Yes, Catspaw, I am amazed. Didn't they also write the theme to Picnic?

DADGBE: I am not all all surprised that there is a rumor that they stole their songs. There would be a predisposition for that kind of rumor since it fits into the feeling that so many African-American musicians have that they have been ripped off (considering the careers of Hank Williams, Elvis Presley and a whole bouquet of popular singers who reached "idol" status by turning "black" music styles into the mainstream - tehre is certainly some basis for thinking this.) Since no one could come up with music so steeped in someone else's trafdition without being familair with that tradition, there has to be some connection but where it is stealing and where it is transmutation, that 's always the hard part to tell. However, black artists took up their music and that must mean something.

Sourdough