The Gayle Wilson Jazz Project - Jazz Standards A Day In the Life of a Fool - Dm (1959 M/Luis Bonfa, L/ Antonio Maria) Ain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do - C (1923 Porter Grainger) Ain’t Misbehavin’ - F (1929 Lyr. Andy Razaf, Mus. Fats Waller) Ain’t She Sweet - F (1927 m. Milton Ager, lyr. Jack Yellen) Alexander’s Ragtime Band - Bb (1911 Irving Berlin - first major hit) Allegheny Moon - Bb (1956 Al Hoffman, Dick Manning) Alley Cat - C (1962 Bent Fabric) All of Me - Eb (1931 Seymour Simons, Gerald Marks) All or Nothing at All - Dm - GW KEY (1930 Lyr. Jack Lawrence, Mus. Arthur Altman) Alone Again, Naturally - F (1972 Gilbert O'Sullivan) Always Bb - (1925 Irving Berlin) America the Beautiful - Eb (Mus. 1882: Lyr.1893, revised from 1912 to 1918) Anniversary Song - Em ("Oh, how we danced") (1946 Al Jolson, Saul Chaplain) Are You Lonesome Tonight - D (1926 m. Lou Handman, lyr. Roy Turk) As Time Goes By - F (1931 Herman Hupfeld) At Last - F (1941 Mack Gordon, Harry Warren) Autumn Leaves - Am (1945 French song Joseph Kosma, Eng. L. Johnny Mercer) Baby I Don’t Cry Over You - Eb (1946 written by Morton Krouse) Begin the Beguine - C - Instr. (1935 Cole Porter) Bei Mir Bist Du Schon - Cm (1937 Sammy Cahn & Saul Chaplin) Besame Mucho - Fm w/trio, chart is Gm (1940 16 yr. old Consuelo Velazquez) Between The Devil and The Deep Blue Sea - Ab (1931 Irving Berlin) Bill Bailey - C (1902 Hughie Cannon) Blue Moon - Ab (1934 Rodgers & Hart) Blue Skies - C (1926 Irving Berlin) Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me - Am (1919 Charles McCarron) Boot-Scootin’ Boogie - E (1992 Ronnie Dunn of Brooks and Dunn) Bye, Bye Blackbird - Bb (1926 Lyr. Mort Dixon, Mus. Ray Henderson) By The Light of the Silvery Moon - Eb (1909 m. Gus Edwards, l. Edward Madden) Call Me - Eb (1965 Tony Hatch) Caravan - Fm (1937 Duke Ellington hit written by Juan Tizol) Carolina in the Morning - F (1922 W. Donaldson) Chattanooga Choo Choo - F (1941 Mack Gordon, Harry Warren) Cheek to Cheek - Eb (1935 Irving Berlin) Chug-a-Lug - Bb-B-C (Roger Miller) Cold, Cold Heart - A (1951 Hank Williams) Come On-a my House - Bbm (1939 Ross Bagdasarian/William Saroyan, '51 hit) Come Rain or Come Shine - Fm (1946 m. Harold Arlen, lyr. Johnny Mercer) Comes Love - Bbm (1939 Sam H. Stept) Could I Have This Dance - A (1980 Wayland Holyfield, Bob House) Crazy - Ab (1962 Willie Nelson) Crazy Rhythm - Bb (1928 Irving Caesar, Joseph Meyer, Roger Wolfe Kahn) Cry Me a River - Ab (starts on Fm) (1953 Arthur Hamilton) Dance Me to the End of Love - Fm - (1984 Leonard Cohen) Days of Wine and Roses - Bb (1962 Henry Mancini, Johnny Mercer) Dinah - Bb (1925 Sam Lewis, Joe Young, Harry Akst) Do Nothing ‘til You Hear From Me - C (1940 m. Duke Ellington, lyr. Bob Russell) Don’t Explain - Am (1946 Billie Holliday, Arthur Herzog) Don’t Get Around Much Anymore - F (1942 m. Ellington in 1940, L. Bob Russell) Don’t Know Why - Bb (2002 - Norah Jones) Do You Know What It Means to Miss N.O. - C (Instr.) 