Huey Lewis & the News: Four Chords & Several Years Ago

<v Narrator>Coming up, a look back at the golden age of Rock <v Narrator>with Huey Lewis and The News. [clapping] <v Huey Lewis>And she's gonna say, that it's alright. <v Huey Lewis>They say it's alright. <v Huey Lewis>It's alright. <v Huey Lewis>Have a good time, cause it's alright. <v Huey Lewis>Oh, it's alright. Everybody clap your hands. <v Huey Lewis>Give yourself a chance. <v Huey Lewis>'cause you got soul, everybody knows that it's alright. <v Huey Lewis>Oh, it's alright. <v Huey Lewis>You got soul, and eveybody knows that it's alright? <v All>Oh, it's alright.

<v Narrator>Tonight from Chicago. <v Narrator>Four chords and several years ago. <v Narrator>A look back at the Golden Age of Rock starring Huey Lewis and The News. <v Narrator>With special guest stars from Sam and Dave, the great Sam Moore and Mr. <v Narrator>Personality himself, Lloyd Bryce. <v Narrator>Funding for this program is made possible by the annual financial support of viewers <v Narrator>like you. <v Narrator>[clapping]. <v Huey Lewis and The News>[Singing The heart of rock and roll]

<v Huey Lewis>It's great to be here, especially to be here in Chicago.

<v Huey Lewis>A city with such a great musical heritage. <v Huey Lewis>Lots of little rhythm and blues artists and blues people came from this town and <v Huey Lewis>we've been known to pay tribute to that early period of rock and roll and rhythm and <v Huey Lewis>blues ourselves. <v Huey Lewis>And now that we're playing some of these songs live, it's it's odd, <v Huey Lewis>but it's it's very kind of magical in a way. <v Huey Lewis>It's we feel almost transformed back to an earlier <v Huey Lewis>period, a simpler period, a time when the night was clear <v Huey Lewis>and the moon was yellow. <v Huey Lewis and The News>[Singing Stagger Lee] <v Huey Lewis>This period that we paid tribute to is is one of the most important

<v Huey Lewis>periods in American popular music and very little known actually. <v Huey Lewis>The 50s is known quite well, the beginnings of rock 'n' roll. <v Huey Lewis>But the early 60s, not so much the early period of rhythm and blues where most <v Huey Lewis>of these records are cut in the south, in places like Birmingham, Alabama. <v Huey Lewis>Memphis, Tennessee. You know, Muscle Shoals. <v Huey Lewis>And by black and white people together, fully integrated sessions, integrated <v Huey Lewis>writers, producers, performers of this music in a segregated society. <v Huey Lewis>And I mean, arguably today and a much more integrated society, music became more <v Huey Lewis>segregated. <v Huey Lewis and The News>I don't need a whole lots 'a money, I don't need a big, fine car. <v Huey Lewis and The News>I got everything that a man could want, I got more than I could ask for. <v Huey Lewis and The News>See, i don't have to run around, i don't have to stay out all night. <v Huey Lewis and The News>'Cause I got me a sweet, a sweet lovin' woman and she knows how to treat me right. <v Huey Lewis and The News>Well my baby, shes's alright. Well my baby, shes's clean out of sight, don't you know that. <v Huey Lewis and The News>She's some kind of wonderful. <v Huey Lewis and The News>Some kind of wonderful. <v Huey Lewis and The News>Yes she is.

<v Huey Lewis and The News>When I hold her in my arms, She sets my soul on fire. <v Huey Lewis and The News>Oh, when my baby kisses me. <v Huey Lewis and The News>My heart becomes filled with desire, when she wraps her loving arms around me it about tires me out of my mind. <v Huey Lewis and The News>When my baby kisses me chills run up and down my spine, well my baby she's alright, she's clean out of sight. <v Huey Lewis and The News>Don't you know that she's some kind of wonderful <v Huey Lewis and The News>Some kind of wonderful. Yes she is.

<v Huey Lewis>Some of my favorite performers got to where they were by breaking the rules <v Huey Lewis>and that's alright with me. <v Huey Lewis>Sam and Dave were two of the best rule breakers I ever knew. <v Huey Lewis>You weren't supposed to be able to make a stage come alive the way they did.

<v Huey Lewis>There was no follow these two guys. <v Huey Lewis>And it's an honor to share the stage. <v Huey Lewis>Would you give me them big hand, please? The legendary Sam Moore, right here. <v Speaker>[Clapping]

<v Huey Lewis and The News>[Humming]

<v Huey Lewis>Since, since we're here in Chicago.

<v Huey Lewis>It wouldn't it wouldn't be right not to play a little blues, <v Huey Lewis>to pay tribute to a lot of the blues masters who come from right here <v Huey Lewis>in Chicago, guys like Muddy Waters, Howlin Wolf, Jimmy Reed, <v Huey Lewis>Junior Wells, James Cagney and a whole bunch others. <v Huey Lewis>Paul Butterfield Blues Band. <v Huey Lewis>And we'd like to do a little Sonny Boy thing for you called Good Morning Little <v Huey Lewis>Schoolgirl. <v Huey Lewis and The News>[Singing Good Morning little school girl] <v Huey Lewis>A real key to this whole thing has been my band who have just

<v Huey Lewis>taken to this stuff like ducks to water. <v Huey Lewis>You know, it it seemed to suit us real well. <v Huey Lewis>We were when we started working this stuff up. <v Huey Lewis>We amazed ourselves as we go back around the other side of speakers and <v Huey Lewis>really sounded so natural and so good. <v Huey Lewis>And I think that's to their credit. You know, we come from obviously <v Huey Lewis>we've been around a while, so well, we remember this stuff, but we some <v Huey Lewis>of the guys in the band hadn't really played it all that much. <v Huey Lewis>And they just did a fantastic job. <v Huey Lewis and The News>[Singing Shake, Rattle and Roll]

<v Huey Lewis and The News>[Singing searching for my love]

<v Huey Lewis>Now, then, some songs defy time and some performers defy time also.

<v Huey Lewis>My good friend Lloyd Price fits both categories. <v Huey Lewis>Songs like Stagger Lee, Personality will be classics for years <v Huey Lewis>to come. It's a privilege to share the stage with him, an honor, in fact, <v Huey Lewis>please a big hand. The great Lloyd Price. <v Huey Lewis>[clapping]

<v Huey Lewis>Can I do one with you? <v Speaker>Why not?

<v Speaker>[Singing Just Because]. <v Speaker>Enough <v Speaker>fooling around, let's rock. [Singing The Power of love]. <v Speaker> [Singing I want a new drug]

<v Speaker>[Singing Function at the junction]

<v Speaker>[Singing But it's alright]

<v Speaker>[Singing]