Nat King Cole did indeed compose a number of songs, but he also performed songs by other composers. For example, Cole was so impressed by Jimmy McHugh's songwriting that he recorded at least four of McHugh's songs.
As for George Harrison - I can't help thinking that, while certain of "the dead" never deserve to be spoken well of, George Harrison doesn't come close to being in that category. I'm not sure what dragging up an old discussion of his lawsuit over "My Sweet Lord" is intended to accomplish, except that someone clearly has an agenda that involves making themselves feel more important somehow by belittling one of pop music's great songwriters (he did write more than *that song* after all), guitarists, and inspirations.
Harrison played an important part in my youthful spiritual life, and for that - and the most glorious of his songs, and his contribution to the Beatles, I am not just willing to forgive him his one lapse into the murky territory of unconsciously (or even consciously) borrowing a riff from another song (which in any case, he certainly raised above the level of just another unsophisticated Motown love ditty), but am going to remain grateful for his existence until the end of my own.
Karen Mercedes http://www.radix.net/~dalila/index.html *************************************** What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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