Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Open the Door Richard, artist - Count Basie. Album song Totally Count Basie, in the genre Традиционный джазDate of issue: 27.09.2012
Record label: Sector
Song language: English
Open the Door Richard |
| 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? |
| 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. |