| 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
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| 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.
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| 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. |
Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Open the Door, Richard, artist - Louis Jordan. Album song The Cool Jazz Movement, Vol. 42, in the genre Традиционный джаз