Songs older than you think
I was listening to the Nirvana Unplugged album, specifically "Where did you sleep last night" (awesome tune). Later on, I was going through the where the song had come from and had found that Nirvana wasn't the original composer. Turns out it was a bluesman named Huddie Ledbetter AKA Leadbelly that sang it (not wrote it, it's actually an old folk tune of origins unknown) long before Nivana covered it. So I found a Leadbelly CD at HMV and bought it and also found another song that I never knew was that old! Turns out Ramjets "blackbetty" is a variation of "Looky Looky Yonder" on the Leadbelly album!
Any other CP'ers know of any other tunes that are older than they seem? Kinda neat to know.
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