[Slowhand] Marcella Detroit aka Marcy Levy

[Pat Toth]

Hi all,

Ran across this little goodie the other day and wanted to share it.

"So, when Eric Clapton was looking for a new band, Carl Radle mentioned
Marcy and her band. Slowhand paid them a visit and hired them all on the
spot, and they went on to record the 461 Ocean Boulevard album together.
Marcy couldn't join the band then, because she had already made a commitment
to work with Leon Russell for nine months touring the states.

When the tour with Leon finished, Marcy was invited to Jamaica to see her
old band just as they were recording Clapton's "There's One in Every Crowd"
album. She ended up singing backing vocals and three days later Eric asked
Marcy to join the band. Three days progressed into four years of touring,
writing and recording with Clapton. Among the co-writes with Eric were:
Innocent Times, for his LP "There's No reason To Cry "on which she sang the
lead vocal; "Hungry" (written with Dickie Sims, the keyboardist from Tulsa),
"Rollit" and "The Core".

Marcy says: "We'd just sit in the studio in those days with no preparation
and luckily come up with the goods".... Later, Marcy, George Terry, and Eric
went on to write the 1977 classic "Lay Down Sally". The song won a BMI Award
in 1996 for two million plays so far, a feat that basically means that if
you played the record back to back it would take you at least 11 years to
achieve! "

Happy Holiday
pat