Chords for The Wrecking Crew: Leon Russell

_ Can you name the piano player in all of these songs?
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ What?
[Bb] _ Jekyll [Eb] on my [F] mind.
[Eb] _ _ Oh, baby.
_ _ [Dbm] [Gbm] We wish they all [A] could be in _ California.
We can't [Gm] reach.
_ _ [D] _ _ [Gbm] Leon Russell, he was quite a study.
When he first came to [G] town, he lived at a filthy motel
down on Sunset [Gbm]
Boulevard.
And there [G] was no telephone there.
And he had no [Gbm] phone at all.
We used to just hang around the studios
and kind of get jobs [Cm] that way, you know, hanging around.
Real country boy.
Yeah, a real country boy from Oklahoma.
And we said, [Ab] Leon, if you want to work in this town,
you've got to get a [Gm] telephone so people [Fm] can call you to work.
Oh, really?
Oh, really?
What do I do?
I'd go out and get myself [Ab] a phone pretty [E] soon, man.
He was fabulous.
We were on his date with [Fm] Glenn Campbell.
And they brought Leon in.
And I'll never forget.
And Leon panicked.
He was sitting there.
And Glenn says, Leon, just play that shit you did in Oklahoma.
He says, they don't know nothing here.
So Leon played Leon Russell.
And all of a sudden, they don't know nothing.
That was his style.
That's what they loved.
That's what he did from there on in.
[Cm] He had that magic touch on the piano.
I don't [C] know what you'd call down home,
a southern [Cm] style piano playing that he [C] did.
It was magnificent.
I was [Bb] so taken with Al DeLore and his capability.
Later on, he put Al playing electric piano,
which was just a fill kind of, I mean,
just something to fill up the sound with Leon Russell playing
the acoustic [Eb] piano.
And I said, gee, you know, I thought Al was great.
And he says, no, Leon Russell, man, he's got hands.
He can reach octaves with his, you can't beat that.
Leon never said boo to anybody.
You know, he'd just come in, play his piano.
And so one day, he came to work completely drunk.
I mean, so drunk, so drunk.
And he went in, he sat down at the piano.
And he and, who was playing next to him?
Don Randy, I think.
And everybody, I mean, he was actually talking.
He never [Ab] spoke.
And everybody was like coming in, did you see,
did you see Leon, did you see Leon?
And so everybody was like just looking at him, you know.
And he was being really [Eb] funny, too,
because I never heard him say a word.
_ _ So Phillip was like totally knocked out.
But then finally, he wanted the session to begin, you know.
And Leon was just doing, you know,
all this kind of crazy stuff.
And so Phillip said, you know, Leon,
have you ever heard of the word respect? _
And Leon jumped up on the table, on the piano.
And he said, Phillip, have you ever heard of the word fuck you?
And everybody, I mean, that was, I mean,
they couldn't get it together [Ab] for half an hour.
People were like dying [Bb] on the floor.
I mean, [Eb] tears rolling in the studio
because it was just, it was one of those, you know,
the weirdest thing you ever saw.
My favorite Leon Russell story is,
it's 8 o'clock at night,
and there was like an 80-piece orchestra.
Oh, boy.
No Leon Russell.
[Ab] Where the hell is Leon?
8-5, 8-6, 8-7.
_ Suddenly the door opens, all the guys get real hushed.
And Leon had a limp.
He's got something wrong orthopedically.
And of course, the piano's all the way on the other side.
Takes him about 4 or 5 minutes,
and it's not a word spoken, all the way.
He limps over to the [B] piano,
sits down, _ fixes himself,
pulls up the lid,
and looks to the booth.
And from the booth comes Ben Barrett's voice,
saying, _ Leon, don't you ever, ever be late again.
You're holding up this whole recording.
_ And Leon closes the piano, gets up,
[Em] and limps all the way back and out.
Never [Am] played another.
He [B] left.
Yeah, he had [C] his own brand of [G]
feng hu.
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