BALES-GITLIN BAND
SAMPLE REPERTOIRE
Our repertoire is ENORMOUS (we’ve had a band for CLASSIC ROCK, MOTOWN, R&B, & SOUL 28 years!) and we add new songs all the time. This list is not even close to complete. It is a sample of Soul Man song titles, styles, composers, performers and types Respect/ Chain of Fools of music frequently requested. Mustang Sally In the Midnight Hour Please mark the songs and styles you particularly like I Heard It Through the Grapevine (or dislike!), write in any songs or artists that are Dancing in the Street especially important to you or your audience, and Same Old Song Motown return the list to us. This will help us zero in on your Ain’t Too Proud to Beg tastes in music. (However we also hope you will let Come See About Me us use our instincts and experience to respond to your Get Ready guests when we meet them! The interplay between a Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch band and an audience is what makes live music Working My Way Back to You Babe LIVE! ) My Girl You Keep Me Hanging On TOP 40, ROCK, 80s, 90s, POP, ALTERNATIVE Shotgun Build Me Up Buttercup Ants Marching (Dave Mathews Band) Jumpin’ Jack Flash Get the Party Started (Pink) Honky Tonk Woman Rolling Stones Heaven (Los Lonely Boys) Satisfaction This Love (Maroon 5) I Saw Her Standing There/Daytripper Beatles Run-around (Blues Traveler) Twist and Shout / Get Back Taking Care of Business Long Tall Sally/Roll Over Beethoven (Bachman-Turner Overdrive) I Feel Good Don’t Stop Believing (Journey) Good Lovin’ Open Arms (Journey) Louie Louie/Hang On Sloopy Glory Days Do You Love Me? Fire (Springsteen) La Bamba Dancing in the Dark Gimme Some Lovin’ Living on a Prayer (Bon Jovi) The Shout You Give Love a Bad Name (Bon Jovi) The Twist/ Let’s Twist Again Sweet Caroline (Neil Diamond) The Stroll America (Neil Diamond) He’s So Fine Time Warp (Rocky Horror) Runaround Sue/ It’s My Party/Calendar Girl What’s So Funny About Peace, Love & In the Still of the Night/ Daddy’s Home/ Earth Angel Understanding?(E.Costello) You Belong to Me Love Shack (B-52’s) Soldier Boy Vogue / Material Girl / Borderline, etc. (Madonna) Chapel of Love Margaritaville / Fins / Volcano,etc. (Jimmy Buffett) Lucille/ Sheila Nick of Time/ Runaway (Bonnie Raitt) Johnny B. Goode Freeway of Love (Aretha Franklin) Jailhouse Rock Old Time Rock and Roll (Bob Seger) Stand By Me We Got the Beat (GoGo’s) Under the Boardwalk Walking on Sunshine (Katrina & the Waves) Locomotion Mony, Mony (Tommy James / Billy Idol) I Got You Babe You Make Lovin’ Fun (Fleetwood Mac) Brown-Eyed Girl/ Domino Another Night (Real McCoys) Signed, Sealed, Delivered New Year’s Day (U2) Dock of the Bay Fire/I’m So Excited (Pointer Sisters) Happy Together She Drives Me Crazy (Fine Young Cannibals) Never My Love/ Our House Ice Cream (Sarah McLachlan) Statesboro Blues/ Cold Shot Kind and Generous/ These are the Days (Natalie You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman Merchant) Ooh Baby Baby /Tracks of My Tears
STANDARD BALLADS SOCIETY MUSIC & SHOW TUNES
As Time Goes By Anything by Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Embraceable You Rodgers & Hart, Rodgers & Hammerstein, etc. More Than You Know Anything Goes Talk of the Town Night and Day My Romance Ain’t Misbehavin’ My Funny Valentine Our Love is Here to Stay Someone to Watch Over Me I Get a Kick Out of You I’ll Be Seeing You It’s D’Lovely It Had to Be You You Do Something to Me When I Fall in Love Thou Swell You Made Me Love You My Heart Belongs to Daddy Old Cape Cod There’s a Small Hotel My Ship Puttin’ on the Ritz Crazy (Patsy Cline/Willie Nelson) 42nd Street Isn’t It Romantic? Cheek to Cheek Candy Let’s Face the Music and Dance Body and Soul The Continental I Only Have Eyes for You Singing in the Rain What’s New Cabaret I’ve Got a Crush on You The Best of Times Moonlight Serenade Some Enchanted Evening Moonglow Send in the Clowns Stardust What I Did for Love I Can’t Get Started One The Man I Love All I Ask of You Misty /Tenderly/ Moonlight in Vermont Memory Laura I Dreamed a Dream Who Can I Turn To? Master of the House It Might as Well