RE: Who did... "I got an Eldorado Cadillac..."

["Jimbeau Harp" <jimbeauharp@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>From: Will Standley <wstandley@xxxxxxxxx>
>
>Who did the blues tune with lyrics...
>
>I got an Eldorado Cadillac...
>
>Great blues harp on intro... all I have is first few bars in a sound clip.
>
>Anybody know who and what CD I should buy?
>

Hi Will,

As people have mentioned, the song was written by Billy Boy Arnold. Any 
version you can get by him will be the definitive one.

Jimmy Reed also did the tune. There's a "Best of Jimmy Reed" CD that has the 
song. Jimmy's version follows Billy Boy's fairly closely. Of course the harp 
work is all Jimmy Reed.

Sugar Blue does a fantastic version on his "Blue Blazes" album.

Finally, the Yardbirds did a version of it in 1965 where they change the car 
from an Eldorado Cadillac to a Maserati GT (with snakeskin upholstery). The 
harp doesn't do much for me, but a very young Eric Clapton does a short but 
smokin' solo on it. You can find this on "Greatest Hits Vol. 1".

A great resource for finding out versions of songs is the All American Music 
Guide (www.allmusic.com). If you look up "I Ain't Got You", you'll find 110 
references, including versions by the Animals, John Mayall, Foghat, and lots 
of others.

BTW, it took me a while to figure out the Goldblatt line. I listened to it 
over and over before I finally got it. Ain't no Goldblatts in New Jersey.
:-)

Jimbeau

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