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We start with 8
songs
from the full band, with exciting solos fom Bill Lowrey, Jimmie Min and
Dorothy Horning.
o Just Because
o Limehouse Blues
o San Francisco Bay Blues
o Bei Mir Bist Du Shon
o I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter
o Smiles
o St. Louis Blues
o Tarentella Napoletano / Finiculi Finicula
These
three songs are by "Charlie and
Sons."
They are the only recordings of Charlie Tagawa's mastery of the tenor
banjo.
o Minuet in G
o Turkish March
o Temptation Rag
Then
back to the full band. Wait till you hear South Rampart Street Parade
and Stars and Stripes Forever.
o Roll On Mississippi
o Do You Know what It Means to Miss New Orleans
o South Rampart Street Parade
o Take Me Home Country Roads
o Wheels
o Stars and Stripes Forever
To
order
Send check or money order for $10.00
payable to the Peninsula Banjo Band at:
Peninsula Banjo Band
PO Box 111974
Campbell, CA 95011-1974
For
other PBB
recordings and books, see the following sections.
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Over
the years, the
Peninsula Banjo Band has produced a number of recordings.
Our
3 offerings are: JUST
BECAUSE, MORE! MORE! MORE! and JUST ONE MORE TIME.
Contents of each are listed below.
The
cost is $10.00 each (If ordering by mail, please include $2.00 per item, S&H, -- $5.00 maximum.
Make your check
payable
to the Peninsula Banjo
Band;
include $2.00 per item
($5.00 Maximum) for shipping and handling, and
mail to:
Peninsula Banjo Band
PO Box 111974
Campbell, CA 95011-1974
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Just
Because
originally recorded in
the
1970's, with a band of 70 members.
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Just
Because
Carolina in the Morning
Somebody Stole My Gal
Alabama Jubilee
Waiting for the Robert E. Lee
Alabamy Bound
Bill Bailey
Shine on Harvest Moon
Hava Nagilah
For Me and My Gal
When the Saints Go Marching In |
More!
More! More!
Originally recorded in the 80's
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Beer
Barrel Polka
Five Foot Two
Somewhere My Love
I’ve Been Floating Down the Old Green River
Under the Double Eagle
San Antonio Rose
Coney Island Washboard
Am I Blue
Sweet Georgia Brown
Just A Closer Walk With Thee
I Wish I was in Peoria
High Society |
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Just
One More Time
Originally recorded in the 90's
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Bourbon
Street Parade
At A Georgia Camp Meeting
The Old Rugged Cross
Sweet Georgia Brown
Sailing Down The Chesapeake Bay
Tin Roof Blues
Bill Bailey
Exactly Like You
What A Wonderful World
When the Saints Go Marching In |
Banjo Stories Books from the Peninsula
Banjo Band
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Volume I
Did you know that our Beer Barrel
Polka
was originally a Czech love song called
"Skoda Lasky, meaning "Lost Love"?
That and
much more in Volume I.
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48
pages and a dozen articles and -- only $5.00. (+$2.00 S&H) |
Volume II
Did
you know that the
Hoover Vacuum Cleaner Company
adapted "The US Field
Artillary March"
("The Caissons Go Rolling Along")
as their company
song, entitled
"All the Dirt All the Grit"?
That and much more in Volume II. |
52 pages, eleven
articles and -- only $5.00.
(+$2.00 S&H)
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Volume III
Did
you know that "My Mammy,"
arguably the song that defined Al Jolson,
was originally introcuced in Vaudeville
by William Frawley, who later became
Fred Mertz on the "I Love Lucy Show?"
That and much more in Volume III. |
- Belle
Baker
-- All of Me, Blue Skies
- Kalmar and Ruby -- A Kiss to Build a Dream On, Who's
Sorry
Now, I've Been Floating ...
- A Trio of Irish Waltzes -- My Wild Irish Rose, When
Irish
Eyes Are Smiling, Sweet Rosie O'Grady
- Kerry Mills
-- At a Georgia Camp Meeting, Red Wing
- What a Record that Was -- Tzena Tzena Tzena and
Goodnight
Irene
- Young and Lewis -- My Mammy, Shanty Town, I'm Gonna
Sit
Right Down, How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em ..., Dinah
- The Whole Thing -- Under the Double Eagle, Stars and
Stripes Forever, Saints
- Harry Akst -- Am I Blue, Baby Face, Dinah
- South Rampart Street Parade
- Ice Cream
- Bob Wills, Western Swing and San Antonio Rose
- Christmas Songs -- Little Drummer Boy, Winter
Wonderland
53
pages, twelve
articles and -- only $5.00. (+$2.00 S&H)
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Volume IV
Did you
know that Al Jolson originally introduced
"If You Knew Susie" in the show "Big Boy"
but it bombed?
Jolson gave the song to Eddie Cantor
and Cantor made it a huge hit.
Later Jolson told Cantor,
"Eddie, you dirty dog, if I'd known
that
song was that good,
I'd have never given it to you!"
That and much more in Volume IV.
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50
pages, 10 articles and only $5.00 (+ $2.00 S&H)
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Volume V
The morning after
Irving Berlin wrote
"White
Christmas" —
he often
stayed up all night writing —
he went
to his office and told his musical secretary,
"Grab
your pen and take down this song.
I just
wrote the best song I've ever written — hell, I just wrote the best
song that anybody's ever written!"
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- Our Monkey Song — Down in Jungle Town
- A “Towering Song,” Let Me Call You Sweetheart
- Colonel Bogey March
- Down Yonder
- Funiculi Funicula
- Ballin’ the Jack
- Another Irving (Caesar)
- Curse of an Aching Heart
- I Love You
- Yankee Doodle Boy
- When I’m Sixty-four
- Do You Know the Way to San José
- My Blue Heaven
- Irving Berlin: A Love Story
- Hava Nagila
- Mele Kalikimaka
- Silver Bells
44 pages, 18
articles and only $5.00 (+ $2.00 S&H) |
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All
books are soft
cover with photos in black and
white.
To
order, send check or
money order for $5.00 each, plus $2.00 per item ($5.00 maximum) for shipping and
handling to:
Peninsula Banjo Band, PO Box 111974 Campbell, CA
95011-1974
Or,
get a copy of any
book free with your order for 4 CDs.
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