The Harold Arlen Songbook

The Harold Arlen Songbook by Hal Leonard Piano - Vocal - Guitar.I love this book! All 304 pages of it.I am pleased with its quality, its thoroughness, and best of all, the exciting tunes that I never expected to find. I bought this book just for one title that was linked to this book in Bing.com - "Blues In The Night". Doing jazz and blues, I suspected this tune needed to be in my set. So I went to Amazon, bought the book and hoped for the best, and what a happy surprise when it came in the mail.I have to admit that I hardly knew about Harold Arlen until last week (6/21/12). I am ashamed, but am making up for years of not knowing his music or the man. Just as the intro in the book says, "You wrote that, too?", which was exactly my response - OVER THE RAINBOW, STORMY WEATHER (presented here in its complete form), GET HAPPY, BLUES IN THE NIGHT, COME RAIN OR COME SHINE, IT'S ONLY A PAPER MOON ......Anyone wanting a great set of really nice tunes to play should check this book out.Here is the list of all the Arlen tunes in the book. They include the vocal and the piano and the piano portion DOES NOT NEED to be accompanied by the vocal piece to produce the wonderful impression of this great artist. Each piece has a note of which musical it is from and there is a great biography and a thorough time line of all his 'tunes'. To top it off, there are eight photos of Mr. Arlen - one with his dog Shmutts, and another interesting one with Ira Gershwin (I though Stormy Weather was a Gershwin tune until now). The very last page has a picture of Harold and his wife, Anya in 1935 - Really a cool '30s-looking couple.Here are all the tunes just so you can see if this is your cup of tea: Ac-cent-tchu-ate The Positive From 'here Comes The Waves', F Major Ain't It De Truth From 'jamaica', Eb Major Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home From 'st. Louis Woman', F Major As Long As I Live From 'cotton Club Parade', F Major Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea From 'rhythmania', F Major Blues In The Night (My Mama Done Tol' Me) From "blues In The Night", Bb Major Buds Won't Bud From "hooray For What", Eb Major Cocoanut Sweet From 'jamaica', C Major Come Rain Or Come Shine From 'st. Louis Woman', F Major Ding-dong! The Witch Is Dead From "the Wizard Of Oz", C Major Dissertation On The State Of Bliss (Love And Learn) From "the Country Girl", C Major Don't Like Goodbyes From 'house Of Flowers', Eb Major Down With Love From "hooray For What", C Major The Eagle And Me From "bloomer Girl", Eb Major Evelina From "bloomer Girl", Eb Major Fancy Meeting You From "stage Struck", Eb Major For Every Man There's A Woman From "casbah", F Major Fun To Be Fooled From "life Begins At 8:40", G Major Get Happy From "nine Fifteen Review", Eb Major God's Country From "hooray For What", Eb Major Goose Will Never Be Peacock From "saratoga", F Major Happiness Is A Thing Called Joe From "cabin In The Sky", C Major Happy As The Day Is Long From 'cotton Club Parade', C Major Happy With The Blues C Major Hit The Road To Dreamland From "star Spangled Rhythm", Bb Major Hooray For Love From "casbah", C Major House Of Flowers From 'house Of Flowers', C Major I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues From "earl Carroll's Vanities", Bb Major I Had A Love Once C Major I Had Myself A True Love From 'st. Louis Woman', Eb Major I Never Has Seen Snow From 'house Of Flowers', G Major I Wonder What Became Of Me From 'st. Louis Woman', Eb Major I've Got The World On A String From 'cotton Club Parade', F Major If I Only Had A Brain From "the Wizard Of Oz", F Major Ill Wind (You're Blowin' Me No Good) From 'cotton Club Parade', Bb Major In The Shade Of The New Apple Tree From "hooray For What", Eb Major It Was Written In The Stars From "casbah", Eb Major It's Only A Paper Moon From "the Great Magoo", G Major Last Night When We Were Young G Major Let's Fall In Love From "let's Fall In Love", C Major Lets Take Long Way Home From 'here Comes The Waves', Eb Major Let's Take A Walk Around The Block From "life Begins At 8:40", C Major Life's Full Of Consequence From "cabin In The Sky", C Major Like A Straw In The Wind C Major Little Drops Of Rain From "gay Purr-ee", C Major Lullaby (Scott) From 'st. Louis Woman', G Major The Man That Got Away From "a Star Is Born", F Major Moanin' In The Mornin' From "hooray For What", C Major Money Cat From "gay Purr-ee", F Major The Morning After D Major My Shining Hour From "the Sky's The Limit", Eb Major One For My Baby (And One More For The Road) From "the Sky's The Limit", Eb Major Out Of This World From "out Of This World", Eb Major Over The Rainbow From "the Wizard Of Oz", Eb Major Paris Is A Lonely Town From "gay Purr-ee", F Major Promise Me Not To Love Me G Major Push De Button From "jamaica", G Major Right As The Rain From "bloomer Girl", C Major Satan's Li'l Lamb From "americana", C Minor Silent Spring C Major A Sleepin' Bee From 'house Of Flowers', Eb Major So Long, Big Time! Eb Major Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All The Time) G Major That Old Black Magic Eb Major That's A Kind Of Freedom E Minor There's Sweet Wind Blowin C Major This Time The Dream's On Me From "blues In The Night", G Major Today I Love Everybody From "the Farmer Takes A Wife", G Major The Wail Of The Reefer Man From 'cotton Club Parade', F Minor What's Good About Goodbye? From "casbah", F Major When The Sun Comes Out C Major When The Wind Blows South C Major Who Will It Be When The Time Comes? From "down Among The Sheltering Palms", G Major With The Sun Warm Upon Me From "the Farmer Takes A Wife", Eb Major Woman's Prerogative From 'st. Louis Woman', F Major You're The Cure For What Ails Me From "the Singing Kid", F MajorI hope I have helped you decide on this book. Happy playing!

