I Wonder Why
B.B. King’s 1977 recording of “I Wonder Why” is the earliest release on file. George Johnson and Billy Preston are credited as its writers. The Notorious B.I.G.’s “You’re Nobody (Til Somebody Kills You)” (1997) carries this song’s writers on its credit.
Biggie's track runs on a song Billy Preston and George Johnson wrote, and B.B. King cut it first. Put the two side by side and you can hear where the floor of that record came from.
Credited writers: George Johnson and Billy Preston.
Earliest release on file: this one, 1977.
The Notorious B.I.G.’s “You’re Nobody (Til Somebody Kills You)” (1997) carries this song’s writers on its credit, the mark of a cleared sample or an interpolation.
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