I bought my first 'fakebook' when I was 18 years old in 1956. I remember going
up to London and finding a seedy-looking music shop which sold me, for £10,
a book called '1000 Show Tunes', clearly not a fully legal
transaction. That was two week's wages, then, so don't baulk at paying $35
today. That particular book is still available (if a bit dated) but the
publishers have revamped the order of tunes so I've not included it in my
compilation.
I know that other web sites have larger combined indexes than mine (e.g.
www.seventhstring.co.uk) but I don't know of anywhere that includes page
numbers, and this seems to me of such obvious value that I'm making mine
available. (N.B. the later numbers in the GigBook index are nonsense).
This composite index covers nearly 4000 songs with 6400 references.
If you want the full index, Email me. The following abbreviations are used in
the output: