"I Ate Up The Apple Tree" - Rebirth Brass Band

"I Ate Up The Apple Tree" (PDF) from the Rebirth Brass Band album, The Main Event: Live at The Maple Leaf

Additional transcriptions:
New Birth Brass Band - D-Boy & New Orleans Second Line!

SPECIAL THANKS to reader Peter Simoneaux for these comments regarding the history of this tune:

"The song, I Ate Up the Apple Tree, was written by pianist Dave "Fat Man" Williams in 1963 (so they say), but apparently went unrecorded til 1974. I've never been able to locate the Williams original. However, I can say that the tune was first popularized in the N.O. brass band scene by the Dirty Dozen Brass Band in the early 1980. It was then covered by the Rebirth Brass Band on their first Rounder LP, and since then, it has become a brass band standard. The Dr John version was recorded only after it became a popular brass band tune, and it's likely that the Dr John version hews closer to the Fat Man original as a mid-tempo tune. There are several recordings of Apple Tree as performed by Williams with various trad groups, from the 90s & 2000s, I think."