wonderful Tonight (called Wonderful Today in the UK) about 12 years ago. It tells the story of her marriage to Beatle George Harrison and later to Eric Clapton, along with many anecdotes about the English rock scene in those days.
I, too, wore out the grooves on this album as a freshman in college, The album is loaded with
great tracks. Led Zeppelin 4 also had the grooves worn out.
I only ever bought two vinyl albums twice. This was one of them.
It was also on the K-tel 22 greatest hits album from 73 i think..My favorite song on it..plz dont laugh
Jay, I was nervous, I saw you reach and I thought you were going to pause the music at that piano transition. I literally screamed “Nooooo!!!” I love this song, and this version.
I love that you finally listened to this. That ending is called the piano exit and as much as I love the beginning, I listen to the song for that exit. I’ve even cut that exit and put it on loop before. Its fantastic.
The beautiful, piano-led second half was written by Rita Coolidge, who was not credited. Her boyfriend at the time, Jim Gordon, the drummer in the band, took credit for it
Here we go! "Keep On Growing" is another Derek and Dominos tune. Better yet, "Key To The Highway"! You have to give equal guitar credits to Duane Allman on slide guitar. Lol! You reacted to Stairway to Heaven the other day. A local FM station does greatest of all time around Labor Day. For years, #1 would switch between Stairway and Layla. That madman Jim Gordon on drums... Right on, Jay! All day. Sweet guitar is Duane Allman, Amber. You know, you guys were on fire tonight, tune-wise and reaction-wise. Thanks!
Always get a chortle thinking about how Eric and Duane and the Dominoes heard Sam the Sham singing "Key to the Highway" in the adjoining studio, started jamming to it themselves, then recording engineer Tom Dowd, after walking back to the control booth to find the tape reels motionless, yell to his staff, "hit the godamned machine!"
@@HarkenRoad Lol. Me too. Thank goodness for Tom Dowd!!
@@HarkenRoad Tom knew to keep the tape rolling when you had a band that talented in the studio
One of my Top 10 Favorites!! Clapton’s Change the World” is a masterpiece!!
A lot of memories!! One of Eric Clapton's early days bands. Love it 💥💥✴✴
This is one song I never tire of hearing for some reason. Jordan, I agree, the repeated coda at the outro that goes on and on is soothing and beautiful. I, too, can hear it go on and on. Not so with many many other tunes, but this one has a magical soothing sound.
Never fails to make me happy and calm.
The outro to “Layla” might be the best 4 minutes of music ever written.
So many baby girls were named Layla after this song came out. Classic Clapton!!
This was made up of two parts, the first part is with the “Layla” vocals and the second part (Instrumental) was actually synchronised behind the “Goodfellas” motion picture and soundtrack!! A masterpiece of a film you guys really should watch directed by Martin Scorsese
Goodfellas is one of my husband's favorite movies. I had never seen it before we got married and now I've seen it about 20 times. It's a really good movie...I see why it became one of his favorites.
Scorsese used it in casino and I think a few of his others too. Martin obviously loves that song
@@danieloconnor1005 Nah wrong film, he only used Layla Pt.2 in Goodfellas however he did use “Cocaine” by Eric Clapton and another by Cream (also feat Clapton)
The piano section, written by Jim Gordon, was originally destined to be a song in its own right, apparently.
@@danieloconnor1005 Not true. The piano coda from Layla was only used in Goodfellas.
That guitar riff is one of the most well known, recognizable in music!! I was 19. In a college bar. Watching the guys shoot pool. Layla comes on and everyone in the place stops! Then hits air guitar, dances, sings, kisses who they’re with…You guys are 2 for 2 today in my long time requests. Thanks❣️❣️. Another great cut from this album- more blues feeling- Bell Bottom Blues. You’ll love it! Another is Thorn Tree in the Garden. Talks of lost love and was “my story” for years. 3 decades later, I still think of that boy when I hear that song.
Duane Allman did.
Clapton wrote this about Patti Boyd whom he was madly in love with. He had just stolen Patti from George Harrison who also wrote a song about her called "Something".
The song is about George Harrison's wife Patti Boyd who Clapton later married, she was also the muse for Harrison's song 'Something,' on the Abbey Road album.
You should do a deep dive into the history of this song. Meaning too complex to just make a comment. My musician friends tell me this is the most acoustically perfect song ever written.
He wrote this song right out of his gut. So much love. And the way Eric and Duane weave in and out is epic. One of the best songs of the 20th century!
Another song that is EPIC in my generation. It will never get old, I’d still listen to it every day!! I kept waiting for one of you to yell OHHHH ITS ERIC CLAPTON!! Much love guys!!💜☮️
2. Just had to add to my 1st comment. So Eric had Pattie over one afternoon & played this for her. She was conflicted about leaving George, but says in her awesome book about her relationship with both of them that "Layla" captured her.
Later there was a party. George had said he wasn't going. Pattie & Eric were in the garden, & George DID show up, obviously looking for his wife. Craziness ensued. I won't give anymore away, but her book "Wonderful Tonight" is fabulous to understand the complexity of the relationship she had with each of them.
