Chords for ONE HIT WONDERS (PART ONE)

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_ [A] _ [D] _ _ Ladies and [A] gentlemen, we [D] give you that unique band of artists who had [Am] one number one hit song and [F] were never heard from [E] ever [D] again.
_ [F] Until [A] now. _
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[Ab] Where [N] do old pop records go when they die?
They're bagged up and buried here, at the Vinyl Resting Place, a collector's shop in the back streets of Croydon. _ _
[Eb] _ _ [G] Have you by [D] any chance got a [N] record called Tell Laura I Love Her by Ricky Harris?
Ah, yes.
_ _ _ And it's here where our journey through time begins, to exhume that rarest of pop cadavers, the one hit wonder.
[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Eb] _ _ [Bb] Suddenly _ [Eb] _ _
this voice said, [B] now we have a [Eb] new number one record this week, [F] Ricky Vallance's Tell Laura I Love Her.
And I felt a [Bb] thrill going right through me.
[Eb] This was probably the highlight of my [Bb] whole career.
Our first [Eb] song tells the rather grisly tale of Tommy, [Dm] who dies in a stock car [Eb] race.
It was the first ever number one song to be [F] banned by the BBC.
The establishment of the day was [Bb] dead set against anything to do with death.
There was this stigma almost attached to those kind of things.
[Cm] I need neither Tell [Bb] Laura I may be late
[Cm] I've something to do that [Bb] cannot wait
The merry White Houses of the day were very keen to ban [Eb] those kind of records
because [Bb] they felt [Eb] that it encouraged the teenagers [Dm] to go out [Eb] and do something rash, like crash [F] their car.
_ _ [N] [Fm] Nobody was killed, [Bb] nobody will ever know.
No one knows [Eb] what happened that day
[Bb] How his car [Eb] overturned in [Dm] flames
But as they poured out
But one [Eb] hit clearly wasn't enough for Ricky.
In [F] 1962 he delivered another one, right on Charlie Chester's son's [Bb] chin.
He was arrested for assault.
I was doing a show at Great Yarmouth.
As I was about to go [Cm] on stage, I suddenly felt a hand on my shoulder.
[Bb] And lo and behold, it was a couple of Scotland [Cm] Yard detectives.
In those days, unlike [N] today, any kind of scandal was frowned upon.
And so consequently [F] it was blown up and used as much as possible to ruin my career. _ _
[Bb] Tell Laura I love her
Tell [Cm] Laura I_
But Ricky has a bone to pick with his critics.
They're very quick [Bb] to point the finger.
It's almost [Cm] like saying, well you only had one major hit.
I always feel like, [Bb] well I'm terribly sorry about that.
Can I put it in writing?
What have you done with your life?
Tell Laura I love her
Tell Laura I need _ [Eb] [Bb] her
[N] What about 1967?
[G] What happened to Flower Power?
It came, it went, and it [Em] wilted very hard indeed.
If [C] you're going [Em] to San [D] Francisco _
[Em] _ _ [C] Be sure to wear_
[G] No, this isn't last year's Glastonbury.
[D] This, my friends, is the original Summer of [Em] Love.
And this pop ballad by Scott [G] McKenzie made San Francisco the place to be.
Why, [C] even Michael Parkinson was [G] there.
These are the hippies, America's newest, most [Bm] criticized minority group.
[Em] Beautiful People is their own description.
[D] It's not mine, nor I venture the description that anyone with 20 [Em]-20 vision would give them.
[C] We can't name it, because if we name [G] it, we limit it, and if we limit it, we [D] lose it.
Sure, you get the [Em] light let, so you get the light let and keep it going.
[C] Now! _
[G] I will be a robin [D] _ [Em] there _
In [G] the streets [C] of San [G] Francisco
So let's have a little discussion now on Flower Power for some very, shall we say, rather important people.
Flower, well, it's made everything smell nice, I suppose.
[N] I'd just like to give a pound to someone who could stand up and explain to me, I am the walrus by the Beatles.
