Top 10 Songs...
TTBBSolfa
- A Gilbert and Sullivan Fantasy (solfa edition, piano not shown)
- Amen
Many choirs have said how much they and their audiences have enjoyed “Every Time I Feel the Spirit” and “Give Me That Old Time Religion”. Two rousing, up-beat spirituals that never fail to excite. Well, by popular demand, here’s another! Amen (the “A” pronounced the American “way”) incorporates “This Little Light of Mine”. Like “Old Time Religion” it starts gently, but don’t be fooled! From a gentle start it develops into a real rocker. You’ll find the audience will spontaneously join in towards the end and you can have a slight smile when the choir suddenly stops in mid phrase before the final “Amens” come in. The audience by then will be in full swing and will find themselves singing solo! A moment to enjoy for choir and audience! - Beatles for Choirs
Three songs from the writers who shaped a generation - Ob-la-di Ob-la-da, And I Love Her and Penny Lane.Can be accompanied by piano or guitar (or both!) - Bohemian Rhapsody Solfa (male voice only)
- Bridge Over Troubled Water
Paul Simon's best song? A matter of opinion, but it's one of his best! - Bring Back the Beguine
Inspired by the great age of swing, this is a new swing song, but you'll recognise the references! - Cavatina (She Was Beautiful)
From "The Deer Hunter" (Some may also remember the BBC television programme "Take Hart") for choir and piano. - Deck the Hall
This joyous arrangement has a Gershwin-style middle verse, with close harmonies to stretch your choir. Classed as moderately difficult, the first and last verses are easy, but the middle is more difficult. But really worth the effort! - Easter Hymn
from Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana - Evening Star
A nostalgic song about the last steam engine to be built in Britain - For Your Eyes Only
A really good, easy arrangement of this famous James Bond theme tune. For choir and piano, this gives your choir the chance to sing a really good melody and a quality song. - I Write the Songs
A hit for Barry Manilow, written by Bruce Johnstone - Infant Holy
An easy to moderate song (nearer to easy to moderate) this brings a new tune and a refreshing change from the old Polish song. Like old wine in new bottles – this is very singable. - Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair
Stephen Foster at his best. It's hard to believe that this song was written in the century before last! The mixed voice version is available in The Memory of All That Book 1. - Joy to the World
This amusing version of a traditional favourite is lots of fun to learn - and to perform. An easy arrangement that is achievable by most choirs, it has hints of many famous classics thrown into the piano accompaniment. Handels Messiah, Radetzky March by Johan Strauss, Beethoven's 9th symphony and Vivaldi's Four Seasons and Tchaikovsky 1812 overture. Performed by Halifax Choral Society on BBC Songs of Praise. - Kings of Swing (4 part) - Full Score
Four great songs from the swing era - Begin the Beguine, Ain't Misbehavin', Moonlight Serenade and Chattanooga Choo Choo. Available on CD or iTunes sung by The Mastersingers. - Kings of Swing - solfa (male voice only)
- Nessun Dorma
Nessun Dorma was one of Puccini’s most loved arias before the 1990 football World Cup in Italy. But when it was used as the theme tune for Italia 90 it, and the singer Lucian Pavarotti, became universally loved. Everyone, football fan or not, classical music fan or not, loved it. It caught the public imagination and became an anthem. Since Alan Simmons arranged it, it has been sung by male voice choirs worldwide, from North America to New Zealand, from the UK to Singapore and from Norway to South Africa. It has become one of our best selling pieces and remains so! - Nowell for the Merrie Citie
Alan tells us that this is one of his own particular favourites. Originally performed by 500 children from Wakefield at the Royal Albert Hall with dancers this is a very rhythmic and lively Christmas arrangement. Classed as easy to moderate, it tells the story of the crucial period of the Wars of the Roses. - Old Man River
Old Man River is probably the most famous song from Jerome Kern’s “Show Boat” and it is thanks to the definitive performance by Paul Robeson that made it so well-known. This new arrangement maintains that bass solo sound and adds the choir in more than just a support role. - Paint Your Wagon - Solfa
The film starring Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood was the thing that really established Paint Your Wagon. Lee Marvin’s “Wandrin’ Star” and Clint Eastwood’s “I talk to the trees” surprised us – they can sing as well as act! (And it really was them singing, no voice dubbing!) And the all-male dancing-in-the-mud sequence was unforgettable. There are some truly excellent songs in the show, and because the cast is predominantly male, it’s the perfect show for a male voice choir medley. The songs are: I’m On My Way I Talk to the Trees They Call the Wind Maria Wand’rin’ Star Hand Me Down That Can o’ Beans There’s a Coach Comin’ In Duration 10 minutes - Perhaps Love
John Denver's song which he recorded with Placido Domingo - Portrait of My Love
Cyril Ordanel's music, a big hit for Matt Monro - Quem Pastores
Musically easy, this is the English translation of the traditional Latin piece. Looking at Christmas from a modern perspective – it focuses on the Christmas story and our learnings from it. - Scarborough Fair
Scarborough Fair is one of our oldest publications. It was commissioned by the Saddleworth Male Voice Choir and is very much in the Vaughan Williams style of folk song arrangement. It can be done with just piano accompaniment, but for a little more colour you can add a solo flute, or flute, oboe, clarinet and double bass. The opening flute tune was inspired by the flute opening to Vaughan Williams’ setting of Greensleeves, and the song lends itself so well to that sort of accompaniment. The SSA version of this arrangement, with the full instrumental accompaniment, was the first piece of Alan Simmons’ music to be performed at the Royal Albert Hall (but not the last!). - Sit Down You're Rocking the Boat
from "Guys 'n' Dolls - Softly As I Leave You
A haunting oboe solo is the definitive feature of Alan's best-known arrangement - The Virgin Mary Had A Baby Boy
If you are looking for something a little different for Christmas, then this should do the trick. This is a lively spiritual with a real Caribbean calypso style. An easy to moderate arrangement that is guaranteed to get everyone tapping along. - When a Child is Born
For any time of year, but especially Christmas - You Raise Me Up
A beautiful song, made famous by the likes of Westlife and Josh Groban
Infant Holy
Infant Holy
An easy to moderate song (nearer to easy to moderate) this brings a new tune and a refreshing change from the old Polish song. Like old wine in new bottles – this is very singable.
Composer: Alan Simmons
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