Re: [Harp-L] fake book sale

[philharpn@xxxxxxx]

Joe: Hang on to that Warner Bros. fake book! It's an antique. 


The Real Book V stuff is still under copyright (Hal Leonard) and ranges from "Suicide is Painless" (MASH theme) to to "Sweet Georgia Brown" and the 1942 Glenn Miller classic that has reappeared: "At Last" by Etta James and Boyance.



Keep in mind, when shopping for fake books, you can always check out the titles one way or another. (you can't always check out the keys or the arrangements.)


I got hooked on "What'd I Say" in high school and bought the piano music. I was lucky, the version I bought featured the 7th chord into--which is not only the best part of the song, but the characteristic part that everybody identifies with the song. I mislaid my original copy and searched for a replacement and found several versions that left out that part that I didn't buy.  I eventually replaced it. 


Which just goes to show that you can't always go by the title. A Fats Domino folio had Blueberry Hill -- but it was stock piano arrangement from 1940 (no triplets to be found!). Now when you do a search for a downloaded-printout of the tune ALL you find is Fats for piano and sax, trumpet, ect.


But you can open the sheet music up on a web site (musicnotesdotcom) and see how the first page is set up. You can print that first page and compare what you get. You can also transpose (change the key from a HARD key to an EASY key and hear that first page played by a; midi instrument.


Price for the one song: $5.25  This compares to the forthcoming comb  binding {lays flat on music stand} (not yet released) all new The Real Book Volume V at $35 list has 400 tunes -- no duplication from previous editions. That's a little less than 9 cents a tune!


Damn -- got to order mine. (FYI: if you follow one brand, you don't have to worry about dupe songs). 


On the internet there are collections of indexes (indices) that will tell you which fake book contains the song you are looking for. *The technical difficulty here is that you have to know the name of the title!?


hope this helps
Phil Lloyd








-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph Leone <3n037@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Timothy Kane <hawkeyekane@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Harp L Harp L <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thu, May 2, 2013 12:51 pm
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] fake book sale


This is rich. I have a Warner Bros. real book with 250 jazz tunes in it (also a 
standards book with 250). Only about 74 tunes are stomachable, and of that 22 
that I would actually play. Only 6 or 7 are actual gems. Most of these books 
contain old old old stuff that has run past copyright, and/or the composer is 
long gone. That way the publishers get all the jing. If you want something that 
you really need, you have to buy the charts separately. But Phil is right. The 
fake books DO cost pennies per tune. I photograph what I need and throw the rest 
away. Too much weight to carry around. lol 

smo-joe

On May 2, 2013, at 12:32 PM, Timothy Kane wrote:

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>  LOL
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> Are they actually titled "Fake Book"? If so, that's interesting because in the 
jazz realm, there's a big book of jazz standards called "The Real Book" that 
jazz troupes carry like a bible. 
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