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Bert Weedon OBE (born Herbert Maurice William Weedon on10 May 1920; died 20 April 2012) was an English guitarist and composer whose style of guitar playing was popular and influential during the 1950s and 1960s. He was the first British guitarist to have a hit record in the UK Singles Chart, in 1959, and his best-selling tutorial guides, Play in a Day, were a major influence on many leading musicians. He was born in East Ham, Essex, now Greater London. Read Full BioBert Weedon OBE (born Herbert Maurice William Weedon on10 May 1920; died 20 April 2012) was an English guitarist and composer whose style of guitar playing was popular and influential during the 1950s and 1960s. He was the first British guitarist to have a hit record in the UK Singles Chart, in 1959, and his best-selling tutorial guides, Play in a Day, were a major influence on many leading musicians. He was born in East Ham, Essex, now Greater London.

Weedon began learning the guitar at twelve. The first British guitarist in the UK Singles Chart, with "Guitar Boogie Shuffle" in 1959, he was an influence on many stars, including Eric Clapton, Brian May, Mike Oldfield, The Shadows and The Beatles.

As well as his hits and TV appearances at a crucial time in modern British music history, his best-known contribution to British guitar style is his tutorial guide Play in a Day, which many stars claim was a major influence on their learning and playing.

His playing style focuses on both rhythm and melody, and is itself influenced by the jazz guitarists of the 1950s, notably Les Paul. Weedon placed a lot of emphasis on control of tone, and wanted to make the guitar the star of his music.

The later 1960s generation of underground rock performers satirised him as too mainstream, the Bonzo Dog Band singing the line "We are normal and we dig Bert Weedon" in 1968.

Married to Maggie Weedon, he has two sons, Lionel and Geoffrey, and nine grandchildren.

A Water Rat, he is highly active in charity work and fundraising, especially for children and the disabled, and was elected King Rat in 1992. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2001 for his services to entertainment and charities.

His playing style is best known nowadays through the music of The Shadows, especially Hank Marvin.

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Guitar Boogie Shuffle
Bert Weedon Lyrics

Aerosmith
Box Of Fire
Rockin' Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu
I wanna jump but i'm afraid i'll fall
I wanna holler but the jones' too small
Young man really got the hold to it too
I got the rockin' pneumonia and the boogie woogie flu

Want some lovin', baby, that ain't all
I wanna kiss her but the girl's too tall
Young man really got a hold on it too
I got the rockin' pneumonia and the boogie woogie flu

I wanna scream, i want you all to know
I would be runnin' but my feets are too slow
Young man really got a hold on it too
I got the rockin' pneumonia and the boogie woogie flu

Baby callin' me now hurry home
I know she's leavin' 'cause i'm takin' too long
Young man really got a hold on it too
I got the rockin' pneumonia and joe perry too, oh

Want some lovin', baby' that ain't all
I wanna kiss her but the girl's too tall
Young man really got a hold on it too
I got the rockin' pneumonia and the boogie woogie flu

I wanna scream, i wanna scream
Young man really got a hold on it too
I got the rockin' pneumonia, what's the matter with you?

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sharon thompson

10y↑20

R I P Bert - a true genius on the guitar.

Младен Станковић

29w

He is now in better place

Francesco Alcozer

2y↑1

R.I.P. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EagzyK8s9CI LOST FRIEND Song dedicated to friends who leave this world.

Wayne Shaughnessy

31w↑2

Love that “rich” guitar sound, especially in Bert’s rendition of Bewitched. Wayne.

John Miller

10y↑10

The reason many of our top guitarists picked up a guitar in the first place. RIP Bert.

philip 187

5y↑12

you cannot beat the old stuff

Michael Kent

10y↑1

Brilliant stuff. Beyond the effortless virtuosity, love the guitar sound.

