Ruby Baby
Tony Sheridan & The Beat Brothers Lyrics
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Let's see I need some beat boys
Well this girl don't love me, but I love her just the same
Pick it up boys
Woah oh oh Ruby Ruby
How I want you
Like a ghost I'm a gonna haunt you
Ruby Ruby, Ruby will you be mine
Well now each time I see you, baby my heart cries
Ruby Ruby Ruby Baby
Ah it does Ruby
Well now I'm gonna steal you away from all those guys
Ruby Ruby Ruby Baby
Whoa oh oh oh oh oh
From the happy day I met you
I made a bet that I was gonna get you
Umm?
Ruby will you be mine
Let's oink awhile
oink oink
oink oink
bow
oink oink bow
Whoa oh oh oh oh
bow
oink oink
woof woof
Well I gotta girl I said Ruby is her name
What's her name?
Ruby
Carol
When this girl looks at me she just sets my soul aflame
Ruby Ruby Ruby Baby
Whoa oh oh oh oh
Forgot it
What are you gonna do now?
Aba zaba aba zaba zaba doo
Ruby Ruby Ruby Ruby Ruby Ruby Baby
You always forget the words, every time
The lyrics to Tony Sheridan's song "Ruby Baby" are a tale of unrequited love. The singer is in love with a girl named Ruby, who does not reciprocate his feelings. Despite this, he continues to pursue her, even going so far as to say that he will "haunt" her like a ghost. He makes a bet that he will win her over, and declares his love for her in the chorus, repeatedly asking if she will be his.
The lyrics are simple yet catchy, with the repetition of the name Ruby and the upbeat rhythm making it a fun and memorable song. The use of animal sounds towards the end adds to the playful nature of the song.
Overall, "Ruby Baby" is a classic 1950s rock and roll song that encapsulates the feelings of young love and the desire to win someone over.
Line by Line Meaning
Well now I gotta girl now and Ruby is her name
The singer introduces his love interest named Ruby.
Well this girl don't love me, but I love her just the same
The singer acknowledges that Ruby does not reciprocate his feelings, but he continues to love her anyway.
Woah oh oh Ruby Ruby
How I want you
Like a ghost I'm a gonna haunt you
Ruby Ruby, Ruby will you be mine
Ruby Ruby Ruby Baby
The singer expresses his desire for Ruby and states that he will pursue her relentlessly.
Well now each time I see you, baby my heart cries
Ruby Ruby Ruby Baby
Ah it does Ruby
The singer reveals the emotional impact that Ruby has on him, causing his heart to ache.
Well now I'm gonna steal you away from all those guys
Ruby Ruby Ruby Baby
Whoa oh oh oh oh oh
The singer declares his intention to win Ruby's affection and take her away from her other suitors.
From the happy day I met you
I made a bet that I was gonna get you
Umm?
Ruby will you be mine
The singer reflects on the moment he met Ruby and admits that he made a promise to himself to make her his own.
Well I gotta girl I said Ruby is her name
What's her name?
Ruby
Carol
When this girl looks at me she just sets my soul aflame
Ruby Ruby Ruby Baby
Whoa oh oh oh oh
Forgot it
What are you gonna do now?
The singer reiterates that Ruby is his love interest and shares how deeply she affects him. He then forgets the lyrics and acknowledges his mistake.
Aba zaba aba zaba zaba doo
Ruby Ruby Ruby Ruby Ruby Ruby Baby
You always forget the words, every time
The singer humorously chants nonsensical syllables and acknowledges his repeated forgetfulness of the lyrics to the song.
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Written by: Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
@Renshen1957
@Ikhsan Sube Laugh this off: No Pete, No Scotland tour 1960 backing Johnny Gentle through their un-official manager Allan Williams, which leads to No Hamburg gigs, case closed ; no Pete (who was fluent in German) all the Beatles instruments would have lost their instruments in Germany after Paul and George (Pete, too) were deported. No Pete, no Welcome Home, 27 December 1960 performance at Litherland Town Hall a breakthrough show which cemented their name as Liverpool’s top live draw , with Pete on Drums (Atomic Drum Beat) and his former bandmate played Bass (who was asked to join the band as Stuart Sutcliffe had stayed in Germany). From the opening number, Little Richard’s ‘Long Tall Sally’, The Beatles electrified the crowd, and there was a spontaneous surge towards the stage.
