Ellas Otha Bates and Shel Talmy, Songwriters You May Not Have Heard of Before

I have recently been buying a lot of old Kinks CDs.  I have always liked them, but essentially just in the 60s, "Lola" and a couple songs from the 80s.  But I have found out they were quite good in between and up until they may or may not have broken up.

This one CD i was listening to had, along with a lot of songs written by that Ray Davies guy, one written by an Ellas Otha Bates and several by a  Shel Talmy.  I looked them up.

Ellas Otha Bates had written a song called "Cadillac."  I had only previously heard it by a Chicago group called New Colony Six back in the 60s.  A great car song, especially with them spelling it out.  The Kinks did a great version as well.  I found out that Ellas Otha Bates was none other than one Bo Diddley.

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