Instrumental Coda from Layla - Derek and the Dominos

[@joey3627]

Jimmy was cutting every link between himself and the robbery but it had nothing to do with me. I gave Jimmy the tip and he gave me some Christmas money, from then on I kept my mouth shut. I knew Jimmy, he had the cash, it was his. I know he kicked some money upstairs to Paulie but that was it. It made him sick to have to turn money over to the guys who stole it, he'd rather whack'em. Anyway what did I care? I wasn't asking for anything and besides, Jimmy was making good money with me through my Pittsburgh connections. Still, they were finding bodies months after the robbery.

[@JosephBlandoCDXX]

What?

[@TheRussianBear7]

@@JosephBlandoCDXX congratulations! You have won in the whack lottery!

[@DonaldMerrit]

Is this the song that was playing during that scene?

[@gaguy1967]

and when they found Carbone in the back of the meat truck, he was frozen so stiff, it took two days to thaw him out for the autopsy. Still I never saw Jimmy so happy

[@nealeharris840]

😂

[@ryann8680]

To this very day, nobody knows the whereabouts of Tommy's shinebox RIP Duane and Gregg

[@henryman8331]

Rest easy Ray Liotta, thanks for the memories

[@broddigan5230]

One of the greatest instrumental pieces of all time. Nuff said!

[@chetmcgovern9985]

You can't think of this part of the song without thinking about mobsters getting whacked, that's how good of a director Scorsese is.

[@viktorhelgi]

What are you talking about?

[@viktorhelgi]

Oh wait I just saw a scene from a movie called Goodfellas. Were you referring to that?

[@chetmcgovern9985]

@@viktorhelgi Yes.

[@viktorhelgi]

@@chetmcgovern9985 Ok. 😂

[@ChanWalrus]

It's hard not to listen tto it again a few hours later each time.

[@dennisjump8655]

This is rock at it's absolute height. Rock n roll rising to the level of of being classical, timeless, ageless. A part of me wants to cry every time I hear it because I'm afraid we'll never get anything like this again. The genius of these musicians ...

[@gabrielrubio8051]

I've always thought the same. This was the peak of rock and roll music. If you take rock music now and form a timeline going all the way back to what the old black bluesmen down south created, it never got better than this. No disrespect to modern artists, but this was the the highest ambition that anyone could reach with what Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf (and before them, Robert Johnson) started.

[@Wolfman1987]

@@gabrielrubio8051 I am with you brother. I was only 7 years old when this song came out. It wasn't until a few years later that this song really grew on me. To this day, it is my favorite song of all time. And that says a lot, because there have been many great artist since Derick and the dominos. But no one can top the masterpiece that Layla is. My wife and I were on a road trip a while back, and Layla aired on the radio. She looked over and saw the tears on my face. I told her that music like this is forgotten by most, and has been replaced in today's society with straight garbage.

[@ezzahhh]

There's absolutely no way we will get anything on this level again, maybe some will come close but unfortunately music is slowly degrading in front of our eyes. I know the meme of 'back in my day music was so much better' but in this case it's actually true.

[@grouchosfoil7509]

@@ezzahhh Sad but true. A producer friend told me a few years ago that every art form has it's zenith; it's height. After that, it slowly declines. He said rock had it's in the 60's and 70's and it will never be what it was then. I'm still hoping he was wrong, but..

[@Windriverswalker]

I just let it out and cry everytime...everytime. The beauty is almost too much.

[@210Caveman26]

When they found Carbone in the back of the meat truck, it took em three days to thaw out his body and do an autopsy.

[@IraniIslami]

Two days to thaw him out for the autopsy

[@MrRjnr]

@@IraniIslami 😁

[@anthonymarks122]

this made me laugh out loud really hard

[@victoryoutreachhillsboro6457]

As I play this on the piano... weeping softly.

[@joeyc6398]

weeping with you...

[@4ٴٴٴٴ]

RIP Duane Allman. album would've been nothing without him. you are forever missed

[@scottkilborn7797]

GOD...what a beautiful piece of music

[@MrJimmyTide]

I prefer it to the whole song. "Layla" is great, but I feel this is the best part.

