Chords for Billy Vera & The Beaters "I Can Take Care of Myself" - The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson

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[N] Okay, my next guest, I'm too long. _ _ _
_ _ _ My next Billy Vera and the Beaters had the number one song in the country a couple of
weeks ago, a tune called At This Moment, and their album is called By Request.
It's in the top 20.
They've just released a new single from this album, a song called I Can Take Care of Myself.
Would you welcome please, Billy Vera and the Beaters. Thank you.
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Good to be here.
We're talking, do we want to get this commercial out of the way first, then we'll talk about it.
Stay where you are, we'll we right [A] back.
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were talking in the hall, your dad, I know your dad, Bill McCord right.
Yeah.
Worked at NBC as an announcer for many, many years out of New York right.
Thirty-five years at NBC until he retired.
And your mom I believe was a singer.
She was one of the Ray Charles singers on the Perry Comeau show for many years.
And she used to keep an autograph book for me when I was about eleven, twelve years old
which I happened to bring because there happened to be two autographs right here that I know that she never got for me
You and Ed.
Ah, I mean I got Fats Domino.
I got Steve Allen.
I got Satchmo
I'll be happy to do what you would do it.
Yeah
Real me today.
Yeah, you keep in contact with your before they folks to live both still living.
Yeah.
Yeah, he lives in San Diego
Oh, I'm gonna bother him and she lives in Florida a funny thing
My mother did recently when the record was out.
She started she called me up one day and she said no
She said, you know, I've been calling the radio station every day and telling them that your your record, you know play your record
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I told him you're gonna be on Carson.
I told him I said well my tell him you're my mother
They'll get a kick out of it.
You know, that's funny.
She called me back later
She said she said, uh, what would you call him?
They want you to call back and do it
What a promo on there, so I did this promo and they said what do you want me to say?
We'll say this is such and such a radio station and I'm Billy Bear blah blah
I said this is the station my mother listens to that's funny.
I'm nice to have your mother support you like that
Yeah, and bring all the stations you I was reading this article is an LA Weekly about you your career had a strange swing
You know in the 60s, I mean bang and then the 70s were like
Correct for you.
I couldn't make it in the 70s.
Oh, I couldn't get I couldn't get arrested
Just like you went through a musical period and was out of it for a while
Yeah, I had I had a few hit records as an artist in in the 60s, you know, we played the Apollo Theatre
I was I sang with a woman named Judy Clay Yeah
was a cousin of Dionne Warwick and and Whitney Houston and not many white artists played the Apollo for
For [F] quite a while, right?
That's true.
We we I loved it
they would put us on first because they didn't know how we'd go over and
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Program right and then they put up after the first day we went over
Okay, so they put us on next to the star
Yeah, then you turn around you wrote a song in collaboration with somebody else.
I think for a Dalai Parthian
Yeah wrote that alone actually.
Yeah, and it was my first number one record as a as a songwriter
I really got the feeling this must be nice to have this kind of
Acceptance again after having that real fallow period and all of a sudden be back and be hot again
I'll tell you it's like it's like I feel like Lazarus
Now the album isn't in the top 20, right?
Yeah number 16 this week.
I'm just thrilled that next time you come back
We didn't have time to do it tonight
But next time you come back, would you do the one that you did before at this moment?
There's more material because that's what really kicked it off in there.
Yeah, that goes back to when the sickly I wrote that song in _
78 right and we recorded it in 81 right and it bombed and then now it came back.
That's great.
We're gonna take a break
We'll be right back