Name: Iko Iko (arr. Will Corbin) by The Dixie Cups Brass Ensemble Digital Sheet Music
Brand: Will Corbin
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Iko Iko (arr. Will Corbin)
by The Dixie Cups Brass Quintet - Digital Sheet Music

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Title Iko Iko (arr. Will Corbin)

Artist The Dixie Cups

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Barbara Ann Hawkins Joan Marie Johnson Rosa Lee Hawkins

Arranger Will Corbin

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 24

Arrangement Brass Ensemble

Publisher Will Corbin

Level 3

Product ID 1562683

Genre Jazz Pop

Instruments French Horn Trombone Trumpet Tuba

Performance Group Brass Quintet

Product Description

This song has roots in a Mardi Gras chant that ostensibly came from some unspecified Native American language. James "Sugar Boy" Crawford turned it into a song, and his band, Sugar Boy and his Cane Cutters (southern Louisiana had a lot of that) recorded it in 1953 as "Jock-a-Mo," which may mean "kiss my ass" or a defiant response to that effect. It was recorded again, as kind of a whim, in 1964 by the girl trio The Dixie Cups, who made it a hit. It has since been endlessly covered by everyone from Cyndi Lauper to The Grateful Dead.
This arrangement is essentially solo variations on the main melody backed by horn rhythms. If you want to make it go on endlessly, it's a simple three-chord tune (actually, mostly two chords) that lends itself to simple improv. It's arranged for two trumpets, horn, trombone and tuba.
If you require alternative instrumentation, I'm happy to help. Contact me at wilcor@aol.com.

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