Christmas/Holiday Duets - What Are You Doing New Year's Eve

[rrayner]

Originally Posted by RRR

This piece is written for Soprano Recorder and Alto Recorder. Play along with Notation Composer or print the piece for playing with your friend(s). Please feel free to change the instruments and/or keys to suit your personal needs. RRR

This arrangement is written with a "swing" feel -- kind of like the way Karen Carpenter sang it, but the notation appears as normal eighth-note notation. Let Notation play it to hear what it should sound like.

Wikipedia says, ""What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?" is a popular song written in 1947 by Frank Loesser as an independent song - not written for a particular movie or musical. It first charted for The Orioles, peaking at No. 9 on Billboard's Best-Selling Retail Rhythm & Blues chart in December 1949. Other charted versions include Danté & The Evergreens (No. 107 on Billboard's Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles in December 1960) and Nancy Wilson (No. 17 on Billboard's Christmas Singles chart in December 1965 and No. 24 on the same chart in December 1967).

It has been recorded by many other artists, including Margaret Whiting in 1947, Dick Haymes & the Les Paul Trio in 1947, Ella Fitzgerald in 1960 for her Verve release Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas, Ramsey Lewis in 1961, King Curtis in 1968, Johnny Mathis in 1969, The Carpenters in 1984, Patti LaBelle in 1990, The Stylistics in 1992, Harry Connick, Jr. in 1993, Donny Osmond in 1999, Barbra Streisand in 2001, Barry Manilow in 2002, and Diana Krall in 2005."

We hope you enjoy playing this piece.

Ralph Rayner