Dick Parks' Novelty Five

Basic instrumentation: (Parentheses show what instrument would be played for dancing)
cornet-valve trombone-vocals-(trumpet)
clarinet-soprano sax-vocals-(tenor sax)
banjo-guitar-(piano)
washboard-vocals-(drums)
Washtub bass, or upright bass
Whenever possible one or more of the following are added:
clarinet-tenor sax-jug-vocals
2nd banjo-(guitar)
 

The band plays many of the Dixieland and sing-along standards that are found in the Sheiks of Dixie list, but the following is its special repertoire.
 

Abdul Abulbul Amir  Ace in the Hole  Across the Alley From the Alamo  Ain't Gonna Give Nobody none of my jelly   Roll   Alice Blue Gown   Amapola Rhumba  Are You Lonesome Tonight?  Auld Lang Syne  Auntie Skinner's Chicken Dinner  Baby Face  Back In the Saddle Again  Barney Google  Beer Barrel Polka  Big Bad Bill is sweet William now  Big Time Woman  Bill Bailey  Blues My Naughty Sweetie gives to me  Breeze  Breezin' Along With the Breeze  Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?  Bye Bye Blues  C Jam Blues  Cakewalkin' Babies from home  Careless Love  Cheek to Cheek  Coney Island Washboard Roundelay  Cool Water  (Western medley)  Crazy Words, Crazy Tune  Dardanella  Diddy-Wa-Diddy  Diggin' My Potatoes  Doctor Jazz  Does the Spearmint Lose Its Flavor  Down In Jungletown  Egyptian Ella  Etiquette Blues   Five Foot Two  Four or Five Times  Frankie and Johnnie  Good Man is Hard to Find  Good Night, Sweetheart  Goody Goody  Goofus  Greatest Man in Siam  Home  How Come You Do Me Like You Do?  Huggin' and Chalkin'  How Long Blues  I Ain't Got Nobody  If I Could Be With You  If I Didn't Care

If I Give Up the Saxophone Will You Come Back To Me  I Like Bananas Because They Have No      Bones  I'm a Ding-Dong Daddy From Dumas  I'm Beginning to See the Light   I'm In the Mood for Love  I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover  In a Shanty in Old Shanty Town  I Paid My Income Tax Today  Is It True What They Say About Dixie?  Istanbul, Not Constantinople  Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby?   It Don't Mean a Thing  It's a Sin to Tell a Lie  I've Got a Feeling I'm Falling  I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate  I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now  Jambalaya  Java Jive  Jersey Bounce  Jug Band Stomp  Just a Gigolo  Just Because     Kansas City Kitty  Kiss Me Sweet  Let Me Call You Sweetheart  Let's Talk Dirty in Hawaiian  Love Is Good For Anything That Ails You  Making Love, Ukulele Style  Making Whoopee  Mama's Gone, Goodbye  Mandy, Make Up Your Mind  Maria Elena  Marv's Blues  Meet Me By the Icehouse,  Lizzie  Minnie the Mermaid  Minnie the Moocher  Mister Sandman  Mood Indigo  Moonlight Saving Time  Moonlight Serenade  Music Goes Round and Round  My Blue Heaven  My Sweet Tooth Says "I Wanna" But My Wisdom Tooth Says No  My Honey's Lovin' Arms  Nagasaki  Never Again  Never Swat a Fly  Oh, By Jingo  Oh, Sister, Ain't That Hot!  Old-Fashioned Love  One More Time

Palesteena (Lena from)  Peoria (I wish I was in)   Rebecca  (Came Back From Mecca)  Ridin' Down the Canyon  Sailing Down the Chesapeake Bay  Saint James' Infirmary  Salty Dog  San   San Antonio Rose  San Francisco Bay Blues  Shake That Thing  Shaking the Blues Away  Sheik of Araby  Shoo-Fly Pie  Sing, Sing, Sing  Sioux City Sue  Sissy  Smoooth One  Someday Sweetheart  Smoke Gets in Your Eyes   Smoke, Smoke, Smoke That Cigarette  Sophisticated Lady  Sophisticated Swing  Sugar  Summertime  'Tain't Nobody's Bizness if I Do   Tain't No Sin to Take Off Your Skin and     Dance Around In Your Bones  Take Me to the Land of Jazz  There's No Romance in Your Soul  This Train  Tight Like That  Tubas in the Moonlight  Tumbling Tumbleweeds  Turn Your Radio On  Twilight Time  Wa Hoo  Western Medley:   see  Cool Water  We Three  What Do I Care (What Somebody Said)?  When Erastus Plays His Old Kazoo  When My Dreamboat Comes Home  When the Bloom Is on the Sage  When the Midnight Choo-Choo Leaves For Alabam’  When You and I Were Young, Maggie  When You Wore a Tulip  Why Did I Tell You..Shanghai?  Who Walks In When I Walk Out?  Willie the Weeper  You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You  Your Feets Too Big

 

Created 9/21/2002