Dixieland Fake Book, Vol. 2

(C and Bb editions)
(Bb now in stock)

This book contains mainly what I call the "hard-core" classics,: The records are well known to dixieland fans, but accurate lead sheets have not been readily available, if at all. I included some sleepers that "grabbed" me while rattling around my CD collection and continue to hold me over time.
Some of the tunes are difficult to transcribe--sometimes due to recording quality (the 1923 Olivers were accoustic, many were poorly recorded, and the records are often so worn that even modern technology can do little for them), dense arrangements that make it hard to pick out melody lines and individual notes, lack of distinct melodies, etc. (Previous fake book compilers lacked the technology that allows one to play portions of records as slowly as 1/3 speed, at the same pitch. I added a 15-band equalizer between the CD player and slow-down box, to bring up the cornets.)


Some additional sheets not in the book will be available separately.

*=Separate lyric sheet    lyr.=lyrics on sheet    T=Transcribed from record    V=verse    P=patter
*2:19 blues (Mamie's blues) 
All the girls go crazy 'about the way I walk (T) 2pp (combines Ory & Bunk versions)
*Aggravatin' mama (papa) (V) 
Alligator crawl (Hot 5)(T) 2pp 
Alligator hop (Oliver '23) (T) Includes         Oliver's Copyright sheet
*Atlanta blues (Make me a pallet on the floor) (V) 
Awful sad (Ellington)(T)2pp 
*Back o' town blues
Ballin' a jack (Dodds)(T)
*Barnacle Bill the sailor (Bix)(T) 3pp 
*Beale Street mama (papa) (V) 
Big bear stomp 2pp 
Big lip blues (Morton) (T)
*Big boy (V) (Bix) 
Black and tan fantasy(Ellington)(T) 2pp 
Black bottom stomp (Morton)(T) 5pp 
Blue mama's suicide wail (Mountain top blues) (lyr) (Bessie Smith) 
*Borneo (Bix)(T) 2pp 
Brown bottom Bess (Dodds)(T) 
Buddy's habit (Oliver '23)(T) 2pp 
Buffalo blues (Morton) (T) 2pp 
Bugle boy march (Lewis)(T) 2pp 
Burgundy Street blues (Lewis)(T) 
Canal Street blues (Oliver '23)(T) Includes Oliver's Copyright sheet.
*Candy lips (V) 2pp
Cautious blues (Blues in thirds)
Chant, the (Morton)(T) 2pp
Chelsea on down 2pp
Chicago breakdown (Mortonj) 2pp.  
Chimes blues (Oliver '23)(T) 2pp Includes Oliver's Copyright sheet
*Clementine from New Orleans (V) (Bix)
*Come back sweet papa (V) (Hot 5)
*Come on and stomp, stomp, stomp (V) 
Cornet chop suey (Hot 5)(T) 4pp 
*Creole Belle 2pp 
Creole love call (cor, clar solos, Hall's wordless vocal)(T) 2pp.
*Daddy do (V)
*Dallas blues (V)
Dans les rues d'Antibes (Bechet) 2pp
Dead man blues (Morton)(T) 2pp
Deep Harlem (Bix)(T) 2pp
*Delta bound (V)
*Don't you leave me here (Don't you feel my leg) (Don't you get me high)
*Down hearted blues (Bessie)
Down home rag 2pp
Down in jungle town (V, lyr) 2pp
*Dreaming the hours away (V)
East coast trot (T)
East St. Louis toodle-oo (Ellington)(T) 2pp
Emperor Norton's hunch 2pp 
*Empty bed blues (Bessie) 
*Far away blues (Bessie)
*Farewell blues 2pp
Farewell to Storeyville (Good time flat)
Fat Louie's wake
Flat foot (Dodds)(T)
Forty and tight (Dodds) (T) 2pp
Friendless blues
Frog-i-more (Oliver '23)(T) 3pp
Frosty mornin' blues (V, lyr) (Bessie)
Gatemouth (Dodds)(T)
*Gee baby, ain't I good to you
Georgia swing (Morton)(T)
Get out of here and go home (T) 
Gettysburg march (T) 2pp
*Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer (V) (Bessie)
Golden Gate Stomp (Jim Maihack) 3pp
Good old New York (Morton)(T) (w/ band melody, vocal melody, lyr) 2pp
Good time flat (V, lyr)(T)
Goose pimples (Bix)(T) 3pp
Got no blues (Hot 5)(T) 2pp
Grandpa's spells (Morton)(T) 2pp
*Gulf coast blues (V) (Bessie) (T)
Ham and eggs [Big fat ham] (Morton) 2pp
Harlem twist (Mole/Nichols)(T) 2pp
Heebie jeebies (Hot 5) (Louis' scat voc.)
Hotter than that (Hot 5) (T) 2pp
