16 Tons

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 12:31 am

As in "16 tons on a dead man's chest yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum"?

tubeast · Post by **tubeast** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 2:36 am

Schlepporello,

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

Chuck Jackson · Post by **Chuck Jackson** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 9:24 am

Wayne,
There is a great quintet version that starts with the tuba palying the melody. It is real good.

Chuck

tubeast · Post by **tubeast** » Sat Jan 07, 2006 6:16 pm

Hey Schlepporello,

You -er- WHAT???
Combine the Big UnÂ´ with whimper-rods

???

anyways, I found that sheet music, itÂ´s the tuba part only.
It says "Sixteen tons" by Merle Travis, arrangement by Ingo Luis. ThatÂ´s it. Sorry, no publisher mentioned.
The arrangement was cool, though. It was just about as close as youÂ´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 walkinÂ´bass sort of through to the end, while trumpets play a duet that is just based on the main theme.

The crowd loved it.

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 4:03 pm

St. Peter don't ya holler for me today,
'cause those clarinets are draggin' me the other way!