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    • THE BOOK

      Each entry has a link Score. That link takes you to a directory featuring scores, arrangements, and recordings. Most other links are to YouTube videos. (You need to be logged into Google Drive to access the links below.)

      This page maintained by Paul G.

       

    • Chants and Songs Collection

      The link above takes you to a Google Drive folder that contains our "crowd-sourced" chants and songs collection. Members should add to this collection whenever they come up with or come across new chants to add.

       

      Gig Leader Arrangement Cheat Sheet

      Developing Arrangements

      These tunes are in the works

      Amazing Grace [G] Score

      Buck [C] Score

      Danza del Guerrero [C] Score, Rim Bam Bum, Rim Bam Bum Live

      Hot Headed Hootenanny [F] Score

      I’m Just Another Soldier [Eb] Score, Staple Singers

      I Woke Up This Morning With My Mind Stayed on Freedom [C] Score, Freedom Singers

      Sixteen Tons/The Rich Man's House [Dm] Score, Tennessee Ernie Ford - 16 Tons, Rich Man's House

      Water Fountain [Dm] Score,  tUnE-yArDd video, Live

      The Core Standards

      These are ten songs which most band members can pay at gigs without rehearsal.

      They emphasize our New Orleans influence, and are our best and most iconic tunes.

      New members should learn these first.

      African Marketplace / Homecoming [F] (A. Ibrahim) Score

      Feel Like Funkin it Up [Eb] Score

      Gospel Medley [Bb] (Closer Walk / I’ll Fly Away / Lord, Lord, Lord) Score

      Later Than You Think [Bb] Score, Rebirth

      Montserrat Serrat [F] (S Isler) Score

      Never Gonna Let You Go [Gm] Score, SL…BB (24:43)

      New Orleans Music [Bb] Score, Rebirth

      (When the) Saints Go Marching In / Mama Don’t Allow [Bb] Score

      Thousand Island [Eb] (Rebirth) Score

      You Move Ya Lose [Fm] (Rebirth) Score, SL...BB

      The Active Repertoire

      These songs are the focus of our rehearsals, and we play many of them at gigs.

      1612 [C] Score, Vulfpeck, Groove Catchers 

      Ballad of Kami Jean [Eb] Score, Mama Digdown’s BB

      Bourbon Street [Ab] (Paul Barbarin) Score

      By and By [F] Score

      (On My Way To) Canaan Land [Cm] Score, Denise Gordon

      Cayuco [Bb] Score, Grupo Fantasma

      Do Whatcha Wanna [Eb] Score

      Dumpster Bump [Bbm] Score

      For the Love Of Money [Bbm] (O’Jay’s) Score

      Grazin in the Grass [F] (Masekela) Score

      Gross [Db/Bb minor] Score, Balkan Beat Box

      Groovulation [Bb] Score, YoungBloods, SL…BB video

      Holiday [Fm] Score, Green Day

      Hurricane Season [Gm] Score, Trombone Shorty

      La Misma Cancion [C] Score

      Lovely Day [Eb] Score, Soul Rebels

      Mardi Gras [Bb] Score

      Mercy, Mercy, Mercy [Bb] (C. Adderley) Score

      Planet Gibbous [Bbm] Score

      Riverside [Bb] Score

      Sidewinder [Eb] (L. Morgan/Skatalites) Score

      Sweet Dreams [C] Score, Soul Rebels

      That’s A Plenty [Dm] Score

      Unclean Waters [Dm] Score

      Xonk [Fm] Score, Hoot Band

      Yo No Se [F] (Rob Espino Y Sus Amigos De Nueva Orleans) Score

      The Dusty List

      Run through these tunes at least once before practice before performing

       

      Blue Monk [Bb] (T. Monk) Score

      Bogalusa Strut [C] Score

      Just A Little While [Ab] Score

      Nothing But The Truth [F] (A Grey) Score

      Saint James Infirmary [C] Score, Armstrong

      Skunk [G] Score

      Which Side Are You On [Dm] (Florence Reece) Score

      The Vault

      We played these at one time...

