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Boswell Sisters Sheet Music Boswell sisters sheet music Continue Boswell Sisters is a sheet of music! Below are PDF links to transcriptions I made from vocal arrangements of boswell Sisters songs, available for free download. Feel free to contact me with corrections or if your band ends up singing any of them! cochrane.sally (at)gmail.com Coffee in the morning fare You Well, Annabelle Gee, But I would make you happy Got South in my soul hand me down my Walkin' Cane Heebie Jeebies It doesn't mean a thing (unless it got that swing) It's a girl! Life is just a bowl of cherry lullaby Broadway Minnie Moocher's Wedding Day Nothing Sweeter, Than You Rainy Days Roll On, Mississippi, Roll On Sentimental Gentleman from Georgia Shine On Harvest Moon Shout Sister, Scream St. Louis Blues Here's How Rhythm Was Born There in Wah-Wah Gal's Aguacaliente Leaf Music ----------------------------------------Video Performances--------------Wah Wah Wah Girls' MP3s Coffee Morning----------------------------Vide Wah Wah ---------- Wah Girls Crying Blues-------------------------------------See Wah Wah Girls Perform This.---------- Download this song. Fare Thee Well, Annabelle-----------------------See The Wah Wah Girls perform this song----------Download. Gee, but I would like to make you happy ----------See Wah Wah Girls perform this.----------Download of this song. There's a south in my soul Hand Me Down My Walking Cane-------------------------------------------------------------- download this song. Happy Birthday Remix --------------------------------------------------------------------------Sload this song. Hibee Jeebies-----------------------------------See Fama Fatale perform this. That doesn't mean the thing----------------------------See Wah Wah Girls perform this.----------Download of this song. This Girl Life is just a cherry bowl lullaby of Broadway-----------------------------------------------------------------------------Download this song. Minnie Moocher's ------------See The Wah Wah Girls perform this.-----------Download of this song. Nothing is sweeter than --------------------See The Wah Wah Girls perform this song----------Download. Rainy Days Roll On, Mississippi, Roll On ---------------------See Wah Wah Girls perform this.----------Download of this song. Sentimental gentleman from ------------See The Wah Wah Girls perform this song----------Download. Glitter on Harvest Moon --------------------------Vide Wah Wah Girls perform this.----------Download of this song. Scream, Sister, Scream------------------------------Vidi Wah Wah Girls perform this.--------- -Download of this song. St. Louis Blues -----------------------------------See The Wah Wah Girls perform this song----------Download. That's how the rhythm was born-------------------See Wah Wah Girls perform this song -----------Download. There's Waha-Waha Gal in Agua Caliente---------------------------------------------------------Sor you're going to have to download this song. Three little (feminist) sisters---------------------See Fama Fatale perform this. When I take my sugar to tea Why don't you practice what you preach?------Vidi Wah Wah Girls perform this. ... - Got south in my soul (m. Victor Young, w. Lee Wylie, Ned Washington) 9 April 1932 recording with the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra: Tommy Dorsey (tbn), Jimmy Dorsey (cl, as), Babe Russin (ten), Martha Boswell (p, cel), Eddie Lang (g), Artie Bernstein (sb), Stan King (d), New York Lyrica adapted with heptune.com: When the night begins to fall and the moon begins to fall it is my goal to be safe in my Shelter Got the South in my soul For too long I lingered in the dark No matter what I won I want to say goodbye to the darkness and spend all my days in the sun Let me lie on that dam Let me burn black as coal I know my heart will not be heavy from the south in my soul I know that my heart would not be heavy from the south in my soul. The performances of The Crazy People and the Heebie Jeebies of the Boswell Sisters were filmed for the Paramount feature film The Big Broadcast (1932). According to the Boswell sisters' discography, Guy McAfee, both performances were shot on the same day in New York City, but only Crazy People appears in the film. Crazy People (M. James W. Monaco, W. Edgar Leslie) live performance filmed for the Big Broadcast . Hibi Gibis (Boyd Atkins) is the first record recorded by the Sisters in 1931 (see Boswell Sisters: Selected Records of 1931). Additional lyrics and music by Connie Boswell. live performance filmed for, but not used in, The Big Broadcast. Sleep, Come On and Take Me (w. m. Boyd Bunch and Joe Young) August 6, 1932 recording with the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra: Manny Klein (tpt), Tommy Dorsey (tbn), Jimmy Dorsey (cl, as), Larry Bignon (cl), Fulton McGrath (p), Carl Cress (g), Artie Bernstein (sb), Stan King (d), (m. Sammy Fain, w. Joseph Young) Lyrics: International Lyric Platform with the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra, February 5, 1932 - I omitted the musician credits for