What, ho, why do those birds chirp so merrily? What is that glorious scent upon the breeze? Seems not the sky ever more cerulean? Why doth nature rejoice so? Yea, verily, finally after months of speculation, Hal Leonard has released “The Jason Robert Brown Collection,” featuring full piano and vocal scores for twenty-four of my songs. Included are several previously unpublished numbers, including “Someone To Fall Back On” and “See I’m Smiling,” as well as all the old JRB favorites like “Stars and the Moon” and “The Old Red Hills of Home.” You can buy it right here from Amazon.com. I also wrote an introduction for this collection, and you can read that right on this site, here.
Here’s a list of all the songs included:
From Songs for a New World (1995):
Stars and the Moon
I’m Not Afraid Of Anything
Just One Step
Hear My Song
From Parade (1998):
The Old Red Hills of Home
The Picture Show
You Don’t Know This Man
All The Wasted Time
From The Last Five Years (2002):
See I’m Smiling
Moving Too Fast
A Summer In Ohio
The Next Ten Minutes
From Lauren Kennedy:
Songs of Jason Robert Brown (2003):
And I Will Follow
Letting You Go
If I Told You Now
Dreaming, Wide Awake
From Urban Cowboy, The Musical (2003):
It Don’t Get Better Than This
Mr. Hopalong Heartbreak
From Wearing Someone Else’s Clothes (2005):
Someone To Fall Back On
Getting Out
I Could Be In Love With Someone Like You
Nothing In Common
Grow Old With Me
Coming Together
I hope you all enjoy the new collection, and now maybe you can stop writing me every ten minutes to ask me if one of these songs has been published. Sing, play, spread the word! It’s really exciting finally to have these songs out in the world in this great big book. Now go buy it so I can feed my family.