Be-Bop-a-Lula - Gene Vincent Cover - Jez Quayle Rock and Roll
Jan joined me on bass for this recording of Gene Vincent’s biggest selling single. Gene and his Blue Caps performed this song in the classic rock ’n’ roll movie, ’The Girl Can’t Help It’. My solos aren’t note for note what the great Cliff Gallup played, but they’re pretty close in places. We’ve transposed the song down from the original key of E to C.
’Be-Bop-a-Lula’ is credited to Gene Vincent and his manager, Bill “Sheriff Tex“ Davis. It originated in 1955, when Vincent was recuperating from a motorcycle accident at the US Naval Hospital in Portsmouth, Virginia. There, he met Donald Graves, who supposedly wrote the words to the song while Vincent wrote the tune. The song came to the attention of Davis, who allegedly bought out Graves’ rights to the song for some $50 (sources vary as to the exact amount), and had himself credited as the lyric writer. Davis claimed that he wrote the song with Gene Vincent after listening to the song “Don
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