Authentic 1920s band charts (transcriptions and arrangements for 1920s bands or orchestras) $10 per chart (unless otherwise noted) Authentic 1920s band charts (transcriptions and arrangements for 1920s bands or orchestra, if “chart” is an arrangement (a full 1920s band/orchestra sheet music orchestration), it includes all of the parts for all of the instruments.
To clarify, a “chart” is an arrangement (a full 1920s band/orchestra sheet music orchestration), it includes all of the parts for all of the instruments. The 1920s band charts here are either note-for-note transcriptions from the recordings or original arrangements in the 1920s style. To hear the recordings that the transcriptions are based on, just copy & paste the description into YouTube. In many cases, even the solos are transcribed. In most cases, the style is from the 1920s and early 1930s. Songs that say “arrangement” are my own arrangements.
Note: The instrumentation of 1920s band charts (also called “1920s orchestra”) is almost always for an 11-piece group. 11-pc groups were pretty much the standard 1920s big band instrumentation for the years 1925-1934). Mostly, the standard was 3 saxes (2 altos + tenor), 2 trumpets, 1 trombone, piano, banjo/guitar, tuba/bass, violin, drums. Some of the charts have vocals or vocal trios (usually one chorus) and can be easily replaced by a solo (or solos) if you don’t have a vocalist. A few of these charts are basically “all” vocal (i.e., beginning to end) and are noted as “vocals.” Scores come with the charts that are in Finale. The earlier “manuscript” charts do not come with scores.
Note: There are also some 1920s band arrangements for 6-piece combo that you might be able to adapt for your 1920s orchestra (see “Combo Charts & Misc. “).
If a chart is a transcription, it should sound very much like the recording. For many of the arrangements and original compositions of mine, I have mp3 recordings. Please ask me for specific titles and I will send them to you. I also do custom work (transcriptions, arrangements, film scoring, karaoke tracks, etc.). So, please click on ” Custom Work” (above) if interested. Similarly, please check out mikehenebry.com (where I sell my original compositions).
AUTOMATIC VOLUME DISCOUNTS! The discounts below (except the whole library) are applied automatically. On the other hand, i f you want a different amount of charts, please email me at bigbandmusicguy@aol.com and I’ll give you a separate quote for your order. Or, if you would like to buy the whole library, email me bigbandmusicguy@aol.com and I’ll send you an invoice (which you can pay through PayPal or a credit card). 6 charts (30% discount) = $42 (= $7 each) 8 charts (40% discount) = $48 (= $6 each) 10 charts (50% discount) = $50 (= $5 each) 25 charts (60% discount) = $100 (= $4 each) 50 charts (70% discount) = $150 (= $3 each) In addition, in between amounts (7 charts, 15 charts, 36 charts, etc.) will get the discounts too. Further, the same discount applies to all charts, solos and booklets on this web site.
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THE 1920s BAND CHARTS: Accordion Joe (’30 Cornell and His Orchestra) Ain’t She Sweet (arrangement) $ 20.00Original price was: $20.00. $ 14.00Current price is: $14.00. Add to cart
April Showers (arrangement) All I Do is Dream of You (’34 Ray Noble w/ Al Bowlly) (with optional 4th sax) All That Jazz/Overture (from Movie “Chicago”) (female vocal) Alone At Last (Coon-Sanders Nighthawks, ’25) Am I Blue? (’29 Ben Selvin w/ Smith Ballew) An’ Furthermore (’28 Irving Aaronson) An’ Furthermore (’27 Beth Challis Orch.) Auld Lang Syne (Guy Lombardo) Big John’s Special (’34 Fletcher Henderson) Black Beauty (’28 Duke Ellington) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 7.00Current price is: $7.00. Add to cart
Blue Skies (’27 Ben Selvin, Knickerbockers) Blue Room (arrangement) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 5.00Current price is: $5.00. Add to cart
Blue Moon (’35 Ray Noble/Al Bowlly) Bourbon St. Parade (arrangement) clarinet, alto, tenor, trumpet trombone + rhythm Borneo (’28 Frank Trumbauer, Bix Beiderbecke, et.al) Brother, Can You Spare A Dime? (’32 Bing Crosby/Lennie Heyton) Button Up Your Overcoat (’28 Helen Kane) Cantina Band (Star Wars Movie) Casey Jones Blues (’29 Andy Kirk) Changes (’27 Paul Whiteman) (Copied From Bill Challis Score) Chant, The (based on CJ Sams arrangement) Clementine From New Orleans (’27 Jean Goldkette) Cotton Club Stomp (’29 Duke Ellington) Cotton Club Stomp (’30 Duke Ellington) Crazy Charleston (original composition by Mike Henebry) Can hear at: https://mikehenebry.com/listen/ $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 7.00Current price is: $7.00. Add to cart
Crazy Rhythm (arrangement) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 7.00Current price is: $7.00. Add to cart
Cushion Foot Stomp (arrangement) Dangerous Nan McGrew (’30 Helen Kane) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 7.00Current price is: $7.00. Add to cart
