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