Chords for When Teen Idol Bobby Rydell Met The Beatles in 1963
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Bobby Rydell looks back at meeting an up-and-coming band [G] in 1963.
The Beatles.
[D] I'm John Bowden from Rock History Music.
[E]
Whenever I do interviews with [G] artists, especially artists from the ilk of Bobby Rydell,
who really had hits before I was born.
As a matter of [A] fact, the year I was born, 1960,
he had the 11th biggest song [E] with Wild One.
Also, there was Valare.
There were 19 [G] hits
on the top 40 charts for Bobby Rydell.
[F#] Whenever I do an interview, it's always a question of [A] me
trying to get the artist to bring me someplace [C] I've never been.
And there are a lot of those
moments for Bobby Rydell.
[E] Like [A] meeting the Beatles before they [C] were huge.
They were big in 63,
but [G] Beatlemania, [A] the thrust of it hadn't [C] happened yet.
We're going to share a story about Bobby
Rydell getting the [Bm] ultimate drum kit from his father as a surprise.
[A] Because Bobby was a drummer
first [D] and still is a drummer.
And then him realizing that [Em] he might have had a similar
[G] drum kit to Ringo [D] Starr.
And [A] then, and wait for it, [E] him meeting a band who, well, he didn't [G] know
who they were at the time.
[D] The Beatles.
[G#] I love hearing about your dad had a
settlement and you bought that Black Oyster Pearl Ludwig set.
[E] Oh, yeah, right.
Yeah.
I mean, my first set of drums, it was, it came [E] from a pawn shop
[D#] and it [D] was called Revere Drums.
I mean, not the [E] greatest drums in the world,
but at least they were a drum [G] set and I could bang around on them.
[G] And my father worked for
a place called the Electro Knight Carving Company.
He was a punch press guy and he lost part of his
middle finger.
And from that, he got a bonus, like $3,000 or something, which was back then,
you know, extraordinary money.
But he [G#] had the money.
He knew how much I wanted, you know,
a real [G] good set of drums.
And we went to a place called 8th Street Music Sales.
And I see up there
[D] set of William F.
Ludwig WFL Black Oyster Pearl.
I said, wow, I said, I'd like that.
And to this day, I think I still have the receipt of the [N] drums.
And I think it was something like
$500.
You couldn't touch that set today for $3,000.
Matter of fact, that was [Bm] Ringo's first set.
[N]
WFL, William F.
Ludwig Black Oyster Pearl.
And every time I used to see him, I used to,
I had those drums before you, man, when I was like [E] 15 years old.
Well, that's a good segue.
The fact that you were [F#] on that bus that time, the bus was stopped.
I [G] guess you thought it was Brian Epstein who stopped the bus and all [A] of a sudden,
[D]
it was the Beatles.
[A] Yeah, I was touring [F#] there.
[G] Matter of fact, Ann-Margret and I were there for the premiere of
the command performance, Bye Bye Birdie, for the Royal Family.
While there, I met Tony [D] Hatch,
who wrote a song for me called Forget Him, which was my third million seller.
[E] And then I toured
with a young lady by the name of Helen Shapiro, really, really fine female [D] singer in the UK.
[G] And we're traveling on a bus and it's like, oh, 10, 11 o'clock at night in the middle of the UK.
And there's a car in front of us.
[D] And Helen says to me, Bobby, where's [A] the Beatles?
I said,
I look [G] around the bus for cockroaches.
I don't know what the hell she was talking about.
Anyway, the bus [F#] stopped, the car stopped before guys got on.
They knew me.
[D] This was [C] 1963.
[B] And we shook hands, [G#] yada, yada, yada.
And they went their way.
And I figured, well,
it was just a band.
[C] They're gigging.
They're going to a club, doing this, that, the other thing.
Now it's 1964.
I'm home.
I'm watching the Ed Sullivan show [Bm] on TV.
All of a sudden, Ed introduces
the [B] Beatles.
And I went, I [D] looked at them.
I went, oh my God, I met those guys.
[E] This was [Gm] before they
became, you know, [A] the Beatles.
[E] [E] Really it is.
Yeah.
And I could kick myself in my rear because
what a great picture that would have been on the [G] bus with those four guys in the middle of the UK.
