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2nd ed.
Imprint
Milwaukee, WI : H. Leonard, [c1998?]
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860 p. of music ; 31 cm.

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Contents
  • Aba daba honeymoon – Abc – Abracadabra – Ac-cent-tchu-ate the positive – After the love has gone – Ah! Sweet mystery of life – Ain’t no mountain high enough – Ain’t she sweet – Ain’t too proud to beg – Ain’t we got fun? – The air that I breathe – Airport love theme – Alice blue gown – Alice in Wonderland – All for love – All my loving – All night long – All or nothing at all – All the gold in California – All those years ago – Alley cat – Alne – Alone again (naturally) – Along came Jones – Always – Always on my mind – Amapola – American pie – Anchors aweigh – And I love her – And I love you so – Anema E Core – Angel eyes – Angel of the morning – Angry – Another one bites the dust – (Hey, won’t you play) another somebody done somebody wrong song – Anthropology – Anticipation – Any dream will do – Anywhere I wander – April showers – Are you havin’ any fun? – Around the world – As if we never said goodbye – At the hop – Attitude dancing – Autumn leaves – Avalon – Axel F – Baby come back – Baby don’t get hooked on me – Baby I need your lovin’ – Baby, I’m-a want you – Baby, it’s cold outside – Baby love – Baby, won’t you please come home – Back bay shuffle – bad case of loving you – The balled of Davy Crockett – Ballin’ the Jack – The banana boat song – Band on the run – Bandstand boogie – Barbara Ann – Basin Street blues – Be kind to my parents – Be my little baby bumblebee – Beat me daddy, eight to the bar – A beautiful friendship – Beautiful in my eyes – Believe – Bell bottom blues – Belle, Belle (my liberty Belle) – Ben – Bennie and the Jets – The best thing for you – Between the 18th and 19th on Chestnut Street – Between the Devil and the deep blue sea – Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo – Big girls don’t cry – The birds and the bees
  • The birth of the blues – Black and white – Black coffee – Black Denim trousers and motorcycle boots – Blame it on my youth – blame it on the Bossa Nova – Bless the beasts and children – Blue champagne – Blue eyes – Blue prelude – Bluesette – Bobby’s girl – Bohemian Rhapsody – Boo-hoo – Boogie down – (The original) boogie woogie – Boogie woogie bugle boy – Born free – Bossa Nova baby – The boy from New York City – Brand new key – The breeze and I – Breezin’ along with the breeze – Bristol stomp – Broken-hearted melody – Brotherhood of man – Brown eyed girl --- Brush up your Shakespeare – Bugle call rag – Bugler’s dream (Olympic fanfare) – Bus stop – A bushel and a peck – By the light of the silvery moon – By the time I get to Phoenix – Bye bye baby – Bye bye blackbird – C’est si bon – Cab driver – Cabaret – Calcutta – Caldonia (what makes your big head so hard?) – California dreamin’ – Call me – Can you feel the love tonight – can’t buy me love – Can’t smile without you – Candle in the wind – Candle on the water – The candy man – Cara, Mia – careless hands – Careless whisper – Carpet man – Carrie-Anne – Cast your fate to the wind – Catch a falling star – Chain gang – Changing partners – Chariots of fire – Charmaine – Cherish – Chicago (that toddlin’ town) – Chim chim cher-ee – Chinatown, my Chinatown – Chiquita banana – The Christmas song (chestnuts roasting on an open fire) – Cindy, oh Cindy – Circle of life – Civilization (bongo, bongo, bongo) – Clair – Close every door – (They long to be) close to you – Cold, cold heart – colors of the wind – The colour of my love – come go with me – Come Sunday – Comme ci, comme ca – Confessin’ the blues – The Continental – Copacabana (at the copa) – Could I have this dance – Could it be magic – Count every star – Coward of the country – Cracklin’ Rosie – Crazy – Creeque Alley – Crocodile rock – Cruising down the river – Cryin’ time – Cuddle up a little closer, lovely mine – Daddy – Daddy’s little boy – Daddy’s little girl – Dance ballerina dance – Dance with me Henry – Dancing in the street – Daniel – Danke schoen – Danny boy – Dardanella – Day by day – Day tripper – Daydream – Daydream believer – December 1963 (oh, what a night) – ‘Deed’ I do – Delaware – Delilah – Desirée – Diamonds are a girl’s best friend – Different drum – Dinah – Dindi –
