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Zip-a-dee-doo-dah brass quintet
This catchy tune from the 1946 Disney mixed live-and-animated movie "Song Of The South" (now relegated, appropriately, to the politically incorrect trash heap of movie history) won an Oscar for best original song. Disney lore has it that Walt himself invented the title word.
This arrangement is drawn in part from a concert band arrangement I can no longer find.
This was a favorite song of my grandson when he was much younger. Hence the arrangement.
Score and parts are available for a modest price at halleonard.com. Search on my name (Will Corbin) for the entire collection.
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Wouldn't It Be Nice brass quintet
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This song appeared on the Beach Boys' 1966 album "Pet Sounds," in which the group's main songwriter began so show a more elaborate musical style than the group's earlier surf music. The song mixes tempos and key signatures, and this arrangement passes melody chores around, sometimes quite rapidly. Score and parts are available for a modest price at halleonard.com. Search on my name (Will Corbin...
That's Amore brass quintet
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Jerry Lewis ostensibly forked over $30,000 of his own money to the songwriters to come up with something that woluld be a hit for his movie partner, Dean Martin. "That's Amore" did the job, becoming Martin's signature song. It first showed up in the 1953 Martin/Lewis comedy "The Caddy," for which it received an Oscar nomination for best oriiginal song. (It lost to Doris Day''s "Secret Love" fro...
Oom Pah Pah brass quintet
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This is the raucous music from the big tavern scene in "Oliver," where, in the movie, the heroine is trying to distract the bad guy. Whatever the case, it's a wonderful beer hall song and should always be accompanied by beer. Score and parts are available for a modest price at halleonard.com. Search on my name (Will Corbin) for the entire collection.
Someone To Watch Over Me brass quintet
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George Gershwin wrote this song for a long-forgotten 196 Broadway musical caled "Oh, Kay!" He scored it as an up-tempo jazzy number. It was not until 1939 that singer Lee Willey slowed it down for her recording, and it has remained a ballad ever since, recorded by a vast assortment of artists, from Willy Nelson (probably the worst) to Linda Ronstadt with the Nelson Riddle orchestra (probably th...
Malaguena brass quintet
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Cuban-born (he fled to the U.S. when Castro took over) Ernesto Lecuona wrote the "Suite Andalucia" in 1933; "Malaguena," the best known and most performed part of it, is the sixth movement. It has been covered by everyone from orchestras to big bands to drum-and-bugle corps to (!) Connie Francis. This arrangement is inspired by and adapted in part from Bill Holman's spectacular 1961 arrangement...
I Get Around brass quintet
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I was playing with a quintet called "The Beach Brass." We live in a town with "beach" in its name, on the Gulf of Mexico. The other band members wanted some "beach music"; hence, Beach Boys. (It should be noted that the surf's up seriously here only when there's a hurricane), Cash Box called 1964's "I Get Around an "exciting, tailored-for-teen-tastes hot rod stomper." Who can argue with that? I...
Hotel California brass quintet
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"Hotel California" is probably the best known and possibly best, period song from the Eagles, from the album of the same title. It's on everybody's list of greatest songs ever. The unending guitar solo that fades out to end the song by "Hotel" composer Don Felder and Joe Walsh gets a nod here with 16 bars of trombone solo. OK, it's not quite the same thing. Nor is any of it. But you try to get ...
Hey, Jude brass quintet
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Although the song is credited to both Lennon and McCartney, Paul wrote it (originally as "Hey, Jules") to comfort Lennon's son Julian after John left Julian's mother in favor of Yoko Ono. The soap opera aspects aside, it's on just about every list of all-time best rock'n'roll songs. Score and parts are available for a modest price at halleonard.com. Search on my name (Will Corbin) for the entir...
Guadalcanal March brass quintet
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This rousing march is from Richard Rodgers' epic World War II symphony "Victory At Sea." Its themes evoke images of marching Marines and sleek Navy ships slicing through Pacific waters. It's arranged for two trumpets, horn, baritone TC and tuba. Score and parts are available for a modest price at halleonard.com. Search on my name (Will Corbin) for the entire collection.
Hark, The Herald Angels Sing
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Here's a quick less than two minutes swing treatment of Felix Mendelssohn's composition, with inspiration and a couple of licks from Frank Comstock's big-band arrangement "Yo, Hark! Those Angels Swing." Comstock's best-known work is probably the music from the old Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons which is actually spectacular stuff. Score and parts are available for a modest price at halleonard.co...
Ding Dong Merrily On High brass quintet
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"Ding Dong" was composed as a French dance tune in the 16th century. A 19th century Englishman added lyrics that made it a Christmas tune. It was first published as part of a book of carols in 1924. From Wikipedia: "The song is particularly noted for the Latin refrain: Gloria, Hosanna in excelsis! (Glory! Hosanna in the highest!), where the sung vowel sound "o" of "Gloria" is fluidly sustained ...
Grazin' In The Grass brass quintet
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South African trumpeter Hugh Masekela first recorded this song in 1968 as an instrumental. A year later, The Friends Of Distinction added lyrics and made it a big hit in the U.S. It's mostly an excercise in tonguing, and also a quick measure of just how tight your group is. Score and parts are available for a modest price at halleonard.com. Search on my name (Will Corbin) for the entire collect...
Barbara Ann brass quintet
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This song was first recorded by a group called The Regents in 1961. The Beach Boys covered it in 1965, and now no one has ever heard of the Regents. The Beach Boys' version reached No. 2 on the Billboard chart as a single. This short and simple arrangement is typical brass quintet, passing the melody around. Score and parts are available for a modest price at halleonard.com. Search on my name (...
Automatic
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From the Department of Don't Do It: A brass quintet take on the Pointer Sisters' version of "Automatic." Their original had lots of electronic background stuff going on, plus a load of percussion. What's left without that is a lot of tricky rhythms, since the horns have to carry the rhythmic load. A hint: Count it in 8/8 to work it out. That's what I had to do. Score and parts are available for...
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