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KN> On 04-15-97 GEORGE ERDNER wrote to MICHAEL DOYLE...
KN> GE> MD>  þ OLX 2.1 TD þ Built for comfort - I ain't built for speed.
KN> GE>
KN> GE> Ah, a modified version of a lyric from Jim Steinman's title song from
KN> GE> the album "Bad for Good" -- "I wasn't built for comfort, I was built
KN> GE> for speed".
KN>        I suspect it's more like the other way around. "Built for
KN>        Comfort" is an old old blues song. There's a decent
KN>        version by Howlin' Wolf on the _London Howlin Wolf
KN>        Sessions_ album on Chess that he did with members of
KN>        Traffic, the Rolling Stones, Cream, etc. It's actually a
KN>        pretty good album.
Exactly.  But the tune was written by Willie Dixon, the famous Chicago
Blues bassist that wrote so many great tunes for all the boys at Chess
Records - Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Little Walter, CoCo Taylor, etc.
Old Willie died just a couple of years ago.  Have you heard any of his
own recordings of hs own songs?  They are mostly pretty bad; the
definitive versions are by other folks.  SSo many rockers covered his
material, from the Doors' 'Backdoor Man' to Foghat's 'I Just Want to
Make Love To You.'
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