Alfred Extends Extensive Catalog of Piano/Vocal/Chords Songbooks with Popular New Additions

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Alfred introduces new songbooks featuring Piano/Vocal/Chord arrangements of some of the world's most popular artists' songs.

Celine Dion release's her first-ever Christmas album in English, These Are Special Times. The Canadian superstar celebrates the season with some of the best-loved songs of all time, and Alfred has made the album-matching folio arranged for Piano/Vocal/Chords available just in time for the holidays! Titles: O Holy Night; Don't Save it All for Christmas Day; Blue Christmas; Another Year has Gone By; The Magic of Christmas Day (God Bless Us Everyone); Ave Maria; Adeste Fideles (O Come All Ye Faithful); The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire); The Prayer (Duet with Andrew Bocelli); Brahms' Lullaby; Christmas Eve; These are the Special Times; Happy Xmas (War is Over); I'm Your Angel (Duet with R. Kelly); Feliz Navidad; Les Cloches Du Hameau. Celine Dion: These Are Special Times is now available for $21.95.

Alfred also is excited to announce the release of the songbook, Classic Songs of Johnny Burke, featuring the best of Johnny Burke, one of the most successful writers of popular song lyrics, arranged for Piano/Vocal/Chords. Having written and collaborated on over 550 songs, including those for motion pictures and Broadway musicals, Johnny Burke wrote major hits for artists such as Bing Crosby, Nat "King" Cole, Johnny Mathis, Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra, Doris Day, Mel Torme, Rosemary Clooney, Perry Como, Lena Horne, Linda Ronstadt and Harry Connick, Jr. Now for the first time, you can take home this timeless collection of the classics you've always enjoyed. Titles: Annie Doesn't Live Here Anymore; An Apple for the Teacher; Aren't You Glad You're You; But Beautiful; Chicago Style; Country Style; Don't Let That Moon Get Away; Going My Way; Here's That Rainy Day; I Wish You Needed Me; If Love Ain't There (It Ain't There); Imagination; It Could Happen to You; It's Dark on Observatory Hill; I've Got a Pocketful of Dreams; Like Someone In Love; Misty; Moonlight Becomes You; My Heart Is a Hobo; Oh! You Crazy Moon; Only Forever; Pennies from Heaven; Personality; Polka Dots and Moonbeams; Put It There, Pal; The Road to Morocco; Scatter-Brain; Sleighride in July; Suddenly It's Spring; Sunday, Monday or Always; Swinging on a Star; What's New?; When It's Summer; You Don't Have to Know the Language. Classic Songs of Johnny Burke is now available for $19.95

Gavin DeGraw's self-titled album is his third and most popular release to date! Featuring the hit single "In Love with a Girl," Gavin's always heartwarming lyrics and memorable melodies are featured in Alfred's new 12-song collection arranged for Piano/Vocal/Chords. Titles: In Love with a Girl; Next to Me (Wait a Minute Sister); Cheated on Me; I Have You to Thank; Cop Stop; Young Love; Medicate the Kids; Relative; She Holds a Key; Untamed; Let It Go; We Belong Together. Gavin DeGraw is now available for $19.95

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Infiltrating radio waves across the nation, American singer-songwriter and rock sensation, Katy Perry recently released her 2008 breakthrough album, One of the Boys, which includes the chart-topping single, "I Kissed a Girl." Alfred's new album matching songbook features four pages of color photos along with all 12 songs from the album, arranged for Piano/Vocal/Chords. Titles: One Of The Boys; I Kissed A Girl; Working Up In Vegas; Thinking Of You; Mannequin; Ur So Gay; Hot N Cold; If You Can Afford Me; Lost; Self Inflicted; I'm Still Breathing; Fingerprints. One of the Boys is now available for $16.95

Led Zeppelin: Mothership, Piano/Vocal/Chords, offers the finest Led Zeppelin Piano/Vocal songbook ever published! In preparing this massive 200-page sheet music collection, Alfred Publishing took great care to revisit each recording to transcribe all-new, highly accurate arrangements — making this a must-own collection for every fan. All-new piano/vocal arrangements faithfully render the studio recordings in their original keys, including essential keyboard parts, solos, and orchestrations, and accurate keyboard renditions of the guitar and bass parts. Titles: Good Times Bad Times; Communication Breakdown; Dazed and Confused; Babe I'm Gonna Leave You; Whole Lotta Love; Ramble On; Heartbreaker; Immigrant Song; Since I've Been Loving You; Rock and Roll; Black Dog; When the Levee Breaks; Stairway to Heaven; The Song Remains the Same; Over the Hills and Far Away; D'yer Mak'er; No Quarter; Trampled Under Foot; Houses of the Holy; Kashmir; Nobody's Fault but Mine; Achilles Last Stand; In the Evening; All My Love. Led Zeppelin: Mothership, Piano/Vocal/Chords, is now available for $24.95.

Finally, Indie superstars, Vampire Weekend, released their 2008 self-entitled album which blends Afro-pop guitar styles, indie-pop songwriting, and adventurous orchestration to create some of the most fun and groundbreaking new pop the world has heard in years! Fans will be thrilled to get their hands on the Vampire Weekend Songbook in this first-ever unique guide to this amazing music. Titles: Mansard Roof; Oxford Comma; A-Punk; Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa; M79; Campus; Bryn; One (Blake's Got a New Face); I Stand Corrected; Walcott; The Kids Don't Stand a Chance. Vampire Weekend Songbook is now available in Piano/Vocal/Chord and Guitar TAB arrangements for $19.95.

For more information, visit their web site at www.alfred.com.