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).
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THE 1920s BAND CHARTS: Accordion Joe (’30 Cornell and His Orchestra) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 7.00Current price is: $7.00. Add to cart
Ain’t She Sweet (arrangement) 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) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 6.00Current price is: $6.00. Add to cart
Alone At Last (Coon-Sanders Nighthawks, ’25) Am I Blue? (’29 Ben Selvin w/ Smith Ballew) An’ Furthermore (’28 Irving Aaronson) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 7.00Current price is: $7.00. Add to cart
An’ Furthermore (’27 Beth Challis Orch.) Auld Lang Syne (Guy Lombardo) Big John’s Special (’34 Fletcher Henderson) Black Beauty (’28 Duke Ellington) Blue Skies (’27 Ben Selvin, Knickerbockers) Blue Room (arrangement) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 6.00Current price is: $6.00. 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) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 5.00Current price is: $5.00. Add to cart
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/ Crazy Rhythm (arrangement) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 5.00Current price is: $5.00. Add to cart
Cushion Foot Stomp (arrangement) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 6.00Current price is: $6.00. Add to cart
Dangerous Nan McGrew (’30 Helen Kane) Dance Of The Cuckoos (Laurel & Hardy) (2 clarinets only) $2 Daybreak Express Medley (’33-’34 Duke Ellington) (Cotton Club Movie Soundtrack) Dinah (’32 Cab Calloway) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 6.00Current price is: $6.00. Add to cart
Dinah (’31 Bing Crosby & Mills Bros.) 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. $ 6.00Current price is: $6.00. Add to cart
Down South Camp Meeting (’34 Fletcher Henderson) Drop Me Off In Harlem (’33 Duke Ellington) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 6.00Current price is: $6.00. Add to cart
East St. Louis Toodle-OO (’27 Duke Ellington) Embraceable You (female vocal) (arrangement) Everybody Loves My Baby (’32 Boswell Sisters) Everybody Stomp! (’25 Andy Preer) 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) Glad Rag Doll (’28 Golden Gate Orch. aka California Ramblers) Glad Rag Doll (arrangement) Goin’ Nuts (’29 Duke Ellington) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 7.00Current price is: $7.00. Add to cart
Good-Little Bad-Little You (arrangement) Good Old Days (’30 Little Rascals Theme) Guy What Takes His Time, A (’32 Mae West) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 7.00Current price is: $7.00. Add to cart
Harlem Bound (’33 Freddy Johson & His Harlemites) Heartaches (’33 Ted Weems) $ 15.00Original price was: $15.00. $ 10.50Current price is: $10.50. Add to cart
He’s So Unusual (’29 Helen Kane) Honolulu Baby (’33 Laurel & Hardy) Hora Medley (arrangement) How Could Red Riding Hood? (arrangement) How Long Will It Last? (male vocal) (arrangement) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 7.00Current price is: $7.00. Add to cart
Hummin’ To Myself (’32 Ambrose) I’d Rather Be Blue Over You (’29 Louis Katzman & the Brunswick Orch.) If You Knew Susie (arrangement) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 6.00Current price is: $6.00. Add to cart
It Had To Be You (arrangement) I Found A Million Dollar Baby (arrangement) I Wanna Be Loved By You (arrangement) I’ve Got A Crush On You (female vocal) (arrangement) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 6.00Current price is: $6.00. 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) Ill Wind (Cotton Club Movie Soundtrack) (female vocal) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 6.00Current price is: $6.00. Add to cart
Inka Dinka Doo (’34 Jimmy Durante) (male vocal) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 7.00Current price is: $7.00. Add to cart
It Must Be True (Palm Court Theatre Court Orchestra) Is There Anything Wrong In That? (’28 Helen Kane) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 6.00Current price is: $6.00. Add to cart
It Don’t Mean A Thing (’32 Duke Ellington) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 7.00Current price is: $7.00. Add to cart
It Happened In Sun Valley (’41 Glenn Miller) 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) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 6.00Current price is: $6.00. Add to cart
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. $ 6.00Current price is: $6.00. Add to cart
Just One More Chance (male vocal) (arrangement) Keep Your Sunny Side Up (’29 Johnny Hamp’s Kentucky Serenaders) Let’s Misbehave (arrangement) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 6.00Current price is: $6.00. Add to cart
