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The Musicarta Songbook
Page Four
The Stride Collection
Here are two piano solos in the 'stride' style - 'Spread A Little Happiness' and 'If I Could Be With You'.
This 1929 hit is a classic of its kind. Here's the recording I've worked from.
Isn't the orchestration perfect? The chord sequence almost noble in its easy command; the trilling vocal so emblematic of the 1920s' gilded bathos and tragic optimism...
Here's my piano rendering
Here's a thumbnail of the first page my arrangement.
Stride titan James P Johnson is credited on this 1926 hit. If you know his work, you're bound to recognise his signature keyboard voicings.
Here's a virtual piano rendering of the predictably 'clunky' original sheet music (chorus only).
Don't you just love that W C Handy 16-bar blues feel?
Here's my piano rendering. You'll hear the 'smoothing' kick in!
Here's a thumbnail of the first page of the music.
Here's a mini-medley of 'Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing' segueing into the grand 'Love Is The Sweetest Thing' by Ray Noble.
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