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Boney M Megamix 1992
Concert band
Concert Band - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1286833 Composed by Bobby Hebb, B…
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Concert Band - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1286833 Composed by Bobby Hebb, Brent Dowe, Frank Farian, Fred Jay, George Reyam, and James McNaughton. Arranged by John Ivor Holland. 20th Century,Disco,Pop,Rock. Score and Parts. 80 pages. John Ivor Holland #877846. Published by John Ivor Holland (A0.1286833). Turn back the clock to the heyday of European disco with this fantastic megamix of songs from German sensations, Boney M, which reached the top ten in many countries in 1992. Featuring the massive hits Rivers of Babylon, Sunny, Daddy Cool, Rasputin and Ma Baker, this chart is sure to conjure up lots of memories and maybe even get your audience up dancing!
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Boneyard Boogie (boogie-woogie remix of "Humpty Dumpty" and "Dem Bones")
Piano solo
Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.741189 Composed by James Weldon Joh…
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Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.741189 Composed by James Weldon Johnson. Arranged by Anne Britt. Blues,Children,Jazz,Spiritual. Score. 4 pages. Anne Britt #3506321. Published by Anne Britt (A0.741189). After setting the stage with a mournful rendition of Humpty Dumpty’s unfortunate accident, the rest of this song is about putting the pieces back together, one by one – a song of hope and celebration that builds in excitement as each chorus of Dem Bones gets a little faster. This one will definitely get your toe bones tapping! 4 pages. Performance time approximately 2:00.Also available as part of the Piano Remixes: Kid Songs Vol. 2 intermediate songbook: https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/20756042Visit the publisher's website for contact info and some free sheet music downloads: https://annebrittmusic.com/
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Boneyard Boogie
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See What I'm Sayin'?
Small Ensemble Clarinet,Soprano Saxophone,Tenor Saxophone,Trumpet - Digital Download SK…
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Small Ensemble Clarinet,Soprano Saxophone,Tenor Saxophone,Trumpet - Digital Download SKU: A0.925681 By Boney James. By David Allen Woods, James Oppenheim, and Paul Brown. Arranged by Dennis Benning. Contemporary. Score and parts. 5 pages. Dennis Benning #6340033. Published by Dennis Benning (A0.925681). See What I'm Sayin' is a transcription of the song's solo saxophone part from Boney James' album Ride. This download includes only ta Bb instrument part, and is meant to be played with a karaoke backing track. Dennis Benning, the arranger, currently lives in Denver. He teaches flute and clarinet, records music for his YouTube channel (Flute Dude Music), and has recently engaged in flute repair. Check out his TikTok, YouTube, and Facebook (Flute Dude Music) pages to follow what he is doing, and to see exclusive videos!
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Small Ensemble Flute,Oboe,Violin - Digital Download SKU: A0.925680 By Boney James. …
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Small Ensemble Flute,Oboe,Violin - Digital Download SKU: A0.925680 By Boney James. By David Allen Woods, James Oppenheim, and Paul Brown. Arranged by Dennis Benning. Contemporary. Score and parts. 5 pages. Dennis Benning #6340045. Published by Dennis Benning (A0.925680). See What I'm Sayin' is a transcription of the song's solo saxophone part from Boney James' album Ride. This download includes only ta Bb instrument part, and is meant to be played with a karaoke backing track. Dennis Benning, the arranger, currently lives in Denver. He teaches flute and clarinet, records music for his YouTube channel (Flute Dude Music), and has recently engaged in flute repair. Check out his TikTok, YouTube, and Facebook (Flute Dude Music) pages to follow what he is doing, and to see exclusive videos!
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See What I'm Sayin'?
