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Got My Mojo Working

Is or is this not the same person that penned "Got My Mojo Working"? -MrFizyx 21:26, 27 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it's the same Preston Foster. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Telegonus (talk • contribs) 08:00, 14 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

CAUTION! a quick googling turns up one attribution of authorship to "a little-known Blues musician named Preston Foster". There were probably dozens, scores, maybe hundreds of men named Preston Foster in the U.S. in 1956. A 56-year-old white Hollywood movie actor and sometimes vocalist is probably not the one who wrote "Mojo". Better conjure up a rock-solid reliable source if you want to put this alleged fact into the article. AVarchaeologist (talk) 09:16, 1 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You may well be right about the authorship of the Mojo song. It doesn't sound like something a white American male would have written in the 20th century, least of all one born around the turn of that century. My contribution was based on many articles I've read about Foster that name him as the author of the song, but for anyone familiar with the actor, his life, his work, it seems like a most unusual composotion for Mr. Foster to have written.

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	:CAUTION! a quick googling turns up one attribution of authorship to "a little-known Blues musician named Preston Foster". There were probably dozens, scores, maybe hundreds of men named Preston Foster in the U.S. in 1956. A 56-year-old white Hollywood movie actor and sometimes vocalist is probably not the one who wrote "Mojo". Better conjure up a rock-solid reliable source if you want to put this alleged fact into the article. [[User:AVarchaeologist\|AVarchaeologist]] ([[User talk:AVarchaeologist\|talk]]) 09:16, 1 December 2013 (UTC)		:CAUTION! a quick googling turns up one attribution of authorship to "a little-known Blues musician named Preston Foster". There were probably dozens, scores, maybe hundreds of men named Preston Foster in the U.S. in 1956. A 56-year-old white Hollywood movie actor and sometimes vocalist is probably not the one who wrote "Mojo". Better conjure up a rock-solid reliable source if you want to put this alleged fact into the article. [[User:AVarchaeologist\|AVarchaeologist]] ([[User talk:AVarchaeologist\|talk]]) 09:16, 1 December 2013 (UTC)



			You may well be right about the authorship of the Mojo song. It doesn't sound like something a white American male would have written in the 20th century, least of all one born around the turn of that century. My contribution was based on many articles I've read about Foster that name him as the author of the song, but for anyone familiar with the actor, his life, his work, it seems like a most unusual composotion for Mr. Foster to have written.