"Litherland was an explosion in the fortunes of The Beatles. We were playing for dancing in a hall that could accommodate some 1,500 on the dance floor at one time, but they stopped dancing when we played and surged forward in a crowd to be nearer to us, to watch every moment and above all to scream. People didn’t go to a dance to scream: this was news." The Beatles were signed to more gigs through both North Liverpool as well as all over. " Suddenly we were a wow. Mind you, 70% of the audience thought we were a German wow, but we didn’t care about that. Even in Liverpool, people didn’t know we were from Liverpool. They thought we were from Hamburg. They said, ‘Christ, they speak good English!’ which we did, of course, being English.
It was that evening that we really came out of our shell and let go. We stood there being cheered for the first time. This was when we began to think that we were good. Up to Hamburg we’d thought we were OK, but not good enough. It was only back in Liverpool that we realised the difference and saw what had happened to us while everyone else was playing Cliff Richard shit. John Lennon, 1967
No Pete, no more Hamburg gigs, no Tony Sheridan recordings by Bert Kaempfert (who had an orchestra with a professional drummer which Bert Kaempfert could have substitted a studio/session, drummer) which leads to the record which a fan request that brought Brian Epstein's attention. Tony Sheridan's back up band would have Ringo as a drummer, briefly who returned to Rory Storm (over Sheridan's changing the set list at performances). No Pete, who performed more live performances as a Beatle than Ringo did (undisputed) in Hamburg and Liverpool, no Cavern Club performances which Brian Epstein goes and decides to become their manager (never having been a manager). No Pete, no first appearance on BBC Radio (Pete's last performance recorded off the BBC radio was their 2nd Appearance). No Pete, No Decca audition which recordings from the audition were used by Brian Epstein to finally get an audition at Parlophone after every major Label had rejected the group, (even this audition had more to do with Epstein's family business and it's influence) until a speciality Label, Parlophone, better none for Comedy Albums, Novelty Records, and a few scattered hit songs. (George Martin followed studio practice of session drummer, which for all of Ringo's later talents, by the way Ringo was and is my favorite Beatle, Andy White's drumming is on recording of P S I Love You and other than their first single of Love Me Do released only in the UK, Andy White is on all subsequent releases (including their first album), including the 20th Anniversary re-release).
Ringo first met the Beatles in Hamburg on their first tour, was the drummer on a demo in Hamburg on with part of the Beatles first backing band recording, (Pete Best was unavailable that day, touring Hamburg), now lost, for an unreleased single. No Pete Best, No Mona Best, no Casbah Club...their first live performances as the Quarry. and The Beatles appeared at Mona Best’s Casbah Coffee Club in Liverpool, a venue they hadn’t played at since the Quarrymen days, on October 10, 1959. Chas Newby, formerly the rhythm guitarist with The Blackjacks with Pete Best and skiffle group The Barmen, joined The Beatles on bass guitar (to replace Stuart Sutcliffe, who had remained in Hamburg with girlfriend Astrid Kirchherr as I referrenced above)... which had the posters for the Litherland Town Hall upcoming performance plastered all over the walls, as at that time the Casbah Coffee Club was the Rock and Roll venue in Liverpool, the Cavern, etc, were Jazz Clubs, and this club at the time was packed with people who eyed declaring “The Beatles, Direct From Hamburg, Germany” placed around the Casbah, and the basement venue was crammed with people, many who didn't know about the Beatles or that they were local boys directed a number of youths to Litherland, expecting to see a "German Band.