1947 Eddie DeLange, Louis Alter) Do You Miss New York? - F (early ‘60’s - Dave Frishberg) Dream - Eb (1944 Johnny Mercer) Dream a Little Dream of Me - Bb (1930 Lyr.Gus Kahn, Mus.Schwandt/Andree) Easter Parade - C (1933 Irving Berlin) East of the Sun (and West of the Moon) - C (1934 Brooks Bowman) *Everybody’s Talkin’ - G (Fred Neil - Nilsson hit ’69 - theme Midnight Cowboy) Everything I’ve Got Belongs to You - Ab (1942 Rodgers & Hart) Fascinatin’ Rhythm - Ab (1924 George & Ira Gershwin) Fever - Gm-Abm-Am (1956 John Davenport and Eddie Cooley) Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover - G - Paul Simon Fine & Mellow - Eb (1940 Billie Holiday) Fly Me to the Moon - F (1954 Bart Howard) For Me and My Gal - Bb (1917 George W. Meyer, Edgar Leslie, E. Ray Goetz) Frim Fram Sauce - Eb (1946 Joe Recardel, Redd Evans, Nat "King" Cole Trio) Gentle On My Mind - G (1967 John Hartford, a Glen Campbell hit) Georgia On My Mind - Ab (1929 Lyr. Stuart Gorrell, Mus. Hoagy Carmichael) Girl From Ipanema - C (1963 M. Antonio Carlos Jobim, Eng. L. Norman Gimbel) Good Morning Heartache - Gm (1946 Dan Fisher, Irene Higginbotham, Ervin Drake) Goody, Goody - Eb (1936 m. Matty Malneck, lyr. Johnny Mercer) Gypsy in My Soul - Gm (1937 Clay Boland, Moe Jaffe) (The Gang That Sang) Heart of My Heart - C (1926 Ben Ryan) *Hernando’s Hideaway - Dm (1954 Richard Adler, Jerry Ross, from “Pajama Game”) Hey Good-Lookin’ - F (1951 Hank Williams) Hey There - Ab (1954 Richard Adler, Jerry Ross) Honeysuckle Rose - Ab (1928 Fats Waller, Andy Razaf) Hot Nuts (You Buy 'Em From the Peanut Man) - Bb (1930's Lil Johnson) How Deep Is The Ocean? - Ab (starts on Fm) (1932 Irving Berlin) How Much/Doggie/Window? - G (1952 Bob Merrill) I Can’t Get Started - F (1936 m. Vernon Duke, lyr. Ira Gershwin) I Can’t Give You Anything But Love - Bb (1928 Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields) I Could Write a Book - C (1940 Rodgers and Hart) I Don’t Know Enough About You - C (lyr. Peggy Lee, m. Dave Barbour) I Fall to Pieces - A (1961 Hank Cochran and Harlan Howard) If I Can't Sell It (I'll Keep Sittin' On It) - Ab (1930's Fats Waller, Andy Razaf) If I Had You - C (1928 Irving King, Ted Shapiro) *If I Only Had a Brain - A (1939 Harold Arlen) If I Were a Bell - Bb (1950 Frank Loesser from the musical "Guys and Dolls") If You’se (You’re) a Viper - C (1936 Stuff Smith) *I Get Ideas - F (m. 1927 Julio Sanders, lyr. 1951, Dorcas Cochran) I Left My Heart in San Francisco - Eb (1954 George Cory & Douglass Cross) I’ll Be Seeing You - Ab (1944 Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal) I’ll See You In My Dreams - G (1924 Isham Jones, Gus Kahn) *I’m An Old Cowhand - G (1936 Johnny Mercer) I’m Beginning to See the Light - C (1945 Don George, Johnny Hodges, D. Ellington, Harry James) I’m Gonna Sit Right Down & Write/Letter - Eb (1935 Joe Young, Fred Ahlert) I’m Hip - C (early ‘60’s Bob Dorough, Dave Frishberg) *I’m So Lonesome, I Could Cry - Bb (1949 Hank Williams) In The Mood - F (1937 Joe Garland, Andy Razaf, based on a G. Miller arr’ment) I Remember You - C (1942 Lyr. Mercer, Mus. Schertzinger) Is You Is Or Is You Ain’t My Baby? - C (starts on Am) (1944 Louis Jordan) It Don’t Mean a Thing - Gm (1931 Duke Ellington) It Had To Be You - C (1924 Isham Jones, Gus Kahn) It's My Party - F (1963 John Gluck, Wally Gold and Herb Weiner, lyrics Seymour Gottlieb) I Thought About You - Ab (1939 Jimmy Van Heusen) I Want To Be A Cowboy’s Sweetheart - D (1935 Patsy Montana) I Will Stay the Way I Am - Abm (unknown) I Wish I Were in Love