[@javierservigon]

Layla is a great song, but its coda is by far the best part. I just found out Rita Coolidge wrote it and never got the credit, unfair

[@sweeper1977]

Bobby Whitlock is pretty honest about it and he basically said "Jim Gorgon stole it from Rita Coolidge" in an interview. On the other hand, Rita Coolidge stopped pursuing it decades ago after Jim Gordon was incarcerated as the royalties was going to Gorgon's kids. But no single word from Clapton till today and he continues to exploit it as his own ip. As if he desperately wants that thousands of dollars and the sole authorship. Don't know what's his deal. Shame on Eric Clapton.

[@susanbrennan2402]

We used it for the parents processional at my daughter’s wedding. It’s also specified in my will for my funeral. And everyone has to listen to the whole thing!!!! I need that last note for Duane. And I’m a regular person. If they don’t get it, they don’t get me!

[@steven401ytx]

Perfect song for dancing with your cat at four in the morning. Perfect song.

[@long_strange_trip5959]

I can dig it! Also try "Green Eyed Lady" by Sugarloaf at about 2AM.

[@richardsevier380]

Yeah, this song my favorite Eric Clapton . Goodfellas, my favorite gangster movie. What's not to like ?

[@SpiritusMundi4EVER]

👏👏👏♥♥♥

[@Wolfman1987]

Wait what ???

[@krissgennrich8988]

I will have to remember that. Alice frequently wants to dance at 4 am and I can never find the right music.

[@wabbitinwed]

Thank you Rita Coolidge!

[@harvey20c]

thank you Rita Coolidge

[@jjp009]

I had heard that she wrote the piano part for this.

[@yannisniotis3513]

Rita Coolidge writes a great coda....

[@HarmonVisuals]

factsssss

[@mg55-n1l]

​Not exactly. Jim Gordon wrote most of the coda. I think Rita wrote about 2 bars out of 16 that are used here.

[@JamesHelring]

@@mg55-n1l Actually the song was Rita's sisters, Rita and Gordon took it and made a tape gave it to Clapton to finish and he never did anything with it. Gordon went to the producer and insisted the Coda be added and he finally put the coda in. It is Gordon on the piano to start but overlayed by the drummer from the Dominoes as Gordon wasn't a classic pianist.

[@supercringeteam6666]

For some reason no love songs capture what it actually feels like to love someone except this one for me

[@patriciasoebagio1035]

Eric Clapton was not simply in love with Patti Boyd Harrison-- he was in obsession with her

[@potatotaco_09]

Well said

[@Samp759]

I agree

[@vernshein5430]

Joni Mitchell described it as "The dizzy dancing way that you feel" - "Both Sides Now"

[@3ou1man]

I want this played at my funeral

[@colinhall2725]

Me too..... what a tune

[@colinhall2725]

Me too .... what a tune.......

[@JA-el3ml]

Always makes me feel very wistful. I was 16 years old when this came out (1970). Hard to believe this song is 50 years old and still stands up.

[@paulberry2884]

The guy who co-wrote could arrange for that. Very bizarre story.

[@SpetsnazVDV22]

Same here!

[@kconrad5893]

Music is so incredible in that it can conjure up so much imagery and emotion without any need for words....when I hear this I see so many scenes in my head....lost loves reuniting....reminiscing about the past...a bittersweet goodbye....happy endings. One of my all time favorite pieces of music ever.

[@NickC1966]

When my wife and I are driving and this comes on at a stop we go goodfellas mode and act like Johnny Roast Beef and the Mrs. in the Caddy when the kid found them shot.

[@elbrasi2976]

NicholasC66 lol

[@ronaldvermeulen9561]

Do they have Danish there?

[@callmecharlie0498]

Did everyone clap?

[@barryo2971]

Lol brilliant salute from Glasgow Scotland

[@Soxruleyanksdrool]

How often does this exact part of the song come on exactly when you and your wife are both in the car at the same time and exactly when you are stopped? I'm guessing not very often. But what you do when it does come on sounds like fun, so why not just get the CD or MP3 of this song? Then you can re-create this scene whenever you want. Cheers.

[@williamjenkins3939]

Rest In Peace, Ray.

