Hit the Road Jack war einer der größten Hits von Ray Charles und kann wirklich als Evergreen bezeichnet werden. Er wurde 1960 geschrieben, taucht aber immer wieder in verschiedenen Ausgaben und im Rol...
Noten für Schulorchester (5-stimmige flexible Besetzung) des 'Pink Panther Theme', komponiert von Henry Mancini, arrangiert von Anders Widestrand. Die Arrangements aus der Flex5-Reihe des Verlags Nors...
This is really one of the great evergreens and of course on the 'Rolling Stones' list of the 100 best songs of all time. But it would take over 50 years before it reached the top of Billboard's list w...
Noten für Schulorchester (5-stimmige flexible Besetzung) von Tequila, arrangiert von Inge Sunde. Die Arrangements aus der Flex5-Reihe des Verlags Norsk Noteservice as gehören schon seit vielen Jahren...
This Jazz-standard from 1962 is recorded by a numerous artists like Mongo Santamaria, Jimmy Smith, Gordon Goodwin Big Phat Band, Michel Camilo and Sly & The Family Stone in additon to several recordin...
Another great opportunity to pay a musical tribute to the 1970´s! This is one of the biggest hits from the 1970´s, recorded by many easy-listening singers all over the world. Raindrops keep fallin´o...
Noten für Schulorchester (5-stimmige flexible Besetzung) von Baby Elephant Walk, arrangiert von Inge Sunde. Die Arrangements aus der Flex5-Reihe des Verlags Norsk Noteservice as gehören schon seit vie...
The theme song from the musical Cabaret
A smash hit performed by artists like Peggy Lee, Elvis Preslay and Madonna covering the 50's, 60's and 90's. A true 'classic' now avaiable for flexible instrumentation. Even small ensembles can excite...
Stupid Cupidis one of the first Neil Sedaka pop hits, originally written for Connie Francis, and it became an internacional hit in 1958. This up-tempo rock/pop tune is very suitable for wind players,...
It's Not Unusual, written by Les Reed and Gordon Mills is without doubt the biggest hit by British singer Tom Jones.
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 song was originally with Italian lyrics, recorded by Tony Renis and Emilio Pericoli in 1962. American entertainer Pat Boone recorded the song the same year, with English lyrics; 'Tell Me When Will...
Peter Gunn Theme was originally written by the great American composer Henry Mancini. This flexible 5-part arrangement provides good opportunities for improvisation! Peter Gunn Theme was originally wr...
'Seven Nation Army' was written in 2003 by Jack White for American band 'The White Stripes'. The song was the opening track of their fouth record album 'Elephant'. After this, the characteristic guit...
One of the biggest 'hits of the Fifties'! The original French song 'La Mer' was written in 1946 by Charles Trenet. It has been recorded by many artists, but Bobby Darin's version in big-band swing sty...
Living next Door to Alice was originally performed by the Australian vocal-trio New World in 1972. The song archived a rather limited success until 1976 when British band Smokie did their cover-versio...
'I'm a Believer' is a song written by Neil Diamond and recorded by The Monkees for the first time in 1966. Late same year, December 31st, it enteret the first place of the Billboard chart and stayed t...
Big Spender is a song from the musical Sweet Charity by Cy Coleman and Dorothy Leigh. Both Peggy Lee and Shirley Bassey have had big success with this song.
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...
Sentimental Journey is one of the biggest hits of the great big-band era. As Sentimental Journey was published in 1944 and coincided with the end of World War II in Europe, Doris Day's recording becam...
Bad, Bad Leroy Brown' is a song written by American folk rock singer Jim Croce. Released as part of his 1973 album 'Life and Times', the song was a Number One pop hit for him, spending two weeks at th...
This is the title-song of the 1952 American comedy-musical 'Singin' in the Rain' starring Gene Kelley and Debbie Reynolds. This arrangement is in our popular Showblow- og Flex 5 series
Jenter (Girls) is a song from Norwegian pop group Di Derre. It was released in 1994 and has sold more than 190 000 copies after that. The composer of both lyrics and music, Jo Nesbø, is today most kno...
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...
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...
Nel blu dipinto di blu', popularly known as 'Volare' is Domenico Modugno's signature song. It is the only song ever by an Italian artist to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Domenico Modugno'...
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...
