Big River The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords

My all-time favorite musical play, ever since my brother was in a small production of it. I can never get enough of it! This songbook is perfect.I'm not sure why others are saying that this is a soundtrack. It isn't.. it's the songbook.

The book has all the songs from the broadway show, Big River, but all the pieces have only the melody part. Any harmony or chorus parts you were hoping to get are not there. This works for simple performances but not for any duets or ensembles.

loved the show=love the music.Music easy enough for our granddaughter to play and enjoy with us.thanks for your prompt service, too.

Great show and great songs. Good to have the Vocal Selections to go along with the score. I will be directing this in the spring.

This is an outstanding musical - great songs especially for guys. Our original went missing and we had to replace it.

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Roger Miller is remembered for his humorous novelty songs like "King of the Road," "Dang Me," "England Swings," "Do-Wacka-Do," and "You Can't Roller Skate in a Buffalo Herd." What gets forgotten sometimes is that he had considerable songwriting talent, and the best proof of that is his Tony Award-winning songs for "Big River." You have to appreciate the audacity of trying to turn Mark Twain's classic novel into a Broadway musical, but in turning to Roger Miller to write the songs you get the feeling Samuel Clemens was moving them in the right direction. Yes, there are stuff the fun songs like Pa's diatribe on "Guv'ment" and Tom Sawyer's "Hand for the Hog," as well as the two songs by the King and the Duke, "When the Sun Goes Down in the South" and "The Royal Nonesuch." But Miller also provides a tender country ballad, "You Oughta Be Here With Me" and the spiritual "The Crossing." The most powerful songs remain those between Huck and Jim, which includes "Muddy Water," "River in the Rain," and "Worlds Apart.""Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" contains sixteen of Miller's songs, with piano-vocal arrangements by Rick Walters along with guitar chords. In addition to the above mentioned songs you also get the music for "Arkansas/How Blest We Are," "The Boys," "Do Ya Wanna Go To Heaven?," "Free At Last," "I, Huckleberry, Me," and "Waitin' For the Light To Shine." So you get most of the songs from the musical and if you can play the piano or guitar, or are willing to risk others hearing you sing about "The Royal Nonesuch" out loud, then this is another way of enjoying Miller's work. Just remember, no music library is complete without one of the more comprehensive Roger Miller hit collections and the Original Broadway Cast album for "Big River" (with Daniel Jenkins, Ron Richardson, Rene Auberjonis, Patti Cohenour, John Goodman, and Bob Gunton).

Most songbooks like this are, I suppose, extremely reduced. This one doesn't include some of the really good vocal harmonies, for example, in "Muddy Water, "River in the Rain," or "Worlds Apart," though they're pretty easy to figure out if you listen to the soundtrack a couple of times. 4 stars because I still love the music and it serves the purposes most people will use it for (i.e. it's sight readable for auditions etc.).