this recording, because the discography of Guy's sister McAfee Boswell offers serious disagreements between the two authorities in the composition for the session (different people are credited on four instruments). This is a rejected (unreleased) record. In McAfee's discography it's called The Rejected Experimental Take A. The Boswell Sisters with the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra is a released version that is one of two recordings made during the February 1932 session. Orchestra: Bunny Berigan, (tpt), Tommy Dorsey (tbn), Jimmy Dorsey (cl, as), Joe Venuti (vln), Arthur Schutt (p), Eddie Lang (g), Artie Bernstein (sb), Stan King (d), Glenn Miller (arr). Everyone Loves My Child (Spencer Williams, Jack Palmer) 2/24/32 Dorsey Brothers Orchestra: Bunny Berigan, Unknown (tpt), Tommy Dorsey (tbn), Benny Kruger (as), Jimmy Dorsey (c, how), Harry Hoffman (vln), Martha Boswell (p), Dick McDonough (g), Joe Tarto (sb), Larry Gomar (d), If it's not love (Fats Waller, Andy Razaf, Don Redman) - Many sites give a date of this record as September 4, 1932, but McAfee orders numerical dates from the first month, so according to McAfee records April 9, 1932. 4/9/32 Dorsey Brothers Orchestra: Tommy Dorsey (tbn), Jimmy Dorsey (cl, both), Babe Russin (ten), Martha Boswell (p, cel), Eddie Lang (g), Artie Bernstein (sb), Stan King (d), New York. When it's sleepy time down south (Leon Rene, Otis Renee and Clarence Muse) an excerpt from the 1932 animated Max Fleischer short sleepy time down south. Full Fleischer is short. I only included this because the quality is much better than the one above and the other excerpts I've seen. The transition from animation to footage of the Boswell sisters' performance takes place at about 3:37 a.m. The video to be replaced by a sentimental gentleman from Georgia (M. Frank Perkins, W. Mitchell Parish) 9/13/32 Manny Klein (tpt), Tommy Dorsey (tbn), Jimmy Dorsey (cl, as), Larry Bignon (fl, ts), Martha Boswell (p), Dick McDonough (g), Artie Bernstein (sb), lyrics from O Sister! s Notes on facebook.com - It seems very accurate; dropping only a brief section scatting near the finish line. Sentimental Gentleman from Georgia (M. Frank Perkins, W. Mitchell Parish) Sentimental Gentleman from Georgia, Georgia Gentle Ladies all the time when it comes to Lovin' he's a real professor, yessir Just Mason Dixie Valentine About see these Georgia peaches hang around him now 'Because this child teaches, no one knows how, about a sentimental gentleman from Georgia, Georgia. Gentle to the ladies all the time. Hey hey, no doubt you've heard of the sweet man in Dixielaaand... I'll say he's hot, he only has what it takes to make a man a lady! He's just a sentimental gentleman from Georgia, Georgia Gentle for ladies all the time He's gentle to ladies all the time when it comes to Lovin' he's a real professor, yessir Just Mason Dixie Valentine... Sentimental Gentleman from Georgia, yowza, yowza, Georgia Georgia, yowza, yowza, Georgia. He's gentle to the ladies all the time. When it comes to Lovin' there are no things he doesn't know. I'm talking about this man from Georgia. Sentimental gentleman from Georgia, yowza, Georgia, Georgia, yowza, yowza, Georgia I'm talking about that person from Georgia. There will be some changes made (W. Benton Overstreet, Billy Higgins) 3/21/32 Dorsey Brothers Orchestra: Manny Klein (tpt), Tommy Dorsey (tbn), Jimmy Dorsey (cl, both), Babe Russin (ten), Martha Boswell (p), Eddie Lang (g), Artie Bernstein (sb), Stan King (d), New York. (We must) Put that sun back in the sky (Joseph Mayer, Irving Kahal) 2/19/32 Dorsey Brothers Orchestra: Bunny Berigan, (tpt), Tommy Dorsey (tbn), Jimmy Dorsey (cl, both), Joe Venuti (vln), Arthur Schutt (r), Eddie Lang (g), Artie Bernstein (d), Stan King (d), Glenn Miller (arr). Minnie Mucher's Wedding Day (M. Harold Arlen, w. Ted Koehler) 11/22/32 Victor Young (ldr), Bunny Berigan, Manny Klein (tpt), Tommy Dorsey (tbn), Jimmy Dorsey (cl), Larry Bignon (ts), Harry Hoffman (vln), Martha Boswell (p), Carl Cress (g), (NITZT) SAYS BUNNY BERIGAN (TPT) TOMMY DORSEY (TBN) JIMMY DORSEY (CL, AS); JOE VENUTI (VLN) MARTHA BOSWELL (P) EDDIE LANG (G) JOE TARTO (SB) STAN KING (D) - See the key to the springs below guymcaffee.com Martha Meldania Boswell (1905 - 1958), Constance (D) Connie) Fur Boswell (1907 - 1976) and Helvity George Boswell (1911 - 1988) were musicians and music-loving lovers who performed as sisters acting for friends in New Orleans. The family was from Kansas City but moved early to Louisiana. After winning the amateur competition they were picked up by WSMB Radio in New Orleans, then on radio in Los Angeles in 1929 and 1930 and finally with NBC in New York on a program called Pleasure Hour. More radio shows followed the climax of the 1934 Woodbury Hour for Woodbury soap, starring Bing Crosby. In between radios they made a large vaudeville and even played in the palace in 1931 and 1932 and starred in the London Palladium in 1933. They were not particularly visual because Connie suffered from polio and remained crippled.
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