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Save Room For My Love?

....the John Legend cover of "Save Room For My Love" needs to be put away?? *charges up my laser ray gun* ...Or at least put in the vault? My local smooth jazz station is playin' the hell outta it, and I think it's cuz the station has been owned by CLEAR CHANNEL for a few years now... Yeah the song, I wasn't crazy about it when it first came out. And I thought it was John's but a DJ said it was a remake of an oldies song. Hell, I never HEARD the original. I don't remember hearing the original at all as a girl.... I like John Legend, of course, just not this joint. ESPECIALLY since this guy butchered it-trying to sing the chorus over and over again. It was bad enuff I didn't care for the song so much.

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1. Gabor Szabo was a jazz guitarist who covered the song Stormy in the 1969 and this was where John Legend borrowed the organ riff http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0CwY3r7FpM The song Stormy was originally by the Classics IV http://youtube.com/watch?v=A3S63vA67PI They're an old group way before John Legend came to be. No one covered John Legend's Save Room. He sampled a riff from an old song because he liked it. I guess John Legend already paid the necessary royalty to whomever owned it.