"Secret Greasing"

During some of the great sounds from out of the past It's time actually for an unofficial commercial And, um, this is a commercial for an album called Ruben & The Jets It's a secret greasing It's a secret greasing? Yeah And this commercial has not been paid For which, I might add, violates all the rules of the Federal Communications Commission That's it, stick it to 'em Tell 'em how avant-garde you are! ...the music can start? It's on already Oh, I can't hear it Oh, can I hear it while I'm doing this? No way for you to hear it, Frank, you just have to... Oh, start it again, I wanna make it perfect Okay Well, at least, get close to it Okay, we're gonna start that again Here we go, this is our greasing Okay, I think it's about ready to start, Frank, if you're ready Ruben Sano was 19 when he quit the group to work on his car He had just saved up enough money to buy a 53 Nash and four gallons of gray primer His girlfriend said she would leave him forever If he didn't quit playing in the band and fix up his car So they could go to the drive-in and make out There was already 11 other guys in the band So when he quit, nobody missed him except for his car When they had to go to rehearsal or play for a battle of the bands at the American Legion Post in Chino They are all still good friends even today The other main guys in the band Natcho, Louie, Pana and Chuy still come over to Ruben's house on Tuesday or Wednesday To listen to his collection of Richie Valens records and also "Eddie My Love" Generally speaking, they save "Cherry Pie" and "Work With Me Annie" 'til the late part of the evening So they can have something to hum on the way home or to Burger Lane Some of them continue to hum and pop their fingers even the next day, working in the car wash Now that they have gotten their big break in show business Each one of the main guys in the group voted at the band meeting to keep the name Ruben on the jets Not only because it sounds real fine and gives it class, but also because it makes it real sharp Ruben even likes it too and thinks it is real sharp All the guys in the band hope that you are sick and tired Like they are of all this crazy far out music some of the bands of today are playing They hope you are so sick and tired of it that you are ready for their real sharp style of music They are good socially acceptable young men who only want to sing about their girlfriends They want everybody to start dancing close back together again like 1955 Because they know that people need to love and also want to hold on to each other Even holding hands is okay to them They want you to hold hands and dance the bop and fall in love to their music One of the main guys in the band was telling me a couple of weeks ago When we were talking about how about only half the guys in the band ever show up at rehearsals most of the time "If people would just hear my plea, I would give everthing just to sing the songs that was turning me on high school" Ruben has three dogs Benny, Baby and Martha