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Andy Duncan ( former tubist with the Halle Orchestra ) has arranged "Tubby" available from Crabtree Music..
Tubby the Tuba (Eb Bass Feature with optional narrator).....Kleinsinger arr. Duncan - Order Ref: CMP000024 Price: £35.00
or in concert band format
http://www.dehaske.com/index.php?task=s ... t&id=17105

www.crabtree-music.co.uk

Hope this helps.

I think he is looking for a recorded performance, not a score and parts.

Uncle Buck wrote:I think he is looking for a recorded performance, not a score and parts.

I'm sure you're right. If he is going to be gone from his classes, he might have a really difficult time performing it for his students. I am quite sure he would be able to get the orchestra to accompany him when he does it, however.

I always thought the video with Dick van Dyke and Pearl Bailey was very good. Just my opinion though.

Uncle Buck wrote:I think he is looking for a recorded performance, not a score and parts.

I agree, but is he looking for just audio or a video performance?

As far as recomendations I'm not much help.
Whenever I receive a Tubby the Tuba CD or DVD as a gift I find a kid to pass it on to.

I find two versions of this are quite good, besides the ones mentioned already. The Tommy Johnson - Manhattan Transfer version, both cassette and CD are quite good, very jazzy and pretty hip. The other version, probably no longer in catalogs, with Tommy Johnson and Annette Funicello is also very good. This one is a Disney production.

I am pretty sure he is looking for a video.

The version that I am familiar with, is the old puppetoon (stop-action clay model animation). It is great, but unfortunately only about 12 minutes long.

I know there are two versions of Tubby the Tuba- this is what I can remember about them:

- Original clay-motion-like stop animation from I believe 1948, a bit shy of 20 minutes long (?)

- Longer, cartoon animation version from around 1976- has many new adventures and musical numbers (Tubby joins a circus, becomes a big star, etc.), maybe 40 minutes long

I can give you the old 78 recording of Tubby the Tuba (with narration by Danny Kaye) right HERE.

This is the same 78 RPM recording my parents bought for me when I was five years old at the Goodwill Industries store in National City, California, in 1962.

I later heard that the tuba player on this recording was George Boujie (1913-2005), who was the contract tuba player at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer motion picture studio in Culver City, California, when everyone in the movie industry was under a single unifying contract, even the accompanying musicians.

You can read more about George Boujie [boo-ZHAY] right HERE.