ERIC CLAPTON - LAYLA

LAYLA

ERIC CLAPTON

SONGWRITERS: ERIC PATRICK CLAPTON & JIM GORDON

COUNTRY: U. K. X U. S. A.

ALBUM: LAYLA AND OTHER ASSORTED LOVE SONGS

LABEL: POLYDOR RECORDS

GENRE: BLUES ROCK

YEAR: 1970

 

         Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs is the sole studio album by the English–American blues rock band Derek and the Dominos, released in November 1970 as a double album. It is best known for its title track, "Layla", and is often regarded as Eric Clapton's greatest musical achievement. The other band members were Bobby Whitlock on keyboards and vocals, Jim Gordon on drums, Carl Radle on bass. Duane Allman played lead and slide guitar on 11 of the 14 songs.

        Initially regarded as a critical and commercial disappointment, it failed to chart in Britain and peaked at number 16 on the Billboard Top LPs chart in the United States. It returned to the US albums chart again in 1972, 1974 and 1977, and has since been certified Gold by the RIAA. The album finally debuted on the UK Albums Chart in 2011, peaking at number 68.

         In 2000, the album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. In 2003, television network VH1 named Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs the 89th-greatest album of all time, and Rolling Stone ranked it number 117 on its list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time". It was voted number 287 in the third edition of Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums(2000). In 2012, the Super Deluxe Edition of Layla won a Grammy Award for Best Surround Sound Album.

What'll you do when you get lonely

And nobody's waiting by your side?

You've been running and hiding much too long

You know it's just your foolish pride

 

Layla, you've got me on my knees

Layla, I'm begging, darling please

Layla, darling won't you ease my worried mind

 

I tried to give you consolation

When your old man had let you down

Like a fool, I fell in love with you

You turned my whole world upside down

 

Layla, you've got me on my knees

Layla, I'm begging, darling please

Layla, darling won't you ease my worried mind

 

Make the best of the situation

Before I finally go insane

Please don't say we'll never find a way

And tell me all my love's in vain

 

Layla, you've got me on my knees

Layla, I'm begging, darling please

Layla, darling won't you ease my worried mind

 

Layla, you've got me on my knees

Layla, I'm begging, darling please

Layla, darling won't you ease my worried mind.