Yeah, but you got something, you know, Bobby, [E] I think you got something better when Paul McCartney
and their special.
Well, when he said that [A] he credited you [Bm] for what the yeah, yeah.
[E] Right.
That's basically what I understand.
[C#] And I always thought it was [D] like a song like we got love [E] or
swing in school with the yeah, yeah, yes.
But from what I understand when I recorded forget [F#] him,
forget him if he [D] doesn't love you.
And all of a sudden, you know,
Lennon and [F#] McCartney wrote, she loves you.
Yeah, yeah, [G] yeah.
So I believe he got it from
[D] the recording of forget him where I'm [A#] talking to my girl [D#] about, you know, forget that guy.
You know, I'm the one who really loves you.
And the Beatles, [C] they recorded she loves you.
Bobby Rydell released his [A] autobiography, Teen Idol on the Rocks, a tale of second chances a
[C] few years ago.
We'll have more of our conversation with Bobby [D] Rydell coming up next week.
Go to
[A] BobbyRydell.com for [C] tour dates.
I've been [Am] fascinated with [G] eras of music where I either
wasn't there [C] for or I was too young for or music before I was born.
[F#m] As I've said on this channel
many times, if [A] you're not if you're not happy with music, then go [D] backwards.
There's a lot of
stuff out there that you probably haven't heard.
[E] And years ago, I started digging into the year I
was born 1960.
Then [A] I went back to 59.
[E] Then I went to the 40s because I was [Gm] curious on the music
[G] that maybe [A] I was a little ignorant towards.
[E] I got really hungry.
Sure, [G] I'm a rocker first,
but I wanted to know what else was out [A] there.
Most of our Bobby Rydell videos will go on our
[D] sister channel, [A] NailSheet.com, which is more of an entertainment channel in [Em] general,
and Rock History Canada, where we talk [G] about Canadian artists or artists talking about
[D] Canadian artists like [C#m] Bobby Rydell talking about Justin Bieber or [G] Paul Anka.
Make sure you [E] comment
on our video, subscribe to our channel, and share our videos.
I'm John Vodun from Rock History Music.
[Em] [G] [D]
[Em]
[G]
The Beatles.
[D] I'm John Bowden from Rock History Music.
[E]
Whenever I do interviews with [G] artists, especially artists from the ilk of Bobby Rydell,
who really had hits before I was born.
As a matter of [A] fact, the year I was born, 1960,
he had the 11th biggest song [E] with Wild One.
Also, there was Valare.
There were 19 [G] hits
on the top 40 charts for Bobby Rydell.
[F#] Whenever I do an interview, it's always a question of [A] me
trying to get the artist to bring me someplace [C] I've never been.
And there are a lot of those
moments for Bobby Rydell.
[E] Like [A] meeting the Beatles before they [C] were huge.
They were big in 63,
but [G] Beatlemania, [A] the thrust of it hadn't [C] happened yet.
We're going to share a story about Bobby
Rydell getting the [Bm] ultimate drum kit from his father as a surprise.
[A] Because Bobby was a drummer
first [D] and still is a drummer.
And then him realizing that [Em] he might have had a similar
[G] drum kit to Ringo [D] Starr.
And [A] then, and wait for it, [E] him meeting a band who, well, he didn't [G] know
who they were at the time.
[D] The Beatles.
[G#] I love hearing about your dad had a
settlement and you bought that Black Oyster Pearl Ludwig set.
[E] Oh, yeah, right.
Yeah.
I mean, my first set of drums, it was, it came [E] from a pawn shop
[D#] and it [D] was called Revere Drums.
I mean, not the [E] greatest drums in the world,
but at least they were a drum [G] set and I could bang around on them.
[G] And my father worked for
a place called the Electro Knight Carving Company.
He was a punch press guy and he lost part of his
middle finger.
And from that, he got a bonus, like $3,000 or something, which was back then,
you know, extraordinary money.
But he [G#] had the money.
He knew how much I wanted, you know,
a real [G] good set of drums.
And we went to a place called 8th Street Music Sales.
And I see up there
[D] set of William F.
Ludwig WFL Black Oyster Pearl.