      Amour Loire Et Beaute [] Score

      Andy’s Song [?] (What Cheer?) MP3

      Baby Elephant Walk-Flintstones [] (H. Mancini) MP3

      Beds are Burning [Eb] Score, Midnight Oil

      Bella Ciao [Gm] (Trad) Score

      Better Git It In Your Soul [] (Mingus) Score

      Blue Pepper [] (D. Ellington) Score & MP3

      Bubamara (Trad.) [Bb] Score

      Bumper To Bumper [Cm] (J Muslin) Score & MP3

      Bunny Island [Bb] Score & MP3

      Cantastoria [] Score & MP3

      Caravan [Fm] (D. Ellington) Score & MP3

      Carnival Time [Eb] Score

      Chautauqua Bump & Grind () Score

      Cissy Strut [] (Meters) Score & MP3

      Creole [] (M Santamaria) Score

      Dance to the Music [Ab] Score, Sly

      Der Glater Bulgar [] () MP3

      Didn’t He Ramble [Bb] Score, Louis Armstrong

      Dreamboat [] [Ab] Score & MP3

      El Pueblo [] () Score & MP3

      Eyes On The Prize – Give Peace A Chance [] (A Wine / J Lennon) Score

      Fortune’s Favor [Bb] Score & MP3

      Funeral March [Fm] Score

      Happy [Fm] Scores, Pharrell Williams

      Happy Birthday [C] (Hill, arr. Field) Score

      Holiday Mambo [] (Machito) Score & MP3

      Holilili [] () Score & MP3

      Honk If You Honk! [Bb] (K Field) Score & MIDs

      I Got It [] (K Field) Score

      Ice Cream [Bb] Score & MP3

      Indiana [] (Hanley/MacDonald) Score & Lyrics

      It’s A Sin [] () MP3

      It’s All Over Now [Bb] Score & MP3

      Khosn Kale Mazel Tov [] (Trad.) Score and MP3

      Kid Ory Medley [Bb] MP3

      Leftist Marching Band Songs Score

      Let’s Go Get Em [Bb] Score , Rebirth

      Liza Jane [Bb] Score & MP3

      Midnight Ska [] () Score & MP3

      The Mooche [] (Ellington) Score & MP3

      Muskrat Ramble[Bb] Score & MP3

      Never Grow Old [D] Score, Aretha Franklin, Statler Brothers, George Banton

      Oh Chanukah [C] () Score

      Oh, Didn’t He Ramble [] (Trad) Score & MP3

      Old Rugged Cross [] (George Bennard) Score

      Parade of Numbers (K Field) Score, Video, Snakes, Ken

      Parade Riffs [] (M Martin) Score

      Pick Up the Pieces [Eb] Score, Average White Band

      Sat [Am] Score & MP3

      Sbandata 2018 Scores Score, Ya Rayah (Banda Comunale)

      Second Line [Bb] Score, W Marsalis

      (New) Second Line [F] (P Barbarin) Score & MP3

      Silver Wedding [] (Di Zilberne Khasene) Score & MP3

      Sing On [] (Paul Barbarin) Score & MP3

      Sister Rose [] (A. Ibrahim) MP3

      Somerville Second Line [Eb] (Ruffin/Field/Martin) Score

      Song For My Father (Horace Silver) MP3

      Street Fighting Man [] () Score & MP3

      Sunny Side of the Street [C] Score & Lyrics

      Sweet Bye & Bye [] () Score

      Syeeda’s Song Flute [] (Coltrane) Score & MP3

      That’s Enough of That Stuff [C] Score

      This Little Light of Mine [] () Score

      Tiger Rag (Orig Dixieland Band) Score

      Tootie Ma [F] Score, Tom Waits, Danny Barker

      Tracksuit [Db] Score, Minor Mishaps

      Tremé Second Line [] (Kermit Ruffin) Score & MP3

      Trombonium [] () Score & MP3

      War [] (E. Starr) MP3

      Water No Get Enemy (F Kuti) Score & MP3

      Watermelon Man (H Hancock) Score & MP3

      Weed Whacker [C] Score

      We Three Kings [C] Score

      We Will Rock You [Ab] Score, Queen

      Xinga La Pula [] () Score & MP3

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