This outstanding hardcover collection features 91 all-time gems by this century's most famous musical composers. The arrangements by Dan Fox were designed to be easy to play while remaining musically interesting and artistically gratifying, and work with treble clef instruments, "C" instruments, guitars, and organs. Each song comes complete with an introduction that gives important and enlightening notes on the song's origins. Songs include: All the Things You Are * Anything Goes * Give My Regards to Broadway * Look for the Silver Lining * Maria * Night and Day * One * Sunrise, Sunset * Tomorrow * and more. Also comes with a separate lyric book, perfect for singalongs around the piano!
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Fantastic arrangements: gorgeous chords, not hard to play,
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This review is from: Treasury of Great Show Tunes: A Reader's Digest Songbook (Spiral-bound)
A good collection of songs, but what makes this collection really shine are the arrangements. Non-standard, gorgeous chord sequences, rhythmic interest, but still reasonably easy to play. And fun to sing along with.My favorite songbook for sight-reading practice.
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My wife plays piano while I play C-clarinet with this book. Many enjoyable hours spent playing. Received in a timely manner.
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Tunes to share in the home and in the lounge,
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I've have purchased several "Reader's Digest" books over the past several years. The main reason for the very first one was that it contributed to my lounge performance with music I enjoy and tunes that people haven't heard in a while. Young or old, customers seem to really appreciate tunes that they somehow knew in their head, but may not have heard in years. Just for quick reference tunes like: Stardust, I'll take Manhattan, Moonglow and many more----I grew up listening to Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, The Doors etc:: But these older tunes were always in the back of my mind somehow. I spent about 25 years as a professional musician playing all the top dance tunes and whatever other tunes make the grade for that year on the Radio. ------For my own reasons I went into lounge playing on the piano bar type of environment with a really diverse customer rainbow....Many people young and old would come up to me and ask all kinds of questions, like: who wrote that tune, what year did it come out and/or you brought back memories my date and I enjoyed, and on and on. Bottom line is if you enjoy memories of the past whether or not your from that particular decade, you'll find yourself humming along carefree. You might even ask me a question.+++++++++ This particular volume is one that I finally was able to get online. It has great show tunes in it and don't judge it just by what is in the table of contents because as I went through the pages, titles I thought I didn't know turned out to be a couple of favorites that "I" had tagged wrong. If you've purchased other "Reader's Digest" songbooks; you have to love this one. You will also enjoy the fun some of these titles have to offer.
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Vernon Duke wrote "Autumn in New York" in 1934 as a follow-up to "April in Paris," which he and lvricist E.Y.(Yip) Harbura had contributed to the 1932 revue Walk a Little Faster. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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All Rights Reserved, Music Corp, International Copyright Secured, Cole Porter, New York, Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, Warner Bros, Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein, United States, Vernon Duke, Harold Arlen, Arthur Schwartz, Ira Gershwin, George Gershwin, Gilbert Keyes Music, International Publishing, Ted Koehler, Vincent Youmans, Fred Astaire, Judy Garland, Cotton Club, Howard Dietz, Irving Berlin New!
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Vernon Duke wrote "Autumn in New York" in 1934 as a follow-up to "April in Paris," which he and lvricist E.Y.(Yip) Harbura had contributed to the 1932 revue Walk a Little Faster. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
allied rights throughout the world, mountain greenery, gotta right, gonna rain, easy swing Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
All Rights Reserved, Music Corp, International Copyright Secured, Cole Porter, New York, Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, Warner Bros, Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein, United States, Vernon Duke, Harold Arlen, Arthur Schwartz, Ira Gershwin, George Gershwin, Gilbert Keyes Music, International Publishing, Ted Koehler, Vincent Youmans, Fred Astaire, Judy Garland, Cotton Club, Howard Dietz, Irving Berlin New!
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- Show Boat (Vocal Selections) (Song Book) by Oscar Hammerstein II on 7 pages
- Boys from Syracuse by Richard Rodgers on 4 pages
- Lady in the Dark (Vocal Score) by Kurt Weill in Front Matter, page 36, and page 37
- Funny Girl : (Vocal Score) (Score) by Jule Styne in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and page 262
- West Side Story (Vocal Score) by Leonard Bernstein in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and page 225
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