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Rivers Of Babylon
Mixed Percussion B-Flat Tuba,B-Flat trombone,Baritone Horn TC/Euphonium,Bass Trombone,E-Fl…
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Mixed Percussion B-Flat Tuba,B-Flat trombone,Baritone Horn TC/Euphonium,Bass Trombone,E-Flat Cornet,E-Flat Tenor Horn,E-Flat Tuba TC,Flugelhorn,Percussion 1,Percussion 2,Tenor Trombone - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1141373 By Boney M. By Brent Dowe, Frank Farian, George Reyam, and James A. McNaughton. Arranged by Louis Davies. Christian,Pop. Brass Band. 22 pages. LouD Music #741694. Published by LouD Music (A0.1141373). A Small Brass Group (2 Cornets, Tenor Horn, Euphonium, Eb Bass and Drum Kit) arrangement of the Boney M Super Hit, Rivers of Babylon.
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Boney M
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Rivers Of Babylon
2 Guitars (duet)
Instrumental Duet Guitar,Instrumental Duet - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.934288
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Instrumental Duet Guitar,Instrumental Duet - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.934288 By Boney M. By Brent Dowe, Frank Farian, George Reyam, and James A. McNaughton. Arranged by Sergio Vettore. Dance,Disco. Score and parts. 2 pages. Sergio Vettore #5723919. Published by Sergio Vettore (A0.934288). Rivers of Babilon by Boney M arranger for guitar duo.
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Rivers Of Babylon
Piano solo
Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.794586 By Boney M. By Brent Dowe, F…
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Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.794586 By Boney M. By Brent Dowe, Frank Farian, George Reyam, and James A. McNaughton. Arranged by Piano Go Life. Dance,Disco. Score. 6 pages. Piano Go Life #6692007. Published by Piano Go Life (A0.794586). Boney. M - Rivers of Babylon Piano Cover .
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Rivers Of Babylon
String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello
String Quartet Cello,String Quartet,Viola,Violin - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.7…
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String Quartet Cello,String Quartet,Viola,Violin - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.742488 By Boney M. By Brent Dowe, Frank Farian, George Reyam, and James A. McNaughton. Arranged by Javier MartÃnez. Dance,Disco. Score and parts. 17 pages. Arte Nova Music Lab #4742239. Published by Arte Nova Music Lab (A0.742488). Rivers of Babylon is a Rastafari song written and recorded by Brent Dowe and Trevor McNaughton of the Jamaican reggae group The Melodians in 1970. The lyrics are adapted from the texts of Psalms 19 and 137 in the Hebrew Bible. The Melodians' original version of the song appeared on the soundtrack album for the 1972 movie The Harder They Come, which made it internationally known.The song was popularized in Europe by the 1978 Boney M. cover version, which was awarded a platinum disc and is one of the top-ten all-time best-selling singles in the UK. The B-side of the single, Brown Girl in the Ring, also became a hit.Taken from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivers_of_Babylon
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Rivers Of Babylon
Choral SATB
Choral Choir (SATB) - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1246898 By Boney M. By Bre…
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Choral Choir (SATB) - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1246898 By Boney M. By Brent Dowe, Frank Farian, George Reyam, and James A. McNaughton. Arranged by Kate Airey. 20th Century,A Cappella,Contemporary,Pop,Religious. Octavo. 7 pages. Kate Airey #841569. Published by Kate Airey (A0.1246898). SATB Choral Arrangement of Boney M.'s 'Rivers of Babylon'.