With music to both the 'Olsenbanden' movies and 'Pinchcliffe Grand Prix', one would almost believe that Bent Fabricius-Bjerre was a Norwegian. But the Danish film and TV composer has a very large prod...
'You Make Me Feel So Young' is a 1946 popular song composed by Josef Myrow (born in Tsarist, Russia), with lyrics written by Mack Gordon (born in Warsaw). It was introduced in the 1946 musical film Th...
Jeepers Creepers' is a popular song and jazz standard. The music was written by Harry Warren and the lyrics by Johnny Mercer for the 1938 movie Going Places. It was premiered by Louis Armstrong and ha...
The greatest Frank Sinatra hit ever? Everybody knows New York New York which is now available for all kind of ensembles - from quintets up to ful brass- and concert bands. In 1977 Kander/Ebb wrote son...
'Hva var vel livet uten deg' ('What was the life without you') is a song composed by Swedish composer Ernfrid Ahlin with lyrics by the Norwegian Gunnar Kaspersen. It has been features in both movies a...
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...
The Winner Takes It All is one of the biggest hits by Swedish band ABBA. It was first released as single in 1980, reaching the no.1 spot in big countries like England, Ireland, Belgium and The Netherl...
This song is famous in Norway through recordings and performances by Wenche Myhre. She recorded the song for the first time in 1983 and it has been a part of her repertoire ever since. It is composed...
Bert Kaempfert was one of the pioneers of the entertainment orchestra and had a strong focus on wind instruments, often as soloists. His first hit was Wonderland by Night, which is a trumpet solo. He...
George Shearing wrote 'Lullaby of Birdland' in 1952 for Morris Levy, the owner of the New York jazz club Birdland. Levy had got in touch with Shearing and explained that he'd started a regular Birdlan...
This theme is well known by most Scandinavians, whether you are young or old. Bent Fabricius-Bjerre is one of the Nordic region's greatest film music composers, who is also behind such titles as 'Alle...
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...
Finally, the legendary prog-rock band King Crimsons heavy classic is available for band! It's got a cool riff and fits band in all ages. The solo part can be sung og played on an instrument. The text...
Fanfare : Une courte fanfare, publiée en format folio de mars, est parfaite comme ouverture de concert à l’intérieur et à l’extérieur. Il introduit le timbre puissant d’un groupe jouant puissant en ma...
The composer Horst Jankowski was a classically trained German pianist, but became most successful for his easy listening music, and achieved international fame in 1965 vith his famous pop piece A Walk...
Lucky Lips, written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller became a big hit with Cliff Richard and The Shadows in 1963. Richard also recorded a version in German language which was a big hit in Western Germ...
Living Doll by Lionel Bart is made famous because of two recordingss by British singer Cliff Richard. The first one from 1959 backed by 'The Shadows' (at that time still named 'The Drifters'), and aga...
These are two short and fun songs in a blues and reggae style that are great for beginners and junior players. As common in blues, you can repeat as many times as you like. Why not let the players try...
'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...
Under the Boardwalk is one of the beach party hits from the 60's. The song was first recorded by The Drifters in 1964, and has since then been covered by many artists; The Rolling Stones (the same ye...
'She's a Lady' is a song written by Paul Anka and was released on his album Paul Anka '70s. The most successful recording was performed by Tom Jones, and released at the beginning of 1971. It is Jones...
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...
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...
Oh Carol' is an international hit written by Neil Sedaka in 1958. Co-written with Howard Greenfield, the song is noted for Sedaka's spoken recitation of the verse, the second time around. The song spe...
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...
Olle Adolphson (1934 - 2004) was a swedish poet and folkmusic singer. His debut came in 1955 with the song collection named Aubade. Olle Adolphson was regarded as one of the founders of the nordic fol...
“Concert Prelude” is a little concert piece originally written for the competition Mini Brass at the Swedish Brass Band Championships 2022. The piece contains everything from fanfare motifs to calm so...
Can Can is the most famous excerpt from the operette Orpheus in the Underworld written by Jaques Offenbach. This was his first classical full-lenght operetta. Orpheus in the Underworld premiered in 18...
Granka - Granka - Granka is a popular advertisement tune for the Norwegian classifieds site "finn.no", first aired in 2019. It is written by actor and musician Nils Joergen Kaalstad. To make it easie...
The iconic soundtrack composed by John Williams continues with 'The Force Awakens', the seventh Star Wars movie. This arrangement for Young Band tries to capture the rich timbre of the original orches...
