C Instrument - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1205933 By Barry Manilow. By Bruce Johnston. Arranged by John Fries. 20th Century,Pop,Standards. Lead Sheet / Fake Book. 2 pages. John Fries #804125. Published by John Fries (A0.1205933). Please contact me by email at jfries@ptd.net to make a special request or to find out all that I have to offer and to express your comments or concerns. Thanks, John.  I Write the Songs is a popular song written by Bruce Johnston in 1975 and released on his album Going Public in 1977. Barry Manilow's version reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in January 1976 after spending two weeks atop the Billboard adult contemporary chart in December 1975. It won a Grammy Award for Song of the Year and was nominated for Record of the Year in 1977. Johnston has stated that, for him, the I in the song is God. Manilow was initially reluctant to record the song, stating in his autobiography Sweet Life: The problem with the song was that if you didn't listen carefully to the lyric, you would think that the singer was singing about himself. It could be misinterpreted as a monumental ego trip.

C Instrument - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1034385 By Barry Manilow. By Bruce Johnston. Arranged by arr. by John Fries. 20th Century,Jazz,Pop,Standards. Lead Sheet / Fake Book. 2 pages. John Fries #639734. Published by John Fries (A0.1034385). Please contact me by email at jfries@ptd.net to make a special request or to find out all that I have to offer and to express your comments or concerns.  You can also type John Fries in the searchbar to see all I have to offer.  I Write the Songs is a popular song written by Bruce Johnston in 1975 and released on his album Going Public in 1977. Barry Manilow's version reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in January 1976 after spending two weeks atop the Billboard adult contemporary chart in December 1975. It won a Grammy Award for Song of the Year and was nominated for Record of the Year in 1977. Johnston has stated that, for him, the I in the song is God. Manilow was initially reluctant to record the song, stating in his autobiography Sweet Life: The problem with the song was that if you didn't listen carefully to the lyric, you would think that the singer was singing about himself. It could be misinterpreted as a monumental ego trip.

C Instrument - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1202056 By The Beach Boys. By Bruce Johnston. Arranged by BryPiot. Contemporary,Pop. Lead Sheet / Fake Book. 6 pages. BryPiot #800678. Published by BryPiot (A0.1202056). Disney Girls (1957) by Bruce Johnston. This arrangement is The Captain & Tennille version.The Captain and TennilleBruce JohnstonThe Beach Boys.

C Instrument - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1247857 By Joe Cocker. By Billy Preston and Bruce Fisher. Arranged by John Fries. 20th Century,Film/TV,Pop,Standards. Lead Sheet / Fake Book. 1 pages. John Fries #842413. Published by John Fries (A0.1247857). Please contact me by email at jfries@ptd.net to make a special request or to find out all that I have to offer and to express your comments or concerns. Thanks, John.  English singer Joe Cocker released a version of the song on his album I Can Stand a Little Rain.  Cocker's version was released as a single in November 1974.  It became Cocker's highest-charting solo hit, peaking at number five on the United States' Billboard Hot 100.  Billy Preston wrote You Are So Beautiful with one of his regular collaborators, Bruce Fisher.  Preston's inspiration was his mother, who worked as a stage actress.  According to his friend Sam Moore (who had assumed it was a standard love song), Preston was appalled to learn that Moore was using the song as a means to attract young women each time he sang it in concert.  In Moore's description, Preston told him: That song's about my mother!.

C Instrument - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.500054 Composed by Bruce Springsteen. Arranged by John Fries. 20th Century,Film/TV,Jazz,Latin,Standards. Lead Sheet / Fake Book. 1 pages. John Fries #113273. Published by John Fries (A0.500054). Please contact me by email at jfries@ptd.net to make a special request or to find out all that I have to offer and to express your comments or concerns.  You can also type John Fries in the searchbar to see all I have to offer.  Dancing in the Dark is a popular American song, with music by Arthur Schwartz and lyrics by Howard Dietz, that was first introduced by John Barker with Tilly Losch dancing in the 1931 revue The Band Wagon.

C Instrument - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.515442 By Barry Manilow. By Barry Manilow, Bruce Sussman, and Jack Feldman. Arranged by John Fries. 20th Century,Film/TV,Jazz,Latin,Standards. Lead Sheet / Fake Book. 2 pages. John Fries #126201. Published by John Fries (A0.515442). Please contact me by email at jfries@ptd.net to make a special request or to find out all that I have to offer and to express your comments or concerns.  You can also type John Fries in the searchbar to see all I have to offer.  The Copacabana was a New York City nightclub that has existed in several locations. Its most recent location, in Times Square, closed in May 2020. In earlier locations, many entertainers, such as Danny Thomas, Pat Cooper and the comedy team of Martin and Lewis, made their New York debuts at the Copacabana. The Barry Manilow song Copacabana (1978) is named after, and set in, the club.

C Instrument - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.500210 Composed by Laura White, Pete Hammerton, and William Edward Simister. Arranged by John Fries. 20th Century,Film/TV,Jazz,Standards. Lead Sheet / Fake Book. 1 pages. John Fries #113396. Published by John Fries (A0.500210). Please contact me by email at jfries@ptd.net to make a special request or to find out all that I have to offer and to express your comments or concerns.  You can also type John Fries in the searchbar to see all I have to offer.  You Don't Know What Love Is is a popular song of the Great American Songbook, written by Don Raye (lyrics) and Gene de Paul (music) for the Abbott and Costello picture Keep 'Em Flying (1941), in which it was sung by Carol Bruce.

C Instrument - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1283027 By Carol Bruce. By Don Raye and Gene De Paul. Arranged by Teresa Young. Blues,Jazz,Soul. Lead Sheet / Fake Book. 2 pages. Teresa Young #874318. Published by Teresa Young (A0.1283027). The sad and utterly gorgeous ballad You Don't Know What Love Is by Gene De Paul and Don Raye has been covered by jazz royalty like Louis Armstrong, Chet Baker, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Etta James and Nina Simone! Arranger Teresa Young's lead sheet in G minor for lower female voices includes extended jazz voicings. It includes guitar chord diagrams.