Peter Ellis

3y↑2

I bought this in 1959 and I have never stopped loving it. I think it was the best Bert ever did. He taught them all.

saddercrazyoyster

10y↑11

so many of the best guitarists learnt from Bert :-(

Andy S

5y↑2

I still have his learn to play guitar in a day book....bless the guy....!!!!!

parsons3114

2y↑1

Bert's book "Play in a day" started me learning the guitar when I was 11. He did a show on a Sunday lunchtime at The Raleigh Club here in Bristol in 1960, and I got to meet and talk with him after the show. He was responsible for a lot of us to take up learning the guitar. Great guy and always pleasant. Admired by the music business, and many others. Good on ya Bert.

jrgboy

3y↑4

Bert 'ghosted' many hit singles in the 50s/60's as a session lead guitarist..

Rod Alexander

3y↑1

I met Bert at a Music Exhibition at Olympia...what a lovely genuine guy!!

Michael McNeillie

6y↑18

This puts any other version of this tune in the shade including the awful Ventures, Bert Weeedon was probably the main inspiration to all those that followed, a genuis like no other Period!!!!

bhollyfan hardin

just a massive ripoff of the version by the Virtues.....you british were guilty of doing that alot and then trying to say you created it or did the best version of it. but it was/is always something you ripped off from the great american players.......the real originals and always the best.

bhollyfan hardin

Dream on moron.............this is mediocre at best and that is being kind/generous...........

Ricky Spanish

3y↑1

@alan sturgess i secondly second this mans second

alan sturgess

and I second your second - my first guitar hero and I still have pretty well every LP and CD he released. Since those heady days of my early youth there have been countless others to admire and learn from, but Bert was the first and still remains a top favourite. Long may his memory and music live on.

mike travis

6y↑2

I second that.

djpaul146

7y↑4

I can remember my mum and dad playing this year's ago God bless them both

ronowen39

8y↑8

still sounds good to us guitar players

Sean Lutz

hell yeah

ronowen39

7y↑4

nice clean playing as can be expected from a legend

Philip 167

39w

now this is what you call music

rodsreel

5y↑16

Very straight and controlled - I remember "a tune a day" this is played for white middle class audience when rock n roll was seen to be the devils music, something missing here for my taste. Save any rude remarks for yourself this is an honest opinion. He is a real guitar hero.

Guy Metdrapedes

46w↑1

Are you sure it was an absolutely white audience? I'm sure at that time they would let a black fella or two into the place. They may have had to use the back door but it still counts.

Kevin Traynor

2y↑2

Got to admit it is a catchy tune

alan sturgess

3y↑5

An interesting mix of opinions but even as a lifelong fan of Bert, I have to agree. Like Chet Atkins (another lifelong hero) his playing was 'straight' and did lack the rawness and inventiveness that was to follow but, as others point out, Bert inspired so many of those who came to the fore in the mid 60's and beyond that his place in the history of guitar is assured. He is cited again and again in biographies and autobiographies of so many. I've never figured out why nobody has written about HIS history and life. A great man and a great musician.

James George Coke

18w

A real all time classic !!!!!!

Johnnralph

5y↑2

Bert Weedon (10 May 1920 – 20 April 2012) he was the first British guitarist to have a hit on the UK Singles Chart with this in 1959 which was his only top ten hit ..

ronowen39

4y↑1

bert was voted at least 3 times best guitarist in the 50s and 60s and can be heard on thousand of hit records for other people top session man

WOODBINEXX .john r

10y

rip bert an inspiration to many

Philip 167

they don't make music like this any more this is a real classic

Rockin Daddy

1y↑1

SUPER ---- Rock n Roll will never die !!

Paul Aungiers

About 1985 I saw a booklet which I think was titled '22 Golden Guitar Greats' - ( I bought the album in 1976.)
This booklet contained Sleepwalk; Apache and Albatross - I seem to recall(?)
I have been trying to trace the book in recent years but I draw a blank!
Do you know anything about it, please? It is about time some guitar fans transcribed Bert's solos - he was very creative and had splendid ideas for tunes.

Will Shank

1y↑4

"We are normal and we dig Bert Weedon, haha!"

