Fascinatin' Rhythm

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Count Basie

William "Count" Basie (August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984) was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer. His mother first taught him piano and he started performing in his teens. Dropping out of school, he learned to operate lights for vaudeville and improvised to accompany silent films at a local theatre in his town of Red Bank, New Jersey. By 16, he increasingly played jazz piano at parties, resorts and other venues. In 1924, he went to Harlem, where his performing career expanded; he toured with groups to the major jazz cities of Chicago, St. Louis and Kansas City. In 1929 he joined Bennie Moten's band in Kansas City, and played with them until Moten's death in 1935. more »

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1990

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Got a little rhythm, a rhythm, a rhythm 
That pit-a-pats through my brain
So darn persistent
The day isn't distant 
When it'll drive me insane

Comes in the morning 
Without any warning
And hangs around me all day
I'll have to sneak up to it 
Someday, and speak up to it
I hope it listens when I say
 
Fascinating rhythm
You've got me on the go
Fascinating rhythm
I'm all a-quiver

When a mess you're making
The neighbors want to know
Why I'm always shaking 
Just like a flivver

Each morning I get up with the sun
Start a-hopping
Never stopping
To find at night no work has been done

I know that 
Once it didn't matter
But now you're doing wrong
When you start to patter

I'm so unhappy
Won't you take a day off? 
Decide to run along 
Somewhere far away off

And make it snappy
Oh, how I long to be the man I used to be
Fascinating rhythm
Oh, won't you stop picking on me?

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