Brass Ensemble - Level 5 - Digital Download
SKU: A0.941017
By Stevie Wonder. By Stevie Wonder. Arranged by Helen Douthwaite-Teasdale. Pop,Soul. Score and parts. 9 pages. Helen Douthwaite-Teasdale #4755995. Published by Helen Douthwaite-Teasdale (A0.941017).
Sir Duke is a song composed and performed by Stevie Wonder, from his 1976 album Songs in the Key of Life. Released as a single in 1977, the track topped the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and Black Singles charts and reached number two in the UK Singles Chart, his joint biggest hit there at the time. Billboard ranked it as the No. 18 song of 1977.
The song was written in tribute to Duke Ellington, the influential jazz legend who had died in 1974. The lyrics also refer to Count Basie, Glenn Miller, Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald.
