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From: andrew@grkermi.UUCP (Andrew W. Rogers)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Jake Holmes
Message-ID: <651@grkermi.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 3-Oct-85 11:35:47 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  3 11:35:47 1985
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In article <658@vaxine.UUCP> mm@vaxine.UUCP (Mark Mudgett) writes:
>In article <640@grkermi.UUCP> andrew@grkermi.UUCP (Andrew W. Rogers) writes
>>Speaking of "recycling", you could say that "Dazed and Confused" was
>>recycled Jake Holmes (who had performed a very similar song called "I'm
>>Confused" as the opening act for the latter-day Yardbirds) ...

I neglected to mention that an inchoate version of "Dazed and Confused"
appears on "Yardbirds Live at the Anderson Theater." - a 1968 (ie, Page/Relf/
Dreja/McCarty) recording released in 1973 and recalled (for legal reasons)
almost immediately.

(I also can't believe I omitted the most obvious Zep ripoff of all: Howlin'
Wolf's "Killing Floor" => "The Lemon Song".)

>You net.music fans may be unaware of Jake's work.

Sure, I've heard of him.  Among his many accomplishments is co-writing (with
Bob Gaudio) the Four Seasons' great-but-unjustly-maligned "Imitation Life 
Gazette".

>Although his name is rarely heard on the air, his works are heard perhaps
>more often than any Top-40 artist's... his tunes may be heard on almost any
>commercial radio station in the United States.  Also MTV, ABC, CBS, NBC...

Hmm... from what you imply, sounds like another talented songwriter has
abandoned the music world for jingleland.  Oh well, the money's good...

AWR


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