Inge Sunde

This beautiful song was already a great hit in Japan before its American debut in 1963, under the alternative title Sukiyaki. The most famous English-language cover version is by the pop group A Taste...

(Now and Then There's) A Fool Such as I, written by Bill Trader, was published in 1952 and served as a big hit for the country artist Hank Snow. It became an even bigger hit when Elvis, the King of Ro...

'There's a Kind of Hush' became a very big hit in 1967 for the English pop band Herman's Hermits, and again in 1976 for the American pop duo The Carpenters. This is a perfect song for wind ensemble! T...

It´s always a challenge to make rhythmic pop songs playable with wind instruments only. And here is another 'mission accomplished' by arranger Inge Sunde. One Way Ticket to the Blues is one of the man...

This very old pop tune comes here in an easy arrangement, but though with extensive content, written for flexible instrumentation. 'The Glory of Love', composed by Billy Hill (1899 - 1940), was first...

Many of the timeless pop songs from the 1960s are very playable for instrumental groups, and here comes another arrangement from this great music period, arranged for flexible instrumentation in the p...

Olé! Get on your dancing shoes and find the castagnets! Here comes the spanish bullfight dance España Cañi, perhaps the most well known Paso Doble from the country with the very best football theme in...

The Norwegian folk instrument, the pixie flute, was originally an imitation of the German recorder. Stine I. Wold plays a flute she made herself here. Egil Storbekken wrote many tunes for this wooden...

Java was a big hit performed by the legendary New Orleans trumpeter Al Hirt. The song was written in 1963 by Allen Toussaint, one of the most influential composers in the New Orleans era.The titles of...

'Night Train' is a twelve-bar blues standard recorded for the first time by Jimmy Forrest in 1951. The history of this instrumental track is long and complicated. The opening riff was played by the ba...

Here is a great opportunity to pay a musical tribute to the 1970's ! 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree' was a worldwide hit for the group Dawn, featuring Tony Orlando in 1973. Other artists...

Don't Fence Me In was originally written for the movie Adios, Argentina from 1934, to which Cole Porter was asked to write a catchy Cowboy song. 10 years after, the singer Roy Rogers performed it in t...

No Milk Today, originally recorded by British pop band Herman's Hermits, was a mayor hit in many European countries in 1966. In the '90s the song was used for a commercial of the Duch milk company Cob...

Mamy Blue was originally written with French lyrics in 1970 by songwriter Hubert Giraud. In 1971, the song became an international hit for the Spanish group Pop-Tops. The English version of Mamy Blue...

You can tell a song has done well when you see the list of artists who have recorded a cover version. Here are some of these artists, after the original version by The New Vaudeville Band, released in...

Du käre lille snickerbo ('My dearest little joinery') is a children's song from 1972. The song was written for one of the hugely popular Swedish films about Emil I Lonneberget, a little rascal from a...

Here is a light, medium easy (Grade 2) swinging arrangement of this well-known jazz standard. Bye Bye Blackbird was published in 1926 by Ray Henderson and Mort Dixon. It was both their earliest song a...

Music to watch girls by is here presented in a bossa nova groove. A winner on any concert whether it's for an ensemble or a full band.Sid Ramins biggest commercial hit 'Music to watch girls by' began...

I'll Never Fall in Love Again was originally written for the 1968 musical 'Promises, Promises' by the songwriting team of Burt Bacharach/Hal David. There have been several recordings of this beautiful...

Everything's Coming Up Roses was composed by Stephen Sondheim (Lyrics) and Jule Styne (Music) in 1959 for the Broadway Musical 'Gypsy: A Musical Fable'. In the original cast, the song was performed by...

From The Musical The Pajama Game

A great swing number for the upcoming concert, and it will surely be fun for both musicians and audience. 'Honeysuckle Rose' is one of the most common jazz standards. The charismatic Thomas 'Fats' Wal...

The song was a huge world-wide hit, sung in countless arrangements and translations by artists all over the world, including in French by Tino Rossi ('C'est à Capri' 1934), in English by Frankie Laine...