By the way though...one last bit. George actually performed at their wedding & was a dear dear friend to Eric through all of that & until he died. He said he'd "rather that she be with someone he loved than some jerk" (paraphrased). Later of course George met Olivia who was working in the L.A. office, & they were together until he died. She still lives in the incredible mansion he TOTALLY RENOVATED (which he bought while married to Pattie), Friar Park. You can Google pictures of it...lakes, caves, enormous areas where he happily planted trees & flowers. It's BREATHTAKINGLY BEAUTIFUL. Gardening was a massive passion of his. He'd work until late at night with just moonlight because then he could see what it might look like without any weeds that plagued him in the day.
There’s not a bad cut on this album, ending with the haunting Thorn Tree in the Garden. It was the finest album released that year.
Yes Yes Yes PLEASE! Played this and cried for 3 years after a lost love. I still think of that boy when I hear that song and it’s been 3 decades.
Where the piano part starts is where this song appears in the movie Goodfellas when they start finding all the bodies
That ending transition is so sweeeeeet…..it’s like a bursting of emotions through music. Only Clapton & Duane Allman could do that type of magic. This ending is used to great effect in the movie “Goodfellas”, which y’all should react to ASAP….you’d love the drama, dark comedy & killer soundtrack to that one 👊🏽👊🏽👊🏽👊🏽👊🏽
Clapton set the scale for excellent guitar riffs with this song! Not many rock guitarist can even touch what Clapton did with this song... epic!
It's about BLEEPING time!!! Amber you nailed it, it was a forbidden relationship. Eric wrote this about Patti Boyd, wife of George Harrison. Others have told the story below as well. Now imagine seeing it done live, with extended guitar and piano solos running roughly 15 minutes total.
The second part of this song can be heard in a scene in "Goodfellas," also parts of "Monkey Man" by The Rolling Stones and "Jump Into The Fire" by Harry Nilsson are in other scenes. That movie is full of great music.
You MUST listen to Eric Clapton's version of this song from his unplugged concert. Aside from being awesome, you have to know that when Derek and the Dominos recorded this song, Eric wanted to slow he song down... but the other band members overruled him.
Guys, this is the love song to end all love songs. This was written during the time that EC was I love with George Harrison’s wife Patti. I’d just started my apprenticeship as a painter when this came out. I look back in time and from 67 till 1980 ( when John Bonham dies ) we’re for me the best time in music.
I've always seen that transition as being from his state of desperate longing, then she turns to him, and the melody transforms to one of happiness and fulfillment - that second section is their life together. 🥰
That transition to the piano is like a fever break.
I’ve lived through some tumultuous times and haven’t always felt good about it all, but when I hear songs like this again, I wouldn’t take back one minute of those crazy years! Boy was I blessed to have grown up with such great music!
Truly said and my sentiments EXACTLY. Cannot imagine life without all the great music spanning my lifetime. We ARE blessed :-D
Same. A teen age girl in the 70s, a young woman in the 80s....
I’m in any one of a dozen friends basement in high school. Always a fav all these years later.
Excellent choice. Best jam ever. With Duane Allman of the Allmam Brothers
The piano piece is used over most of the end credits of the film GoodFellas with Robert De Niro And Ray Liotta in.
Like Stairway to Heaven, this is one of the most iconic songs of the rock era.
To be in the auditorium when Clapton starts the classic opening riff is electric! The hair on the back of the neck stands up!
"Layla" was used in the movie "Goodfellas" during the scene portraying the aftermath of the 1978 Lufthansa heist. Director Martin Scorsese planned out the sequence with the song specifically in mind, playing it on set to synchronise with the staging and camera movement. The song is also synchronised with the film's ending credits, playing after a cover of "My Way" by Sid Vicious.
I was pondering this song a while back and I think this is the greatest rock song ever, all things considered....RIP SKYDOG!!!
Thanks for all of your reactions. You will be completely blown away by “Key to the Highway” (STUDIO VERSION!!!) from the Layla album by Derek And the Dominoes. Eric Clapton and Duane Allman (two of the best guitarists on the planet) jamming out and playing just for each other). This is pure heartfelt, badass blues, art. This was a late night jam that almost didn't get recorded.
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Hey, Richard. I suggested "Key to the Highway" to Jay & Amber just a few days ago (and mentioned that they should also check out "Layla", "Have You Ever Loved A Woman" and "Bell Bottom Blues"). "Key to the Highway" is my all time favorite guitar song. The interplay between Clapton and Allman is the best ever, in my view.
I second that emotion (with thanks to Smokey Robinson).
REMEMBER DUANE ALLMAN one of the most memorable guitar pieces in history, when Clapton asks you to sit in ya know there's
something special there.....Epic! to me Duane's part in this is hauntingly beautiful.
that little bird chirp was just Duane saying goodbye ;)
Clapton performed an Unplugged concert for MTV. His reinterpretation of "Layla" is incredible. Not since Bob Dylan has an artist sang his own song twice so differently. It's really worth a listen.
The entire Unplugged album is amazing.
Agreed. It's amazing and doesn't even feel like the same song.
I agree with Matthew unfortunately, it is completely different than the original which is the Greatest Song of all time.
@@tedszweb5268 YEP...................
Now you are getting to the classics😊
Off this album is a tune called Key to the Highway it really deserves a listen.