"Eclectic but not bizarre"
Count On Me
CONCERT INTRODUCTION
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Count On Me was composed by Bruno Mars, Phillip Lawrence, and Ari Levine, and it was originally performed by Bruno Mars on his 2010 debut album. If you don’t know much about Bruno Mars, you should know that he's sold 180 million singles and 26 million albums, making him one of the best-selling artists of all time. Mars's real name is Peter Hernandez. He was born into a musical family, and at age 4 he was performing 5 days a week with his family's band. He was born and raised in Honolulu, and his music is influenced by Hawaiian music and culture. In fact, some music critics have noted a similarity between Count on Me and the well-known recording of Over the Rainbow by Hawaii's Israel Ka-maka-wi-wo-'ole. Count on Me's sweet, upbeat lyrics, catchy melody, and message of friendship make it popular with Mars's audiences--and we hope it is with you, too.
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--Marsha Shaines, May 19, 2019
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Recordings
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Click on the PDF icon above to download a version created by Dick from the original sheet music. This version has no repeats or forward and backward page flipping. It's as if the publisher
used as many pages as necessary to avoid those. (Of course, you still have to flip forward as the song progresses. But you only go in one direction.)
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TO SEE THIS NEW SHEET MUSIC AND PRINT IT OUT:
1. Click the icon above to see the pdf file.
2. Download the pdf file now shown (just like you would any pdf file).
3. Save it on your computer with a reasonable name so you can find it again.
4. Set your printer to Double Sided printing if it can do that. (In Adobe Acrobat Pro, you click File, Print, Printer, Yes, Two-sided=Long Edge Binding, Print, Print).
5. Print out the document on paper.
6. Add your own specific markings to it (reproduce what you have marked already on the original). [You may have to do some of these twice or even three times in repeated parts of the song.]
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LYRICS FROM BEGINNING TO END INCLUDING REPEATED ONES
(Thanks, Kathy Flaxman!)
ENHANCED VERSION OF LYRICS
(MEMORIZE TONES AND READ WORDS WITHOUT FLIPPING PAGES)
similar passages color coded, with men's and women's parts identified