Talk:Songs the Lord Taught Us

Writing credits

I just sourced the writing credits in the track list to the liner notes of the CD re-release, but there are some discrepancies.

• The CD credits "Rock on the Moon" to someone named "Burden", but I can't find any other source linking that song title with that name; the only connection I can find is to the recording by Jimmy Stewart, which is credited to him and not to anyone named Burden. If you listen to the Jimmy Stewart recording, that's clearly the song the Cramps are covering.
• "Sunglasses After Dark" is credit to Rorschach and Interior (presumably for their arrangement) along with "Pullens" and "F.L. Wray Sr." "Pullens" has to be Dwight "Whitey" Pullen, who recorded the song as a rockabilly number in 1958, although curiously on his record the writing is credited to "Jimmy Noble". Presumably F.L. Wray Sr. is Link Wray, although he was Fred Lincoln Wray Junior, not Senior...I can't find evidence of his father, Fred Lincoln Wray Sr., having any songwriting credits, but I have found evidence of Link Wray being credited as F.L. Wray Sr. on a number of records; I venture to guess that's because one of his sons was also named Fred Lincoln Wray. Anyway, presumably Link Wray is given writing credit on this track because some of the guitar parts are based on his works, though the album doesn't specify.

If anyone has insight and/or sources on these or the other cover songs on this album, that would be good information to add to the article regarding the songwriting process and the band's inspirations, especially since the Cramps were well-known for digging up and covering old rockabilly and garage rock tunes from the '50s and '60s. --IllaZilla (talk) 15:23, 6 October 2017 (UTC)

I found the Link Wray connection for "Sunglasses". The main guitar riff was pinched from his 1963 single "Ace of Spades": https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2009/nov/03/link-wray-ace-spades --IllaZilla (talk) 02:24, 30 October 2017 (UTC)