  • Do nothin’ till you hear from me – Do wah diddy diddy – Do you believe in magic – Do you know the way to San Jose – Do you know where you’re going to? – Do you want to dance? – Dominique – Don’t blame me – Don’t cry for me Argentina – Don’t get around much anymore – Don’t go breaking my heart – Don’t know much – Don’t let the sun catch you crying – Don’t let the sun go down on me – Don’t make me over – Don’t make promises – Don’t sit under the apple tree (with anyone else but me) – Don’t sleep in the subway – Don’t take your love from me – Don’t worry, be happy – Donkey serenade – Down by the old mill stream – Downtown – A dream is a wish your heart makes – Dream lover – Dreams – Drifting and dreaming (sweet paradise) – Dungaree doll – Dust in the wind – Early in the morning – Early in the morning – Earth angel – Ebony and ivory – Eleanor Rigby – The end of a love affair – The end (of the rainbow) – The end of the world – Endless sleep – Enjoy yourself (it’s later than you think) – The entertainer – Eternal flame – Even now – Ev’ry time we say goodbye – Everybody loves my baby (but my baby don’t love nobody but me) – Everything happens to me – Eye in the sky – Falling in love again – Ferry ‘cross the Mersey – Fever – fire and rain – The first time I ever saw your face – Five foot two, eyes of blue – Five minutes more – Love theme from “Flashdance” – (Meet) the Flinstones – Fly like and eagle – The fool on the hill – Fools fall in love – For all we know – For every man there’s a woman – (I love you) for sentimental reasons – For your love – Forever in blue jeans – Forever in love – Forrest Gump–main title – Forty-five minutes from Broadway – Free bird – Friends & lovers – From a distance – From me to you – Funny how time slips away – Galveston – Galway Bay – A garden in the rain – Garden party
  • A gay ranchero – Georgie Porgie – Get ready – The gift! – The girl from Ipanema – Glad all over – Gloria – Go away, little girl – Go now – God bless’ the child – God bless the U.S.A. – God help the outcasts – Good morning heartache – Goodbye yellow brick road – Goodnight my love, pleasant dreams – Goodnight my someone – Got my mind set on you – Graduation day – Grandpa (tell me ‘bout the good old days) – Gravy waltz – Theme from “the greatest American hero” – The green door – Green green grass of home – Greenfields – Groovin’ – A groovy kind of love – Guantanamera – Guess I’ll hang my tears out to dry – Guilty – Hallelujah – The hands of happy time – The happy organ – The happy time – Happy together – Happy Xmas – A hard day’s night – Hard habit to break – Hard hearted Hannah (the vamp of Savannah) – Hard to say I’m sorry – Haunted heart – Have I told you lately that I love you – Haven’t got time for the pain – The Hawaiian wedding song – He – he ain’t heavy…he’s my brother – He’ll have to go – Heartaches – Heartaches by the number – Heartbreak hotel – Heatwave – Hello again – Hello, Dolly! – Hello Mary Lou – Help me make it through the night – Here comes that rainy day feeling again – here comes the sun – Here you come again – Hero – Hey! Ba-ba-re-bop – Hey, good lookin’ – Hey Joe – Hey Jude – Hey there lonely girl – Hill Street blues theme – Hippy hippy shake – Hit me with your best shot – Hold my hand – Holly Holy – Honesty – Honey (I’m in love with you) – Honeycomb – The Honeydripper – Hooray for love – The horse – The hot canary
  • Hot diggity (dog ziggity boom) – Hot rod hearts – How am I supposed to live without you – How insensitive – How much is that doggie in the window – How sweet it is (to be loved by you) – How ‘ya gonna keep ‘em down on the farm? (after they’ve seen paree) – The hucklebuck – A hundred pounds of clay – I ain’t down yet – I am…I said – I believe – I believe in music – I believe in you – I can love you like that – I can’t believe that you’re in love with me
  • I can’t give you anything but love – I can’t help myself (sugar pie, honey bunch) – I cried for you – I don’t know enough about you – I don’t know how to love him – I fall to pieces – I feel the earth move – I found a illion dollar baby (in a five and ten cent store) – I gotta right to sing the blues – I guess that’s why they call it the blues – I hear a symphony – I heard it through the grapevine – I just fall in love again – I keep going back to Joe’s – I know a place – I left my heart in San Francisco – I let a song go out of my heart – I like dreamin’ – I like the likes of you – I love how you love me – I love Lucy – I love rock ‘n roll –
