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Sheet music

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You can download Joe Jackson's sheet music for $3.95 per song at Great Big Island.
There is a sample page of "Another World" that you can download for free to give you an idea of what to expect.

Here's a list of what's currently available:

from Rain:
     Invisible Man
     Too Tough
     Rush Across The Road

from Volume 4:
     Take It Like A Man
     Still Alive
     Awkward Age
     Chrome
     Love At First Light
     Blue Flame

from Night And Day II:
     Stranger Than You
     Glamour And Pain
     Love Got Lost
     Happyland
     Stay

from Night Music:
     The Man Who Wrote Danny Boy

from Laughter And Lust:
     Obvious Song
     Stranger Than Fiction
     The Other Me
     Drowning

from Blaze Of Glory:
     Down To London
     Blaze Of Glory
     Nineteen Forever

from Will Power:
     Nocturne

from Big World:
     Right And Wrong
     Shanghai Sky
     Home Town

from Body And Soul:
     Not Here, Not Now
     You Can't Get What You Want
     Happy Ending
     Be My Number Two

from Night And Day:
     Another World
     Steppin' Out
     Breaking Us In Two
     Real Men
     A Slow Song

from I'm The Man:
     It's Different For Girls
     I'm The Man

from Look Sharp!:
     One More Time
     Sunday Papers
     Is She Really Going Out With Him?
     Look Sharp!
     Fools In Love


The following sheet music has long been out of print:

Body And Soul

Body And Soul songbook
Music for all nine songs (entire album)
Layout: Frank Milone, Editor: Audrey L. Kleiner
Production: Frank J. Hackinson
51 pages
ISBN: 0-89898-315-0
© 1984 Columbia Pictures Publications

You Can't Get What You Want
Words and music by Joe Jackson
6 pages
Almo Publications
Cat. no.: 5098YSMX
Distributed by Columbia Pictures Publications


Night And Day

Night And Day songbook
Music for all nine songs (entire album)
Arranger: Tom Roed, Editor: Audrey L. Kleiner
Production: Frank J. Hackinson
Almo Publications, an affiliate of A&M Records
47 pages
ISBN: 0-89898-185-9
© 1983 Almo Music Corp.

Sheet music was available for Steppin' Out. Here's the entry in the British Catalogue of Music:

Steppin' Out / words and music by Joe Jackson. -
London: Albion Music;
Ilford: Distributed by IMP,
© 1982. - 1 score (5 pages); 31cm
Publ. no.: 9195
783.25421623 mu8758215: No price
KDW/GBB

(The song Steppin' Out was also included in a songbook entitled "Best-loved songs of the 80's".)

Look Sharp!

Is She Really Going Out With Him?
Words and music by Joe Jackson
© 1979 Albion Music


All the above have been out of print for many years.


Jumpin' Jive

Transcriptions of the songs

are included in the songbook that was published for the "Five Guys Named Moe" musical. You should be warned however, that some of the words have been changed and that the arrangements are probably quite different from JJ's.

Cameron Mackintosh presents
The Theatre Royal Stratford East Production of
Five Guys Named Moe
Vocal selections from the musical by Clarke Peters
Wise Publications, London
Order No. AM87160
ISBN: 0-7119-2839-8


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