Again - Db (1937 Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) I Wish You Love - Bb (1946 Leo Chauliac, English translation Charles Trenet) *Jack, I’m Mellow - Eb (1938 Trixie Smith) Jamaica Farewell - F (Lord Burgess aka Irving Burgie, based on a trad. song) Jersey Bounce - D (1942 m. Tiny Bradshaw, Eddie Johnson, Bobby Player, lyr. Buddy Feyne) Just In Time - Eb (1956 Jule Styne, Betty Comden, Adolphe Green) Just The Way You Look Tonight - F (1936 Dorothy Fields, Mus. J. Kern) Kansas City - F (1952 Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller) King of the Road - E to F 1964 Roger Miller) Killer Joe - C (1954 Benny Golson) Lady is a Tramp, The - F (1937 Rogers & Hart "Babes in Arms") Let Me Call You Sweetheart - Eb (1910 m. Leo Friedman, L. Beth Slater Whitson) Let Me Go, Lover - F (1954 Jenny Lou Carson & “Al Hill”, pseudonym for Fred Wise, Kathleen Twomey, Ben Weisman) Let’s Do It, Let’s Fall in Love - Eb (1928 Cole Porter) Let’s Face The Music and Dance - Fm (1936 Irving Berlin) Let’s Fall in Love - Eb (1933 Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) Lost Mind - F (1953 Percy Mayfield) Lover Man - Gm (1941 Jimmy Davis, Roger “Ram” Ramirez, Jimmy Sherman) Lullabye of Birdland - C (1952 George Shearing) Mack the Knife - D with mods (1928 Kurt Weill, L/Bertolt Brecht "Three Penny Opera) Makin’ Whoopee - C (1928 Gus Kahn, Walter Donaldson) Mambo Italiano - Fm (1954 Bob Merrill) Margie - F (1920 m. Con Conrad & J. Russel Robinson, lyr. Benny Davis) Me & My Chauffeur - F (1930's Memphis Minnie) Meditation - F (popular in 1962, mus. A. C. Jobim, lyr. Norman Gimbel) Moonglow - Bb (1933 m. Will Hudson, Irving Mills, lyr. Eddie DeLange) Moonlight Serenade - F - Instr. (1939 mus. Glenn Miller, lyr. Mitchell Parish) Moon River - F (1961 m. Henry Mancini, lyr. Johnny Mercer) More - Eb (1956 m. Alex Alstone, lyr. Tom Glazer) a Perry Como hit My Blue Heaven - Ab (1927 mus. Walter Donaldson, lyr. George Whiting) My Buddy - Bb (1922 m. Walter Donaldson, lyr. Gus Kahn) My Funny Valentine - A (1937 M. Richard Rodgers, lyr. Lorenz Hart) Never On Sunday -Eb Instrumental New York, New York - Bb (1977 m. John Kander, lyr. Fred Ebb) Night and Day - F (1932 Cole Porter) Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square - F (1939 Manning Sherwin, Eric Maschwitz) Nobody Knows You When You’re Down & Out - C (1923 Jimmie Cox) No Moon at All - Gm (1947 David Mann, Redd Evans) Old Cape Cod - Bb (1957 Claire Rothrock, Milton Yakus, Allan Jeffrey) On the Road Again - G (1980 Willie Nelson) On the Sunny Side of the Street - F (1930 m. Jimmy McHugh, lyr. Dorothy Fields) One Note Samba - E Our Love Is Here to Stay - Bb (1938 George and Ira Gershwin) Paper Moon, (It's Only A)- Ab (1933 m. H. Arlen, lyr. Billy Rose & E.Y. Harburg) Peel Me A Grape - Gm (1952 David Frishberg) Pennies From Heaven - C (1936 m. Arthur Johnston, lyr. Johnny Burke) Pick Yourself Up - Ab-Bb-B-Ab (1936 Jerome Kern, Dorothy Fields) Popsicle Toes - Eb (1975 Michael Franks) Please Send Me Someone To Love - Eb (1950 Percy Mayfield) Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars (Corcovado)- Ab (1962 Antonio Carlos Jobim) Ragtime Cowboy Joe - D (1912 m. Lewis F. Muir, Maurice Abrahams, lyr. Grant Clark) Route 66 - C or Bb (1946 Bobby