G.I. Blues [ g. i. sheet music ]

by Floyd Tillman

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Book desription: Peer International, 1944. Sheet Music. 23 cm (9 inch) tall. Condition of book: Book Good+ condition (light crumpling and foxing, quarter-inch tear; no marks; printing a little light (maybe faded or maybe a wartime economy))/. Single folded sheet, about 9x12-inches. Printed on uncoated paper (probably due to wartime shortages). Words & melody, piano music, guitar chords with diagrams. Written in the key of E-flat. Front page photo of Tillman, probably in uniform. Back page is ads for Hillbilly Favorites from Peer. Floyd Tillman (1914-2003) was a great influence on the development of Country Music. Old friend Willie Nelson said about him: 'He had some of those Django (Reinhardt) rhythms in his guitar playing, and he was singing about subjects that just weren't being sung about at the time.' He was the first known country singer to accompany himself with an electric guitar. During 1944, Floyd Tillman and his Favorite Playboys released such Country classics as the No.1 They Took the Stars Out of Heaven and the Top 5 double-sided hit G.I. Blues/Each Night at Nine. During WWII, he served in the U.S. Army as a radio operator in Texas, and was able to continue recording. GI Blues is a lively, good-natured jab at Tillman's fun-loving American compatriots: 'G.I. gals, G.I. pals, Thousand guys and a dozen gals, Most of them too darn fat; how we gonna win a war like that'. Many consider G.I. blues to be a classic. Sound files of the original recording are available online, but sheet music appears to be quite rare. US Army, World War II 2, History, sheet music, Music, Dance & Opera. Our books ship from Tampa Florida by the next business day.

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