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King Of The Road
Bassoon,Clarinet,Flute,Oboe - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.747086 By Randy Tr…
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Bassoon,Clarinet,Flute,Oboe - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.747086 By Randy Travis. By Roger Miller. Arranged by Keith Terrett. Contemporary. 27 pages. Keith Terrett #6426723. Published by Keith Terrett (A0.747086). An arrangement of the classic King of the Road for Wind Dectet.King of the Road is a song written by country singer Roger Miller, who first recorded it in November 1964. The lyrics tell of the day-to-day life of a hobo who, despite being poor (a man of means by no means), revels in his freedom, describing himself humorously and cynically as the king of the road. It was Miller's fifth single for Smash Records. The popular crossover record hit No. 1 on the US Country chart, No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100, and No. 1 on the Easy Listening surveys. It was also No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart, and in Norway. Miller recalled that the song was inspired when he was driving and saw a sign on the side of a barn that read, Trailers for sale or rent. This would become the opening line of the song.The song has been covered by many other artists, including George Jones, Dean Martin, Val Doonican, Jack Jones, James Booker, The Fabulous Echoes, Boney M., R.E.M., Johnny Paycheck, Glen Campbell, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Boxcar Willie, Randy Travis, Rangers, James Kilbane, John Stevens, the Statler Brothers, Rufus Wainwright & Teddy Thompson, Giant Sand, Peligro, John Williamson (singer) & Adam Harvey, The Proclaimers, Ray Conniff Singers, The Reverend Horton Heat, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Jim White. James The King Brown (an Elvis impersonator) performed the song for a 2001 Audi commercial on German TV. Of R.E.M.'s version, a shambolic, drunken, offhand rendering, guitarist Peter Buck would later comment, If there was any justice in the world, Roger Miller should be able to sue for what we did to this song.King of the Road was performed live by Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Marty Stuart, Dwight Yoakam and Dolly Parton during Miller's posthumous induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame at the 1995 CMA Awards ceremony.The song appears in Wim Wenders's 1976 film Im Lauf der Zeit (In the Course of Time; English title Kings of the Road). It is also played at the beginning of Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, Brokeback Mountain, Into the Wild (2007), Traveller (1997), and Swingers (1996). Miller performs it in the concert film The Big T.N.T. Show. The Proclaimers' version is included in the film The Crossing (1990). Near the end of their official music video, the pair are shown reading a newspaper whose headline is Roger Miller, King of Plugs.Miller's recording appears in an episode of the Super Dave TV show, where Super Dave Osborne (Bob Einstein) sings along while sitting at a piano mounted on top of his tour bus. The bus eventually goes into a low tunnel, slamming into the piano and Osborne and pushing them off the bus and onto the ground.A send-up version by English entertainer Billy Howard was a British chart hit in 1976.A German take by the band Wise Guys exists, the parody referring to speeding on the Autobahn.
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Rivers Of Babylon
Choral TTBB
Choral Choir,Choral,TTBB Chorus - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1440149 By Bon…
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Choral Choir,Choral,TTBB Chorus - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1440149 By Boney M. By Brent Dowe, Frank Farian, George Reyam, and James A. McNaughton. Arranged by Andrew Emmet. A Cappella,Christian,Pop,Religious,Rock. 7 pages. Andrew J Emmet #1020098. Published by Andrew J Emmet (A0.1440149). TTBB A Cappella arrangement.
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Rivers Of Babylon
Drums
Drum Set,Drums - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1375042 By Boney M. By Brent Do…
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Drum Set,Drums - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1375042 By Boney M. By Brent Dowe, Frank Farian, George Reyam, and James A. McNaughton. Arranged by Drum Transcription: Drum Sheet MX. Film/TV,Rock,Traditional. Score. 2 pages. Drum Sheet MX #959614. Published by Drum Sheet MX (A0.1375042).
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Rivers Of Babylon
Choral 3-part
Choral Choir (SSA) - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.888221 By Boney M. By Brent…
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Choral Choir (SSA) - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.888221 By Boney M. By Brent Dowe, Frank Farian, George Reyam, and James A. McNaughton. Arranged by Konstantinos Evangelatos. Dance,Disco. Octavo. 12 pages. Konstantinos Evangelatos #4895247. Published by Konstantinos Evangelatos (A0.888221). The audio sample (Listen) is a selected extractFor Similar Voices' Choir (SSA or TTB*) and Piano accompaniment.12 pages, duration aBOUT 3.25 min. Appropriate for schools and all SSA choirs. For general use.(*) By transposing the female voices an octave down
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Rivers Of Babylon
Choral 3-part
Choral Choir,Choral (SAB) - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1087827 By Boney M. …
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Choral Choir,Choral (SAB) - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1087827 By Boney M. By Brent Dowe, Frank Farian, George Reyam, and James A. McNaughton. Arranged by Andrew Emmet. A Cappella,Pop,Rock,Sacred,Spiritual. 4 pages. Andrew J Emmet #692055. Published by Andrew J Emmet (A0.1087827). SAB A Cappella arrangement. Melody mostly in Alto part.