Troup) Samba de Orfeu - C Instr. (late ‘60’s Luis Bonfa) *Save the Last Dance for Me - A (1958 Doc Pomus/Mort Shuman) Satin Doll - C (1953 Ellington, Strayhorn, Mercer) Scotch & Soda - Ab (1958 Dave Guard of the Kingston Trio) Sea of Love - G Sentimental Journey - F (1944 m. Les Brown and Ben Homer, lyr. Arthur Green) Show Me the Way to Go Home - Bb (1925 “Irving King”, James Campbell, Reginald Connelly) Side By Side - Ab (1927 m. Harry Woods, lyr. Gus Kahn) Since I Fell For You - Ab (1945 Buddy Johnson) Sing, Sing, Sing - G Instr. (1936 Louis Prima) Slow Boat to China - Eb (1948 Frank Loesser) Smile - Bb (1936 m. Charlie Chaplain, lyr. added '54 by John Turner, Geoffrey Parsons) *Something Stupid - E (1966 C. Carson Parks) Sooner or Later (I Always Get My Man) - Bb (1984 Stephen Sondheim) South of the Border - G (1939 Jimmy Kennedy/Michael Carr) Stars Fell on Alabama - Eb (1934 m. Frank Perkins, lyr. Mitchell Parish) *Star-spangled Banner - C (1814 poem Francis Scott Key, m. John Stafford Smith 1780) Stompin’ at the Savoy - Db - Instr. or vocal (1934 Edgar Sampson) *Stormy Monday - A (1947 T-Bone Walker) Stormy Weather - C (1933 Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) Straighten Up and Fly Right - C (1944 Nat Cole) Summertime - Bbm (1934Mus. Geo. Gershwin, Lyr. DuBose Heyward) Sway - Gm (1953 Rhumba, Mexican composer/ bandleader Pablo Ruiz) Sweet Georgia Brown - Bb (1925 m. Ben Bernie, Maceo Pinkard, lyr. Kenneth Casey) Sweetheart - C ( ‘60’s Jim Kweskin) S’Wonderful - F (1927 George and Ira Gershwin) Takin’ A Chance on Love - F (1940 Mus. Vernon Duke, Lyr. Ted Fetter) Take the “A” Train - C Instr. (1939 Billy Strayhorn) Tea for Two - C (1925 m. Vincent Youmans, lyr. Irving Caesar) Tenderly - Ab (1947 Jack Lawrence, Walter Gross) Tennessee Waltz - F (1946 Redd Stewart, Pee Wee King) *Tequila - C Instr. (1958 Daniel Flores, recorded by The Champs) They Can’t Take That Away From Me - Ab (1937 George and Ira Gershwin) This Masquerade - Fm (1972 Leon Russell) This Town Can't Get Over You - F - (2010-ish Henry Hipkens) Tiny Bubbles - Bb (1967 Don Ho) Tuxedo Junction - Bb (1939 m. Erskine Hawkins, Bill Johnson, Julian Dash, lyr. Buddy Feyne) Twenty-Nine Ways - E (probably 50’s - Willie Dixon) Two Sleepy People - Bb (1938 m. Hoagy Carmichael, lyr. Frank Loesser) Unchain My Heart - Am - (1952 Bobby Sharp) Undecided - Eb (1938 Sid Robins and Charlie Shavers) Under Paris Skies - Cm (1951 Jean Andre Brun, Kim Gannon, Hubert Giraud) The Very Thought of You - Bb Walkin’ After Midnight - A (1957 Alan Block, Don Hecht) Wave - D (1967 Jobim. He added lyrics in 1969 for Frank Sinatra) Way Down Yonder in New Orleans - Ab (1922 m. John Turner Layton, lyr. Henry Creamer) What a Wonderful World - Bb (1968 Bob Theile, George David Weiss. A Louis Armstrong hit) Whatever Lola Wants - Bbm - (1955 Richard Adler/Jerry Ross "Damn Yankees") What'll I Do? G (1915 Irving Berlin) When I Fall in Love - Bb (1952 m. Victor Young, lyr. Edward Heyman) *When Irish Eyes Are Smiling - F (1912 Chauncey Olcott & George Graff, Jr.) When You’re Smiling - Eb (1946 Mark Fisher, Joe Goodwin, Larry Shay) White Cliffs of Dover - F (1941 Walter Kent) Who’s Sorry Now? - C (1923 m. Ted Snyder, lyr. Bert Kalmar & Harry Ruby) Why Don’t You Do Right? - Dm (1941 