rrayner
06-02-2015, 01:33 AM
"See You In September" was written in 1959 by Sid Wayne and Sherman Edwards. The genre of this song was referred to as "Bubble Gum Pop" and "Puppy Love Pop" and is one of the two songs for this month that mark June as the beginning of Summer Vacation -- and for some young folks in love, a time of separation. Hopefully the young love will be as bright when Summer ends, as the lyrics of these songs suggest.
"See You In September" has been recorded by a number of pop stars, including The Happenings, The Tokens, and the Four Seasons. The Tokens version was used in the movie, "American Graffitti" in 1973, where it gained renewed popularity.
As always, I have tried to limit these duets to no more than two pages, so the bars for this piece are rather tightly packed together to accomplish this at 7 bars per line. If you don't mind having three pages, you can change the bars per line to 4 or 5 by clicking on the Layout tab and typing bpl to change the bars per line.
The less-experienced players will have to pay strict attention to counting beats between measures 39 and 49 as there are some tricky counter-rhythms between the two voices. Measures 73 through 75 are in this category, also. But a little bit of work should allow you to play these parts well. If you want to hear how the singers do it, go into You Tube for this song and listen to either the Happenings or the Four Seasons version.
At measure 49, the key changes up a whole step. Most of the Pop recordings of this song move up a half step at this point, and for professional musicians, this would not pose a major problem, but for this sub-forum I chose to modulate from C concert to D concert - a much more managable key change, which still provides the excitement of the change.
Also, most of the Pop recordings of this song end by using a Control Booth fade to silence. We needed a solid ending without the fade, so I have added a one-measure "We're done playing now!" phrase at the end, with a "Bye-Bye!".
If you would like to see the lyrics, click on the Text tab and type qsl.
We hope you enjoy playing these songs -- we are having fun with them.
Ralph Rayner
"See You In September" has been recorded by a number of pop stars, including The Happenings, The Tokens, and the Four Seasons. The Tokens version was used in the movie, "American Graffitti" in 1973, where it gained renewed popularity.
As always, I have tried to limit these duets to no more than two pages, so the bars for this piece are rather tightly packed together to accomplish this at 7 bars per line. If you don't mind having three pages, you can change the bars per line to 4 or 5 by clicking on the Layout tab and typing bpl to change the bars per line.
The less-experienced players will have to pay strict attention to counting beats between measures 39 and 49 as there are some tricky counter-rhythms between the two voices. Measures 73 through 75 are in this category, also. But a little bit of work should allow you to play these parts well. If you want to hear how the singers do it, go into You Tube for this song and listen to either the Happenings or the Four Seasons version.
At measure 49, the key changes up a whole step. Most of the Pop recordings of this song move up a half step at this point, and for professional musicians, this would not pose a major problem, but for this sub-forum I chose to modulate from C concert to D concert - a much more managable key change, which still provides the excitement of the change.
Also, most of the Pop recordings of this song end by using a Control Booth fade to silence. We needed a solid ending without the fade, so I have added a one-measure "We're done playing now!" phrase at the end, with a "Bye-Bye!".
If you would like to see the lyrics, click on the Text tab and type qsl.
We hope you enjoy playing these songs -- we are having fun with them.
Ralph Rayner