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Rivers Of Babylon
Choral 3-part
Choral Choir,Choral (SSA) - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1087825 By Boney M. …
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Choral Choir,Choral (SSA) - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1087825 By Boney M. By Brent Dowe, Frank Farian, George Reyam, and James A. McNaughton. Arranged by Andrew Emmet. A Cappella,Pop,Rock,Sacred,Spiritual. 4 pages. Andrew J Emmet #692052. Published by Andrew J Emmet (A0.1087825). SSA A Cappella arrangement. Melody mostly in Sop 2.
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Rivers Of Babylon
Choral SATB
Choral Choir,Choral (SATB) - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.718949 By Boney M. …
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Choral Choir,Choral (SATB) - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.718949 By Boney M. By Brent Dowe, Frank Farian, George Reyam, and James A. McNaughton. Arranged by Andrew Emmet. A Cappella,Pop,Rock,Sacred,Spiritual. 7 pages. Andrew J Emmet #3691557. Published by Andrew J Emmet (A0.718949). SATB A Cappella. Melody mostly in alto part.
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Rivers Of Babylon
Choral SATB
Choral Choir (SATB) - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.997153 By Boney M. By Bren…
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Choral Choir (SATB) - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.997153 By Boney M. By Brent Dowe, Frank Farian, George Reyam, and James A. McNaughton. Arranged by Christine Grodd. A Cappella,Dance,Disco. Octavo. 6 pages. Christine Grodd #5899665. Published by Christine Grodd (A0.997153). SATB a-cappella, early intermediate, 6 pages.
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Christine Grodd
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Rivers Of Babylon
Small Ensemble Guitar,Organ,Piano,Voice - Digital Download SKU: A0.909436 By Boney …
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Small Ensemble Guitar,Organ,Piano,Voice - Digital Download SKU: A0.909436 By Boney M. By Brent Dowe, Frank Farian, George Reyam, and James A. McNaughton. Arranged by Aliese Watts. Dance,Disco. Score and parts. 11 pages. Aliese Watts #3899053. Published by Aliese Watts (A0.909436).
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Rivers Of Babylon
Choral 3-part
Choral Choir (SAB) - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1229119 By Boney M. By Bren…
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Choral Choir (SAB) - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1229119 By Boney M. By Brent Dowe, Frank Farian, George Reyam, and James A. McNaughton. Arranged by Tom Rodgers. 20th Century,Pop,Reggae,Religious. Octavo. 7 pages. Tom Rodgers #825020. Published by Tom Rodgers (A0.1229119). This upbeat popular Rastafarian song, in a reggae style, is arranged for SAB for choirs of an easy/intermediate level. Suitable for all sorts of occasions, this song has a sense of joy about it - a good one to get your audience tapping its toes!