I said, wow, I said, I'd like that.
And to this day, I think I still have the receipt of the [N] drums.
And I think it was something like
$500.
You couldn't touch that set today for $3,000.
Matter of fact, that was [Bm] Ringo's first set.
[N]
WFL, William F.
Ludwig Black Oyster Pearl.
And every time I used to see him, I used to,
I had those drums before you, man, when I was like [E] 15 years old.
Well, that's a good segue.
The fact that you were [F#] on that bus that time, the bus was stopped.
I [G] guess you thought it was Brian Epstein who stopped the bus and all [A] of a sudden,
[D]
it was the Beatles.
[A] Yeah, I was touring [F#] there.
[G] Matter of fact, Ann-Margret and I were there for the premiere of
the command performance, Bye Bye Birdie, for the Royal Family.
While there, I met Tony [D] Hatch,
who wrote a song for me called Forget Him, which was my third million seller.
[E] And then I toured
with a young lady by the name of Helen Shapiro, really, really fine female [D] singer in the UK.
[G] And we're traveling on a bus and it's like, oh, 10, 11 o'clock at night in the middle of the UK.
And there's a car in front of us.
[D] And Helen says to me, Bobby, where's [A] the Beatles?
I said,
I look [G] around the bus for cockroaches.
I don't know what the hell she was talking about.
Anyway, the bus [F#] stopped, the car stopped before guys got on.
They knew me.
[D] This was [C] 1963.
[B] And we shook hands, [G#] yada, yada, yada.
And they went their way.
And I figured, well,
it was just a band.
[C] They're gigging.
They're going to a club, doing this, that, the other thing.
Now it's 1964.
I'm home.
I'm watching the Ed Sullivan show [Bm] on TV.
All of a sudden, Ed introduces
the [B] Beatles.
And I went, I [D] looked at them.
I went, oh my God, I met those guys.
[E] This was [Gm] before they
became, you know, [A] the Beatles.
[E] [E] Really it is.
Yeah.
And I could kick myself in my rear because
what a great picture that would have been on the [G] bus with those four guys in the middle of the UK.
Yeah, but you got something, you know, Bobby, [E] I think you got something better when Paul McCartney
and their special.
Well, when he said that [A] he credited you [Bm] for what the yeah, yeah.
[E] Right.
That's basically what I understand.
[C#] And I always thought it was [D] like a song like we got love [E] or
swing in school with the yeah, yeah, yes.
But from what I understand when I recorded forget [F#] him,
forget him if he [D] doesn't love you.
And all of a sudden, you know,
Lennon and [F#] McCartney wrote, she loves you.
Yeah, yeah, [G] yeah.
So I believe he got it from
[D] the recording of forget him where I'm [A#] talking to my girl [D#] about, you know, forget that guy.
You know, I'm the one who really loves you.
And the Beatles, [C] they recorded she loves you.
Bobby Rydell released his [A] autobiography, Teen Idol on the Rocks, a tale of second chances a
[C] few years ago.
We'll have more of our conversation with Bobby [D] Rydell coming up next week.
Go to
[A] BobbyRydell.com for [C] tour dates.
I've been [Am] fascinated with [G] eras of music where I either
wasn't there [C] for or I was too young for or music before I was born.
[F#m] As I've said on this channel
many times, if [A] you're not if you're not happy with music, then go [D] backwards.
There's a lot of
stuff out there that you probably haven't heard.
[E] And years ago, I started digging into the year I
was born 1960.
Then [A] I went back to 59.
[E] Then I went to the 40s because I was [Gm] curious on the music
[G] that maybe [A] I was a little ignorant towards.
[E] I got really hungry.
Sure, [G] I'm a rocker first,
but I wanted to know what else was out [A] there.
Most of our Bobby Rydell videos will go on our
[D] sister channel, [A] NailSheet.com, which is more of an entertainment channel in [Em] general,
and Rock History Canada, where we talk [G] about Canadian artists or artists talking about
[D] Canadian artists like [C#m] Bobby Rydell talking about Justin Bieber or [G] Paul Anka.
Make sure you [E] comment
on our video, subscribe to our channel, and share our videos.
