Top Ten Dixie Tunes

[Biggs]

Sheik of Araby is a great tune. Especially if you have a vocalist. If you don't have one, that would be cool to have one as a guest on a few gigs!

Do you know the bridge to this tune? (It actually starts - like a great many tunes do in their sheet music form) with the bridge. The bridge is in the relative minor (with a #4 in the scale). The best recording that I can think of is the old Audio Fidelity recording of Louis Armstrong playing with the (original) Dukes of Dixieland.

bloke "That recording also featured Rich Matteson playing his helicon."

I can't for the life of me remember this tune having a bridge (I've heard a few versions but only ever played the chorus) but will check out a recording ASAP. I am partial to a version recorded by (I believe) Ray Miller's Black and White Melody Boys.

[Dan Schultz]

Sheik of Araby is a great tune. Especially if you have a vocalist.

We have an 84 year-old euphonium player who does a killer job on 'Saint James Infirmary'. I forgot about that until you mentioned 'great' and 'vocal'. Never fails to bring the house down. He also does a great rendition of 'I'm an Old Cowhand From the Rio Grande'. Not Dixieland by any stretch of the imagination but good entertainment.

[Jedi Master]

Anybody else want to chime in with their 10 most often played Dixieland tunes?

[sloan]

Anybody else want to chime in with their 10 most often played Dixieland tunes?

...but you already have more than 10...??

The more people claim to add to the top 10 list, the more incorrect answers you will have.

bloke "or so it seems to me...??"

You can lead a bloke to knowledge, but...

[Jedi Master]

Anybody else want to chime in with their 10 most often played Dixieland tunes?

...but you already have more than 10...??

The more people claim to add to the top 10 list, the more incorrect answers you will have.

bloke "or so it seems to me...??"

I guess I was being unclear.

My point is to see what each person feels are the top 10 Dixie tunes that they play on every gig.

By comparing the various lists, I am looking for the overlapping tunes, attempting to cull some sort of "universal" list (admittedly imprecise) of tunes that really are played everywhere.

[Jedi Master]

All is well, Bloke!

I just wanted to make sure everyone understood the intent of the informal poll.

May the Force be with you!!!

[pwhitaker]

I would add:

Smiles
Trouble in Mind
How Long Blues
Bye and Bye
C.C. Ryder
Sin to Tell a Lie
All of Me
I Get the Blues When it Rains
Whenever You're Lonesome
Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gave to Me
Panama
I'm All alone Cause I Love You
Swanee River
You Are My Sunshine
St. Louis Blues
China Boy
Limehouse Blues
Honeysuckle Rose
At the Jazz Band Ball
Original Dixieland One Step
Sweet Georgia Brown (we call it Sweet George O'Brian - an "Irish" tune)
... usw

[IkeH]

Rather than play what everybody else plays, here are some pretty common tunes that I haven't seen yet:
Avalon
Tiger Rag
Beale St. Blues
Midnight in Moscow
Blue Skies Fidgety Feet
Lady Be Good
Sweet Lorraine
Dinah
Paper Moon
Lazy River
Hindustan
Do You Know What It Means
What A Wonderful World
New Orleans
Louisiana
Muscat Ramble
Margie
Mack the Knife
Mie Ber Mist Du Shoen
Whispering
That's A Plenty
Old Fashion Love
Sweet Sue
I'm Confessin'
Undecided
ByeBye Blackbird
Bourbon St Parade
Ain't Misbehavin'
Dr Jazz
Down by the Riverside
Chicago
and many more. . .

[sloan]

Rather than play what everybody else plays, here are some pretty common tunes that I haven't seen yet:
Mie Ber Mist Du Shoen
. . .

I'm not familiar with that one...can you hum a few bars?

[IkeH]

Rather than play what everybody else plays, here are some pretty common tunes that I haven't seen yet:
Mie Ber Mist Du Shoen
. . .

I'm not familiar with that one...can you hum a few bars?

yes.

AKA "The Bear Missed the Train".

[IkeH]

Oops, Bie Mir, not Mie Ber. Must've had something else in mind at that point:

[IkeH]

One of the tunes reminds me of a story. I was booked on a trust fund gig in an unwed mother's home. The first tune the leader calls was "Found a New Baby". As we closed with the last tune, the guy says,"Hope to see you all again next year". True story.



Ike

[J.c. Sherman]

Saints
Bourbon Street
Basin Street
Indiana
Avalon
Bar-b-Q
Lazy River
Do you know what it means
Sweet Sue
Sweet Georgia Brown

I could do my top ten favorites, but it would be almost a completely different list...

These are the most common ones that come up in gigs 'round these parts... And they share changes with many

J.c.S.