  • I may never pass this way again – I mean you – I.O.U. – I said my pajamas (and put on my pray’rs) – I saw her standing there – I say a little prayer – I see your face before me – I still get jealous – I thought about you – I wanna be loved by you – I want to be wanted – I want to hold your hand – I was country when country wasn’t cool – I will be in love with you – I will follow him – I wish you love
  • I wished on the moon – I wonder who’s kissing her now – I wonder why – I wouldn’t have missed it for the world – I write the songs – (If I knew you were comin’) I’d’ve baked a cake – I’ll be there – I’ll be with you in apple blossom time – I’ll know
  • I’ll never fall in love again – I’ll never smile again – I’ll remember April – I’ll walk alone – I’m a believer – I’m a fool to want you – I’m a lonely little petunia (in an onion patch) – I’m a woman – I’m easy – I’m forever blowing bubble – I’m glad there is you – I’m gonna sit right down and write myself a letter – I’m Henry VIII, I am – I’m late – I’m looking over a four leaf clover – I’m sitting on top of the world – I’m sorry – I’m walking behind you – I’ve found a new baby – I’ve got a lovely bunch of cocoanuts – I’ve heard that song before – If – If he walked into my life – If I didn’t care – If I never knew you – If I were a bell – If I were a carpenter – If I were your woman – If you go away – If you were the only girl in the world – Iko iko – Imagine
  • Impossible – In a little Spanish town (‘twas on a night like this) – In a shanty in old shanty town – In love in vain – In my life – In the ghetto – In the navy – the inch worm – Indian summer
  • Into each life some rain must fall – Is it true what they say about Dixie – Is that all there is – is you is, or is you ain’t (ma’ baby) – Island girl – It don’t matter to me – It is no secret (what God can do) – It looks like rain in Cherry Blossom Lane – It never rains (in southern California) – It only happens when I dance with you – It only takes a moment – It was almost like a song – It’s a beautiful day for a ball game – It’s a big wide wonderful world – It’s a good day – It’s a long, long way to Tipperary – It’s a pity to say goodnight
  • It’s a small world
  • It’s all in the game – It’s been a long, long time
  • It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas – It’s just a matter of time – it’s my party – It’s not unusual – It’s so easy
  • It’s so nice to have a man around the house
  • It’s still rock and roll to me
  • It’s the same old song – It’s the talk of the town – It’s too late
  • Itsy bitsy teenie weenie yellow polkadot bikini – Ivory tower – Jackson – Jailhouse rock – Jambalaya – the Japanese sandman – The jazz-me blues – Jesse – Jesse – Jim – Joey, Joey, Joey – Johnny angel – The joker – Jump shout boogie – June night – Just because
  • Just my imagination (running away with me) – Just once – Just one look – Just the way you are – Kansas City – Keep a-knockin’ – The keeper of the stars – King of the road – Kiss the fire – Knock three times – Lady Madonna – Last train to Clarksville
  • The last waltz – The last word in lonesome is me – Laughter in the rain – Lazy afternoon – Leader of the band – Leader of the Laundromat – Leader of the pack
  • Leap frog – Leather and lace – Lemon tree – Let a smile be your umbrella – Let ‘em in – Let it be – Let it be me – let it shine – Let me call you sweetheart – Let the rest of the world go by – let’s all sing like the birdies sing – Let’s dance – Let’s get away from it all – Let’s twist again – Letters never sent – Lida Rose – Lido Shuffle – Linda – Linger awhile
  • Listen to what the nab said
  • Little boat – little Egypt – Little girl – the little old lady (from Pasadena) – The little white cloud that cried – The loco-motion – Lollipop – Lollipops and roses – The lonesome road – The longa and winding road – Long tall Sally – Longer – The look of love – Look what you[‘ve done to me – The lord’s prayer – Lost in the fifties tonight – L-o-v-e – Love is blue – Love me
  • Love me do – The love nest – Love on the rocks – Love potion number 9 – Love will keep us together – Love’s theme – Lover man (oh, where can you be?) – A lover’s concerto
  • A lover’s question
  • Lovin’ you – Lucille
  • Luck be a lady
  • Luckenbach, Texas – Lucky in the sky with diamonds – Lullabye (goodnight, my angel) – Lush life – Mah-na mah-na – Mairzy doats – Make it with you – Make the world go away – Make your own kind of music – Mama Inez – Mambo italiano – Mame – Mammas don’t let you babies grow up to be cowboys – The man that got away – Manhattan