A biblical text in the literature of The Great American Songbook. We need a volume 2 for all the brilliant material left unpublished in this anthology.

Item description was accurate; shipping was prompt; and packing was excellent. Thank you!

Musical theater daughter in college has this songbook and really liked some of the songs--some very popular songs and others unknown gems which are great for auditions. We had to give this as gifts to several voice teachers--after she had shared the songbook, they really wanted a copy to share with their own voice students. Most popular song by this musical theater and movie composer: "Somewhere Over the Rainbow"...Check out his other songs!

My favorite composer of torch songs. The best.

A fabulous collection of Arlen songs! Highly recommended!

What a great discovery to find the composer of so many of the songs I heard and learned to love...and sing. Lke the songs from "The Wizard of Oz". This will become a song book I will play from frequently. Great songs here for all time.

What a wonderful collection to have in my library. Thanks so much.

A nostalgic look back at some great and not so great numbers.The known numbers are fantastic the others are easily forgotten,with some seemingly put together for film fillers. Others from early reviews are better and memorable and deserve to be rediscovered.On the whole an enjoyable collection.

Attractive to look at, loads of information, lovely music, BUT it won't stay flat open on the music stand. A ringed version would have been better.

Muchos conocen la canción Stormy Weather o la de Over the Rainbow, temas de Harol Arlen, incluidos en este libro.Es un completa selección de las piezas de este versátil compositor, que abarcaba estilos muy variados, incluyendo piezas de Jazz que hoy son estándar de los mas apreciados y conocidos.Estas partituras tienen un nivel medio alto. Son asequibles, como es normal unas mas sencillas y otras mas complejas, pero todas tienen un buen estilo, no son partituras infantiles.El cifrado de acordes es completo y los arreglos son buenos, por lo que valen tanto para los que están acostumbrados a leer acordes y hacer sus propios acompañamientos, como para aquellos que estudian piano clásico y quieren tocar algo distinto. La mayoría Incluyen la melodía con sus arreglos, por lo que son partituras para tocar sólo, sin voz, pero como he señalado, al tener el cifrado completo de acordes, puedes crea un acompañamiento y usarla como partitura acompañar y cantar.

This collection is essential, well put together, and carefully presented. If you love the music in The Wizard of Oz, or have hummed One for My Baby (and One More for the Road) this is for you.

Who does not like music. How many people know this man? Buy the book and add it to your collection