Chords for Leon Russell Stories

_ _ _ _ _ _ Can you name the piano player in all of these songs? _ _ _ _ _
[A#] What is it?
Gentle [D#] on my mind
Little [C#m] old lady
[A] Wish they [Bm] all could be in [B] California [A] In Calgary
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[F#m] When I was playing as a side man, I kept my mouth [D] shut.
I didn't say [G] anything to anybody about anything
unless I happened to know [G#] the arranger or the producer,
[G] then I'd say something if I had an [A] idea.
But normally I didn't know anybody,
[D#] and I just kept my [Cm] mouth shut.
He had that magic touch on the piano.
I don't know what you'd call [C] down-home,
southern-style piano playing that he did.
It was [C] magnificent.
I was so taken with Al Delore and his capability.
And he put Al, later on he put Al playing electric piano,
which was just a fill kind of,
I mean, just something to fill up the sound,
with Leon Russell playing [F#] the acoustic piano.
[D#m] And I said, gee, you know, I thought Al [A#m] was great.
And he says, no, Leon Russell, man, he's got hands.
He can [C#] reach octaves with his, [F#] you can't beat that.
I [G] figured out early on that if I wanted to be heard on the record,
I had to play [C] high.
[Cm] So I always played high,
[C] and all those high parts on [Cm] those Phil records, it's me.
I did that so I could be heard.
If [C] you don't do that, you get lost [C#m] in [N] the wall, so to speak.
Leon never said boo to anybody, you know,
he'd just come in, play his piano.
And so one day he came to work completely drunk,
I mean, so drunk, so drunk,
and he went in and he sat down at the piano,
and he and, who was playing next to him, Don Randy, I think.
And everybody, I mean, he was actually talking, he never spoke.
And everybody was like coming in, did you see Leon?
And so everybody was like just looking at him,
and he was being really funny too, because I never heard him say a word.
So Philip was like totally knocked out,
but then finally he wanted the session to begin, you know,
and Leon was just doing all this kind of crazy stuff.
And so Philip said, you know, Leon, have you ever heard of the word respect?
And Leon jumped up on the table, on the piano, and he said,
Philip, have you ever heard of the word fuck you?
And everybody, I mean, that was, I mean,
they couldn't get it together for half an hour.
People were like dying on the floor, I mean, tears rolling in the studio,
because it was just, it was one of those, you know,
the weirdest thing you ever saw.
The story, the way Cher told it, the Felspector story,
that's absolutely accurate.
First of all, Tommy was there that day that I did that horrible drunk bonanza
on top of the piano at Felspector.
The next day Tommy came over to my apartment and said,
Leon, I want you to go on the road and preach.
I'll pay for the whole thing.
I'll buy the buses, I'll buy the trucks, I'll pay for every dime of expenses,
and you just give me a percentage back [Em] to pay me back.
We were on this date with Glen Campbell, and they brought Leon in,
and I'll never forget, and Leon panicked.
He was sitting there, and Glen says,
Leon, just play that shit you did in Oklahoma.
He says, they don't know nothing here.
So Leon played Leon Russell, and all of a sudden,
they don't know nothing, that was his style, that's what they loved,
and that's what he did from there on in.
I'd play those sessions.
We'd play tracks, and we have chord sheets, so we'd play the tracks.
Sometimes we'd play them 10 times before we ever heard the melody,
heard [Am] the singer.
Just out of boredom, [C] I'd write songs to [G] those tracks as they was going by.
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