By Pinky Tomlin. Composed by Pinky Tomlin. Arranged by Kirk Young. This edition: pdf, streaming. A Cappella, Barbershop, Early Music, Swing. 4 pages. Kirk J. Young #1450219. Published by Kirk J. Young (A0.1891658).
A wildly entertaining TTBB arrangement of the swing-era novelty classic The Love Bug Will Bite You (If You Don’t Watch Out!) that feels like equal parts barbershop, vaudeville, and vintage radio comedy. Written for INSIDE TRACK, this chart is built for ensembles that love character-driven performance, tight harmony, and getting genuine audience reaction.
From the free, theatrical opening (“Listen all you people you’d better beware…,” page 1), the arrangement immediately pulls the audience into its playful world. The harmony is bright, rhythmic, and relentlessly fun, with crisp call-and-response writing, infectious swing momentum, and nonstop comedic energy. Repeated “da dee da dee da” and “whoa dee dee dee doe” passages become full-on earworms that audiences will remember long after the set is over.
What makes this arrangement stand out is its commitment to entertainment. The chart constantly shifts between spoken-style storytelling, tight rhythmic ensemble work, exaggerated dynamic contrasts, and classic novelty-song humor. Every section has something fun to do. The melody moves naturally between parts while the supporting voices create the feel of a live swing combo underneath.
The pacing keeps building through each chorus repetition, eventually exploding into a huge, over-the-top finale with stacked harmonies, extended tags, and a long held finish that absolutely sells in live performance.
This product was created by a member of ArrangeMe, Hal Leonard's global
self-publishing community of independent composers, arrangers, and songwriters.
ArrangeMe allows for the publication of unique arrangements of both popular
titles and original compositions from a wide variety of voices and backgrounds.
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By Pinky Tomlin. Composed by Pinky Tomlin. Arranged by Kirk Young. This edition: pdf, streaming. A Cappella, Barbershop, Early Music, Swing. 4 pages. Kirk J. Young #1450219. Published by Kirk J. Young (A0.1891658).
A wildly entertaining TTBB arrangement of the swing-era novelty classic The Love Bug Will Bite You (If You Don’t Watch Out!) that feels like equal parts barbershop, vaudeville, and vintage radio comedy. Written for INSIDE TRACK, this chart is built for ensembles that love character-driven performance, tight harmony, and getting genuine audience reaction.
From the free, theatrical opening (“Listen all you people you’d better beware…,” page 1), the arrangement immediately pulls the audience into its playful world. The harmony is bright, rhythmic, and relentlessly fun, with crisp call-and-response writing, infectious swing momentum, and nonstop comedic energy. Repeated “da dee da dee da” and “whoa dee dee dee doe” passages become full-on earworms that audiences will remember long after the set is over.
What makes this arrangement stand out is its commitment to entertainment. The chart constantly shifts between spoken-style storytelling, tight rhythmic ensemble work, exaggerated dynamic contrasts, and classic novelty-song humor. Every section has something fun to do. The melody moves naturally between parts while the supporting voices create the feel of a live swing combo underneath.
The pacing keeps building through each chorus repetition, eventually exploding into a huge, over-the-top finale with stacked harmonies, extended tags, and a long held finish that absolutely sells in live performance.
This product was created by a member of ArrangeMe, Hal Leonard's global
self-publishing community of independent composers, arrangers, and songwriters.
ArrangeMe allows for the publication of unique arrangements of both popular
titles and original compositions from a wide variety of voices and backgrounds.
About Digital Downloads
Digital Downloads are downloadable sheet music files that can be viewed directly on
your computer, tablet or mobile device. Once you download your digital sheet music,
you can view and print it at home, school, or anywhere you want to make music, and
you don't have to be connected to the internet. Just purchase, download and play!
PLEASE NOTE: Your Digital Download will have a watermark at the bottom of each page
that will include your name, purchase date and number of copies purchased. You are
only authorized to print the number of copies that you have purchased. You may not
digitally distribute or print more copies than purchased for use (i.e., you may not
print or digitally distribute individual copies to friends or students).
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