Francesco Alcozer

2y↑1

But the top solo piece by the great guitarist Bert Weedon is definitely "Nashville Boogie". Cordial greetings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxK7d1BQk4g NASHVILLE BOOGIE Gibson Guitar cover by Bert Weedon

POLYAL0899

undisputably the best guitarist that ever lived

Danny Robins

i second that

Clay Mor

4y↑8

I have to say that by time I started playing in the early 70s Bert's Play in A Day book - given to me with my first finger grater/guitar - was well outdated. What young players really wanted was a few simple riffs - riffs were a big deal back then - and simple lead lines to get us motivated and started. Bert's way of introducing us to the ubiquitous blues trope was via a version of Frankie and Johnny in C with not a mention of the blues scale we were all hearing but didn't yet know. In this day and age, when kids can learn whole shred tunes from the internet, it makes you wonder how we ended up playing anything at all. Mind you, I wish I'd learnt to pick a solid simple up-tempo tune as cleanly as Bert, that's a skill in itself and not too common these days, he must have been a recording engineer's dream.

alan sturgess

@Bengt Handlebars Interesting final sentence. I'm 74 and for the last year have been gradually whittling down my guitar collection to just the best of the best or - considering that two favourites each cost less than £130 - I should actually say I'm only keeping my most favourite of the favourites. I used to have a complete inbuilt wall unit with instruments in case stacked side by side but not now. I've a Taylor 12, an Admira classical, a T5z and a couple of excellent budget instruments.And that's it. I've also passed on most of my FX pedals --- again, just keeping longtime favourites. I recogniosed your description of the salesman doing a Spinal Tap and turning everything up to 11. I always assume they do that to disguise all their mistakes.

HIGH PIT WILMA

@alan sturgess Spot on with the Shads Alan! I love all 60's Guitar music.. Duane Eddy, Bert, everybody else but me idols have always been The Shads.

alan sturgess

@HIGH PIT WILMA That's a nice setup you have. Hard to beat VOX for that classic British era sound. It wouldn't surprise me if you were also a Shads fan with that combo. (Just wish they'd never bothered trying to sing). I had a Strat for some years but these days I prefer PRS semi-hollows and - much to my own surprise - I absolutely love an Epihone Blueshawk that took a while setting up but now plays like a dream. I just noodle at home so use a DV Mark amp as it's small but has a good sound. I still listen to Bert's recordings and I think I have almost all that was ever released on CD. However, as I type this I have a CD of EC and JJ Cale playing in the background. My musical tastes are very eclectic but with the exception of a single Joe Satriani, there's a total lack of high speed fireworks or shred in there. Some guitarists don't seem able to do anything else. If you ever watch 'Chappers' (Rob Chapman) demo a guitar, amp or effect you can bet your bottom dollar that the gain and overdrive will go right up and he'll just shred. So few guitarists these days seem to understand the need for differences in pace and the use of silence between notes or phrases. I have very few guitar heroes who have been in my top five for years, but in that latter category I'd rate early Peter Green as no.1. As for acoustic guitar heroes ...... well, that's a wholly different ballgame.

HIGH PIT WILMA

Agree Alan and Arnie,I'm an old fan of Bert's,and every guitar group that emerged in the '50's and 60's...that time was a dream for a lead guitarist like myself!
Bert's Boogie and Sorry Robbie were my favourite's of Bert's,I learn't myself in 1959-on,with a wee help from PLAY IN A DAY..as did every famous guitarist who ever played!!
I never learned the dots...just play by ear..hear a tune...and play it.
I'm now 74,and still play these tunes!
I know a few "Fast" players,who have told me they would love to play controlled ballads and tunes by the Shadows..my main hero's from the day they started!..,but these fast players cannot slow their fingers down,and if they do,they are jumpy as hell...it's similar to how disiplined the Chinese Tai Chi movements are in a physical sense....anybody can run or walk fast...try balancing on one foot tiptoed and going through the extremely slow moves!One of these Fast players heard my rendition [on tape] of "Maid Marion's Theme",from the Shadows Pantomime,[in the 1960's],and I play it with no reverb,no delay,nothing..completely dry,just the '78 Strat,and '80's Vox AC30,and he and his group-mates were blown away..comments like ."Wow,HE is f..............g smooth ain't he?"!!
No self praise or brag..just that's how I had to learn in the 1950/60's...with a finger grater Rosetti Lucky Seven....and nothing else!....no amplifier!..not even a cambered fingerboard!..flat and thick neck..Aah happy days!

alan sturgess

Shredding. Urrgghh. Why not call it by its real name - fancy narcissistic twiddling and scale practice. About as musical as a cat being dismembered live. High speed runs in context are one thing, but endless, never-ending shred is sociopathy in sound.

mm040462

As for me : Burt Blanca ( Belgium ) did a great job with this song

DouglasUrantia

Unique rockin back and forth beat.!!!

