Your first two points were addressed in the third post in this thread. Funnily enough, Jones himself never argued on that point. We have seen it in the Stones world too, with Jones 'defenders' who claimes he should have writing credit for this and that. He didn't though he had 6 years to do so.
Thirdly, if Keith Relf, who died in 1976, had anything to argue against the released version of Tangarine, he could have either sued or claimed authorship of the lyrics. Secondly, Page claimed the lyrics was his. Here's the song with Keith's lyrics and vocal intact.įirstly, that early version was never copyrighted. When Yardbirds '68 is officially released on November 5, it will include an early instrumental version of the song that became Led Zeppelin's "Tangerine." It will be an instrumental version because Jimmy Page has erased Keith Relf's lead vocal so that he won't have to give Keith a songwriting credit (the lyrics are Relf's) and pay royalties to his estate. In When Giants Walked the Earth, Wall describes the words as typical of Relf for the period: "they did smack of the classic flower-child-isms of Keith Relf".Case notes that "Tangerine" is "one of the two Zeppelin non-instrumentals that credit Page as the sole songwriter" (the credit for the second song, "Dazed and Confused", was later amended). "Tangerine" was a direct lift of a previously recorded Yardbirds tune – "Knowing That I'm Losing You" – which had never been copyrighted, so Page simply "claimed" the track without acknowledging Keith Relf's partial lyric contribution. Unfortunately for the Yardbirds, they never copyrighted "Knowing That I'm Losing You", which allowed Robert Plant to lift the third verse ("Measuring a summer's day. Strawman comments on the verses (both songs have three verses, one is repeated as the chorus): Yardbirds' drummer Jim McCarty and bassist Chris Dreja both assert that Relf wrote the words for "Knowing That I'm Losing You" they and Jane Relf (sister and singer who also performed with Relf) believe some of his original lines found their way into "Tangerine". However, Case, Shadwick, and Williamson identify the Yardbirds' song as a joint or co-compostion by Page and Yardbirds' singer and primary lyricist Keith Relf. Author and music documentarian Bob Carruthers writing in Led Zeppelin: Uncensored on the Record, claims it was a sole composition by Jimmy Page.
In addition to being credited as the songwriter on all Led Zeppelin releases, Page claims to be responsible for the lyrics: "I'd written it after an old emotional upheaval and I just changed a few of the lyrics for the new version". Although writers do not question who composed the music for the song,there is some disagreement over who wrote the lyrics.
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