Famous Tuba Songs - Brainstorming Needed!

[Paul Budde]

Hi All -

I have been contacted by a high school band director looking for some ideas. He is doing a Pops concert with his high school band and wants to do a Tuba Skit that involves famous tuba music that a HS Band audience could identify with AND would be doable by HS students.

Some initial ideas are:

Jaws theme
Flintstones
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Russian Sailors Dance

If you have any ideas that he could add, I would really appreciate it. I am going to send this post to him so he can check it too.

Thanks for your help,

Paul

[The Jackson]

Is this just contrabass, or tuba/euph? If it's the latter, you would have many more options.


Video game music is always a winner. A classic would be just about any tune from the original Super Mario Brothers.

You could also do more contemporary music, that that high school kids are listening to now. Musically, they are ridiculously easy, so that might come off well.

I hope that helped!

[Paul Budde]

It's for four BBb tubas. And, I think they are looking just to play the melodies rather than any type of ensemble music.

Thanks for the Mario ideas!

[circusboy]

I think "Heard It Through the Grapevine" would sound great on a bunch of BBbs . . .

[iiipopes]

The Gounot Marionette theme, otherwise known as the Hitchcock theme.

[Roger Lewis]

you want to go this far off the beaten path and into dangerous territory but how about "Barnacle Bill The Sailor"?

See you soon.
Roger

[eupher61]

you want to go this far off the beaten path and into dangerous territory but how about "Barnacle Bill The Sailor"?

See you soon.
Roger

just don't have them sing the Joe Venuti lyrics

[Tom Beck II]

A year ago on TubaNews I found BABY ELEPHANT WALK arr. Henri Gerrits for 4 tubas. I emailed him and he very kindly sent me pdf copy of score and parts. It's pretty easy and has great quality as a fun piece. Google Henri Gerrits and you'll find a listing for this arrangement.
Have fun,
Tom2

[Dan Schultz]

The 'If I Only Had a Brain' tuba solo from the concert band arrangement of 'The Wizard of Oz' would be fun.

[Eupharitone]

The 'Oompa Loompa' song from Willy Wonka!

Yeah, I went there...

[Tubaing]

A year ago on TubaNews I found BABY ELEPHANT WALK arr. Henri Gerrits for 4 tubas. I emailed him and he very kindly sent me pdf copy of score and parts. It's pretty easy and has great quality as a fun piece. Google Henri Gerrits and you'll find a listing for this arrangement.
Have fun,
Tom2

I also got this. It is a very great arrangement.

[Allen]

If you want to go back in time some, there's "When Yuba Plays the Rhumba on the Tuba."

[iiipopes]

The march, "Them Basses."

And yes, the original orchestration for Gounot was bassoon, but I've played it enough at Halloween on my tuba to know it's the tessitura, not the timbre.

[tofu]

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[SplatterTone]

I'm a little partial to Tubas In The Moonlight like how they do it on the Tubas From Hell CD by Dave Gannett.
http://tinyurl.com/26uc4l

[MileMarkerZero]

Bond. James Bond.

[Art Hovey]

More than 50 years ago my father had four sousaphone players featured in his football band on "If You Knew Sousa" (like I know ....)

The horn quartet in Beethoven's 3rd symphony works very well on tubas.

[Paul Budde]

THANK YOU all for your great ideas!! This will be fun!

Paul