1544 - Led Zeppelin Bring It On Home 1969

Led Zeppelin´s second album ends with a far-out blues number called "Bring It On Home," during which Robert Plant contributes some very convincing moaning and harp-playing, and sings "Wadge da train roll down da track". This song was written by American bassist-songwriter Willie Dixon. The first known recording of the song was by Sonny Boy Williamson II in 1963. The intro and outro were deliberate homages to the Sonny Boy Williamson song, whereas the rest of the track was an original Jimmy Page/Robert Plant composition; however, Dixon was not given a lyric writing credit for the song. In 1972, Arc Music, the publishing arm of Chess Records, brought a lawsuit against Led Zeppelin for copyright infringement over "Bring It On Home"; the case was settled out of court for an undisclosed sum. In an interview he gave in 1977, Page commented: The thing with "Bring It On Home," there's only a tiny bit taken from Sonny Boy Williamson's version and we threw that in as a tribute to him. People say, "Oh, 'Bring It On Home' is stolen." Well, there's only a little bit in the song that relates to anything that had gone before it, just the end.