I ain't gonna tell nobody (Oliver '23)(T)
I can't say (Dodds)(T)
*Idolizin' (V) (Bix)
*If someone would only love me (Morton)
If you see my mother (Bechet) (T)
*I'm going away just to wear you off my mind (V) (Oliver' 23)
I'm gonna stomp Mr. Henry Lee (V, Teagarden vocal) 2pp
*I'm wild about that thing (Bessie) (V)
*I've got what it takes (V) (Bessie) (T)
Imagination (Mole/Nichols)(T) 2pp
*Jackass blues
Jazz lips (Hot 5)(T) 3pp
Just gone (Oliver '23)(T)
*Kansas City man blues (V) Bechet)
Kansas City stomps (Morton)(T) 2pp
*King chanticleer 2pp
King Porter stomp (Morton) 2pp
*Kitchen man (Bessie)
Krooked blues (Oliver '23)(T)
Lady love (Dodds) (T)
Lina blues (T)
*Livin' high (V, P, Louis' solos)(T) 2pp
London (Cafe) blues (Shoe Shiners Drag) 2pp
Lonesome blues (lyr) (Hot 5 w/Dodds)(T)
*Love me with a feeling (Bechet) (T)
Mabel's dream (Oliver '23)(T)
Mandy Lee blues (Oliver '23) (T) 2pp 
Maryland my Maryland 2pp
Memphis blues 2pp
*Messin' around (Blythe) (T)
*Messin' around (St. Cyr) (V)
Midnight mama (T) / Tom cat (Morton)
Mountain top blues (lyr) (Bessie)
Mr. Jelly Lord (Morton) 2pp
My heart (Hot 5)(T) 2pp
*My man o' war (V)
My Monday date (lyr)
*My pretty girl (V)(Bix)(T) 4pp
*Need a little sugar in my bowl (Bessie)
New Orleans shuffle (T) 2pp
New Orleans stomp (Oliver '23)(T) 2pp
*No one else but you (V) (Armstrong)
*Nobody knows the way I feel this mornin'
*Oh baby (Bix V, C)(T) 2pp
*Oh daddy blues (V) (Bessie)
Olga (Oliver '30) (T)
Oriental man (Dodds)(T) 2pp
Oriental strut (Hot 5)(T) 2pp
Original Jelly Roll blues (Morton)(T) 2pp
Ory's creole trombone (Hot 5)(T) 3pp
Ostrich walk (Bix version)(T) 2pp
Paducah (Ellington)
Papa dip (Dodds)
Pearls, the (Morton)(T) 2pp
Perdido Street blues (Dodds)(T) 2pp
Petite fleur (Bechet)
*Pickin' on my baby (V)
Ponchartrain blues (Morton) (T)
Potato head blues (Hot 7)(T) 2pp 
*Prince of wails (V.P) 2pp
*Proud of a baby like you (V)
*Rampart Street blues (V,P)
*Rhythm king (V) (Bix Record intro, ending)(T) 2pp
Riverside blues (Oliver '23) (T)
Room rent blues (Oliver '23)(T)
Sage hen strut 2pp
*San Francisco Bay blues 2pp
*Santa Claus blues (V)
*Save it pretty mama (V)
*Shake it and break it
Shake that thing (lyr)
She's cryin' for me (NORK) (T) 2pp
Shim-me-sha-wabble
Shreveport stomp (Morton) 2pp
Sidewalk blues (Morton)(T) 2pp
Skid-dat-de-dat (Hot 5)(T) 2pp
Soap suds [Fickle Fay creep] (Morton)(T) 2pp
Sobbin' blues (Oliver '23)(T) 2pp
Southern stomps (Oliver '23)(T)
St. Phillip Street breakdown (Lewis)(T)2pp
Stampede (Fletcher Henderson '26) 2pp
Steamboat stomp (Morton)(T) 2pp
Sugar foot strut (Hot 5)
*Sundown mama (KO Eckland)
*Sunset Cafe stomp (Hot 5)(T) 2pp
*Sweet baby doll (V) (Oliver '23)
Sweet like this (Oliver)
Sweet lovin' man (Oliver '23, NORK) 
Sweet mama (Ellington)(T)
*T'ain't nobody's biz-ness if I do (V) (Bessie)
*Tail gate ramble (V) (incl. Dukes version)
Tears (Oliver '23)(T) 2pp
*Terrible blues
Texas moaner (lyr)
*There'll be no freebies at Miss Jenny's Ball (V, P) 2pp
There'll come a time (Bix)(T) 2pp
*Too bad (Oliver '26) 2pp
Trombone rag 4pp
Ugly chile (w/You're some pretty girl) 2pp
*Wait till you see my baby do the Charleston (V)
*Wang wang blues (V, P)
Was I drunk (V, lyr) 2pp
*Washboard blues (V, P)
Waste no tears (Bechet) (T)
Weather bird rag (Oliver '23)(T) (Includes Copyright sheet) 3pp
*When (V)
Where did you stay last night (Oliver '23)(T) 2pp
*Why (Morton) (V) (T)
Wild man blues
Wild women don't have the blues (lyr)
Working man's blues (Oliver '23) (Includes Copyright sheet) 3pp
Yes I'm in the barrel (Hot 5)(T) 2pp
*You don't understand (V) (T)
You made me love you (Hot 5) (lyr.)
You're next (Hot 5)(T)
*You've been a good old wagon (Bessie)
*You've got to give me some (Bessie)
Zulu's ball (Oliver '23) (T)
 
