Piano/Vocal/Chords - Digital Download SKU: AX.00-XS-0000274 Composed by Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellington, and Johnny Mercer. Standard. 3 pages. Alfred Music - Digital Sheet Music #00-XS-0000274. Published by Alfred Music - Digital Sheet Music (AX.00-XS-0000274). ISBN 9780739074770. UPC: 038081404509.Johnny Mercer (1909--1976) was not only one of America's greatest lyricists---he helped define the American South from the outside in. His words paint rich and vivid portraits of life in his native Georgia. Mercer wrote a wide variety of songs, from lush, dreamy ballads to plays on colloquial American expressions. He joined forces with some of the most talented composers of his day, including Harold Arlen, Hoagy Carmichael, and Henry Mancini, to fashion one of the most startlingly original catalogs in American popular music. This songbook commemorates the centennial of his birth with piano/vocal sheet music arrangements (including guitar chord frames) for 46 of his most famous and best-loved classics. Titles: Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive * And the Angels Sing * Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home * Autumn Leaves * Bless Yore Beautiful Hide * Blues in the Night * Charade * Come Rain or Come Shine * Day In---Day Out * Days of Wine and Roses * Dream * Drinking Again * Emily * Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear to Tread) * G.I. Jive * The Glow-Worm * Goody-Goody * Hooray for Hollywood * I Thought About You * I Wanna Be Around * If I Had My Druthers * I'm an Old Cowhand (from the Rio Grande) * I'm Old Fashioned * In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening * Jeepers Creepers * Laura * Lazybones * Legalize My Name * Moon River * My Shining Hour * Namely You * On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe * One for My Baby (and One More for the Road) * Satan's Li'l Lamb * Satin Doll * Skylark * Something's Gotta Give * Strip Polka * Summer Wind * The Sweetheart Tree * That Old Black Magic * Too Marvelous for Words * Two of a Kind * When the World Was Young * You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby * You Were Never Lovelier.

Concert Band - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1408939 By Duke Ellington. By Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellington, and Johnny Mercer. Arranged by John Ivor Holland. 20th Century,Film/TV,Jazz,Standards. 43 pages. John Ivor Holland #991543. Published by John Ivor Holland (A0.1408939). Satin Doll is a jazz standard written by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn with lyrics by Johnny Mercer. Written in 1953, the song has been recorded by many artists, incluing Ella Fitzgerald, 101 Strings, Dewey Redman, Chicago and Nancy Wilson. Johnny Mercer was often asked to write lyrics to already popular songs; the yrics to Satin Doll were written after the song was a hit in its instrumental version. This arrangement has been adapted from the jazz ensemble version by John Edmondson, retaining a short trumpet solo and incorporating the piano parts into the clarinets and vibraphone. Ellington used Satin Doll as the closing number in most of his concerts, why not pay tribute to The Duke and do the same at your next event?

Acoustic Guitar,Clarinet,Instrumental Duet - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1227935 By Duke Ellington. By Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellington, and Johnny Mercer. Arranged by Gary Behm. Jazz. 15 pages. GB Music #823935. Published by GB Music (A0.1227935). Thus is one of four listings of Duke Ellington works for Clarinet & Guitar Duo.  Other works listed include C Jam Blues, It Don’t Mean A Thing (It  It Ain’t Got That Swing) and Solitude.  These arrangements have been written to be accessible by Intermediate and advanced players. The guitar part is written in standard notation and TAB. Guitar parts edited by Elizabeth Adcock.

Concert Band - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1454878 Composed by David Raksin and Johnny Mercer. Arranged by John Ivor Holland. 20th Century,Film/TV,Jazz,Pop,Standards. 41 pages. John Ivor Holland #1033949. Published by John Ivor Holland (A0.1454878). 'Laura' is a 1944 American film noir produced and directed by Otto Preminger, starring Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews and Vincent Price. In 1999, 'Laura' was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant and the American Film Institute named it one of the 10 best mystery films of all time. Once the principal photography had been completed, Preminger hired David Raksin to score the film. The director wanted to use Sophisticated Lady by Duke Ellington for the main theme, but Raksin objected. Alfred Newman, music director for Fox, convinced Preminger to give Raksin a weekend to compose an original tune. Furious, Preminger gave Raksin that weekend, but threatened him with dismissal in case he failed; ultimately, Preminger was so pleased with Raksin's score that he collaborated with him on four more films. The haunting theme can be heard throughout the film and this arrangement has been constructed from an exquisite choir and piano version by British composer Roderick Williams - vibraphone features quite extensively but cued as necessary if not available.