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

["Jimbeau Harp" <jimbeauharp@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>From: Mudharp@xxxxxxx
>
>This got me thinking because I always thought it was a Jimmy Reed tune, but
>some credit Billy Boy Arnold. So I dug a little deeper on the internet and 
>I
>keep running across the name Calvin Carter. So who wrote this tune?
>

My bad: I thought Billy Boy Arnold wrote this tune: it was actually written 
by Clarence Carter of "Patches" fame. Below is a blurb about him from 
www.allmusic.com:

A blind soul singer whose numerous hits of the late '60s and early '70s 
epitomized the Muscle Shoals rhythm & blues sound, Carter hit the big time 
with his Atlantic single "Patches" (1970) and won a lasting place in the 
annals of Southern soul with others like "Slip Away" and "Too Weak to 
Fight." In 1977, Carter broke out of a dry spell with the Venture album 
Let's Burn, featuring a track called "Workin' (On a Love Building)," which 
set the theme for much of what was to follow: robust, lascivious lovemaking 
boasts. More recent tracks such as his salacious reworking of Tampa Red's 
"Love Me With a Feeling" and the jukebox favorite "Strokin'" (too risqué for 
some radio stations) further solidified the carnal Carter image. Still 
primarily a soul/R&B singer, Carter has incorporated more hard blues 
elements in his music recently than in the Muscle Shoals days, despite his 
new and un-blues-minded penchant for playing and programming all the 
instruments on his albums.

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