  • Margie – Mary int eh morning – (I’m afraid) the masquerade is over – may the good lord bless and keep you – Maybe baby –
  • Me and Bobby McGee – Meditation – Meet me tonight in Dreamland – Meet Mister Callaghan – memories are made of this – Mention my name in Sheboygan – Mexicali rose – Miami Beach rumba – Miami vice – Michelle – Mickey Mouse march – Midnight blue – Midnight cowboy – Midnight special – Milenberg joys – Milestones – Miss America – Mississippi queen – The Missouri waltz – Mister five by five – Mister sandman – Mr. Wonderful – Misty
  • Misty blue – Misty roses
  • Moments to remember
  • Monday, Monday
  • Money (that’s what I want) – Money for nothing – The moon over Manakoora – Moon over Miami – Moonlight bay – Moonlight on the Ganges – More – Mountain of love – Mull of Kintyre – The Muppet Show theme – Music to watch girls by – My boyfriend’s back – My coloring book – My darling, my darling – My eyes adored you – My girl – My girl Bill – My guy – My heart belongs to me – My heart is an open book – My hero – My honey’s loving arms – My life – My life is an open book – My love – My love – My love, forgive me – My melancholy baby – My melody of love – My one and only love – My shawl – My shining hour – My sweet Lord – My wild Irish rose – Nadia’s theme – The name game – (You make me feel like) a natural woman – Nature boy – Never can say goodbye – Never on Sunday – New world coming – A night in Tunisia – The night is young ( and you’re so beautiful) – The night we called it a day – Nightshift – No arms can ever hold you (like these arms of mine) – No moon at all – No, not much – No two people – Norwegian wood – Notre Dame victory march – Now is the hour – Oh baby mine (I get so lonely) – Oh boy! – Oh, how I miss you tonight – Oh, oh, I’m falling in love again – Oh, promise me – Oh! You beautiful doll – Old Cape Cod – The old piano roll blues – Ole buttermilk sky – On a slow boat to China – On Broadway – On golden pond – On the wings of a nightingale – On Wisconsin! – Once in love with Amy – Once upon a summertime – One – One fine day – One for my baby (and one more for the road) – One less bell to answer – One note samba – One of those songs – One paddle, two paddle – One tin soldier – Open the door, Richard! – Opus one – Ordinary miracles – Our day will come – Our everlasting love – Over there – P.S. I love you – Paloma Blanca – Papa was a rollin’ stone – Paper maché – Pass me by – The peanut vendor – Peg o’ my heart – Peggy Sue – Penny lane – Perdido – The petite waltz – Philadelphia freedom – Physical – Piccolo Pete – Pigalle – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – Playground in my mind – Please Mr. postman – Please Mr. Sun – Pledging my love – Poison Ivy – Poor side of town – the power of love – The preacher – Prelude to a kiss – Pretend – Prisoner of love – Primises, promises – Put the blame of mame – Put your arms around me, honey – Put your hand in my hand – Queen of the hop – Quiet nights of quiet stars – Ragtime Cowboy Joe – The rainbow connection – Raindrops keep fallin’ on my head – A rainy night in Georgia – Ramblin’ man – Ramblin’ rose – Rambling wreck from Georgia Tech – Rave on – Reach out and touch (somebody’s hand) – Red, red wine – Rhiannon – Rhumboogie – Rhythm of the night – (Ghost) riders in the sky – The right thing to do – Right time of the night – Rip it up – Rock and roll is here to stay – Rock me baby – Rock’n me – Rocket man – Rockin’ chair – Rockin’ Robin – Romeo and Juliet – Roses are red (my love) – Rosetta – Route 66 – Row, row, row – Ruby baby – S’posin’ – Sad songs (say so much) – Sailing – St. Elsewhere – Saint James Infirmary – St. Louis blues – Sally G – Salt peanuts – Same old Lang Syne – San Francisco (be sure to wear some flowers in your hair) – Sara – Saving all my love for you – Say you, say me – Theme from “Schindler’s List” – Scotch and soda – Scrapple from the apple – Sea of love – Second hand rose – Secretly – See you in September – Seems like old times – Sentimental journey – September morn – Serenade of the Bells – Seven lonely days – Seventy six trombones – Share your love with me – She cried – She loves you – She (he) touched me – She works hard for the money – She’s always a woman – The Sheik of Araby – Sherry – Shine on, harvest moon – Ships – Shoe shine boy – Shoo fly pie and apple pan dowdy – Shop around – Show me the way to go home – Shrimp boats – Silhouette – Silver threads and golden needles – Sincerely – Sing for your supper – Sioux City Sue – Sit down you’re rockin’ the boat –