[@creatinotionchannel2680]

I have loved this for nearly 30 years. I guess since it was a part of the Goodfellas soundtrack and played on the radio on its own. I had not seen the movie and had not heard it as the extended ending to Layla so it took quite a few years to track down what this was. One of my alltime favorite instrumentals.

[@alanm.6096]

Two masters playing off one another. Rock history at its best. Classic.

[@matthewfinger2381]

Best outro ever

[@wendywheeler9344]

Just learned that this melody in the coda was stolen from Rita Coolidge by her bf Jim somebody, who was a musician when Derek & the Dominos recorded Layla. Never given credit either...

[@JamesHelring]

It wasn't stolen he was Jim Gordon and he and Rita had this song with no lyrics at all and left it with Eric hoping he would finish it and record it but he didn't .Gordon and Coolidge did put the coda together and Gordon recorded it 3 weeks after the initial Layla was done Clapton didn't have anything to do with it his producer finally put it in. The rest is history.

[@stephencole2669]

thanks for putting this together. I needed this for transition to the eulogy. great vibe. leave people feeling good.

[@glennso47]

The weather channel used this as bumper music as they were showing the “local weather on the eights” segment. I first heard it there. 😁

[@patrickvecchio8138]

My weather channel here in Westchester County played it too !

[@RenegadeCossack]

The greatest piano player in rock n' roll history, Bobby Whitlock.

[@debomb721]

RenegadeCossack Jim Gordon played this solo

[@jamesrobert680]

Chris Stainton did the honours at Live Aid.

[@sriramkalaga9300]

Not many people know that it was Rita Coolidge, Jim Gordon's girlfriend at the time, who composed this piano piece as a part of her song called 'Time'. Jim was a legendary drummer but played this piano piece at their place, recorded it on a tape and gave it to Clapton. It wasn't in the original version of Layla but EC added it -- without acknowledging Rita. Still. ..as someone said recently, this 4-min piano piece can make a grown man cry. True.

[@crisprtalk6963]

@@debomb721 Jim did the part solo then Bobby came in over the top of Jims part. They both played on it.

[@debomb721]

@@crisprtalk6963 oh my bad, i didn’t know that, thanks for showing me the light!

[@therezac]

R.I.P. Ray Liotta

[@JErnst-pl5xk]

"In a world that's powered by violence...on the streets where the violent have power...A new generation carries on an old tradition" 😎

[@markpope5423]

RIP Ray Liotta

[@maurizio9738]

Never heard&seen a more perfect pair between music and vision such the last scene of Goodfellas with these notes. It just gives you a sense of sadness...thx slowhand.

[@scotthunt2479]

Let's get it straight - both Jim Gordon and Bobby Whitlock played on the piano outro. Jim played the initial part, and Bobby came in later at the behest of Tom Dowd and played a second part. Bobby discusses this in length on his YT video. Just search for "Bobby Whitlock & CoCo Carmel The End of Layla."

[@JamesHelring]

Thank you so many think Clapton stole it but in truth it was Rita's sisters and she and Gordon took a tape of it to Clapton

[@ricflair9717]

This is a good song to play at a wedding. The fun is over, your social life is getting wacked.

[@gaguy1967]

or disposing bodies in the trash

[@amandastout1948]

Mar-A-Lago was raided last night. This kept playing in my mind.

[@elenij3781]

So this coda is what Rita Coolidge wrote but was not given credit for.

[@robertwilliams533]

Google Bobby Whitlock's story about how this Coda piano part came to be. Clapton was pissed at the time because they had redone the Master without his knowledge or consent. In retrospect he realizes how much it improved the song. Whitlock does videos about the whole album on you tube.

[@PC-iv5so]

Let's give some credit to Bobby Whitlock and Duane Allman.

[@charlygeorge6472]

Best Soundtrack from Godfellas ! ❤️🙏

[@javierperalta7648]

This will play when I get shot on the back while entering a room

[@christopherclantz5005]

This will play when my body is found in the back of a meat truck

[@paulberry2884]

That scene was interesting in that Jim Gordon, the co-writer and pianist on this track, smashed his mom's face in with a hammer then stabbed her to death with a butcher's knife. That was in 1983. He's still incarcerated.

