Chords for Gino Vannelli - The story behind People Gotta Move

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_ _ How [D] old were you when you wrote People _
[Bm] _ [Gb] _ _ [Dbm] _ _ [E] Gotta _
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[B] _ [Bm] _ [Gbm] _ _ _ Move? _
[Ab] I was 18.
[Dbm] _ I wrote it because [Bm] my girlfriend at the time, Anna Marie, [N] didn't want me to go into show business.
She thought it was a fool's errand.
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_ _ [G] wanted me to continue on with my college studies [D] and get married and [F] _ [G] basically that [F] run.
And I [G] was determined to become a musician and a [C] successful one, so I wanted to prove to her [Bbm] that I could [A] write a hit song [F] overnight.
I said, tomorrow I'll come back and I'm going to play you [G] something that someday is going to be a big [Am] hit.
[G] She kind of [D] rolled her eyes, of course.
And [Gbm] so I went back to visit her the [Em] next day [C] after school, started playing her People Gotta [D] Move.
You gotta move, limp, move up and flop.
And I was telling her, come on, you gotta picture the horns and [Am] all that.
And her father just had [C] walked in.
And her father looked at [A] her.
I saw through the corner of my [Em] eye and went, [A] _
keep away [Dm] from him.
Who [Am] was that 18 year old boy?
_ Oh, geez, [Em] Italian, Canadian, _ [Am] _ always out on [Bm] weekends.
Wore a big open shirt with a [Am] big medallion and my hair down to here and as big as I could possibly make it.
[Bb] [D] Always looking for volumizing shampoos.
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[Em] But determined to be [D] successful.
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_ _ _ You gotta [Dbm] move. _
_ _ You [Ab] gotta move. _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ [Dbm] I was [G] 20 years old and I had made all the record companies in New York.
And I'd saved up some money, went to Los Angeles, was there for three, four months.
And nobody [Gb] wanted to sign me.
[Ab] And then I saw Herb cut across the [Gb] lot.
_ Because Herb Albert [Bb] was at that point [B] a big artist.
Well, more [Gb] than a big artist.
Herb Albert was [Bb] the A in A&M [B] Records.
And [G] A&M Records had [Gb] artists like the Carpenters and [E] Cat Stevens and Sergio [Ab] Mendez and Quincy Jones.
_ I thought they were really a great label for me to be on.
So I ran to Herb Albert and he asked me what I wanted.
I said, let me play for you.
_ And I played him People Gotta Move, Mom Coco, Crazy Life, _ Powerful People, on the guitar.
Which was really not that very good.
_ And he looked at me and said, welcome to the family.
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_ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ [G] We _ _ [C] _ _ _ [Cm] were staying at a place called the Hallmark Hotel.
And all the [Gm] artists stayed there.
I met [Bb] Marvin Gaye and [Bbm] a whole bunch of other people there.
Curtis Mayfield.
[Abm] So I went to the poolside and I was sleeping.
And [Dbm] I heard, [C] it's a crazy life, [Bb] a hazy life.
And I said, wait a minute, [Eb] I think that's my song. _
Someone is singing [N] my song.
So like it was breadcrumbs, I started following it.
And I finally saw Stevie Wonder with his brother.
And his brother said, hey, Stevie says, there's the cat with the hair, he said.
_ And so Stevie stood up and we exchanged hugs.
And we talked about the record and I talked about how much I admired [Ab] him.
And then Stevie just said, I don't know, you know what, Chaka Khan can't come with me on tour.
He says, do you want to come [N] and do seven or eight concerts with me?
I said, am [Abm] I going to get killed?
You know, is this my death warrant?
Stevie says, no, no, my audience is really a musical audience.
They'll dig you.
So I said, okay, let's do it.
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_ _ [E] _ _ [Eb] _ [D] Make you [E] feel.
_ _ You got to [Dbm] groove.
The [Abm] record was released [Dbm] and People Gotta Move started going [Ab] up the charts.
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[Abm] And I just was about to leave to go open up for Stevie in [E] the Cincinnati Coliseum.
And [Ab] I got a call and it [Ebm] was Don Cornelius.
[G] He had [Ab] an unmistakable [Bb] voice.
And we're fortunate to have with us a truly remarkable [Abm] talent, a great welcome gang, Mr.
Gino Vanelli.
He said, would you [Ebm] like to do Soul Train?
[Ab] And I said to Don, [Dbm] I'd love to do Soul Train, [G] but I said, I [Abm] have to tell you [Bb] something.
He said, and what's that?
He says, I'm a white guy.
You know, [E] he said, I know.
[Ab] He says, over here at [Abm] Soul Train, we consider you off-white.
[Db] _ [Ab] And things started taking [Gb] off.
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