Re: Bald Headed Woman

[Lev Polinsky <polinsky@husc.harvard.edu>]

On Thu, 30 Nov 1995, Scott Swanson wrote:
> > Re: I'm The Face
> 
> It was standard practice in the '50s and '60s to rip off blues artists-- 
> borrow a lyric here, a song title there, a guitar riff there, etc.  And 
> then you credit the song as an original.
> 
I think one of the more blatant examples of this is Led Zep's "Whole 
Lotta Love", which is just Willie Dixon's "You Need Love" with the words 
'Whole lotta' substituted for 'You need' in the refrain.

---I won't get fooled again.--L-e-v-