I'm John Vodun from Rock History Music.
[Em] [G] [D]
[Em]
[G]
Key:
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D
E
A
C
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Bobby Rydell looks back at meeting an up-and-coming band [G] in 1963.
The Beatles.
[D] I'm John Bowden from Rock History Music.
[E] _
_ Whenever I do interviews with [G] artists, especially artists from the ilk of Bobby Rydell,
who really had hits before I was born.
As a matter of [A] fact, the year I was born, 1960,
he had the 11th biggest song [E] with Wild One.
Also, there was Valare.
There were 19 [G] hits
on the top 40 charts for Bobby Rydell.
[F#] Whenever I do an interview, it's always a question of [A] me
trying to get the artist to bring me someplace [C] I've never been.
And there are a lot of those
moments for Bobby Rydell.
[E] Like [A] meeting the Beatles before they [C] were huge.
They were big in 63,
but [G] Beatlemania, [A] the thrust of it hadn't [C] happened yet.
We're going to share a story about Bobby
Rydell getting the [Bm] ultimate drum kit from his father as a surprise.
[A] Because Bobby was a drummer
first [D] and still is a drummer.
And then him realizing that [Em] he might have had a similar
[G] drum kit to Ringo [D] Starr.
And [A] then, and wait for it, [E] him meeting a band who, well, he didn't [G] know
who they were at the time.
[D] The Beatles.
[G#] I love hearing about your dad had a
settlement and you bought that Black Oyster Pearl Ludwig set.
[E] Oh, yeah, right.
Yeah.
I mean, my first set of drums, it was, it came [E] from a pawn shop
[D#] and it [D] was called Revere Drums.
I mean, not the [E] greatest drums in the world,
but at least they were a drum [G] set and I could bang around on them.
[G] And my father worked for
a place called the Electro Knight Carving Company.
He was a punch press guy and he lost part of his
middle finger.
And from that, he got a bonus, like $3,000 or something, which was back then,
you know, extraordinary money.
But he [G#] had the money.
He knew how much I wanted, you know,
a real [G] good set of drums.
And we went to a place called 8th Street Music Sales.
And I see up there
[D] set of William F.
Ludwig WFL Black Oyster Pearl.
I said, wow, I said, I'd like that.
And to this day, I think I still have the receipt of the [N] drums.
And I think it was something like
$500.
You couldn't touch that set today for $3,000.
Matter of fact, that was [Bm] Ringo's first set.
[N] _
WFL, William F.
Ludwig Black Oyster Pearl.
And every time I used to see him, I used to,
I _ had those drums before you, man, when I was like [E] 15 years old.
Well, that's a good segue.
The fact that you were [F#] on that bus that time, the bus was stopped.
I [G] guess you thought it was Brian Epstein who stopped the bus and all [A] of a sudden,
_ [D] _
it was the Beatles.
_ [A] Yeah, I was touring [F#] _ there.
[G] Matter of fact, Ann-Margret and I were there for the premiere of
the command performance, Bye Bye Birdie, for the Royal Family.
While there, I met Tony [D] Hatch,
who wrote a song for me called Forget Him, which was my third million seller.
[E] And then I toured
with a young lady by the name of Helen Shapiro, really, really fine female [D] singer in the UK.
[G] And we're traveling on a bus and it's like, oh, 10, 11 o'clock at night in the middle of the UK.
And there's a car in front of us.
[D] And Helen says to me, Bobby, where's [A] the Beatles?
I said,
I look [G] around the bus for cockroaches.
I don't know what the hell she was talking about.
Anyway, the bus [F#] stopped, the car stopped before guys got on.
They knew me.
[D] This was [C] 1963.
_ [B] And we shook hands, [G#] yada, yada, yada.
And they went their way.
And I figured, well,
it was just a band.
[C] They're gigging.
They're going to a club, doing this, that, the other thing.
Now it's 1964.
I'm home.
I'm watching the Ed Sullivan show [Bm] on TV.
All of a sudden, Ed introduces
the [B] Beatles.
And I went, I [D] looked at them.
I went, oh my God, I met those guys.
[E] This was [Gm] before they
became, you know, [A] the Beatles.
_ [E] _ _ [E] Really it is.
