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Bethany Gemmell

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1959 Soul Classic Was Improvised to Fill 12 Minutes Original

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By Bethany Gemmell Verified
| Men's Journal Verified
If there’s one song that perhaps best represents the genius of Ray Charles, it’s one that the late musical heavyweight made up entirely on the spot. “What I’d Say,” an early blues song, was born onstage in December 1958, as the 28-year-old Charles played for a crowd at a four-hour concert in Pittsburgh.
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47 Years Ago, a Rock Classic Written for Another Band Became Their Biggest Hit Original

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By Bethany Gemmell Verified
| Men's Journal Verified
Over 50 years ago, rock icon Tom Petty nearly thoughtlessly wrote, then put away, a song based on his father’s pet phrase, “Don’t Do Me Like That.” A request for respect by an affronted Floridian father and travelling salesman, the phrase became immortalized by Petty in his R&B-infused rock song, detailing a narrator’s honest — and this time, more desperate — plea to his lover not to “hurt his pride” and “let him go,” as a friend warns him at the start of the song.
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47 Years Ago, a Rock Classic Written for Another Band Became Their Biggest Hit

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By Bethany Gemmell Verified
| Flipboard
1970 Hit Named Among Greatest Guitar Solos of All Time – And It Still Rocks It doesn’t happen often, but every now and then a musical cover takes on a life of its own and sees the original replaced with another iconic …
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