Four Polaroid photographs, 1978

Name: Eric Clapton and Don Williams
Brand: Four Polaroid photographs, 1978
Price: 300.00 GBP
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Price Realised GBP 378

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Closed: 22 Mar 2024

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Eric Clapton and Don Williams

Four Polaroid photographs, 1978

Price Realised GBP 378

Closed: 22 Mar 2024

Price Realised GBP 378

Closed: 22 Mar 2024

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Four unique colour Polaroid photographs of Eric Clapton and American country music singer songwriter Don Williams, taken by Pattie Boyd in Clapton's Nashville hotel room after a show, circa 1978, one shot capturing Clapton with his custom 1970s Dobro Resonator guitar, seated alongside Williams, songwriter Danny Flowers and two other musicians, each signed in pencil by Pattie Boyd verso
each 4¹⁄₄ x 3¹⁄₂ in. (10.8 x 8.9 cm.)

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Nashville songwriter and musician Danny Flowers' is best known for writing the song in 1978which would be recorded by both Don Williams and Eric Clapton. Interviewed in 2014 for web documentary series for Movie Time Picture Company, Flowers remembered: A couple of months went by and we were in Nashville opening a show for Eric Clapton. And so after the show we went back to Eric's hotel room... and the three of us sat around playing songs... Don says "play that new song"... so I play this song I'd written, Living on Tulsa Time. Sitting there, Don Williams is playing rhythm guitar and singing the harmonies, and Eric's sitting here and playing slide guitar on his Dobro. Eric - at the end of the song - he said, "I love that song and I want to record it right away," and then Don pipes in and goes "You can't record it - I'm gonna record it." Both artists recorded the song, but Williams got there first - his recording went to number one on the country singles chart and became the number one country song of 1979. Clapton released two versions of the song and the second, a 1980 live recording, reached number 30 on the U.S. Hot 100 pop singles chart.