Joe McCoy orig. “Weedsmoker’s Dream”) Willow Weep for Me - Bb (1932 Ann Ronell, a June Christy tune) Women Be Wise - A (Sippi Wallace - 1935) *Yankee Doodle Boy - Bb (1904 George M. Cohan) *You Are My Sunshine - Bb (1939 Jimmie Davis, Charles Mitchell) You Belong To Me - Eb (1952 Pee Wee King, Chilton Price, Redd Stewart) *You Don’t Know Me - F (1955 Cindy Walker & Eddy Arnold) You’re Getting To Be a Habit With Me - Bb (1932 m. Harry Warren, lyr. Al Dubin) You’re Nobody ‘Til Somebody Loves You - Bb (1944 Russ Morgan, Larry Stock, James Cavanaugh) | 1930’S - 1940’S STANDARDS Page 1 of 4 SWING/.FOXTROT GROOVES Ain’t Misbehavin’ - F (1929- Lyr. Andy Razaf, M. Fats Waller) Ain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do - C (1920’s - Porter Grainger) Ain’t She Sweet - F (1927) All of Me - Eb (1931-Seymour Simons, Gerald Marks) All or Nothing at All - Dm (1930 L/Jack Lawrence M/Arthur Altman) America the Beautiful - Eb (Mus. 1882: Lyr.1893) A Nightingale Sang…Berkeley Square F (1940 Manning Sherwin,Eric Maschwitz) As Time Goes By - F (1931-Herman Hupfeld) Autumn Leaves - Am (1945) Baby, I Don’t Cry Over You - Eb (Billie Holiday) Bei Mir Bist Du Schon - Cm (1937-Sammy Cahn & Saul Chaplin) Between The Devil...Deep Blue Sea - Ab (1932 - H. Arlen, T. Koehler) Bill Bailey - C (Hughie Cannon - 1902) Blue Skies - C (1926 - Irving Berlin) Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me - Am (1919 Charles McCarron) Bye, Bye Blackbird - Bb (1926 Lyr. Mort Dixon, Mus. Ray Henderson) By The Light …Silvery Moon - Eb (1909 Gus Edwards,Edward Madden) Carolina in the Morning - Eb (W. Donaldson - 1922) Chattanooga Choo Choo - F (1941 - Mack Gordon, Harry Warren) Cheek to Cheek - Eb (1935 Irving Berlin) Cold, Cold Heart - A (1951 Hank Williams) Come On-a My House - Bbm (Ross Bagdasarian/William Saroyan 1939, 1951 hit) SWING Crazy Rhythm - Bb (1928 Irving Caesar,Joseph Meyer,Roger Wolfe Kahn) Dance Me to the End of Love - Fm (1984 Leonard Cohen) Days of Wine and Roses - Bb (1962 - Henry Mancini, Johnny Mercer) Dinah - Bb (1925 Sam Lewis, Joe Young, Harry Akst) Do Nothing ‘Til You Hear From Me - C (1940 Ellington, Bob Russel) FOX Don’t Get Around Much Anymore - F (1940 Ellington, Bob Russell) Do You Know What It Means - C (Instr.) Eddie DeLange, Louis Alter 1947 Dream a Little Dream -Bb (1930 L/Gus Kahn, Schwandt, Andree) Easter Parade - C (1933 - Irving Berlin) East of the Sun (and West of the Moon) - C (1934) Everything I’ve Got Belongs to You - Ab (1942 - Rodgers & Hart) Fascinatin’ Rhythm - Ab (Gershwins 1924) Fever - Gm-Abm-Am (1956 - John Davenport and Eddie Cooley) Five Foot Two (Has Anybody Seen My Gal?) - F (1925) Fly Me to the Moon - F (1954 Bart Howard) Frim Fram Sauce - Eb (1946 - Joe Recardel, Redd Evans, Nat Cole Trio) Hey There - Ab (1954 Richard Adler, Jerry Ross) How Deep Is The Ocean? - Ab (starts on Fm) (1932 - Irving Berlin) I Can’t Give You Anything But Love - Bb (1928 J. McHugh, D. Fields) I Could Write a Book - C (1940 - Rodgers and Hart) I Don’t Know Enough About You - C (1946 Peggy Lee, Dave Barbour) If I Had You - Eb (1928) If I Were a Bell - Bb I’ll Be Seeing You - Ab (1938 - Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal) *I’ll See You In My Dreams - G (1924 - Isham Jones, Gus Kahn) I’m