  • (Seven little girls) sitting in the back seat – Sixteen candles – Skylark – Sleepwalk – Slippin’ and Slidin’ – Smile a little smile for me – Smoke rings – Smokey Joe’s cafe – Smooth operator – Snowbird – So far away – Solitaire – Solitary man – Some guys have all the luck – Somebody loves me – Somebody loves you – Someday – Someday (you’ll want me to want you) – Someday we’ll be together – Somethin’ stupid – Something – Sometimes I’m happy – Sometimes when we touch – Somewhere along the way – Somewhere in time – Somewhere, my love – Son-of-a-preacher man – Song of India – Song sung blue – Songbird – Soon – Sorry seems to be the hardest word – (You’re my) soul and inspiration – Southern nights – Spanish eyes – Spinning wheel – A spoonful of sugar – Spring will be a little late this year – Squeeze me – Stand back – Standing on the corner – Star dust – Steppin’ out with my baby – Stompin’ at the savoy – Stoney end – Stop! In the name of love – Stormy weather – Stranger on the shore – Strangers in the night – The stripper – Stupid Cupid – Sugar blues – Sugar shack – Sugar, sugar – Sukiyaki – Sultans of swing – Summer rain – Summer samba (so nice) – Summertime, summertime – A Sunday kind of love – Sunrise serenade – Superstar – Superstar – Surfin’ bird – Suspicious mind – Swanee – Sweet Caroline – Sweet Leilani – Sweet love – Sweet nothin’s – Sweet talkin’ guy – Sweet violets – The sweetheart of Sigma Chi – Sweethearts – A swinging’ safari – Symphony – T’aint what you do (it’s the way that cha do it) – Ta-ra-ra-boom-der-e – Take five – Take good care of her – Take good care of my baby – Take me out to the ball game – Take the “A” train – Take the money and run – Takes two to tango – Takin’ care of business – Tammy – Tampico – Tango of roses – A taste of honey – Tenderly – That naughty waltz – That old feeling – That’ll be the day – That’s a plenty – That’s my desire – That’s the way I’ve always heard it should be – There are such things – There! I’ve said it again – There is no greater love – There is nothin’ like a dame – There will never be another you – There’ll be some changes made – There’s a kind of hush (all over the world) – There’s a place – There’s no tomorrow – These dreams – Things ain’t what they used to be – This could be the start of something – This guy’s in love with you – This is my country – This is my song – This love of mine – This masquerade – This one’s for you – Thoroughly Modern Millie – Three little words – Three times a lady – Through the years – Thumbelina – Tic-tock polka – Tie me kangaroo down sport – Till then – Till there was you – Time – To all the girls I’ve loved before – To know you (is to love you) – To love a child – To Sir, with love – Tomorrow – Tonight I celebrate my love – Tonight’s the night (gonna be alright) – Too close for comfort – Too late now – (I stayed) too long at the fair – Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral (that’s an Irish lullaby) – Topsy – Torn between two lovers – Touch me in the morning – Trains and boats and planes – True colors – True love ways – Truly – Tubular bells – Tutti frutti – The twelfth of never – Twelfth Street rag – 26 miles (Santa Catalina) – The twist – Twist and shout – The unbirthday song – Unchained melody – Undecided – Under a blanket of blue – Under Paris skies – Under the boardwalk – Under the sea – Up on the roof – Up, up and away – Uptown girl – Vaya con Dios – Venus – Vincent (starry starry night) – Violet for your furs – Waitin’ for the light to shine – Wake me up before you go-go – Wake the town and tell the people – Walk of life – Walk on by – Walking in the sunshine – The wang wang blues – Watching the wheels – Wave – The way we were – The way you do the things you do – We are the champions – We need a little Christmas – We will rock you – We’ll be together again – We’re in this love together – Wear my ring around your neck – Wedding bell blues – Wedding bells (are breaking up that old gang of mine) – Welcome to my world – What a diff’rence a day made – What a wonderful world – What are you doing on New Year’s Eve? – What do you do in the infantry – What have they done to my song, Ma? – What