What's new


As of Jan. 2016 most sales for my arrangements will be handled, ordered and payment collected  through Sweet Adelines Int'l .com -resources, find and get music. It will be paid for by using your credit card directly to SAI. There will be no arranger fees, except for newly commissioned 'work for hire' for new arrangements. If you have a song that you want arranged, I would be happy to talk with you about it.

Most previews and listings can be found at the SAI Music Sales site. However, there are some new titles and other arrangements which can be found only on my website. Please contact me directly for these. If you have any trouble with the SAI website, or if you want to talk with me about my arrangements, please do not hesitate to email me directly.

The new year is going very quickly and Regional contests  are in full swing. Over the winter, I have added some new titles to my selection of arrangements.

I have been working on clearing 6 new custom arrangements for quartets, and choruses. They will be out very soon.
  1.  Can't Stop the Felling, - Justin Timberlake
  2.  Thinking Out Loud - by Ed Sheeran. It won the Grammy for the best single of 2015. It's a great love ballad for a show, but not contest. It keeps the true feeling of the recording, but just with voices. You'll love it. Donya Metzger has new tracks for this one; she did a wonderful job on them.
  3. Ahead By A Century - The Tragically Hip
  4. Better When I'm Dancing- Meghan Trainor
  5. With Bells On -(I'll Be Home with) - Dolly Parton - Kenny Rogers - New Christmas
  6.  To Believe, sung by young Jackie Evancho and written by her uncle, Matthew Evancho. It is a beautiful inspirational arrangement for any time of year. It features a baritone melody for the verse, and a fully chorded choruses.
  7. Little Black Dress -by Sara Bareilles, is an upbeat arrangement about new beginnings after a disappointing ending to a relationship.  It's about a positive, new start with possibilities for a brighter future. Exactly Like You- is a brand fun new contest uptune, with learning tracks by Donya Metzger. It has lots of opportunity for character & choreo, with some fun updates with the words. It has a great key change near the end, and a wonderful tag.
  8.  Ring Them Bells- original by Bob Dylan, sung by Heart, Joan Bias, and Sheryl Crow with Elvis Costello, and can be sung at any time of the year, but at Holiday time especially, with an inspirational message. It has a really rousing chorus, check it out on youtube with Heart.
  9. 6. Fight Song - Rachel Platten,  is an inspiring arrangement, good for choruses and quartets, to help people overcome adversity and challenges, like cancer or depression. It keeps close to the recording feel, and harmonization.
  10. That's Christmas To Me - is a Pentatonix - Christmas song about thought and feelings of joyous celebrations at Christmas time. It is an adaptation for 4 women's voices


For previews and samples of how they sound, please go to: donyametzger.com, or Jen Cooke learning tracks. They both have done beautiful work on my arrangement tracks. I can send you a sound file -Finale Playback for any of my arrangement free of charge, just contact me directly.

 After contest you are always looking for new contest songs for next year, please look up some of these new fresh titles. Try a brand new contest-style song!!! Sing something different!!

On my list you will see several classic BBS contest-style uptunes and ballads. Some are new titles that  have not been used in a contest yet, so you will not hear them repeated over and over. It can be disappointing to hear the song you loved, last year, sung 10-15 times at the same contest!

Solve this hazzard by choosing some of these new updated titles:

 Uptunes,
There 's a Ne Day Coming - brand new contest uptune. - "Me Too" movement theme - but positive

Exactly Like You (Ella Fitzgerald), -has great character & story with strong chords,

Rock-a-Bye Baby Days- a quick-paced, upbeat song about coming back home, classic chording, with lots of choreo opportunities,

Loading Up the Mandy Lee- a great riverboat song like Floating Down to Cotton Town (Melodeers) & Showboat Came to Town, type.

Cheek to Cheek- Irving Berlin, latest cover on this Lady Gaga and Tony Bennet, duet with an updated feel, check out the different twist in the new interlude, 'mama loves mambo, and jumpin' jivin' , a real 'Dancing With the Stars' feel,- losts of choreo opps

Ballads,

All the Things You Are- brand new arrangement, with exciting chords and lots of character opps, *Jerome Kern, father of American musical theater & Oscar Hammerstein II teamed up on this classic love song, a real beauty.

Sweetheart of Sweet Sixteen- about young love that lasts a lifetime, lots of nostalgia, with heart strings pulled. a classic ballad with so much story to it, just brings tears to your eyes, with love that is timeless.

Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow- very latest contest-style ballad, see who brings it on contest first; a slow delivery of this once 'doo-wop' song. now with renewed meaning and drama plus.

Beyond The Sea - slower ad lib delivery of the big band bouncy classic '60's Bobby Darin hit. It's a translation of the WWII French ballad "La Mer"  It's the same era and style as, If You Love Me, which was so successful for many choruses and quartets. It's dedicated to all troops serving their country over seas. Beautiful!!

Previews for these titles are all available by contacting me : elainegain@xplornet.com
 or,  sweetadelinesintl.com -some of these have learning tracks, or I can send an mp3 track with the preview.