Glen and Delbert. (Mary Bruton Keating Photo)
Well that’s the first time I played on anything that got any kind of national exposure. So yeah.
Here’s one that you’ve never heard be- fore. How did you…(Delbert starts laughing) How did you come to meet John Lennon, and teach him the har- monica? It’s turned into a real urban legend. (Laughing) (Laughing) Yeah, by now it’s grown into a greatly romanticized story, which is fine, ya know. I mostly just leave it alone. But the truth of it is, when Bruce Channel got booked to tour the British Isles for six weeks on the success of “Hey Baby,” the promoter said they wanted the harmonica, so I got to go along. The Beatles were the opening act on a couple of the shows we did, and they also came and
hung out on the nights when they weren’t playing with us. So truthfully, I was around those guys no more than six or seven hours all together. But I do remember John asking me if I played a chromatic harmonica on the record, and I said no. I showed him what I did. He was already playing harmonica some. Somewhere along the line he mentioned to somebody that his influence on the harmon- ica was “Hey Baby” and yada yada… now it’s chiseled in stone that I taught him everything he knew. (Laughs) You know what I mean?
(Laughing) Well, these things have a way of growing exponentially . Well, especially anything with The Beatles. Of course people made it out like I taught Lennon to play, which is not true. I gave him some tips, and we hung out and enjoyed each
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