Rock And Roll Music
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Original Album
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15 Big Ones
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Single
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Rock And Roll Music / TM Song
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Written By
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Chuck Berry
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Produced By
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Brian Wilson
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Lead Vocals
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Mike
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Recorded On
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sometime Jan-May, 1976
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Length
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2:33
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Notes
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- A fairly tepid reading of the Chuck Berry standard kicks off "15 Big Ones." Hyped as the "Brian is back" album, after three years of no studio albums by the Beach Boys, this song and album both reached top 10, which was a major comeback after the recent chart success of the Beach Boys. However, the album only had 7 original compositions, of which 5 involved Brian, and helped stereotype the Beach Boys as an oldies act.
- Lyrics
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Just let me hear some of that rock and roll music
Any old way you choose it
It's got a backbeat you can't lose it
Any old time you use it
It's gotta be rock and roll music
If you wanna dance with me
If you wanna dance with me
I have no kicks against modern jazz
Unless they try to play it too darned fast
And change the beauty of the melody
Until it sound just like a symphony
That's why I go for that rock and roll music
Any old way you choose it
It's got a backbeat you can't lose it
Any old time you use it
It's gotta be rock and roll music
If you wanna dance with me
If you wanna dance with me
I took my loved one over 'cross the tracks
So she could hear my man a-wailin' sax
I must admit they have a rockin' band
Man they was blowing like a hurricane
That's why I go for that rock and roll music
Any old way you choose it
It's got a backbeat you can't lose it
Any old time you use it
It's gotta be rock and roll music
If you wanna dance with me
If you wanna dance with me
Way down south they gave a jubilee
I tell you folks they had a jamboree
And drinking beer from a wooden cup
The folks a-dancin' got all shook up
They started playing that rock and roll music
Any old way you choose it
It's got a backbeat you can't lose it
Any old way you use it
It's gotta be rock and roll music
If you wanna dance with me
If you wanna dance with me
Say if you wanna dance with me
If you wanna dance with me
If you wanna dance with me
It's gotta be some of that
If you wanna dance with me
- Chords
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....................................................E
Just let me hear some of that rock and roll music any old way you choose it
..................A.......................................E
It's got a backbeat you can't lose it any old time you use it
........B......................................................................................E....B.......................................E
It's gotta be rock and roll music if you wanna dance with me, if you wanna dance with me
..........................................B..........................................................E
I have no kicks against modern jazz unless they try to play it too darned fast
......................................................A.................................................B
And change the beauty of the melody until it sound just like a symphony
.........................................E
That's why I go for that rock and roll music any old way you choose it
.................A........................................E
It's got a backbeat you can't lose it any old time you use it
........B......................................................................................E....B.......................................E
It's gotta be rock and roll music if you wanna dance with me, if you wanna dance with me
...............................................B.........................................................................E
I took my loved one over 'cross the tracks so she could hear my man a-wailin' sax
...........................................A....................................................................B
I must admit they have a rockin' band man they was blowing like a hurricane
..........................................E
That's why I go for that rock and roll music any old way you choose it
..................A........................................E
It's got a backbeat you can't lose it any old time you use it
........B......................................................................................E....B........................................E
It's gotta be rock and roll music if you wanna dance with me, if you wanna dance with me
..................................................B......................................................E
Way down south they gave a jubilee I tell you folks they had a jamboree
...............................................A......................................................B
And drinking beer from a wooden cup the folks a-dancin' got all shook up
.............................................E
They started playing that rock and roll music any old way you choose it
..................A.......................................E
It's got a backbeat you can't lose it any old way you use it
........B......................................................................................E.. B.........................................E
It's gotta be rock and roll music if you wanna dance with me, if you wanna dance with me
Chart prepared by Francis Greene