Beg...See Light - C (Don George, Johnny Hodges, D.Ellington, Harry James ‘45) I’m Gonna Sit Right Down & Write - Eb (1935 Joe Young, Fred Ahlert) In The Mood - F (Glenn Miller hit - 1949) Is You Is Or Is You Ain’t My Baby? - C (starts on Am - Louis Jordan) It Had To Be You - C (1924) I Thought About You - Ab (1939 - Jimmy Van Heusen) I Want To Be A Cowboy’s Sweetheart - D (Patsy Montana1935) Jersey Bounce - D (1942 -m. Tiny Bradshaw, Eddie Johnson, Bobby Player, lyr. Buddy Feyne) Just In Time - Eb (1956 Jule Styne, Betty Comden, Adolphe Green) Just The Way You Look Tonight - F (1936-Dorothy Fields, Mus. J. Kern) Kansas City - F (1952 - Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller) King of the Road - E (Roger Miller) Lady is a Tramp, The - F (Rogers & Hart 1937 ) Let’s Do It, Let’s Fall in Love - Eb (1928 Cole Porter) Let’s Fall in Love - Eb (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler 1933) Lost Mind - F (1953 Percy Mayfield) Makin’ Whoopee - C (1928 Gus Kahn, Walter Donaldson) Mack the Knife - D with mods (1928 Kurt Weill, L/Bertolt Brecht "Three Penny Opera 1928) My Blue Heaven - Ab (1927 - Walter Donaldson, George Whiting) New York, New York - Ab (Bb?) (1977 M/John Kander, L/Fred Ebb) Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square - F (1939 Manning Sherwin, Eric Maschwitz) Nobody Knows You When You’re Down & Out - C (1923 Jimmie Cox) On the Sunny Side of the Street - F (1930 J. McHugh, D. Fields) Our Love Is Here to Stay - Bb (1938 Gershwins) Paper Moon - Ab (1933 Lyr. Billy Rose & E.Y. Harburg, Mus. H. Arlen) Peel Me A Grape - Gm ('52 Frishberg) Pennies From Heaven - C (1936 A. Johnston, Johnny Burke) Ragtime Cowboy Joe - D (1912) Route 66 - C or Bb (1946 - Bob Troup) Satin Doll - C (Ellington, Strayhorn, Mercer 1953) Show Me the Way to Go Home - Bb (1925) Side By Side - Ab (1927 Gus Kahn, Harry Woods) Sing, Sing, Sing - G Instr. Smile - Bb (1936 Charlie Chaplin) Slow Boat to China - Eb (1948 - Frank Loesser) Stars Fell on Alabama - Eb (1934 Frank Perkins) Stompin’ at the Savoy - Db - Instr. or vocal (1934 Edgar Sampson) FOX Straighten Up and Fly Right - C (1944 Nat King Cole) Summertime - Bbm (1935 - Mus. Geo. Gershwin, Lyr. DuBose Heyward) Take the “A” Train - C Instr. Takin’ A Chance on Love - F (1940 - Lyr. Ted Fetter, Mus. Vernon Duke) They Can’t Take That Away From Me - Ab (1935 - Gershwins) Tuxedo Junction - Bb (or C) (1939 Erskine Hawkins) Two Sleepy People - Bb (1938 m. Hoagy Carmichael, lyr. Frank Loesser) Undecided - Eb (1938 - Sid Robins and Charlie Shavers) Walkin’ After Midnight - A (1957 - Alan Block, Don Hecht, Patsy Cline hit) When You’re Smiling-Eb (1946-Mark Fisher, Joe Goodwin, Larry Shay) Who’s Sorry Now? - C (1923 M/Ted Snyder, L/Bert Kalmar & Harry Ruby) Why Don’t You Do Right? - Dm (1941 Kansas Joe McCoy) You’re Getting To Be a Habit - Bb (1932 Harry Warren, Al Dubin) You’re Nobody ‘Til Somebody Loves You - Bb (1944) LATIN GROOVES: BOSSA NOVA: A Day In the Life of a Fool - Gm Instr. aka “Black Orpheus”, “Manha de Carnaval” 1959 Girl From Ipanema - C Jobim Willow Weep for Me - Bb (1932 - Ann Ronell) (a June Christy hit, others) I Remember You - C (1942-Lyr. Mercer, Mus. Schertzinger) S’Wonderful - F (1927 - Gershwins) I Wish You Love - Bb (1946) Let’s Face The