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...
Begin the Beguine is one of the most popular songs by Cole Porter. It was written in 1935 aboard the ocean liner 'Franconia' en route from Indonesia to Fiji. It was later the same year introducted by...
From The Musical The Pajama Game
Diana' is a song written and made famous by Paul Anka in 1957, recorded in May 1957 at Don Costa studio in New York City. Anka stated in his autobiography that the song was inspired by a girl named Di...
'Send me to Bergen' ('Eg ve te Bergen') is one of the most famous songs by Norwegian duo Knudsen & Ludvigsen. It was released as single record in 1983 and included on their best selling record album...
'Vi lever' (En Chantant) was recorded and released on a single by the French artist Michel Sardou in 1978. Four years later, in 1982 Wenche Myhre recorded a Norwegian version with text by Jan Eggum de...
Get ready for the original French song 'Frère Jacques' in country-style with the smell of boots, cattle and smokin' guns. To make the style as autentic as possible, it's important that the conductor s...
ne of the greatest standards of all time, here in a Flexible 5-Part arrangement. 'It's Only a Paper Moon' was written in 1933 for the Broadway musical 'The Great Magoo'. The musical was never a succes...
Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree (With Anyone Else but Me)' is a popular song that was made famous by Glenn Miller and by the Andrews Sisters during World War II. Its lyrics are the words of two young l...
The Lady Is a Tramp' is a show tune from the 1937 Rodgers and Hart musical 'Babes in Arms' in which it was introduced by former child star Mitzi Green. This song is a spoof of New York high society an...
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...
'Come Fly with Me' was written for Frank Sinatra, and was the title track of his 1958 album of the same name. The song sets the tone for the rest of the album, describing adventures in exotic locales,...
One of the newest recordings of this song is the 2008 version by Natalie Cole, who sang the song as a virtual duet with her father, Nat King Cole who recorded it in 1952, more than 50 years earlier. T...
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...
I'm in the Mood for Love is today a "standard" song released in 1935. The music was written by Jimmy McHugh, with lyrics by Dorothy Fields. The song was introduced by Frances Langford in the film "Eve...
'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...
Satin Doll is one of the most famous Duke Ellington's 'jazz standards'. It was written in 1953, and soon became a great hit in its instrumental version. Johnny Mercer, regarded as one of America's gre...
An easy-listening swing tune playable for various five-part ensembles up to full brass or concert band instrumentation. Voi Voi was Norway's entry to the very first Eurovision Song Contest arranged in...
The Cockerel' is a funky version of the Norwegian classic by Eilif Gulbranson. Dressed in a modern style, one can show the band from a more groovy side. The middle section opens for solos from players...
This flexible 5-part arrangement of the old rockabilly song is featured as main theme in the TV-series also named Heartbeat. Heartbeat is a rockabilly song written by Bob Montgomery and Norman Petty,...
Ring Ring was the very first hit by Swedish pop group ABBA, written by Benny Andersson, Stig ('Stikkan') Anderson and Björn Ulvaeus. It was written to the group's participation at the Eurovision Song...
The old Mods classic 'Tore Tang', written by Morten Abel, is sung in sports arenas, in kindergartens and at parties all over Norway. It is one of the band's greatest hits and was released on their alb...
During the Second World War, the English singer Vera Lynn gave many concerts for the British troops abroad, and in 1942 she also recorded her most famous song, We'll Meet Again, starring in a film of...
'Walkin' After Midnight' became the first major hit by the American country music artist Patsy Cline. It was first released as a single in 1957, and together with another of Patsy Cline´s signature so...
'Let Me Stay Young' was written by Arne Bendiksen and recorded and released on a single with Wenche Myhre in 1964. The song was also released on the album of the same name later that year. 'Let Me Sta...
Tika Tika Walk, in Norway, is primarily known as the music accompany for the 'Brelett' (a butter brand) advertisement. A catchy and carefree tune that we associate with cycling, sun and summer, cows a...
Nat King Cole was an American singer and jazz pianist. He recorded over 100 songs that became hits, and this is one of his latest, recorded in 1963 and still a summer hit on the radio. This is a 'Flex...
The title song from Pippi Longstocking here in a latin-flavoured arrangement playable for almost any combination of quintets and up to full brass- and wind instrumentations. The title-song from the sw...