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Count Basie |
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Miscellaneous |
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Open The Door, Richard |
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Open the Door Richard |
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Count Basie and His Orchestra |
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Words by Dusty Fletcher and John Mason |
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Music by Jack McVea and Don Howell |
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Peaked at # 1 in 1947 and, true to the times, six OTHER versions also made the |
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Top 10 |
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Three Flames (#1); Dusty Fletcher (#3); Jack McVea (#3); the Charioteers (#6); |
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Louis Jordan (#6); and The Pied Pipers (#8) |
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Intro-conversations mingled in a crowded room |
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???? at the club tonight. Ole Richard went home early-he's got the key to the |
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house. I'm gonna knock on the door, see if I kin get in. |
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Open the door, Richard!! Ya see, Richard sleeps in the back room. It's kinda hard |
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to hear. |
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Maybe I better knock a little louder. |
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Open the door, Richard!! I don't think Richard heard me yet. Knock one more |
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time-let's see |
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what's gonna happen. |
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Richard, open the door, please. |
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SUNG: Open the door, Richard |
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Open the door and let me in |
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Open the door, Richard |
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Richard, why don't you open that door? |
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Richard, open the door, man-it's *co-hold* out here'n this air. Now look-there's that |
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old woman 'cross the street lookin' out the windah |
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(Who's that, Widow Sweet?) |
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That must be her sister, I guess. She wants to make SURE this is me. She's tryin' |
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to find out |
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what's happenin'. Yes, it's me and I'm late again! |
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(??, did you hear what the lady's sayin'?) |
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No, what is she sayin'? |
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(She said you sure look common out here'n the street.) |
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COMMON? Man, I got class I ain't never used yet. I'm gonna knock again- |
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Richard's got to get up. |
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Open the door, Richard!! Man, you got a key to the house? |
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(No, ??, I don't have a key. I DON'T have a key.) |
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Somebody's got to get in the house. We can't climb in the transit. |
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(Oh, I know he's in there.) |
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How YOU know he's in there? |
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(I can hear him breathin'.) |
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Ooooh, let's try it one more time! |
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Richard, open that door, man. Maybe Richard's gone. |
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SUNG: Open the door, Richard |
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Open the door and let me in |
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Open the door, Richard |
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Richard, why don't you open that door? |
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I know he's in there. |
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(how you know he's in there?) |
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Why, you got on the suit. |
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I know I got on the only suit. Ain't got but one suit between us. That's the |
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reason why I don't like to roooooom with nobody. |
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FADE |
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Richard, why don'tcha open the door, man? |
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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES: *cold."* |
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This entire song is done on an ad-lib basis and it varies WIDELY from other |
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versions, which were considerably funnier. "??" represents the names or |
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nicknames of the band members which I could not comprehend. Still it IS the |
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version that made #1. |