I did for love – What kind of fool – What the world needs now is love – What’s forever for – What’s going on – What’s new? – When I need you – When I’m sixty-four – When my sugar walks down the street – When Sunny gets blue – When the red, red robin comes bob, bobbin’ along – When you’re smiling (the whole world smiles with you) – Where did your love go – Where do broken hearts go – Where have all the flowers gone? – Where is your heart – While my guitar gently weeps – Whispering – Whispering bells – Who can it be now? – Who needs you? – Who put the bomp (in the bomp ba bomp ba bomp) – Who wouldn’t love you – Who’s sorry now – Why don’t we do this more often – Why don’t you do right – Why me? – Wild thing – Will you love me tomorrow (will you still love me tomorrow) – Will you still be mine – Will you still love me – Witchcraft – With a little help from my friends – With a little luck – With a song in my heart – With one look – Without a song – Woman – The wonder of you – Wonderful Copenhagen – Wonderful! Wonderful! Wonderland by night – Woodchopper’s ball – Woody woodpecker – Wooly bully – Words of love – Working my way back to you – Would you like to take a walk.
Publisher's summary
Another excellent selection of songs compiled into one convenient fake book! Recently revised to include 435 new songs - for a total of 1075 songs! Features: Guitar chord frames * Plastic-comb binding * Index by musical category - big band, Broadway, Christmas/inspirational, college, country, Hawaiian/Polynesian, '50s, '60s, '70s, '80's and '90s, singalongs/special request and novelty tunes, standards, blues/Dixieland/jazz, Latin rhythms, polkas, and songs in 3/4 time. Song highlights include: All My Loving * American Pie * And I Love You So * At the Hop * Autumn Leaves (Les Feuilles Mortes) * Barbara Ann * The Birth of the Blues * Bohemian Rhapsody * Born Free * The Boy From New York City * Cabaret * Can You Feel the Love Tonight * Candle in the Wind * Chariots of Fire * Colors of the Wind * Crazy * Crocodile Rock * Do You Know the Way to San Jose * Don't Cry for Me Argentina * Dust in the Wind * Fever * Fire and Rain * (Meet) the Flintstones * Forrest Gump - Main Title (Feather Theme) * Free Bird * From a Distance * The Girl from Ipanema (Garota de Ipanema) * Hello, Dolly! * Hey Jude * I Heard It Through the Grapevine * I Left My Heart in San Francisco * I Mean You * I Write the Songs * If I Were a Bell * Imagine * Kansas City * The Keeper of the Stars * King of the Road * Longer * The Man That Got Away * Me and Bobby McGee * Michelle * Mickey Mouse March * Misty * More (Ti Guardero' Nel Cuore) * Peggy Sue * The Power of Love * The Rainbow Connection * Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head * Route 66 * Ruby Baby * Sentimental Journey * Somebody * Somewhere in Time * Somewhere, My Love (Lara's Theme) * Song Sung Blue * Spanish Eyes * Spinning Wheel * Star Dust * Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All the Time) * Take Five * Take the inch.A inch. Train * Unchained Melody * Wave * The Way We Were * We Are the Champions * We Will Rock You * What a Wonderful World * What the World Needs Now Is Love * Wooly Bully * Y.M.C.A. * You Don't Bring Me Flowers * You're So Vain * You've Got a Friend * Your Song * Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah * and hundreds more.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

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Subjects
Popular music > Fake books.

Bibliographic information

Publication date
1998
Note
Melodies with chord symbols and words.
ISBN
0793585465
9780793585465
Publisher number
HL00240084 H. Leonard

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While saxes do have a slight sensitivity to the way you breathe, flutes require a much greater amount of finesse.

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Sopranino, alto, baritone, and contrabass saxophones are in Eb. Soprano, tenor, and bass saxophones are in Bb, meaning that when you play C on them, you hear Bb.

Is a flat the same as G Sharp on alto sax? ›

This note can be played in two octaves within the normal register on the saxophone and you'll learn them both here. Before we get started: Even if the G sharp and A flat are two different notes when writing them down in sheet music. They sound the same and are fingered the same way too.

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