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. 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) Ain’t She Sweet (arrangement) April Showers (arrangement) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 6.00Current price is: $6.00. Add to cart
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. $ 5.00Current price is: $5.00. Add to cart
Alone At Last (Coon-Sanders Nighthawks, ’25) Am I Blue? (’29 Ben Selvin w/ Smith Ballew) An’ Furthermore (’28 Irving Aaronson) 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) Blue Moon (’35 Ray Noble/Al Bowlly) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 6.00Current price is: $6.00. Add to cart
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) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 5.00Current price is: $5.00. Add to cart
Button Up Your Overcoat (’28 Helen Kane) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 5.00Current price is: $5.00. Add to cart
Cantina Band (Star Wars Movie) Casey Jones Blues (’29 Andy Kirk) Changes (’27 Paul Whiteman) (Copied From Bill Challis Score) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 6.00Current price is: $6.00. Add to cart
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) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 5.00Current price is: $5.00. Add to cart
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. $ 6.00Current price is: $6.00. Add to cart
Crazy Rhythm (arrangement) Cushion Foot Stomp (arrangement) Dangerous Nan McGrew (’30 Helen Kane) Dance Of The Cuckoos (Laurel & Hardy) (2 clarinets only) $2 $ 2.00Original price was: $2.00. $ 1.20Current price is: $1.20. Add to cart
Daybreak Express Medley (’33-’34 Duke Ellington) (Cotton Club Movie Soundtrack) Dinah (’32 Cab Calloway) 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) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 5.00Current price is: $5.00. Add to cart
Drop Me Off In Harlem (’33 Duke Ellington) East St. Louis Toodle-OO (’27 Duke Ellington) Embraceable You (female vocal) (arrangement) Everybody Loves My Baby (’32 Boswell Sisters) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 5.00Current price is: $5.00. Add to cart
Everybody Stomp! (’25 Andy Preer) From The Top Of Your Head (male vocal) (arrangement) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 7.00Current price is: $7.00. Add to cart
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) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 6.00Current price is: $6.00. Add to cart
Glad Rag Doll (arrangement) $ 8.00Original price was: $8.00. $ 4.80Current price is: $4.80. Add to cart
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) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 6.00Current price is: $6.00. Add to cart
Harlem Bound (’33 Freddy Johson & His Harlemites) Heartaches (’33 Ted Weems) $ 15.00Original price was: $15.00. $ 9.00Current price is: $9.00. Add to cart
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) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 7.00Current price is: $7.00. Add to cart
How Could Red Riding Hood? (arrangement) How Long Will It Last? (male vocal) (arrangement) Hummin’ To Myself (’32 Ambrose) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 5.00Current price is: $5.00. Add to cart
I’d Rather Be Blue Over You (’29 Louis Katzman & the Brunswick Orch.) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 5.00Current price is: $5.00. Add to cart
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) 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) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 5.00Current price is: $5.00. Add to cart
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. $ 5.00Current price is: $5.00. Add to cart
Inka Dinka Doo (’34 Jimmy Durante) (male vocal) It Must Be True (Palm Court Theatre Court Orchestra) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 6.00Current price is: $6.00. Add to cart
Is There Anything Wrong In That? (’28 Helen Kane) It Don’t Mean A Thing (’32 Duke Ellington) It Happened In Sun Valley (’41 Glenn Miller) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 6.00Current price is: $6.00. Add to cart
It’s All Forgotten Now (’34 New Mayfair Orchestra with Al Bowlly) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 6.00Current price is: $6.00. Add to cart
It’s Love (’31 Gus Arnheim) 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) Just One More Chance (male vocal) (arrangement) Keep Your Sunny Side Up (’29 Johnny Hamp’s Kentucky Serenaders) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 6.00Current price is: $6.00. Add to cart
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) Love Is Here To Stay (arrangement) Love Is The Sweetest Thing (arrangement) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 5.00Current price is: $5.00. Add to cart
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) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 7.00Current price is: $7.00. Add to cart
Me Minus You (’32 Rudy Vallee) Merrily We Roll Along $5 Midnight With The Stars And You (’34 Ray Noble) Minnie The Moocher (’31 Cab Calloway) (male vocal) Miss Hannah (’29 McKinney’s Cotton Pickers) Mooch, The (’28 Duke Ellington) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 5.00Current price is: $5.00. Add to cart
Mood Indigo (’30 Duke Ellington) Moonlight Bay (arrangement) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 5.00Current price is: $5.00. Add to cart
Moonlight Savings Time (’31, Jack Payne) Moten Stomp (’27 Bennie Moten) My Pretty Girl (’27 Jean Goldkette) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 5.00Current price is: $5.00. Add to cart
Nagasaki (arrangement) Never In A Million Years (’37 Ben Bernie/Buddy Clark) (male vocal) New Call Of The Freaks, The (’29 Luis Russell) New Orleans Twist (expanded) (’35 Gene Gifford & His Orch.) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 5.00Current price is: $5.00. Add to cart
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. $ 5.00Current price is: $5.00. 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) Our Love is Here to Stay (arrangement) Ozark Mountain Blues (’29 Missourians) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 6.00Current price is: $6.00. Add to cart
Peggy (’29 McKinney’s Cotton Pickers) Play A Simple Melody (vocal duet) (arrangement) Please (’32 Bing Crosby & Anson Weeks Orch.) key of Ab $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 6.00Current price is: $6.00. Add to cart
Please (’32 Bing Crosby & Anson Weeks Orch.) record key (A) Radio (arrangement) Radio Rhythm (Fletcher Henderson, 1931) Rent Party Blues (’29 Duke Ellington) Rhapsody In Blue (From ’24 Ferdie Grofe Score) $25 Rhythm Man (’32 Casa Loma Orchestra) Ring Dem Bells (’30 Duke Ellington) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 6.00Current price is: $6.00. Add to cart
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) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 6.00Current price is: $6.00. 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. $ 5.00Current price is: $5.00. Add to cart
Stampede (’26 Fletcher Henderson) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 6.00Current price is: $6.00. Add to cart
Stevedore Stomp (’29 Duke Ellington) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 7.00Current price is: $7.00. Add to cart
Sunday (’26 Jean Goldkette) Sunshine (arrangement) Sweet Georgia Brown (’32 Bing Crosby) Sweet Man (’25 California Ramblers) Swing Era Medley (with some female vocals) $20 (long) (arrangement) $ 20.00Original price was: $20.00. $ 10.00Current price is: $10.00. Add to cart
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. $ 6.00Current price is: $6.00. Add to cart
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) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 6.00Current price is: $6.00. Add to cart
Thoroughly Modern Millie (arrangement) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 7.00Current price is: $7.00. Add to cart
Tiger Rag (’29 Duke Ellington) Toby (’32 Bennie Moten) Toot Toot Tootsie (arrangement) Train Kept a-Rollin’ (1951 Tiny Bradshaw) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 6.00Current price is: $6.00. Add to cart
Truckin’ (’35 Duke Ellington) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 6.00Current price is: $6.00. Add to cart
Variety Stomp (’25 Fletcher Henderson) Vine St. Drag (’29 Missourians) Waitin’ For Katie (’27 Ben Pollack) What About Me (’34 George Hall) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 6.00Current price is: $6.00. Add to cart
What A Day! (’29 Ted Weems) What A Girl! What A Night! (’28 Coon-Sanders Nighthawks) When (from original ’28 Paul Whiteman score) $ 10.00Original price was: $10.00. $ 6.00Current price is: $6.00. Add to cart
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) 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. “).
