tell me about it......

Quoted from pc31

tell me about it......

a song written by Gene Vincent from 1956





Well Be Bop A Lula she's my baby
Be Bop A Lula I don't mean maybe
Be Bop A Lula she's my baby
Be Bop A Lula I don't mean maybe
Be Bop A Lula she's my baby doll, my baby doll, my baby doll.


Well, she's the gal in the red blue jeans
She's the queen of all the teens
She's the woman that I know
She's the woman that (scream) loves me so.
Be Bop A Lula she's my baby
Be Bop A Lula I don't mean maybe
Be Bop A Lula she's my baby doll, my baby doll, my baby doll.
(Let's rock)


Well, now she's the woman that's got that beat
She's the woman with the flyin' feet
She's the woman that walks around the store
She's the woman that yells (scream) more, more, more, more.
Be Bop A Lula she's my baby
Be Bop A Lula I don? mean maybe
Be Bop A Lula she's my baby doll, my baby doll, my baby doll.
(Let's rock again, now)


Well Be Bop A Lula she's my baby
Be Bop A Lula I don't mean maybe
Be Bop A Lula she's my baby
Be Bop A Lula I don't mean maybe
Be Bop A Lula she's my baby doll, my baby doll, my baby doll.

correct....step two identify the two men....

be quick or gene gets it.....

Quoted from pc31

correct....step two identify the two men....

Tony Sheridan left and Stuart Sutcliffe rights

From which Song on his Gravestone the Notes are.

Great pics!  But I don't know what is scarier: crazed Beatles going for Gene's throat or that odd-looking crew on the stairs.  

Poor, Vincent Eugene, sounds like he drank himself to death.  

And the song on the gravestone better be Be-Bop-a-Lula or somebody's got some 'splainin' to do.  

damn dirk....is it be bop a lula????
yeah gene coughed up his lungs on his mom and dads floor after a 3 day bender......

I've been listening to Gene and Eddie on a BBC recording.  It's great.  I like the Brit announcer asking so politely if Eddie has finished his hamburger and will do another number.  The girls asking for dedications are hilarious.

its a pity rock-a-billy never soared to the heights it so richly deserves after all blue suede shoes is a rock-a-billy tune....

Carl Perkins, Carl Perkins, Carl Perkins!  

You gotta love him.  Let's all get dixie-fried.  

It's a shame that by the late sixties he was relegated to Johnny Cash's touring band.  I've got a Dylan boot with Johnny with Carl on it.  They're playing Carl's versions of songs like Matchbox and Johnny is feeding Dylan the words, while Carl chugs along dutifully on guitar (playing some nice fills).  It's a shame no one said, "Hey, Carl, you sing a verse."

But Carl does play an awesome part on Boy Named Sue from Folsom Prison.  Johnny had an incredibly tight band at that point.

yeah johnny cash was the mess in the 60's......the man in black will never be replaced.

gene used to play other peoples songs during his show...he got alot of heat for that because sometimes the artist had not released them yet....

I'm surprised that in Lennon interview book (from right before his death), John doesn't mention Gene among his other "idols" like Buddy, Elvis, Carl, etc.  

Quoted from adamzero

But Carl does play an awesome part on Boy Named Sue from Folsom Prison.  Johnny had an incredibly tight band at that point.

What is the word that's bleeped out in that track? It's been bugging me for years!!!

i'm the dirty son of a b**** that named you sue......

Is that it? What a disappointment! LOL!

that song is what won him a billion fans....

Yeah - it's a great track - should've been a movie!

Why on earth bleep "b****" though? Maybe it's a strong word in the US, over here it's VERY mild!

because here in america,appearences are important to most.....nudity is taught to be a no no,cursing is wrong.....its the american puritain ethic.....they employ people just to be censors.i think that we are becoming a bunch of cry babies...if you look at someone wrong you are gonna get sued...but yet the average murderer here spends 7 years in jail.

So, all those people that the man in black was singing to are now free as an ex-jailbird then!

yeah and driving pick 'em up trucks and living in trailers on welfare and listening to johnny cash....lol

I doubt many rednecks are driving "pick 'em up trucks"--pickup trucks maybe. But I love "pick 'em up"--we need to write a country song using British lingo and pitch it to Keith Urban.  LOL

i can't believe there ain't a gene vincent forum nowheres......

check this be bop a lula midi out......you need a quicktime player to listen i think tho....http://hits.mididb.com/19580222/Vincent_Gene/Be_Bop_a_Lula.mid

I heard that midi file--it sounds a little odd, even grotesque.  Like R2D2 singing Be Bop A Lula.  Great find!

gene got a raw deal......

pertaining to be bop a lula beatles wises It's usually assumed that Horst Fascher is singing but it's in fact his brother Fred Fascher.
Horst sings on "Hallelujah I Love Her So" (according to Sulpy and Gottfridsson).

I've never heard that before ...   ... hard to know who was, ain't it? ... I'm going to compare both songs ... they always sounded as the same (drunk) voice to me ...  

i posted the sources after...this comes from the bootleg site....

even though his leg bothered him so much gene vincent still preformed....as seen here
http://youtube.com/watch?v=az9P3CIqYaw

looking better than the previous vid gene doing blue jean bop
http://youtube.com/watch_fulls.....20Vincent-RAI%201960

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/shows/lennon/multimedia/vincent.html
it's said that gene got inspiration from little lu lu for be bop a lula

Here's three versions of how "Be Bop A Lula" came to be. The song was supposedly based on a comic strip heroine called Little Lulu and Gene said he co-wrote it with fellow hospital patient Donald Graves. Then Sheriff Tex Davis, a local DJ, saw some potential in Gene and the weird song he sang and decided cut himself into the writing credits by buying Graves' rights to it for a mere $25. But, another story ignores Donald Graves completely and claims Gene and Sheriff Tex wrote the song together one afternoon while listening to a 78-prm recording of "You Can Bring Pearl with the Turn-Up Nose, But Don't Bring Lulu." A third version has Graves writing the song entirely on his own and selling to Gene for $50. The real story still remains in question. It is a fact, though, that Sherriff Tex Davis did sign a bewildered Gene Vincent to a management deal and later did co-write songs with Gene.