Straighten Up And Fly Right (arr. John Fries) by Irving Mills Sheet Music for Lead Sheet / Fake Book at Sheet Music Direct

Product Details

Title Straighten Up And Fly Right (arr. John Fries)

Artist Irving Mills

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Irving Mills Nat King Cole

Arranger John Fries

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 1

Arrangement Lead Sheet / Fake Book

Publisher John Fries

Level 4

Product ID 516412

Genre Jazz Standards 20th Century

Instruments C Instruments

Product Description

TYPE JOHN FRIES IN THE SEARCH BAR TO SEE ALL I HAVE TO OFFER. Thanks, John. "Straighten Up and Fly Right" is a 1943 song written by Nat King Cole and Irving Mills and one of the first vocal hits for the King Cole Trio. It was the trio's most popular single, reaching number one on the Harlem Hit Parade for ten nonconsecutive weeks. The song was based on a black folk tale that Cole's father had used as a theme for one of his sermons. In the tale, a buzzard takes different animals for a joy ride. When he gets hungry, he throws them off on a dive and eats them for dinner. A monkey who had observed this trick goes for a ride; he wraps his tail around the buzzard's neck and gives the buzzard a big surprise by nearly choking him to death.

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