As to the JPG apologist mythology about Ringo being first choice to replace Pete Best...Brian Epstein, offered the job, first to drummer Bobby Graham, who turned Brian down. Brian Epstein then offered the job to Ritchie Galvin, who also said no to The Beatles. Johnny Hutchinson became the third drummer to decline the offer, Johnny Hutchinson was the driving force behind The Big Three and considered the best drummer in the Liverpool, who turned down the offer as he wasn't into the Beatles type of music, and Pete Best was a friend he wouldn't do dirt on. (Ringo had been a friend of Pete's too). The Beatles had to take Brian Epstein to a performance to hear Ringo, the rest is history, as to history those Victorian Medals you see on the Beatles on Sgt. Pepper, were borrowed from Mona Best.
So as to your comment, you could be correct as to the subsequent events, after Pete was sacked, but these wouldn't have occurred with a "Shit Band" (quote Sir George Martin on hiring the Beatles), a band that couldn't keep a drummer, until Pete.
As to the Beatles, Pete had his own fan club simultaneously when the Beatles fan club also existed in Liverpool, Pete was offered by Brian Epstein to build a band around him (in shock, he declined, a mistake as band in Epstein's stable he would have the promotion and gigs through England), the All Stars fired their drummer to pick up Best as drummer, and the All Stars came in 2nd place to the Beatles as the most popular band in Liverpool Dec. 1963 six months after Pete was fired. Or in other words, "You don't know shit about the Beatles..." Take a time machine back to when Pete goes to audition for the Hamburg trip, kidnap him so he doesn't arrive, the Beatles a band no other band wanted in Hamburg to wreck a good thing, doesn't arrive.The Beatles may end up like Liverpool bands; Road Runners, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, Maverick, etc., And since the Beatles and manager Epstein caused the recording studios in London to look to a town more famous for Comedy acts than Rock Groups or music acts (exception on Billy Fury as a solo act), groups such as The Searchers, Gerry and the Pacemakers, Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas, Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas, The Fourmost , Tommy Quickly with the Remo Four, The Moody Blues, Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers. Sounds Incorporated (from London, but managed by Epstein opening for the Beatles), or hat check girl turned singer Cilla Black, wouldn't be known, the British Invasion wouldn't change the US popular/Rock music (no Byrds as we know them, no Monkees), and the musicians as composers of their own songs which they recorded an performed wouldn't have occurred in the 1960s onwards.
So laugh at my "joke" comment, in ignorance.
@tommyl.dayandtherunaways820
This Tony Sheridan fellow could be the next Elvis. As for the Beat Brothers, while they have potential, I don’t see them going very far.
@phillipwarwick5303
You know they are the Beatles
@emilydewoody8982
@Phillip Warwick they were joking of course they know the beatles
@aryhandler
Hahahaha...
@adrinathegreat3095
Tony Sheridan would have gone far had he not had a reputation as argumentative and unreliable, this is what got him kicked off of a popular uk music show in the late 50s, and why he ended up playing in small venues.
Turning up at recording sessions late, arguing with other musicians and recording studio staff really doesn't help.
The beatles were far more disciplined and professional than Sheridan, who only got mid 60s tv spots because he'd once had the beatles backing him.
Truth was he wasn't liked by many people in the industry at all and was considered a loose cannon and best avoided
@jb888888888
Guitar bands are out.
@rafaelmartinezmunoz7788
El primer disco que compre, en 1973-74 con un poco más de 11 años, junto con "Planet Waves" de Bob Dylan, en las afueras de París.
Me sentí engañado por la portada que ponía "Beatles" (lo saqué del cartón de las rebajas con lo que me quedaba por comprar el otro disco...) pero disfrute de esa música "crooner"que era fuera de lo que solía escuchar.
Una calidad que perdura y sorprende por su sencilla frescura.
Gratos recuerdos, los primeros pasos de mi "educación" musical.
@user-kz8lm2tk1s
Tony and Pete Real Rock'n Roll
@rockindaddy6535
❤️ ROCK n ROLL 4 ever.....
A fantastic recording !!
@konstantia1607
Tony Sheridan singing and playing guitar. Rock and roll.