[@GoodOlRoll]

"Oh no-"

[@vernshein5430]

Layla after the coda starts, always reminds me of dancing with my high school girlfriend.

[@FlixMr]

Great share.

[@martinkinsella6484]

Amazing track

[@superyid2010]

'Jimmy was cutting every link between himself and the robbery, but it had nothing to do with me. I gave Jimmy the tip and he gave me some Christmas money. From then on I kept my mouth shut. I knew Jimmy, he had the cash, it was HIS.'

[@JoseGonzalez-ll7vy]

Jim Gordon Wanted the coda and Eric Clapton no. They argued terribly and the manager decided Coda Yes. (Bobby whitlock said it in his KZbin channel)

[@GBPaddling]

Frankie Carbone hangin' frozen in the meat wagon............

[@robertdoerr5999]

Tears for this

[@ryanmartin73]

They finally got em.

[@glennso47]

I keep visualizing a symphony orchestra (with Bugs Bunny in a tuxedo playing the piano). And some guy in a tux playing th electric guitar.

[@darthnihilus8543]

I almost forgot to listen to this today

[@izzyavilez2492]

very nice

[@thatguyfromcetialphaV]

"It took two days to thaw him out for the autopsy!"

[@advance9343]

Rip Ray Liotta

[@dimacasaoui9190]

Magnifique.

[@petercozzi1772]

Masterpiece

[@deborahbrano5737]

My exit music!

[@TheRudester25]

Oh n- *BANG* *THUD* And thats that...

[@danielecanepa4362]

so good

[@munsterbraum2792]

Rita Coolidge wrote this

[@diamonddave16]

💯 🎶 ♥️ pretty dam great

[@jayme5617]

Goodfellas theme song

[@jdig1984]

Goodfellas

[@TheRoguesy2]

Does anyone know the story about this half, like why was it made? Layla is basically 2 completely different songs stitched together beautifully, each able to stand on their own.

[@unklemichael]

I don't remember but it was partially based on some greek myth I think. The other part of it was due to Eric clapton being in love with patty boyd(sp?) Wife of George Harrison.

[@patriciasoebagio1035]

This song IS the two together -- each of the two musical parts may stand up on their own as individual pieces, but together they ARE "the SONG" -- both halves of a WHOLE

[@loganplays6455]

@teamUSA You’re right, it doesn’t sound like two different songs. The song “Layla” is two different songs, the first half is Eric Clapton’s love song as others have said. The second half including the piano break/coda is a song called “Time” by Rita Coolidge. Eric stole the song from Rita without giving her an ounce of credit. She hadn’t copyrighted it when he stole it because she was a young girl with little musical experience at the time. I won’t tell the whole story, you can search “Piano Coda from Layla” on the internet and find the news stories and videos, but yes, the second half is a different song.

[@VMan29397]

Well drummer jim gordon was working on a solo album in secret and the piano coda was part of a song he was working on. When clapton caught him instead of punishing him he asked him to put the piano at the end of layla

[@camvid66]

Rita Coolidge wrote it

[@patrickdonohue2740]

Real greaseball shit

[@tonbonthemon]

Sounds similar to the Ukrainian song, "I will go to the Far Hills", specifically as performed by Molodtsi Chabluk Family

[@junjun9011]

涙腺崩壊必至

[@kevinseanfeeney7812]

Stolen from Rita Coolidge 😢

[@ralphabreu5022]

Me too

[@breezywilson760]

written by the performer of the Apache breakbeat used on alot of early hip h OP, (and murderer)

[@82_KID]

Wasn't this song also in Forrest Gump?

[@averycason-rk2oe]

No

[@82_KID]

Must have been "Running On Empty" by Jackson Browne?

[@averycason-rk2oe]

@@82_KID yeah I think so

[@duongquangtrung15]

Priscilla jones

[@geraldobrien7323]

Two songs that copied this idea of an outro: Thunder Road by Bruce Springsteen, and Moving Out by Billy Joel.

[@glennso47]

I thought this was a classical song.

[@ABCNetGFX]

weather channel music

[@Dave-hw5vy]

Written by Rita Coolidge! Clapton you rip off merchant.