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Who wrote the song "Aint Got You"?


I know that Eric Clapton and Blues Brothers have done it, although who actually wrote it? Was it Clapton or Blues Brothers? Or someone else....?

Thanks

Calvin Carter wrote it.

it was Blues Brothers that wrote it if you dont believe me look at this http://www.lyricsfreak.com/b/blues+broth...

Bob Dylan wrote the lyrics to 100's of songs done by other artists... I'm sure this is one example of that.

If it's the song I think you're talking about, it's Jimmy Reed. I think, though, Little Walter may have claimed to writing it, but traditionally it's credited to Jimmy Reed.

Check out this link:

http://www.kovideo.net/lyrics/j/Jimmy-Re...

EDIT: Here's a list from BMI with the Calvin Carter credit:
http://repertoire.bmi.com/TitleSearch.as...

If it's that stop/start blues tune I'm thinking of, in which each verse ends "I ain't got you", I remember the Yardbirds did a pretty good cover of it. My old vinyl gives Clarence Carter writing credits.

The song that Clapton recorded is credited to Calvin Carter, but Jimmy Reed has also be credited as the composer. I found one site that credits both as the composers: http://www.bluestrain.co.uk/tracks.html

Earliest version I have is Billy Boy Arnold.

As blah blah blah said, Billy Boy Arnold.

He also wrote I Wish You Would, another tune covered by the Yardbirds.

And....he played harp on (and claims he co-wrote) Bo Diddley.

Really nice guy-told me a great story once about Sonny Boy #1 (who taught him harp)


Edit:
The Calvin Carter attrinbution is for a re-write. (see the lyrics-starts with " I've got a '65 Cadillac ", Billy Boy cut it in the 50s)


Edit #2-from a Billy Boy interview with Ritchie Unterberger

How did "I Wish You Would" come about?

As I say, I wrote the song "Diddy Diddy Dum Dum." And I told VJ I had a song that I wrote for Bo Diddley. And they said, okay. So he told me, why don't you change the lyric around? So I went home and wrote "I Wish You Would." The only reason why I made a record was the Bo Diddley beat. Because I was playing with Bo Diddley at the time. I had no intention of ever capitalizing on Bo Diddley's beat. I had wrote this song, "Diddy Diddy Dum Dum," and I was playing the harmonica like I did on "I Wish You Would." That's how "I Wish You Would" came about.

Jimmy Reed is the writer of this tune. He first recorded it on the VeeJay label where it appeared on the "Black Radio" charts of the late 50s and early 60s.

Billy Boy Arnold would go on later to record his version of the song in the mid 60s.

Eric Clapton would record the song about 66 or 67 initially with the Yardbirds. The Blues Brothers did a version of it.

And then in the 80s, in the terrible Andrew Dice Clay movie "Adventures of Ford Faralaine" the song would be covered again.

alicia keys?

If I Ain't Got You - Alicia Keys.

Alicia Keys

Tom Petty

kevien michales

Bob Dylan I think was the original. You don't know what's it like to love somebody the way I love you.

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