Page 1 of 1

Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 12:31 am
by windshieldbug
As in "16 tons on a dead man's chest yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum"? :oops:

Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 2:36 am
by tubeast
Schlepporello,

years ago we performed "16 tons" in quintet. Will that be OK, too?
I´ll have a look in my files if I can still find it. In that case I´ll post the publisher.
It was a cool arrangement that featured successive solos for tuba, trumpets, and trombone.

Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 9:24 am
by Chuck Jackson
Wayne,
There is a great quintet version that starts with the tuba palying the melody. It is real good.

Chuck

Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 6:16 pm
by tubeast
Hey Schlepporello,

You -er- WHAT???
Combine the Big Un´ with whimper-rods :shock: ???

anyways, I found that sheet music, it´s the tuba part only.
It says "Sixteen tons" by Merle Travis, arrangement by Ingo Luis. That´s it. Sorry, no publisher mentioned.
The arrangement was cool, though. It was just about as close as you´ll get to Big Band with a quintet. It just may be the piece Chuck Jackson mentioned. Tuba takes the solo from letter A through B, trombone has the same main theme starting at letter "C" down to D. After that, tuba plays walkin´bass sort of through to the end, while trumpets play a duet that is just based on the main theme.

The crowd loved it.

Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 4:03 pm
by windshieldbug
St. Peter don't ya holler for me today,
'cause those clarinets are draggin' me the other way! :shock: