# What are "whites" in Little Feat's "Willin'"?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 17, 2014, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-whites-in-little-feats-willin/701609 "2014-10-17T19:35:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\
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> [@Treppenwitz](#):
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> > [@EinsteinsHund](#):
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> > “Mother’s Little Helpers” the Stones sang about.
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> took a look at the lyric (see, I research my posts!) and it talks about “a little yellow pill” - so

Brand-name 5mg Valium has most often been a little yellow pill, so I had kind of made it my head-canon for that role for a long time. But I never knew if the UK release was alike to the US product.

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I may not remember what I did, but I do fondly remember what got me there. Blackouts erase the memory of what happened; the drugs would excite me just having got them in my possession, it was a lot like remembering your favorite Christmas gift (which I do not remember).

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