I've been trawling through the web trying to find the chords for this with limited success. The tune is actually called "Left Bank 2" by The Noveltones. There is what looks like an attempt at tabbing it on Youtube but it's pretty hard to decipher and often tabs posted on Youtube / Chordie et al are wildly inaccurate.
Can anyone point me in the right direction on the chords / tab for this, or where I can get the sheet music?
Thanks!

Hi, I worked it out for a jazz band I play with a few years ago. Will send you a chart (if I can find it!)

That'd be great, thanks Pauly. I've seen two attempts at showing the chords on Youtube, one of which I can't follow at all and the other of which says "it's simple, basically 4 chords repeated etc etc." Which I'm pretty certain it isn't.

Hi Pauly....any joy, or couldn't you find it?

stumbled upon this recently but can't vouch for its accuracy

http://www.hamienet.com/score17288-1.html

and also

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...the chords I play are...
Gmaj7 - Am7 with no e/e flat, gmaj7, am7...then a C but the bass moves from C B A G so i do that in the chord, Fsharp dim, G6, Gdim, then this is a bit off but it works...Bm6, Bflatmin6, Am6.

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Hi TB,

Yes, I did eventually find a handwritten chord chart. Trouble is in the meantime I have broken my right arm and everything has become slow, awkward or impossible. Easiest thing I can think of is to put the chords in Band In A Box to generate a chord chart; Sibelius would be too fiddly for me.

Thanks artifus...I'll have a nurdle around with those.
Sorry to hear about your arm Pauly; it's not top of my list of things to worry about right now! I'll see how I get on with artifus' suggestions for now.
Cheers.

There's a great back story behind this....

Some music library (I forget which) was recording a new album. This was in the days when people could play and sessions were done in an afternoon - hand out the music written by the composer(s) and arranged by a professional arranger and the musos would just rip through it and nail it in one take. Anyway...

On this particular occasion, they'd ripped through the pieces and laid them down and there was studio time to spare. Not wanting to waste studio time, the producer (in the old and original sense of the word) asked if anyone had any ideas....

A modest vibes player piped up at the back and said "Well, I have something I've been playing with"....

"Ok... let's hear it"

So he started playing, some others joined in and jammed...

And voila!

The tune kind of came about by accident. Had that session overrun, we may never have heard it (and the vibes player and those involved wouldn't have done so well out of it)!

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Quote hollowsun:

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There's a great back story behind this....

Some music library (I forget which) was recording a new album. This was in the days when people could play and sessions were done in an afternoon - hand out the music written by the composer(s) and arranged by a professional arranger and the musos would just rip through it and nail it in one take. Anyway...

On this particular occasion, they'd ripped through the pieces and laid them down and there was studio time to spare. Not wanting to waste studio time, the producer (in the old and original sense of the word) asked if anyone had any ideas....

A modest vibes player piped up at the back and said "Well, I have something I've been playing with"....

"Ok... let's hear it"

So he started playing, some others joined in and jammed...

And voila!

The tune kind of came about by accident. Had that session overrun, we may never have heard it (and the vibes player and those involved wouldn't have done so well out of it)!

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Wonderful!

Hollowsun,

Interesting story, and certainly fits in with the feeling I got when I was transcribing it a few years ago that the bass-player and guitarist weren't quite confident, or had different ideas about the harmony in places ;-)

I have first 16 bars along the lines of (it's in G, 4/4):

| G | G#dim | Am7b5 | Am7b5 / D7 / |
| Gmaj7 / G/D / | G/B | Bbdim / Am / | Am/E / Am / |
| C / G/B / | Am/C | B / B/F# B/D# | Em |
| C#m7b5 | Bm | F#7 / / C#/G# | D7/A |

Thanks Pauly - have PM'd you back by the way.

It looks like I was correct in my assumption that the Youtube "dead easy 4-chord version" was wildly.

If it helps to return the favour, my band worked on the Addams Family Theme last night for a forthcoming Hallowween gig and I can let people know the chords for that....?

No...??

Ok.

Lol - they were playing the Addams Family theme very loudly on repeat at the entrance of my local Tesco's the other day, probably to advertise the collection of pumpkins and other Hallowe'en paraphernalia. Suffice it to say that, between the shopping itself and the wait att the checkout, I've heard the theme enough times to last me a lifetime.

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I've had some limited success in the past with the free 14-day trial version of TwelveKeys Music Transcription Software for instances like this .
It doesn't actually transcribe , it displays audio as if it were on a piano roll so you can see which keys on a keyboard are being " played " in real time . ( Like an audio to midi converter )

http://download.cnet.com/TwelveKeys-Music-Transcription-Software/3000-2170 _4-10580136.html

Hope that helps

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We did The Addamms Family theme the other night! Worked a treat. I think it's fair to say we gave it the Status Quo treatment but it proved to be a good little floor filler. As, amazingly, did a pretty heavy version of The Monster Mash. Amazing what a few beers does for a crowd.

This is a De Wolfe track composed by Wayne Hill. Recorded in Holland under James De Wolfe.