John Gazzana

2y↑1

Trying to play this tune just like this guy my fingers are blistered and bleeding can’t give up till I get it

Matthew Boreham

36w

try using a plectrum

Matthew Boreham

what are the chords for this

gremlinuk1968

1st heard him, when I was 9,10, year old, late 70s !

Philip 167

1y↑1

now this is music

gremlinuk1968

I played, him, back in early ,mid 80s, as a kid,!! had on tape , then,!!

Matthew Boreham

like to see the sheet notes for this

Bruce Tracy

2y↑1

Great job on this but for me The Virtues version (Not The Ventures) is
the tops. Maybe because that's the version I heard first. It just seems
to my ears it has a deeper richer fuller sound?

Terry Jacoby

As good as Arthur Smith's original in 1949

Bruce Tracy

Great job on this but for me The Virtues version (Not The Ventures) is
the tops. Maybe because that's the version I heard first. It just seems
to my ears it has a deeper richer fuller sound?

Mario Flavin

46w

one the first 45s i Ever owned.

cavanfan

lovely good old Bert

Sekkō Hagane

3y↑1

a video game lead me to the discovery of Bert Weedon.

Mud Boi

Ah. A fellow wanderer of the wastes

Peter Beschorner

7y↑3

We used to goggle at the 'Bert Weedon Hofner' you could buy for £57! It was totally covered with mock mother, o pearl, cuttaway & had 3 pick ups! wow! (Pete 'Kiwi' Keegan. BBCTV misician in the 1950's.)

WedgePee

15w

@HIGH PIT WILMA Wow! £134 8s in 1961 had the same purchasing power as £3059.45 did in 2020. Let that sink in.

HIGH PIT WILMA

3y↑1

...ER..not nitpicking..only for correctness mind,but no Hofner could be bought for £X !! ,...they were...every model....priced in English "Guineas"..i.e...1 Guinea= £1+ 1 Shilling...[I shilling = 5 new pence in today's money!].
I have all the original Selmer and Bell Catalogues from 1960-on.
The Hofner President , for example,was 28 GNS ..[Guineas],in 1961,and the "Golden Hofner",which was a masterpeice of guitarmaking,was priced at around 97GNS if my memory serves me correctly![I could check it out again].
A strat in 1961 cost 128 GNS..!!

My great big FOOT

15w

Play in a day my foot, I’ve been trying for years.

Brandon3680

This is cool

Soulman

All thumbs up...!!!

Jack Elfick

8y↑1

Vintage Rock magazine brought me here <3

Janet Callaghan

My late dads song xx

booblaroo

Bill Graham Presents brought me here, for which I'm mighty appreciative.

Vegard Kaspersen Dillerud

that song was always the intro on the radio show musikkabalen on nrkp1 every morning

EJ160E

This song got George Harrison into the Quarry Men!

Wladyslaw Kucel

yep that's the one !!

Brian Faulkner

10y

SO TRUE. R.I.P.

CRISTIAN MARTIN PEREZ COLMAN

First time George Harrison met John Lennon, he played this. Bob Spitz says.

Marcus Blackwell

Just put this in New Vegas & nobody would know the difference. Especially afteer Roundhouse Rock

Wade Raney

👍☺

legendhasitstudio

CLEAN

Nav IL

4y↑2

George Harrison auditioned to this song to join the Beatles

Brad Brassman

Raunchy, by Bill Justis.

Nav IL

yeah this one as well

Ryan White

No he didn't, he played Raunchy by Duane Eddy

Arjan Koning

I thought so to, bur I was corrected that it was "Raunchy" that he "audited with" in the schoolbus...

Philip CLAN

2y↑1

Marc Bolan brought me here.

Fendson67

8y↑8

jimmy page brought me here:)

Eddie Mautone

This guy messing up a great song like guitar boogie shuffle awful

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