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Rivers Of Babylon
Organ
By Boney M. By Brent Dowe, Frank Farian, George Reyam, and James A. McNaughton. Arra…
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By Boney M. By Brent Dowe, Frank Farian, George Reyam, and James A. McNaughton. Arranged by Jonathan Selimovic (a.k.a. Jonny Music). Dance, Disco. Score. 7 pages. Jonny Music #6329861. Published by Jonny Music
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Watermelon Man for Clarinet Quintet & Opt. Drumset
Clarinet Quintet: 5 clarinets
By Herbie Hancock. Arranged by Keith Terrett. Score, Set of Parts. 22 pages. Published…
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By Herbie Hancock. Arranged by Keith Terrett. Score, Set of Parts. 22 pages. Published by Music for all Occasions
Arranged for Clarinet Quintet & optional drumset, "Watermelon Man" is a jazz standard written by Herbie Hancock, first released on his debut album, Takin' Off (1962), in a grooving hard bop version that featured improvisations by Freddie Hubbard and Dexter Gordon.<br> <br> A single of the tune reached the Top 100 of the pop charts. Cuban percussionist Mongo Santamaría released the tune as a latin pop single the next year on Battle Records, where it became a surprise hit, reaching #10 on the pop charts. Santamaría's recording was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998. Hancock radically re-worked the tune, combining elements of funk, for the album Head Hunters (1973).<br> <br> Hancock's first version was released as a grooving hard bop record, and featured improvisations by Freddie Hubbard and Dexter Gordon. A single reached the Top 100 of the pop chart. Cuban percussionist Mongo Santamaría released the tune as a Latin pop single and it became a surprise hit, reaching No. 10 on the pop chart.[2] Santamaría's recording was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998. Hancock radically re-worked the tune, combining elements of funk, for the album Head Hunters (1973).<br> <br> Hancock wrote the piece to help sell his debut album as a leader, Takin' Off (1962), on Blue Note Records; it was the first piece of music he had ever composed with a commercial goal in mind. The popularity of the piece, due primarily to Mongo Santamaría, paid Hancock's bills for five or six years. Hancock did not feel the composition was a sellout however, describing that structurally, it was one of his strongest pieces due to its almost mathematical balance.<br> <br> The form is a sixteen bar blues. Recalling the piece, Hancock said, "I remember the cry of the watermelon man making the rounds through the back streets and alleys of Chicago. The wheels of his wagon beat out the rhythm on the cobblestones." The tune, based on a bluesy piano riff, drew on elements of R&B, soul jazz and bebop, all combined into a pop hook. Hancock joined bassist Butch Warren and drummer Billy Higgins in the rhythm section, with Freddie Hubbard on trumpet and Dexter Gordon on tenor saxophone. Hancock's chordal work draws from the gospel tradition, while he builds his solo on repeated riffs and trilled figures.<br> <br> Hancock filled in for pianist Chick Corea in Mongo Santamaría's band one weekend at a nightclub in The Bronx when Corea gave notice that he was leaving. Hancock played the tune for Santamaría at friend Donald Byrd's urging. Santamaría started accompanying him on his congas, then his band joined in, and the small audience slowly got up from their tables and started dancing, laughing and having a great time. Santamaría later asked Hancock if he could record the tune. On December 17, 1962, Mongo Santamaría recorded a three-minute version, suitable for radio, where he joined timbalero Francisco "Kako" Baster in a cha-cha beat, while drummer Ray Lucas performed a backbeat. Santamaría included the track on his album Watermelon Man (1962). Santamaría's recording is sometimes considered the beginning of Latin boogaloo, a fusion of Afro-Cuban rhythms with those of R&B<br> <br> Hancock re-recorded the tune for Head Hunters (1973), combining synthesizers with a Sly Stone and James Brown funk influence, adding an eight-bar section. Hancock described his composition "Chameleon", also from Head Hunters, to Down Beat magazine in 1979: "In the popular forms of funk, which I've been trying to get into, the attention is on the rhythmic interplay between different instruments. The part the Clavinet plays has to fit with the part the drums play and the line the bass plays and the line that the guitar plays. It's almost like African drummers where seven drummers play different parts"; "Watermelon Man" shares a similar construction. A live version was released on the double LP Flood (1975), recorded in Japan.<br> <br> On the intro and outro of the tune, percussionist Bill Summers blows into beer bottles imitating hindewhu, a style of singing/whistle-playing found in Pygmy music of Central Africa. Hancock and Summers were struck by the sound, which they heard on the ethnomusicology LP, The Music of the Ba-Benzélé Pygmies (1966), by Simha Arom and Geneviève Taurelle.<br> <br> This version was often featured on The Weather Channel's Local on the 8s segments.<br> <br> The tune is a jazz standard and has been recorded over two hundred times. Hancock's recording has been sampled in "1-900-LL-Cool-J" from Walking with a Panther (1989) by LL Cool J, "Open Your Eyes" from Organized Konfusion (1991) by Organized Konfusion, "Smoke Some Kill" from Smoke Some Kill (1988) by Schoolly D, and "Pocket Full of Furl" from Uptown 4 Life (1996) by U.N.L.V. In 2003, pianist David Benoit covered the song from his album Right Here, Right Now.<br> <br> A live and funky performance at the 1999 Montreux Jazz Festival Casino Lights '99 featured Fourplay, George Duke, Boney James and Kirk Whalum trading choruses, and Rick Braun.
