Raspberries - Overnight Sensation

      
 
 "Overnight Sensation (Hit Record)"
 (Eric Carmen)
 
                              2X; continue into verse 
 Intro (piano arr. for guitar )
 
 F   Fmaj7/A Bb   Gm C 
 v v  v v  v v v v

 -1-------1-0-----|-------1---------|
 -1-----1---1--1h3|-----3---3-3-5-5-|
 -2---2-----2---3-|---3-----3-3-5-5-|
 -3-3-------3---3-|---------5-5-5-5-|
 -----------0---1-|-------------3-3-|
 -1---------------|---------3-3-----|
 

 
 Verse 1:
 
         F              Fmaj7/A Bb Gm 
 Well I know it sounds funny
     C       F              Fmaj7/A Bb Gm 
 But I'm not in it for the money, no
   C      F         Fmaj7/A Bb Gm 
 I don't need no reputation
      C      F            Fmaj7/A Bb Gm 
 And I'm not in it for the show
 
 band enters 
 
 
 Chorus:
 
    C    F       Fmaj7/A    Bb Gm 
 I just want a hit record, yeah
  C     F           Fmaj7/A Bb Gm 
 Wanna hear it on the radio
  C      F      Fmaj7/A  Bb Gm 
 Want a big hit record, yeah
  C        F        Fmaj7/A   Bb 
 One that everybody's got to know
 
 Post-chorus:
 
               C                           Eb Bb 
 Well if the program director don't pull it
       C                  Eb   Bb 
 It's time to get back the bullet
               C                       
 So bring the group down to the station
                    Eb Bb   Eb Bb      
 You're gonna be an overnight sensation
 
 Ebmaj7 Bbmaj7 Ebmaj7/G Abmaj9 
     

 Bb-D-Eb-G A-Bb-D-F G-Bb-D-Eb C-Eb-G-Bb <- r.B. keyboard voicings
 

 
 guitar solo over intro chord progression, 1X 
 
 
 Verse 2:
 
 I've been tryin' to write the lyric
 Non-offensive but satiric too
 And if you put it in the A-slot
 It's just got to make a mint for you
 
 repeat chorus 
 
 
 repeat post-chorus w/sax solo until "overnight sensation" 
 
 
 Bridge:
 
  F#/C#      C#         F#/C#   C# 
 I fit those words to a good melody
 F#/C#           C#           F#/C#    C# 
 Amazing how success has been ignoring me
    C#/B B C#/B B 
 So long
  F#/C#    C#          F#/C#     C# 
 I use my bread making demos all day
 F#/C#           C#              F#/C#    C# 
 Writing in the night while in my head I hear
     C#/B   B  C#/B B 
 The record play
         AaddB Gm C 
 Hear it play
 
 Coda:
 
 through radio 
 :
 
 F   Fmaj7/A  Bb Gm C 
 Hit record, yeah
 (C)    F  Fmaj7/A  Bb Gm C 
 Wanna hit record, yeah
 
 band fades in 
 
 
        F  Fmaj7/A  Bb  Gm C 9X; drums enter 3rd time 
 Wanna hit record, yeah   
 (4,6,8: number one)
 
 band drops out 
 
 
 piano/vocal improvisation intro chords, 6X (fade 3rd time) 
 
 
 2-bar drum fill w/overdubbed firecrackers 
 
 
 band re-enters 
 
 
        F  Fmaj7/A  Bb  Gm C repeat to fade 
 Wanna hit record, yeah   
 
 -- another ace 70's tab from Andrew Rogers