Artist
The Crystals
Lyrics
See the way he walks down the street
Watch the way he shuffles his feet
My, he holds his head up high
When he goes walking by
He's my guy
When he holds my hand, I'm so proud
'Cause he's not just one of the crowd
My baby's always the one
To try the things they've never done
And just because of that, they say
He's a rebel and he'll never ever be any good
He's a rebel 'cause he never ever does what he should
But just because he doesn't do what everybody else does,
That's no reason why I can't give him all my love
He's always good to me,
Always treats me tenderly
'Cause he's not a rebel, oh no no no
He's not a rebel, oh no no no, to me
SAXOPHONE SOLO
If they don't like him that way,
They won't like me after today
And I'll be standing right by his side when they say
He's a rebel and he'll never ever be any good
He's a rebel 'cause he never ever does what he should
But just because he doesn't do what everybody else does,
That's no reason why we can't share a love
He's always good to me
Good to him, I try to be
'Cause he's not a rebel, oh no no no
He's not a rebel, oh no no no, to me
Oh! (He's not a rebel, oh no no no)
He's not a rebel, oh no no no
He's not a rebel, oh no no no
(repeat and fade out)
Watch the way he shuffles his feet
My, he holds his head up high
When he goes walking by
He's my guy
When he holds my hand, I'm so proud
'Cause he's not just one of the crowd
My baby's always the one
To try the things they've never done
And just because of that, they say
He's a rebel and he'll never ever be any good
He's a rebel 'cause he never ever does what he should
But just because he doesn't do what everybody else does,
That's no reason why I can't give him all my love
He's always good to me,
Always treats me tenderly
'Cause he's not a rebel, oh no no no
He's not a rebel, oh no no no, to me
SAXOPHONE SOLO
If they don't like him that way,
They won't like me after today
And I'll be standing right by his side when they say
He's a rebel and he'll never ever be any good
He's a rebel 'cause he never ever does what he should
But just because he doesn't do what everybody else does,
That's no reason why we can't share a love
He's always good to me
Good to him, I try to be
'Cause he's not a rebel, oh no no no
He's not a rebel, oh no no no, to me
Oh! (He's not a rebel, oh no no no)
He's not a rebel, oh no no no
He's not a rebel, oh no no no
(repeat and fade out)
RS500_rank
263
Length
2:24
BPM
115.9
Released Year
1962
Genre Era
Genre
Key
B m
Produced By
Phil Spector
Released Info
Aug. '62 on Philles
Chart Weeks
18 weeks
Chart Top
No. 1
Musicbrainz ID
702ff356-f6ef-8a36-8612-cdec11567ce8
Song Note Source
Rolling Stone 500
Song of Day Date
Written By
Gene Pitney
Album
Best of the Crystals (ABKCO)
Song Status
The Crystals were from Brooklyn, but Spector had bolted New York for Los Angeles to record "He's a Rebel." Worried that someone else would cut it first, he didn't wait for the the original Crystals to fly out. Instead he recorded this celebration of teenage bad boys with Darlene Love and the Blossoms under the Crystals name. A humbling footnote: Spector was just twenty-one years old.