![]() Rita’s relationship with Jim Gordon ended after he punched her in the eye while they were on tour, and Gordon was later found guilty of murdering his mother and is currently incarcerated in a psychiatric prison. The song would go on to become one of the biggest rock songs of all time, but Rita didn’t say anything for fear of Gordon’s temper. The song? “Layla” by Clapton’s band, Derek and the Dominos.Ĭoolidge claims her ex-boyfriend, Jim Gordon, re-worked the tune for Clapton without her permission, and never gave her any credit. But in 1970, Rita was listening to the radio when she heard the familiar progression that she had composed. Coolidge and Gordon had written lyrics to the song, which they titled “Time (Don’t Let The World Get In Our Way),” and they even recorded a demo, but they never did anything else with it. Rita claims Gordon, who was Eric Clapton’s drummer at the time, took her “counter melody” to a piano progression she wrote in 1969 and then played it for Clapton. In her book, Rita Coolidge reveals that her former boyfriend, Jim Gordon, took a song they wrote together and used it for one of Eric Clapton’s biggest hits without giving her any credit. The New York Post posted excerpts from Coolidge’s new memoir, Delta Lady, in which the Grammy-winning songstress detailed some of her biggest personal and professional struggles in the male-dominated music industry of the 1970s. ![]() She now lives in a small town located in southern California.Rita Coolidge was one of the most popular female singers in the late 1970s and early 1980s, with smash hit songs like “(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher” and “We’re All Alone,” but her early days in the music industry were tainted by men who used and controlled her. It was announced in September 2014 that Coolidge had contracted with HarperCollins to write her autobiography for publication in 2015: being co-written with Michael Walker, this memoir has the working title Delta Lady. Coolidge is also a sister of the Alpha Gamma Delta sorority. She is currently a painter and has exhibited her work. Seibert & Priscilla were found dead in their home in October 2014 from what police called a murder-suicide allegedly perpetrated by Michael Seibert.Ĭoolidge now lives in Fallbrook, California. Jones of the popular ’60s R&B band Booker T & The MG’s in 1969, then married TV journalist/broadcaster/reporter Ed Bradley in 1981, then married Michael Seibert. Rita’s sister Priscilla Coolidge was also a singer & recording artist. Coolidge married Tatsuya Suda on Jin the Cook Islands: Suda is a Japanese citizen who retired in 2010 after a tenure of over twenty-five years as a professor at the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences (UC Irvine). She was also involved with Leon Russell and Joe Cocker during their Mad Dogs and Englishmen tour. Coolidge previously had romantic liaisons with Stephen Stills and Graham Nash her leaving Stills for Nash has been cited as a contributing factor behind the initial 1970 breakup of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Coolidge was married to Kris Kristofferson from 1973 to 1980. Her marriage to Kristofferson ended in 1980.Ĭoolidge is the daughter of “Dick” and Charlotte Coolidge, a minister and schoolteacher, with sisters Linda and Priscilla, and brother Raymond. ![]() Her first hit, “(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher,” a cover of the Jackie Wilson song, was also her highest seller, reaching number two on the U.S. She had several solo hit singles during the late 1970s with cover versions. With him, she recorded several duet albums which sold well, and earned them a Grammy Award for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal in 1974 for From the Bottle to the Bottom, and in 1976 for Lover Please. ![]() It was during this time that she met Kris Kristofferson the two married in 1973. She became known as “The Delta Lady” and inspired Leon Russell to write a song of the same name for her. Her performance of “Superstar” on the Cocker, Russell “Mad Dogs and Englishmen” album helped gain her attention. Rita Coolidge’s early career was as a backing vocalist, for artists such as Joe Cocker, Eric Clapton, and Leon Russell. She is of Cherokee Native American descent. During the 1970s and 1980s, she charted hits on Billboard’s pop, country, adult contemporary and jazz charts and won two Grammy Awards with fellow musician and former husband Kris Kristofferson.Ī Grammy Award-winning American singer. Rita Coolidge (born May 1, 1945) is an American recording artist and songwriter. ![]()
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