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King Of The Road for Classical Brass Quintet
Brass Quintet: 2 trumpets, horn, trombone, tuba
Brass Quintet - Intermediate - Digital Download By Randy Travis, Roger Miller. Arranged …
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Brass Quintet - Intermediate - Digital Download By Randy Travis, Roger Miller. Arranged by Keith Terrett. Individual Part, Score, Set of Parts. 8 pages. Published by Music for all Occasions
An arrangement of the evergreen top hit song from 1964 ''King of the Road'', set for classical Brass Quintet. "King of the Road" is a song written by country singer Roger Miller, who first recorded it in November 1964. The lyrics tell of the day-to-day life of a hobo who, despite being poor (a "man of means by no means"), revels in his freedom, describing himself humorously and cynically as the "king of the road". It was Miller's fifth single for Smash Records. The popular crossover record hit No. 1 on the US Country chart, No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100, and No. 1 on the Easy Listening surveys. It was also No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart, and in Norway. Miller recalled that the song was inspired when he was driving and saw a sign on the side of a barn that read, "Trailers for sale or rent".[6] This would become the opening line of the song. The song has been covered by many other artists, including George Jones, Dean Martin, Val Doonican, Jack Jones, James Booker, The Fabulous Echoes, Boney M., R.E.M., Johnny Paycheck, Glen Campbell, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Boxcar Willie, Randy Travis, Rangers, James Kilbane, John Stevens, the Statler Brothers, Rufus Wainwright and Teddy Thompson, Giant Sand, Peligro, The Proclaimers, Ray Conniff Singers, The Reverend Horton Heat, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Jim White. James "The King" Brown (an Elvis impersonator) performed the song for a 2001 Audi commercial on German TV.[7] Of R.E.M.'s version, a shambolic, drunken, offhand rendering, guitarist Peter Buck would later comment, "If there was any justice in the world, Roger Miller should be able to sue for what we did to this song." "King of the Road" was performed live by Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Marty Stuart, Dwight Yoakam and Dolly Parton during Miller's posthumous induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame at the 1995 CMA Awards ceremony. The song is featured in Wim Wenders' 1976 film Im Lauf der Zeit (In the Course of Time; English title Kings of the Road). It is also played at the beginning of Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, Brokeback Mountain, Into the Wild (2007), Traveller (1997), and Swingers (1996). Miller performs it in the concert film The Big T.N.T. Show. The recording by The Proclaimers is included in the film The Crossing (1990). Near the end of their official music video, the pair are shown reading a newspaper whose headline is "Roger Miller, King of Plugs". Miller's recording appears in an episode of the Super Dave TV show, where Super Dave Osborne (Bob Einstein) sings along while sitting at a piano mounted on top of his tour bus. The bus eventually goes into a low tunnel, slamming into the piano and Osborne and pushing them off the bus and onto the ground. A send-up version by English entertainer Billy Howard was a British chart hit in 1976. A German take by the band Wise Guys exists, the parody referring to speeding on the Autobahn.
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King Of The Road for Classical Brass Quintet
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Rivers Of Babylon
Easy Piano
By Boney M. By Brent Dowe, Frank Farian, George Reyam, and James McNaughton. For easy pian…
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By Boney M. By Brent Dowe, Frank Farian, George Reyam, and James McNaughton. For easy piano. Pop. 2 pages. Published by Hal Leonard - Digital Sheet Music
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Boney M
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Rivers Of Babylon
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