Main Artist List
Armstrong (Hot 5-Hot 7) 
Alligator crawl 
Come back sweet papa 
Cornet chop suey 
Got no blues 
Heebie jeebies 
Hotter than that 
Jazz lips 
Livin' high 
Lonesome blues 
My heart 
No one else but you 
Oriental strut 
Ory's creole trombone 
Potato head blues 
Put 'em down blues 
Skid-dat-de-dat 
Sunset Cafe stomp 
Yes I'm in the barrel 
You made me love you 
You're next 

Bix 
Barnacle Bill the sailor 
Big boy 
Borneo 
Clementine from New Orleans 
Deep Harlem 
Goose pimples 
Idolizin' 
My pretty girl 
Oh baby 
Ostrich walk 
There'll come a time 

Ellington 
Awful sad 
Black and tan fantasy 
Creole love call 
East St. Louis toodle-oo 
Paducah 
Sweet mama 
 
 

Jelly Roll Morton 
2:19 blues 
Black bottom stomp 
Buffalo blues 
Chant, the 
Chicago breakdown (Stratford hunch) 
Dead man blues 
Don't you leave me here 
Georgia swing 
Good old New York 
Grandpa's spells 
Ham and eggs [Big fat ham] 
If someone would only love me 
Kansas City stomps 
Midnight mama / Tom cat 
Mr. Jelly Lord 
Original Jelly Roll blues 
Pearls, the 
Ponchartrain blues 
Shreveport stomp 
Sidewalk blues 
Soap suds (Fickle Fay creep) 
Steamboat stomp 
Why 

King Oliver (1923) 
Alligator hop 
Buddy's habit 
Canal Street blues 
Chimes blues 
Frog-i-more 
I ain't gonna tell nobody 
I'm going away just to wear you off my mind 
Just gone 
Krooked blues 
London (Cafe) blues 
Mabel's dream 
Mandy Lee blues 
New Orleans stomp 
Sobbin' blues 
Southern stomps 
Sweet lovin' man 
Tears 
Weather bird rag 
Where did you stay last night 
Working man's blues 
Zulu's ball

Johnny Dodds 
Ballin' a jack 
Brown bottom Bess 
Come on and stomp stomp stomp 
Flat foot 
Gatemouth 
I can't say 
Lady love 
Oriental man 
Papa Dip 
Perdido Street blues 

Bessie Smith 
Aggravatin' papa 
Blue mama's suicide wail (Mountain top blues) 
Down hearted blues 
Empty bed blues 
Far away blues 
Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer 
Gulf coast blues 
I need a little sugar in my bowl 
I'm wild about that thing 
Oh daddy blues 
T'ain't nobody's biz-ness if I do 
There'll be no freebies at Miss Jenny's Ball 
You've been a good old wagon 
You've got to give me some 

New Orleans Revival 
All the girls go crazy 'bout the way I walk 
Bugle boy march [American soldier] 
Burgundy Street blues 
Get out of here and go home 
Gettysburg march 
Maryland my Maryland 
St. Phillip Street breakdown 

West Coast 
Big bear stomp 
Chelsea on down 
Creole belle 
Down home rag 
Emperor Norton's hunch 
Fat Louis' wake 
Golden Gate stomp 
Sage hen strut 
Sundown mama 
Trombone rag

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