I think Scott McKenzie was just a pretty record which was talking [G] about San Francisco.
Which all the journalists and everyone said, oh, well, this is what it's [D] all about.
Well, I don't know, because I never went there.
Oh, child, [Em] _
for those [Am] who [C] come [Em] to San [D] Francisco
[Gm] I am the God of Hellfire, [E] and I bring [N] you _ _
_ [Fm] Fire _ _ _ _
[Eb] The elusive Arthur [Ab] Brown, anti-Christ, carpenter and house painter, owes it all [Cm] to some [Fm] devilish DIY.
[Cm] It was actually [Fm] candles that I found [Gm] on [Fm] this crown.
It was a great effect, it was [Eb] like three or [Bb] four foot high of these flames.
[Gm] _ [Fm] [Ab] Then that [N] broke, so I had a vegetable colander, but the wax from the candles used to attach my hair to the colander.
So we hit on the idea of having a plate with a [D] strap around, [Ab] and I filled it with gasoline.
The only problem was it wasn't very stable, [G] so it [C] occasionally would fall on my clothes and set [Fm] me on fire.
Fire
_ [Eb] _ _ [Fm] _ _ [Cm] _ Like [Fm] any other legendary rock [Eb] god, Arthur [Fm] has his fair share of disciples.
Well, there's Alice Cooper.
[G] I mean, he could probably go on and on, Kiss.
[Ebm] Oh, yeah, [Em] to mention the modern ones, [Abm] Prodigy.
I'm a fire starter, so give me fire [Bm] starter, Arthur. _ _ _
[Fm] _ _ But back to the original fire starter.
[Cm] _ _
[D] And the man [Eb] who helped start Arthur's [Fm] fire was a bit of a rock god himself.
[Eb] Jimi Hendrix and I used to play together.
He would play bass and I would sing.
When fire came out, he took it around all the black stations, got them to play it.
And that was part of the reason why it [Bbm] was such a hit.
Now's the time to burn your mind, [Ebm] you falling hearts and [Eb] falling [Cm] minds.
I was the first rock singer [Ab] to front a band in the nude.
I [G] started a [Fm] riot and they had to stop the festival.
And I was put in jail.
[Eb] And [Fm] I started a prison [Eb] riot.
[Fm] Never mind the riots, tell us about the DIY Arthur.
[E] So I became a carpenter, [Fm] built oak [Em] stairs and things, and then had a [Fm] house painting company
with [Gb] the drummer for the Mothers of [G] Invention, Jimmy Carl Black.
[Fm] And we [Eb] were called the Gentleman of [Fm] Color. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Cm] I began to believe that I had a mission.
And that was [Fm] to break [Eb] open a human [Fm] psyche. _
[Eb] And so I did.
[Fm] _ _ [Eb] [F] Including my own.
[Eb] _ _ [Fm] _ _ _ _ [N]
Another sizzling song erupted in the year Soisson Neuf
when French actress Jane Birkin and her boyfriend Serge Gainsborough
climaxed with this little number.
Oh _ [Em] _
_ [Fm] _ [C] _ _ [F] _ _ [G] _ _
[Dm] _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ _
[Dm] mon [C] amour
_ [F] Comme une [G] vague Oui, [F] _ [Em] celui
_ _ _ [G] _ [F] _
[G] _ [C] Je baisse et je reviens
[F] Je _
_ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ [G] [C] baisse et je [Am] reviens
[F] Entre tes [Dm] bras
[Em] Et je [F] me gauche [G] le tien
Je [F] t'aime
[C] _ _ [F] Oui, je [G] t'aime
[Dm] Oh _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ _
[Dm] mon [C] amour
[F] Tu vas la [G] voir _
[F] _ [Em] Il est venu
_ _ [G] _ _
Tu vas
[C] Tu vas le tuer [Eb] Yeah
[G] Oh, it was just [C] getting to the good bit.
But back then the Beeb decreed that we should listen to this instrumental [G] version instead.
[Am] Ah, _ [F] _ _ [G] not quite the same,