Dance Of The Cuckoos (Laurel & Hardy) (2 clarinets only) $2 Daybreak Express Medley (’33-’34 Duke Ellington) (Cotton Club Movie Soundtrack) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 7.00Current price is: $7.00. Add to cart
Dinah (’32 Cab Calloway) Dinah (’31 Bing Crosby & Mills Bros.) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 7.00Current price is: $7.00. Add to cart
Do Something (’28 Helen Kane) Don’t Be Like That (’28 Helen Kane) Double Check Stomp (’30 Duke Ellington) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 7.00Current price is: $7.00. Add to cart
Down South Camp Meeting (’34 Fletcher Henderson) Drop Me Off In Harlem (’33 Duke Ellington) East St. Louis Toodle-OO (’27 Duke Ellington) Embraceable You (female vocal) (arrangement) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 7.00Current price is: $7.00. Add to cart
Everybody Loves My Baby (’32 Boswell Sisters) Everybody Stomp! (’25 Andy Preer) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 7.00Current price is: $7.00. Add to cart
From The Top Of Your Head (male vocal) (arrangement) Get ‘Em In A Rumble Seat (1927) (male vocal duet) (arrangement) Gimme A Little Kiss (arrangement) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 7.00Current price is: $7.00. Add to cart
Glad Rag Doll (’28 Golden Gate Orch. aka California Ramblers) Glad Rag Doll (arrangement) Goin’ Nuts (’29 Duke Ellington) Good-Little Bad-Little You (arrangement) Good Old Days (’30 Little Rascals Theme) Guy What Takes His Time, A (’32 Mae West) Harlem Bound (’33 Freddy Johson & His Harlemites) Heartaches (’33 Ted Weems) He’s So Unusual (’29 Helen Kane) Honolulu Baby (’33 Laurel & Hardy) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 5.00Current price is: $5.00. Add to cart
Hora Medley (arrangement) How Could Red Riding Hood? (arrangement) How Long Will It Last? (male vocal) (arrangement) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 5.00Current price is: $5.00. Add to cart
Hummin’ To Myself (’32 Ambrose) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 7.00Current price is: $7.00. Add to cart
I’d Rather Be Blue Over You (’29 Louis Katzman & the Brunswick Orch.) If You Knew Susie (arrangement) It Had To Be You (arrangement) I Found A Million Dollar Baby (arrangement) I Wanna Be Loved By You (arrangement) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 7.00Current price is: $7.00. Add to cart
I’ve Got A Crush On You (female vocal) (arrangement) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 7.00Current price is: $7.00. Add to cart
I Wanna Be Loved By You (’28 Helen Kane) I Want To Be Bad (’28 Helen Kane) I’ll Never Be The Same (’32 Carroll Gibbons) I’m A Little Blackbird Looking For a Bluebird (’24 Clarence Williams & His Blue Five) (expanded) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 7.00Current price is: $7.00. Add to cart
Ill Wind (Cotton Club Movie Soundtrack) (female vocal) Inka Dinka Doo (’34 Jimmy Durante) (male vocal) It Must Be True (Palm Court Theatre Court Orchestra) Is There Anything Wrong In That? (’28 Helen Kane) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 7.00Current price is: $7.00. Add to cart
It Don’t Mean A Thing (’32 Duke Ellington) It Happened In Sun Valley (’41 Glenn Miller) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 7.00Current price is: $7.00. Add to cart
It’s All Forgotten Now (’34 New Mayfair Orchestra with Al Bowlly) It’s Love (’31 Gus Arnheim) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 7.00Current price is: $7.00. Add to cart
Jazz Baby (vocal, C) (Carol Channing, Thoroughly Modern Millie) (female vocal) Jazz Baby (vocal, Eb) (Carol Channing, Thoroughly Modern Millie) (female vocal) Jazznocracy (’34 Jimmie Lunceford) Jungle Nights In Harlem (’31 Duke Ellington) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 7.00Current price is: $7.00. Add to cart
Just One More Chance (male vocal) (arrangement) Keep Your Sunny Side Up (’29 Johnny Hamp’s Kentucky Serenaders) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 7.00Current price is: $7.00. Add to cart
Let’s Misbehave (arrangement) Let’s Misbehave (a la Bordoni) (female vocal) (arrangement) ‘Leven Thirty Saturday Night (’30 Ambrose) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 7.00Current price is: $7.00. Add to cart
Love Is Here To Stay (arrangement) Love Is The Sweetest Thing (arrangement) Ma! (He’s Making Eyes At Me) (arrangement) Margie (arrangement) Maori (’30 Duke Ellington) May I? (’34 Bing Crosby/Matt Finston Orch.) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 6.00Current price is: $6.00. Add to cart
Me And The Man In The Moon (’28 Helen Kane) Me Minus You (’32 Rudy Vallee) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 7.00Current price is: $7.00. Add to cart
Merrily We Roll Along $5 $ 5.00Original price was: $5.00. $ 2.50Current price is: $2.50. Add to cart
