Purchasing information Notice for leaders/bass players
Length: approx. 3½ mins. Sounds best with 1st tenor and bass doubled.
Satisfied is a pleasant, easy-going and well, ...... a satisfactory composition in AABBCCDD form. Also published as a song, this instrumental version however is provided with lyrics as well to be sung with the B-strain, bars 21-36, as follows:
I'm satisfied, I'm satisfied, I've got my baby by my side.
I'm satisfied, I'm satisfied.
I'm satisfied, I'm satisfied, she's my honey babe, she's my pride.
I'm satisfied, I'm satisfied.
The front cover of the original sheet music shows a very satisfied, nattily clad gentleman no doubt the singer of the above ditty. Bennett dedicated this piece to his friend, the composer
Monroe H. Rosenfeld (1861-1918).
A tempo of 78 crotchets/min. is suggested.
Satisfied was
Victor Kremer Co., Chicago, Illinois, USA
There are also
treble solo and
trio versions of this item.