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Song title is followed by test information - for instance, the first selection on Test 1, Test #1 listening
”Jeannie With The Light Brown Hair” - Parlor song ”De Boatman’s Dance” - Minstrel Song ”Oh Susanna” - Minstrel Song performed in the home ”Old Folks At Home” - Plantation Song ”Grandfather’s Clock” - verse/chorus format ”Beautiful Dreamer” - simplified Opera style for home use ”After The Ball” - Waltz ”De Golden Wedding” - James Bland ”Gypsy Love Song” - Operetta ”Yankee Doodle Boy” - George M Cohan ”Stars and Stripes Forever” - John Phillip Sousa Test #2 listening
”Maple Leaf Rag” - Ragtime/Scott Joplin ”At A Georgia Camp Meeting” - Cakewalk ”Under The Bamboo Tree” - Ragtime Song ”Castle House Rag” - Ragtime Dance ”Hellhound On My Trail” - Country Blues/Robert Johnson ”St. Louis Blues” - Classic Blues/Bessie Smith ”Alexander’s Ragtime Band” - Blues style in popular song If I Had You” - Foxtrot ”Copenhagen” - Fletcher Henderson ”Whispering” - Paul Whiteman ”April Showers” - Al Jolson ”Fascinating Rhythm” - George & Ira Gershwin ”After You’ve Gone” - Bing Crosby ”Dippermouth Blues” - New Orleans Style/Joe “King” Oliver ”Grandpa’s Spells” - Jelly Roll Morton ”West End Blues” - Louis Armstrong ”Wrapping’ It Up” - Big Band/Fletcher Henderson ”Harlem Air Shaft” - Duke Ellington ”I’ve Found A New Baby” - Small Group Jazz/Benny Goodman ”Koko” - Bop/Charlie Parker ”Freddie Freeloader” - Cool Jazz/Miles Davis ”Cheek To Cheek” - Irving Berlin ”All Of Me” - Crooner vocal style/Russ Columbo ”All Of Me” - Jazz vocal style/Billie Holiday ”My Funny Valentine” - Rogers & Hart ”Choo Choo Ch Boogie” - Jump Band/Louis Jordan Test #3 listening
”Old Man River” - Show Boat ”Can’t Help Lovin’ That Man Of Mine” - Show Boat ”Oh, What A Beautiful Morning” - Oklahoma ”Surrey With The Fringe On Top” - Oklahoma ”Maria” - West Side Story ”Cool” - West Side Story ”Your Cheatin’ Heart” - Hank Williams ”Wildwood Flower” - Carter Family ”Blue Yodel #11” - Jimmy Rodgers ”Wabash Cannonball” - Roy Acuff ”Mighty Dark To Travel” - Bluegrass/Bill Monroe ”Steel Guitar Rag” - Western Swing/Bob Wills ”Much Too Young To Die” - Honky Tonk/Ray Price ”I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” - Hank Williams ”El Manisero/Peanut Vendor” - Rumba ”Complicación” - Tito Puente ”Desafinado” - Bossa Nova ”Ojos” - Salsa ”Quilombo” - Samba ”Roll ‘Em Pete” - Boogie Woogie/Pete Johnson ”Shake Rattle & Roll” - Jump Band ”They Call Me Muddy Waters” - Muddy Waters ”Stormy Monday Blues” - Blues/T-Bone Walker ”Johnny B Goode” - Check Berry ”The Golden Gate Gospel Train” - a cappella gospel quartet ”How I Got Over” - Clara Ward ”Have Mercy, Baby” - Dominos ”That’ll Be The Day” - Buddy Holly ”Tracks Of My Tears” - Motown Pop ”Papa’s Got A Brand New Bag” - James Brown ”Think” - Aretha Franklin Test #4 listening - PLUS listening from Tests #1, #2 & #3
”Alfie” - Hal David/Burt Bacharach with Dionne Warwick ”Do You Know The Way To San Jose?” - Hal David/Burt Bacharach with Dionne Warwick ”Another Hundred People” - Stephen Sondheim ”Soon” - Stephen Sondheim ”Mama’s Don’t Let Your Babies To Grow Up To Be Cowboys” - Outlaw Country ”The Grand Tour” - George Jones ”Don’t Get Above Your Raising” - Neo-traditional Country/Ricky Scaggs ”Coat Of Many Colors” - Dolly Parton ”9 to 5” - Dolly Parton ”Chasin’ The Trane” - John Coltrane ”Fall” - Miles Davis ”Watermelon Man” - Herbie Hancock ”Birdland” - Fusion/Weather Report ”Cherokee” - Neo-traditional Jazz/Wynton Marsalis ”So In Love” - Chick Corea ”Shining Star” - Earth, Wind & Fire ”Africa Talks To You” - Sly & the Family Stone ”Give Up The Funk” - George Clinton ”Good Times” - disco ”1 Million Bottlebags” - Rap HOME | FRANK DUVALL MUSIC | BIOGRAPHY | RECORDINGS | COMPOSITIONS | LINKS | PHOTOS | CofC | CONTACT |