Midnight With The Stars And You (’34 Ray Noble) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 7.00Current price is: $7.00. Add to cart
Minnie The Moocher (’31 Cab Calloway) (male vocal) Miss Hannah (’29 McKinney’s Cotton Pickers) Mooch, The (’28 Duke Ellington) Mood Indigo (’30 Duke Ellington) Moonlight Bay (arrangement) Moonlight Savings Time (’31, Jack Payne) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 7.00Current price is: $7.00. Add to cart
Moten Stomp (’27 Bennie Moten) My Pretty Girl (’27 Jean Goldkette) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 7.00Current price is: $7.00. Add to cart
Nagasaki (arrangement) Never In A Million Years (’37 Ben Bernie/Buddy Clark) (male vocal) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 7.00Current price is: $7.00. Add to cart
New Call Of The Freaks, The (’29 Luis Russell) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 7.00Current price is: $7.00. Add to cart
New Orleans Twist (expanded) (’35 Gene Gifford & His Orch.) Nighthawk Blues (’24 Coon-Sanders Nighthawks) (male vocal duet) Oh! If I Only Had You (’26 Ted Weems) Oh! Johnny (arrangement) Oh! Miss Hannah (’29 Paul Whiteman) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 7.00Current price is: $7.00. Add to cart
Oh! You Beautiful Doll (arrangement) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 7.00Current price is: $7.00. Add to cart
One Hour With You (arrangement) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 7.00Current price is: $7.00. Add to cart
Our Love is Here to Stay (arrangement) Ozark Mountain Blues (’29 Missourians) Peggy (’29 McKinney’s Cotton Pickers) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 7.00Current price is: $7.00. Add to cart
Play A Simple Melody (vocal duet) (arrangement) Please (’32 Bing Crosby & Anson Weeks Orch.) key of Ab Please (’32 Bing Crosby & Anson Weeks Orch.) record key (A) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 7.00Current price is: $7.00. Add to cart
Radio (arrangement) Radio Rhythm (Fletcher Henderson, 1931) Rent Party Blues (’29 Duke Ellington) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 7.00Current price is: $7.00. Add to cart
Rhapsody In Blue (From ’24 Ferdie Grofe Score) $25 Rhythm Man (’32 Casa Loma Orchestra) Ring Dem Bells (’30 Duke Ellington) Rockin’ In Rhythm (’31 Duke Ellington) Royal Garden Blues (’30 Casa Loma Orchestra) Saxophobia (arrangement) Singin’ The Blues (’27 Frank Trumbauer, Bix Beiderbecke, et.al) $8 Sittin’ on a Rubbish Can (’31 Julia Gerity) Skirts (’30 Slatz Randall) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 7.00Current price is: $7.00. Add to cart
Smile When The Raindrops Fall (’30 Laurel & Hardy) Solace (Scott Joplin, “The Sting” Soundtrack) Some Sweet Day (’28 McKinney’s Cotton Pickers) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 7.00Current price is: $7.00. Add to cart
Stampede (’26 Fletcher Henderson) Stevedore Stomp (’29 Duke Ellington) Sunday (’26 Jean Goldkette) Sunshine (arrangement) Sweet Georgia Brown (’32 Bing Crosby) Sweet Man (’25 California Ramblers) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 5.00Current price is: $5.00. Add to cart
Swing Era Medley (with some female vocals) $20 (long) (arrangement) Taint So, Honey Taint So (’28 Paul Whiteman w/ Bix & Bing) That’s My Weakness Now (’28 Helen Kane) (female vocal) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 7.00Current price is: $7.00. Add to cart
That’s What I Like About You (arrangement) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 7.00Current price is: $7.00. Add to cart
There’s Too Many Eyes That Wanna Make Eyes at Two Pretty Eyes I Love (’29 Ted Weems) They Call Me Sister Honky Tonk (’33 Mae West) Thoroughly Modern Millie (arrangement) Tiger Rag (’29 Duke Ellington) Toby (’32 Bennie Moten) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 7.00Current price is: $7.00. Add to cart
Toot Toot Tootsie (arrangement) Train Kept a-Rollin’ (1951 Tiny Bradshaw) Truckin’ (’35 Duke Ellington) Variety Stomp (’25 Fletcher Henderson) Vine St. Drag (’29 Missourians) Waitin’ For Katie (’27 Ben Pollack) What About Me (’34 George Hall) What A Day! (’29 Ted Weems) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 7.00Current price is: $7.00. Add to cart
What A Girl! What A Night! (’28 Coon-Sanders Nighthawks) When (from original ’28 Paul Whiteman score) When Erastus Plays His Old Kazoo (arrangement) (Make My Cot) Where The Cot-Cot-Cotton Grows (arrangement) Who? (arrangement) Wrappin’ It Up (’34 Fletcher Henderson) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 7.00Current price is: $7.00. Add to cart
Yam Brown (Keith Nichols/Duke Ellington) Yiddisha Charleston (’26 Sam Lannin Dixie Daisies) You (’23 Roy Schoenbeck) You Hit The Spot (’35 Richard Himber and His Ritz Carlton Orchestra) (with optional 4th sax)
There are also some 1920s arrangements for 6-piece combo that you might be able to adapt (see “Combo Charts & Misc. “).
