Walking My Baby Back Home - Fred Ahlert & Roy Turk

[Baxterman]

Old (humorous) standard, with a revival through James Taylor's (humorous) performance on the album "Hourglass". I particularly like the "straighten my tie"- bit!
JT plays the guitar with the capo on 2nd fret = concert key B.
Hope you like it.

Baxterman

Walking My Baby Back Home by Fred Ahlert & Roy Turk

Walkin' My Baby Back Home" is a popular song written in 1930 by Roy Turk (lyrics) and Fred E. Ahlert (music).

The song first charted in 1931 with versions by Nick Lucas (No. 8), Ted Weems (also No. 8), The Charleston Chasers (No. 15) and Lee Morse (No. 18).

 

[JOANNARR]

Can anyone post the original version for this tune instead of James Taylor's version? I'd be extremely grateful if someone could. Thanks!

 

[pdxdjazz]

Walkin' My Baby Back Home- - Roy Turk-Fred Ahlert


From
https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/walkin-my-baby-back-home-digital-sheet-music/19426118

)BOB

 

[JOANNARR]

Thank you, Bob! That is wonderful! I wasn't sure that we'd get an IRP copy of this before our end of the week rehearsal, and I really was hoping for a copy of it! You are so very helpful!!

 

[RobDMax]

I think I've got the timing and the repeats right for Nat King Cole's version of My Baby Just Cares For Me but I'm not sure if my layout is the best. I'm having to reduce the chord spacing and I can't put sung lines as lines of music because I exceed the number of lines allowed. It's an annoyance that if you add bars such that the last bars go off screen, if you delete bars those lost bars don't come back.
So, this song has a repeat verse with two endings and then a chorus, then a variant on the verse and finally a variant on the chorus with a final coda. Could you have a look at how I've done it and suggest alterations, or do such alterations and re-post? Many thanks in anticipation.

Walkin' My Baby Back Home (Nat Rob) - Ahlert-Turk

 

[pdxdjazz]

First I did this

Walkin' My Baby Back Home (Nat Rob) 1 - Ahlert-Turk

Then I figured I could save more “ink” and did this:

Walkin' My Baby Back Home (Nat Rob) 2 - Ahlert-Turk

My goals for iRp chart lay-out:
1. make it as easy as possible for the musician to sight-read it (ready, set, go)
2. make it work properly in the player (for practicing)
3. make it look nice (square and even)
4. make it fit on one page
Some arrangements are more difficult than others...

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)BOB

 

[RobDMax]

That's interesting, I'll have to compare your two versions more closely. My version on paper I was splitting after each 4 bars, I find it easier to sing than having 8 bars of words; with the longer lines I lose my place. But they do make for a neater chart, indeed with the shorter lines the song doesn't fit on the iReal page.

Thank you very much for your help.

By the way the Player Charts vs. Reader charts link you gave is going to a 404 Page not found.
Ah, I've found the current link you perhaps meant: https://forums.irealpro.com/threads/new-users-start-here.13466/#post-32933
If I search for BEGINNERS-start-here that 'wrong' link appears in lots of places, rather than alter all those places you could create a post named as per your 404 error with a link from there to the current page, unless you know enough backend web stuff to create a redirect.

 

[RobDMax]

Yes, I get it, and the saved ink version 2 is neater, and you could make the 1st and 2nd repeat in the first part A only 1 bar long, missing out the bar with A since it's only needed in your version 1 with its D.S. al 2nd End. Oh, and I'm the A^7 in that 2nd end should perhaps be on beat 1 - at least it was in my original though I've yet to listen to it to see if that was an improvement you added.
Again many thanks.

 

[RobDMax]

Agh, I've just noticed an error in my transcription, that second chorus, the B part, when it's played the second time before going to the A part and then the coda the penultimate chord, the Bm7, changes to a B7. is there any way to notate that without losing all the benefits of your Nat Rob 2 version @pdxdjazz ?

 

[pdxdjazz]

Yes, I get it, and the saved ink version 2 is neater, and you could make the 1st and 2nd repeat in the first part A only 1 bar long, missing out the bar with A since it's only needed in your version 1 with its D.S. al 2nd End. Oh, and I'm the A^7 in that 2nd end should perhaps be on beat 1 - at least it was in my original though I've yet to listen to it to see if that was an improvement you added.
Again many thanks.

It usually doesn’t take any more chart space to use 2-bar ending voltas and generally, I find them easier to sight read.

I copied the content of the 2nd ending in your chart but changed your (redundant) A to a slash that functions as a “tie” across the barline.
(Orig. |A Amaj7|)

)BOB

 

[pdxdjazz]

Agh, I've just noticed an error in my transcription, that second chorus, the B part, when it's played the second time before going to the A part and then the coda the penultimate chord, the Bm7, changes to a B7. is there any way to notate that without losing all the benefits of your Nat Rob 2 version @pdxdjazz ?

More complexity = more ink

Walkin' My Baby Back Home (Nat Rob) 3 - Ahlert-Turk

)BOB

 

[pdxdjazz]

By the way the Player Charts vs. Reader charts link you gave is going to a 404 Page not found.
Ah, I've found the current link you perhaps meant: https://forums.irealpro.com/threads/new-users-start-here.13466/#post-32933
If I search for BEGINNERS-start-here that 'wrong' link appears in lots of places, rather than alter all those places you could create a post named as per your 404 error with a link from there to the current page, unless you know enough backend web stuff to create a redirect.

Thanks.
When the Forums migrated from vBulletin to XenForo, *ALL* the referral links needed to be changed. Occasionally a “bad” link still gets copy/pasted.
I’m glad you let me know. Fixed.
)BOB