Music and Dance - Fm (Irving Berlin 1936) Wave - D (1967 Jobim) Meditation - F (popular in 1962, mus. A. C. Jobim, lyr. Norman Gimbel) One-Note Samba - E Willow Weep for Me - Bb (1932 - Ann Ronell) (a June Christy tune) CHA CHA: South of the Border - G (1939 - Gene Autry, also Dino and Patsy) *Save the Last Dance for Me - A (Doc Pomus/Mort Shuman - The Drifters 1962) *Tequila - C Instrumental (1958 rec. The Champs, written Daniel Flores) Sway - Never On Sunday -Eb Instrumental Tea for Two - C MAMBO: Pick Yourself Up - Ab-Bb-B-Ab (1936 Jerome Kern, Dorothy Fields) Mambo Italiano - Fm (1954 Bob Merrill) RHUMBA: Besame Mucho - Fm (1940) Blue Moon - Ab (1934-Lorenz Hart & Richard Rodgers) More - Eb (1956 m. Alex Alstone, lyr. Tom Glazer) a Perry Como hit Come Rain or Come Shine - Fm (H. Arlen, J. Mercer 1946) Spanish Harlem SAMBA: Samba de Orfeu - C Instrumental (late ‘60’s - Luis Bonfa) SAMBA TANGO: Hernando’s Hideaway - Dm (1954 Jerry Ross, Richard Adler) Whatever Lola Wants - Bbm (1955 Richard Adler/Jerry Ross "Damn Yankees") I Get Ideas - F WALTZ Always - Bb (1925 Irving Berlin) Around the World (Harold Adamson/Victor Young 1956) Let Me Call You Sweetheart -Eb (Lyr. Beth Slater Whitson, Mus. Leo Friedman) *I’m So Lonesome, I Could Cry - Bb (Hank Williams) Let Me Go, Lover - F (1954 Jenny Lou Carson & “Al Hill”, pseudo) Tenderly - Ab (1947 - Jack Lawrence, Walter Gross) Tennessee Waltz - F (Patti Page hit 1950 - written in 1947) Under Paris Skies - Cm When Irish Eyes Are Smiling - F My Buddy - Bb Allegheny Moon - Bb The Anniversary Song - Em Could I Have This Dance? - A (1997 Wayland Holyfield/Bob House) Moon River - F What'll I Do? G That’s Amore - Brent SLOW: At Last - F (1941 Mack Gordon, Harry Warren) Are You Lonesome Tonight? D (1926 M/Lou Handman, L/Roy Turk) Cry Me a River - Ab (starts on Fm) (1953 Arthur Hamilton) Georgia On My Mind- Ab (1929 L/Stuart Gorrell, M/Hoagy Carmichael) I Left My Heart in San Francisco - Eb (1954 George Cory, Douglass Cross) Lover Man - Gm (1941- Jimmy Davis, Roger “Ram” Ramirez, Jimmy Sherman) My Funny Valentine - A (1937 M. Richard Rodgers, lyr. Lorenz Hart) Since I Fell For You - Ab (1945 Buddy Johnson) Lenny Welch *Stormy Monday - A (T-Bone Walker 1947) Stormy Weather - C (1933 Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler. Ethel Waters hit Cott Club) What a Wonderful World - Bb (1968 Bob Theile, George David Weiss) SLOW *You Don’t Know Me - F (1955 - Cindy Walker & Eddy Arnold) POLKA: Clarinet Polka MISC. TUNES: Hava Nagila Hot Nuts - C (rec. 1936 by Georgia White - piano, vocals) If I Can’t Sell it (I’ll Keep Sittin’ On It) C (Alexandria Hill, AndyRazaf. a Ruth Brown hit.) Caravan - Fm (Juan Tizol 1937, a Duke Ellington hit) SWING COUNTRY/LINE DANCES; On the Road Again - G (1980 Willie Nelson) Jambalaya - E (1952 Hank Williams) Boot-Scootin' Boogie - E Chantilly Lace (Jeff) NON-DANCE TUNES; Do You Miss New York? - F (early ‘60’s Dave Frishberg) |
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Song Lists
These extensive song lists are only a sample of what this band is capable of. Each band member knows many songs that can easily be brought to the group.Left-hand column are jazz standards in alphabetical order. Right-hand column lists grooves of those jazz standards.