Let’s Misbehave (a la Bordoni) (female vocal) (arrangement) ‘Leven Thirty Saturday Night (’30 Ambrose) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 6.00Current price is: $6.00. 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) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 7.00Current price is: $7.00. Add to cart
Maori (’30 Duke Ellington) May I? (’34 Bing Crosby/Matt Finston Orch.) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 7.00Current price is: $7.00. Add to cart
Me And The Man In The Moon (’28 Helen Kane) Me Minus You (’32 Rudy Vallee) Merrily We Roll Along $5 Midnight With The Stars And You (’34 Ray Noble) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 6.00Current price is: $6.00. Add to cart
Minnie The Moocher (’31 Cab Calloway) (male vocal) Miss Hannah (’29 McKinney’s Cotton Pickers) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 6.00Current price is: $6.00. Add to cart
Mooch, The (’28 Duke Ellington) Mood Indigo (’30 Duke Ellington) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 7.00Current price is: $7.00. Add to cart
Moonlight Bay (arrangement) Moonlight Savings Time (’31, Jack Payne) Moten Stomp (’27 Bennie Moten) My Pretty Girl (’27 Jean Goldkette) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 6.00Current price is: $6.00. Add to cart
Nagasaki (arrangement) Never In A Million Years (’37 Ben Bernie/Buddy Clark) (male vocal) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 6.00Current price is: $6.00. Add to cart
New Call Of The Freaks, The (’29 Luis Russell) 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) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 6.00Current price is: $6.00. Add to cart
Oh! Johnny (arrangement) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 6.00Current price is: $6.00. Add to cart
Oh! Miss Hannah (’29 Paul Whiteman) Oh! You Beautiful Doll (arrangement) One Hour With You (arrangement) Our Love is Here to Stay (arrangement) Ozark Mountain Blues (’29 Missourians) Peggy (’29 McKinney’s Cotton Pickers) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 6.00Current price is: $6.00. 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) Radio (arrangement) Radio Rhythm (Fletcher Henderson, 1931) Rent Party Blues (’29 Duke Ellington) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 6.00Current price is: $6.00. 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 $ 8.00Original price was: $8.00. $ 5.60Current price is: $5.60. Add to cart
Sittin’ on a Rubbish Can (’31 Julia Gerity) Skirts (’30 Slatz Randall) Smile When The Raindrops Fall (’30 Laurel & Hardy) Solace (Scott Joplin, “The Sting” Soundtrack) Some Sweet Day (’28 McKinney’s Cotton Pickers) Stampede (’26 Fletcher Henderson) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 7.00Current price is: $7.00. Add to cart
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. $ 7.00Current price is: $7.00. Add to cart
Swing Era Medley (with some female vocals) $20 (long) (arrangement) Taint So, Honey Taint So (’28 Paul Whiteman w/ Bix & Bing) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 6.00Current price is: $6.00. Add to cart
That’s My Weakness Now (’28 Helen Kane) (female vocal) That’s What I Like About You (arrangement) 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) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 5.00Current price is: $5.00. Add to cart
Toby (’32 Bennie Moten) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 6.00Current price is: $6.00. 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) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 7.00Current price is: $7.00. Add to cart
What About Me (’34 George Hall) What A Day! (’29 Ted Weems) What A Girl! What A Night! (’28 Coon-Sanders Nighthawks) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 5.00Current price is: $5.00. Add to cart
When (from original ’28 Paul Whiteman score) When Erastus Plays His Old Kazoo (arrangement) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 7.00Current price is: $7.00. Add to cart
(Make My Cot) Where The Cot-Cot-Cotton Grows (arrangement) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 6.00Current price is: $6.00. Add to cart
Who? (arrangement) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 7.00Current price is: $7.00. Add to cart
Wrappin’ It Up (’34 Fletcher Henderson) Yam Brown (Keith Nichols/Duke Ellington) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 7.00Current price is: $7.00. Add to cart
Yiddisha Charleston (’26 Sam Lannin Dixie Daisies) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 6.00Current price is: $6.00. Add to cart
You (’23 Roy Schoenbeck) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 7.00Current price is: $7.00. Add to cart
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. “).