Yeah.
And I could kick myself in my rear because
what a great picture that would have been on the [G] bus with those four guys in the middle of the UK.
Yeah, but you got something, you know, Bobby, [E] I think you got something better when Paul McCartney
and their special.
Well, when he said that [A] he credited you [Bm] for what the yeah, yeah.
[E] Right.
That's basically what I understand.
[C#] And I always thought it was [D] like a song like we got love [E] or
swing in school with the yeah, yeah, yes.
But from what I understand when I recorded forget [F#] him,
forget him if he [D] doesn't love you.
And all of a sudden, you know,
Lennon and [F#] McCartney wrote, she loves you.
Yeah, yeah, [G] yeah.
So I believe he got it from
[D] the recording of forget him where I'm [A#] talking to my girl [D#] about, you know, forget that guy.
You know, I'm the one who really loves you.
And the Beatles, [C] they recorded she loves you.
Bobby Rydell released his [A] autobiography, Teen Idol on the Rocks, a tale of second chances a
[C] few years ago.
We'll have more of our conversation with Bobby [D] Rydell coming up next week.
Go to
[A] BobbyRydell.com for [C] tour dates.
I've been [Am] fascinated with [G] eras of music where I either
wasn't there [C] for or I was too young for or music before I was born.
[F#m] As I've said on this channel
many times, if [A] you're not if you're not happy with music, then go [D] backwards.
There's a lot of
stuff out there that you probably haven't heard.
[E] And years ago, I started digging into the year I
was born 1960.
Then [A] I went back to 59.
[E] Then I went to the 40s because I was [Gm] curious on the music
[G] that maybe [A] I was a little ignorant towards.
[E] I got really hungry.
Sure, [G] I'm a rocker first,
but I wanted to know what else was out [A] there.
Most of our Bobby Rydell videos will go on our
[D] sister channel, _ [A] NailSheet.com, which is more of an entertainment channel in [Em] general,
and Rock History Canada, where we talk [G] about Canadian artists or artists talking about
[D] Canadian artists like [C#m] Bobby Rydell talking about Justin Bieber or [G] Paul Anka.
Make sure you [E] comment
on our video, subscribe to our channel, and share our videos.
I'm John Vodun from Rock History Music.
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
The Beatles.
[D] I'm John Bowden from Rock History Music.
[E] _
_ Whenever I do interviews with [G] artists, especially artists from the ilk of Bobby Rydell,
who really had hits before I was born.
As a matter of [A] fact, the year I was born, 1960,
he had the 11th biggest song [E] with Wild One.
Also, there was Valare.
There were 19 [G] hits
on the top 40 charts for Bobby Rydell.
[F#] Whenever I do an interview, it's always a question of [A] me
trying to get the artist to bring me someplace [C] I've never been.
And there are a lot of those
moments for Bobby Rydell.
[E] Like [A] meeting the Beatles before they [C] were huge.
They were big in 63,
but [G] Beatlemania, [A] the thrust of it hadn't [C] happened yet.
We're going to share a story about Bobby
Rydell getting the [Bm] ultimate drum kit from his father as a surprise.
[A] Because Bobby was a drummer
first [D] and still is a drummer.
And then him realizing that [Em] he might have had a similar
[G] drum kit to Ringo [D] Starr.
And [A] then, and wait for it, [E] him meeting a band who, well, he didn't [G] know
who they were at the time.
[D] The Beatles.
[G#] I love hearing about your dad had a
settlement and you bought that Black Oyster Pearl Ludwig set.
[E] Oh, yeah, right.
Yeah.
I mean, my first set of drums, it was, it came [E] from a pawn shop
[D#] and it [D] was called Revere Drums.
I mean, not the [E] greatest drums in the world,
but at least they were a drum [G] set and I could bang around on them.
[G] And my father worked for
a place called the Electro Knight Carving Company.
He was a punch press guy and he lost part of his
middle finger.
And from that, he got a bonus, like $3,000 or something, which was back then,
you know, extraordinary money.
But he [G#] had the money.
He knew how much I wanted, you know,
a real [G] good set of drums.
And we went to a place called 8th Street Music Sales.
And I see up there
[D] set of William F.
