Does anyone know where I can find sheet music for the buddy rich song "Mercy Mercy Mercy"

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I'm a drummer trying to make myself get back into reading sheet music and decided that "MercyX3" would be a good place to start, but I can't seem to find a transcription of the song. All I can find are Buddy Rich technique/method books. Anyone?

I realize this isn't an exciting thread for most people so for anyone who feels like they lost out on clicking the link, sorry and I hope your day improves!

Oh, and thanks a lot!

― buyabiznatch (buyabiznatch), Sunday, 11 June 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

Joe Zawinul wrote this, when he was with Cannonball Adderly, no?

― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Sunday, 11 June 2006 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

Adderley

― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Sunday, 11 June 2006 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, Joe Zawinul wrote Mercy, Mercy, Mercy when with Julian "Cannonball" Adderley. Check sheet music for Zawinul most likely.

Try jazzbacks.com

― J Arthur Rank (Quin Tillian), Monday, 12 June 2006 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

This thread is very charming, it's like an old timey YSI!

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Monday, 12 June 2006 21:39 (nineteen years ago)

thanks a lot, but i was actually looking for the sheet music for buddy rich's version because I'm a drummer and I like the way he drums in his version of the song, but oh well.
thanks anyways yous guys

― buyabiznatch (buyabiznatch), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 22:45 (nineteen years ago)

and buddy rich is still dead. (I just can't hear that enough)

― J Arthur Rank (Quin Tillian), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 11:31 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000005H7X.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 12:20 (nineteen years ago)

I remember hearing that famous "Buddy Rich ticks his band off a little" tape, and thinking "I bet that's not half what Mark E Smith would say."

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

Best way to learn it = transcribe by ear.

― deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

Funny, I just listened to this last night for the first time in years (and sampled a break off the tune "Apples").

The BR arrangement of this tune is really great. I heard it in high school before the Adderley version (and then kinda missed all the extra parts when I did hear the original).

As far as the drums go it's pretty simple for Buddy Rich, it's a backbeat tune and I think most of the fills are single strokes. Btw, he was a WAY underrated funk drummer.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

I love that story of when he broke an arm so he played the gig with only the other arm with the sling and cast hidden under his jacket and Philly Joe Jones is supposed to have said "when that arm heals up, it should be broken again!"

― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

I have three different sheet music versions of this. Two of them are "fake-book" style lead sheets (both slightly different) and the other one is a piano arrangement of the Cannonball Adderley version. Sorry, I don't have a scanner but I'd fax it to you if you e-mail me a fax number.

― everything (everything), Thursday, 15 June 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

ok, now that all of that is settled ... who does the vocal version of this song that I just heard in the grocery store and it sounded great?? The song may not even be called "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" but it completely has the same melody. I just listened to a clip of the Eddie Jefferson version and the words don't really jibe with what I remember hearing in the store (which made no mention of "mercy" that I recall.) Anyway, it was more of a 60s soul group than a jazz thing...

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 20:52 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe it was The Buckinghams, Stormy?

― A Study In Redd Scharlach (Ken L), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 20:55 (nineteen years ago)

hmm .. it didn't sound like a white group but let me check that out..

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

white soul

― A Study In Redd Scharlach (Ken L), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

This must be the Buckinghams. There's a few different versions of the lyrics of this number out there.

― everything (everything), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 21:07 (nineteen years ago)

The Buckinghams - C/D?

― A Study In Redd Scharlach (Ken L), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

ah ok yeah .. it is definitely them. Makes sense, this is in here in Chicago after all! when I was looking at who had recorded this song, I didn't even think to check the Buckinghams version. I mean, I own an original Kind of a Drag lp and everything but I never really thought of them as doing "white soul" like this.

and yeah, these lyrics are definitely different from that Eddie Jefferson version. also, apparently Johnny "Guitar" Watson has a writing credit on the Buckinghams version?? wonder what's up with that.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

Him and Larry Watson wrote the lyrics maybe? They had a hit with it in 1967 (as a song with words). But then that Cannonball Adderley live "Mojo!" version is from '66. I dunno.....

― everything (everything), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, that's Larry Williams. I'm convinced Johnny Guitar Watson and Williams wrote the words. The Adderley version's mostly instrumental, isn't it? Apart from a huge spoken introduction, that is.

The Queen Latifah version has her going "Tell 'em about it Watson" at one point.

― everything (everything), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 21:31 (nineteen years ago)

Was that around the time they teamed up with Kaleidoscope?

― A Study In Redd Scharlach (Ken L), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 21:38 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, the Adderley version is instrumental. plus I couldn't imagine Joe Zawinul writing words like "my baby socks it to me" or whatever (and which certainly wouldn't be in keeping with the aforementioned long-ass intro on the live version) ... Anyway, thanks for the help guys! just bought it off itunes.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 21:44 (nineteen years ago)

four weeks pass...

Yes, Joe Zawinul wrote Mercy, Mercy, Mercy when with Julian "Cannonball" Adderley.
J Arthur Rank, you forgot to add that Brian Jones named both of his sons Julian after Cannonball.

― Ruud Haarvest (Ken L), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 01:22 (nineteen years ago)

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