SKU: A0.562302

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 composer, Julius Wechter, was a percussionist in Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, most notably on marimba. Spanish Flea featured Alpert's trumpet over a Latin rhythm backing. In the United States, the song is closely associated with the long-running game show The Dating Game, for which it served as the Bachelor’s Theme. The tune has been featured in four episodes of The Simpsons as well as many other films.

SKU: A0.873396

This classic song is easy-to-read, fun to play, and features a single line melody along with the full score for the intermediate piano player. Guitar chords also included. Perfect for use at home or school. Fun, professional arrangement by Hal Wright.

SKU: A0.1138763

Inkawu the Monkey is the thirteenth in a series of fifteen original contemporary compositions for piano, titled 15 Animal Compositions for Piano and created to musically describe the movement and habits of specific wildlife creatures. From music notes to words: Inkawu the monkey is very naughty and mischievous. Having spent the morning sitting in the sun while some females searched his fur for fleas, he is now in a hilariously expressive mood. Swinging from the branches of a huge African tree, he mocks everything and everybody around him, mimicking a scornful dance with his weird movements and giving the impression of being a funny clown in a circus. When he comes across a car loaded with passengers on a narrow road between the trees, he jumps straight onto the bonnet of the vehicle, pressing his face on the front window and pulling faces to amuse the surprised audience inside. He grins when they feed him oranges through a small opening of a nearly closed window and refusing to leave, he sits on the bonnet for almost an hour, filling up his tummy and satisfying his taste buds with the juicy citrus fruits. When he finally leaps off the car, he continues his merry ragtime dance until he disappears between the trees..

SKU: R0.47609

Melodies pour Debutants / Melodien fur Anfanger. Scotland / Fleas Jumping / There Is A Green Hill Far Away / Cadet Rousselle / Dangerous Liaisons / Sadness / Toys' Procession / Home On The Range / The Blue Danube / Can-Can / Farther and Farther / Going Up / The King of Sliding / Swanee River...

SKU: A0.928249

Love Is Pleasing - this traditional Irish song exists in many versions but this one is based on a version recorded at Kilrush Fleadh Cheoil, County Clare in the Summer of 1967. The singer was a young Dolly Mac Mahon singing unaccompanied at the bar of the pub, the melody is beautifully decorated and I have borrowed some of her ideas. The lyrics are a fusion of various versions but adapted to suit a male singer. The guitar accompaniment is an original work by Simon James.

SKU: AX.00-PS-0008212

SKU: A0.873445

This classic song is easy-to-read, fun to play, and features a single line melody along with the full score for the intermediate piano player. Guitar chords also included. Perfect for use at home or school. Fun, professional arrangement by Hal Wright.