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Post by solgroupie on Sept 7, 2008 15:06:22 GMT -5
i have heard recently that the last part of the derek and the dominos song, layla - that gorgeous instrumental piece, has its own name. does anyone know if this is true or not, and if it is, what is it? my dignity is riding on this.
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Post by Captain Hygiene on Sept 7, 2008 16:36:29 GMT -5
I know the second half was written by someone other than Clapton (the drummer?), but I've never heard of it as having a real name. It's always been the coda or the "piano part" as far as I know.
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Post by Chuck on Sept 7, 2008 16:44:53 GMT -5
I always knew it as "Part II".
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Post by NardDog on Sept 8, 2008 3:03:09 GMT -5
I call it "The Part Where All The Dead Bodies Are Found/Revealed In Goodfellas"...  seriously I think if anything it's called 'Outro' or maybe as Chuck suggested 'Part II' |
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Post by Trumpy's Magic Snout on Sept 8, 2008 12:59:16 GMT -5
Uncut magazine in the UK does a 6 page feature on the making of a classic single every month and they did Layla a while back. The drummer had been sneaking into the studio after The Dominoes left each night while recording the album to make his own stuff. This was something he was working on and when Clapton found out about the extra studio time coerced the drummer into letting him put it on the end of Layla. So they were originally two songs written separately. The piece never mentioned that the second half had a name, but it may have.
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Post by soundandvision on Oct 11, 2008 23:23:29 GMT -5
I think it's just simply called the Layla Coda.
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Post by Mitchell on Oct 15, 2008 10:30:33 GMT -5
If it does, I don't think it's an official name:
From Michael Schumacher's book Crossroads: The Life and Music of Eric Clapton:
The most critically acclaimed and popular song off the album, "Layla", was recorded in separate sessions; the opening guitar section was recorded first, with the second section several months later. Duane Allman contributed the opening notes for the song. Clapton thought "Layla" was missing an acceptable ending; an abrupt conclusion would diminish the intensity of the music and a fadeout would detract from the urgency of the lyrics. The answer was an elegiac piano piece composed and played by drummer Jim Gordon. Gordon had been separately writing and playing songs during the Layla sessions for a solo album when Clapton accidentally heard the piano piece, Clapton asked Gordon to use the piano piece as the ending for "Layla", Gordon agreed and the song was complete.
On the Goodfellas Soundtrack it's listed as "Layla (Piano Exit)" and on the original album it's just known as "Layla."
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