Ludwig WFL Black Oyster Pearl.
I said, wow, I said, I'd like that.
And to this day, I think I still have the receipt of the [N] drums.
And I think it was something like
$500.
You couldn't touch that set today for $3,000.
Matter of fact, that was [Bm] Ringo's first set.
[N] _
WFL, William F.
Ludwig Black Oyster Pearl.
And every time I used to see him, I used to,
I _ had those drums before you, man, when I was like [E] 15 years old.
Well, that's a good segue.
The fact that you were [F#] on that bus that time, the bus was stopped.
I [G] guess you thought it was Brian Epstein who stopped the bus and all [A] of a sudden,
_ [D] _
it was the Beatles.
_ [A] Yeah, I was touring [F#] _ there.
[G] Matter of fact, Ann-Margret and I were there for the premiere of
the command performance, Bye Bye Birdie, for the Royal Family.
While there, I met Tony [D] Hatch,
who wrote a song for me called Forget Him, which was my third million seller.
[E] And then I toured
with a young lady by the name of Helen Shapiro, really, really fine female [D] singer in the UK.
[G] And we're traveling on a bus and it's like, oh, 10, 11 o'clock at night in the middle of the UK.
And there's a car in front of us.
[D] And Helen says to me, Bobby, where's [A] the Beatles?
I said,
I look [G] around the bus for cockroaches.
I don't know what the hell she was talking about.
Anyway, the bus [F#] stopped, the car stopped before guys got on.
They knew me.
[D] This was [C] 1963.
_ [B] And we shook hands, [G#] yada, yada, yada.
And they went their way.
And I figured, well,
it was just a band.
[C] They're gigging.
They're going to a club, doing this, that, the other thing.
Now it's 1964.
I'm home.
I'm watching the Ed Sullivan show [Bm] on TV.
All of a sudden, Ed introduces
the [B] Beatles.
And I went, I [D] looked at them.
I went, oh my God, I met those guys.
[E] This was [Gm] before they
became, you know, [A] the Beatles.
_ [E] _ _ [E] Really it is.
Yeah.
And I could kick myself in my rear because
what a great picture that would have been on the [G] bus with those four guys in the middle of the UK.
Yeah, but you got something, you know, Bobby, [E] I think you got something better when Paul McCartney
and their special.
Well, when he said that [A] he credited you [Bm] for what the yeah, yeah.
[E] Right.
That's basically what I understand.
[C#] And I always thought it was [D] like a song like we got love [E] or
swing in school with the yeah, yeah, yes.
But from what I understand when I recorded forget [F#] him,
forget him if he [D] doesn't love you.
And all of a sudden, you know,
Lennon and [F#] McCartney wrote, she loves you.
Yeah, yeah, [G] yeah.
So I believe he got it from
[D] the recording of forget him where I'm [A#] talking to my girl [D#] about, you know, forget that guy.
You know, I'm the one who really loves you.
And the Beatles, [C] they recorded she loves you.
Bobby Rydell released his [A] autobiography, Teen Idol on the Rocks, a tale of second chances a
[C] few years ago.
We'll have more of our conversation with Bobby [D] Rydell coming up next week.
Go to
[A] BobbyRydell.com for [C] tour dates.
I've been [Am] fascinated with [G] eras of music where I either
wasn't there [C] for or I was too young for or music before I was born.
[F#m] As I've said on this channel
many times, if [A] you're not if you're not happy with music, then go [D] backwards.
There's a lot of
stuff out there that you probably haven't heard.
[E] And years ago, I started digging into the year I
was born 1960.
Then [A] I went back to 59.
[E] Then I went to the 40s because I was [Gm] curious on the music
[G] that maybe [A] I was a little ignorant towards.
[E] I got really hungry.
Sure, [G] I'm a rocker first,
but I wanted to know what else was out [A] there.
Most of our Bobby Rydell videos will go on our
[D] sister channel, _ [A] NailSheet.com, which is more of an entertainment channel in [Em] general,
and Rock History Canada, where we talk [G] about Canadian artists or artists talking about
[D] Canadian artists like [C#m] Bobby Rydell talking about Justin Bieber or [G] Paul Anka.
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