My kids' band

21 Jun 99 - 11:58 PM (#88575)
Subject: My kids' band
From: [e-mail]

I wanted them to sing and play, so I started early in their lives exposing them to music. Well, it sorta worked. They love music, but not the kind I dote on.

They have an all-girl punk band and they want to do Johnny Angel. Can one of you steer me in the right direction for lyrics and tablature? "SameDayService" would be grateful.

Nancy

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22 Jun 99 - 12:26 AM (#88581)
Subject: Johnny Angel
From: Joe Offer

Gee, Nancy, you're lucky. My kids are in their 20's and insist on singing only what they've written themselves. Much of it is cruder than what their father would like to hear, and sometimes it's hard to act "supportive."
don't have the tab, but here are the lyrics.
-Joe Offer-

Johnny Angel

- Artist: Shelly Fabares as sung on "The Best Of Shelley Fabares"
Rhino R2 71651
- peak Billboard position # 1 for 2 weeks in 1962
- Words and Music by Lee Pockriss and Lyn Duddy

(Johnny Angel, Johnny Angel, Johnny Angel, Johnny Angel)
You're an angel to me

Johnny Angel, how I love him
He's got something that I can't resist
But he doesn't even know that I-I-I exist

Johnny Angel, how I want him
How I tingle when he passes by
Every time he says "Hello" my heart begins to fly

CHORUS
(I'm in heaven) I get carried away
I dream of him and me and how it's gonna be
(Other fellas) call me up for a date
But I just sit and wait, I'd rather concentrate

On Johnny Angel (Johnny Angel)
'cause I love him ('cause I love him)
And I pray that someday he'll love me
And together we will see how lovely heaven will be

REPEAT CHORUS AND LAST VERSE

(Johnny Angel, Johnny Angel)
Johnny Angel, (Johnny Angel), you're an angel to me

(Johnny Angel, Johnny Angel)
Johnny Angel, (Johnny Angel), you're an angel to me

FADE

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22 Jun 99 - 02:17 PM (#88729)
Subject: RE: My kids' band
From: Richard Bridge

My daughter's band does mostly self-written stuff and it's finger-lickin' good although it takes a careful ear to hear the folk underpinnings. They are doing an unplugged set at the Hardcore Troubadour (a folk club) in Rochester, Kent, on the 21st July. She originates most of it and the guitarist sort of arranges it and the drummer and bassist add their twopennorth. She's just 17 and none of them are 20 yet. Website www.torniquet.freeserve.co.uk. Email to that site is not working at the moment. No MP3s up there yet but give it a month or three.

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24 Jun 99 - 08:46 PM (#89500)
Subject: RE: My kids' band
From: [e-mail]

Joe!

Thanks much for the lyrics and tab. I sat at the computer last night, smiling and reading the lyrics to myself. Maggie came into the room and I remarked, "You know, I don't really remember the tune to the chorus." She said, "How does it start?" and I read the first line. She began to sing and it was perfect. "How do you know it?" I asked. She had no answer other than she just did (know the words and tune) and why was that so surprising?

It amazes me that she can sing Johnny Angel, a song written before she was even a twinkle in my eye and in the next breath, laugh her way through a song called "My Neighbor is a Raver" made popular last week. Music truely is the language of the gods.

Thanks for listening/reading!

Nancy

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