Be Spring Songs from My Fair Lady, Camelot, Gigi & other shows Autumn Leaves September Song JAZZ Just the Way You Look Tonight How Long Has This Been Going On? Tunes by Duke Ellington, Herbie Hancock, Dizzy Gillespie, I Got Lost in His Arms Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Billie Holliday, Ella Fitzgerald, A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square Michael Franks, Al Jarreau, Dave Sanborn, Kenny G., Manhattan My Way Transfer, Dave Grusin, etc. Let us know who your favorite jazz artists are. FUNK/ 70’s/ DISCO/DANCE Maiden Voyage, Dolphin Dance Brick House Night in Tunisia Get Down Tonight Ornithology, Billie’s Bounce Play That Funky Music/Dance and Shout Green Dolphin Street Disco Inferno All Blues/ Milestones/ Freddie the Freeloader Boogie Oogie Oogie Take Five She Works Hard for the Money/Last Dance Java Jive Fame/ Flashdance Moondance I Will Survive Living Inside Your Love Turn the Beat Around My Attorney Bernie Gloria Don’t Be Blue/ Popsicle Toes I Had the Time of My Life Songbird/ Morning Dance Celebration Shaker Song/ Friends and Strangers Who’s Making Love to Your Old Lady? Soul Serenade Venus/Dancing Queen Dixieland: Struttin’ With Some Barbecue, Limehouse Blues, I Want You Back/ Billie Jean When the Saints Go Marching In, Muskrat Ramble,etc. Oh What a Night (Dec. 63) See also the Swing, Standards, World Beat, and Latin listings.
WORLD BEAT, REGGAE, ZYDECO & LATIN SWING, JIVE and BIG BAND
Red Red Wine Jump, Jive and Wail Get Up, Stand Up/ One Love/Is This Love? Go Daddy Go Late in the Evening/You Can Call Me Al In the Mood Hot, Hot, Hot Route 66 Bang Bang / Soul Sauce, etc. (Latin/salsa/jazz) I’ve Got a Gal in Kalamazoo Soy Antillana (Celia Cruz) Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree Under the Sea Bei Mir Bist du Schoen I Need to Know/I Need You (Marc Anthony) Chattanooga Choo-Choo Waiting for Tonight/Let’s Get Loud (Jen. Lopez) Airmail Special Elena Elena Night Train Cajun, Zydeco, New Orleans: Make Believe Ballroom Time Voodoo/ Hey Pocky Way Tuxedo Junction Les Haricots Son Pas Sale Boy from New York City Jambalaya Woodchoppers Ball Bon Temps Rouler Tangerine Mardi Gras Mambo Sing, Sing, Sing Rhumbas: Begin the Beguine Besame Mucho Shiny Stockings Spanish Eyes Mack the Knife Miami Beach Rhumba Satin Doll Summertime in Venice Take the A-Train (Many Italian and Jewish rhumbas) It Don’t Mean a Thing Bossa Nova, Samba, Brazil: In a Mellow Tone Girl from Ipanema/ Wave/ Desafinado, etc. Opus One Blue Bossa Smack Dab in the Middle Black Orpheus (A Day in the Life of a Fool) Let’s Get Away From It All Chega de Saudade (No More Blues) They Can’t Take That Away from Me Agua de Beber (Water to Drink) We Are in Love Chove Chuva I Left My Heart in San Francisco Antonio’s Song New York, New York Astrud You Make Me Feel So Young The Goodbye Look Fly Me to the Moon Sinatra Merengues: The Summer Wind Lover, Mary Ann I’ve Got You Under My Skin Compadre Pedro Juan New York, New York Coralita El Negrito Del Batey COUNTRY El Cuapeton, etc. Mambos Achy Breaky Cha-Chas: Friends in Low Places Tea for Two Down at the Twist and Shout/ I Feel Lucky Never on Sunday I’m Alright Poco Pelo When You Say Nothing at All Por Favor To Make You Feel My Love Tangos That’s How You Know It’s Love Sambas You Never Even Called Me by My Name Rocky Top FOLK, ACOUSTIC, FOLK ROCK, NEW AGE Hey Good Lookin’ San Antonio Rose Danny’s Song Little Things Mean a Lot You’ve Got a Friend / Your Smiling Face Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue? Don’t Let Me Be Lonely Tonight On the Road Again Shower the People / Devoted to You Forever and Ever Amen Longer Than / Leader of the Band Where Have You Been? / I Wear Your Love Someday Soon / Michael from Mountains Across the Great Divide Since You’ve Asked Full Moon Full of Love/Big Big Love Blackbird (Beatles) Walk Through This World With Me If Not for You (Dylan) It’s Your Love CONTEMPORARY BALLADS ETHNIC MUSIC
What a Wonderful World ITALIAN: Unforgettable Tarantella Have I Told You Lately That I Love You? Eh Cumpari Don’t Know Why / Come Away with Me Arriverderci Roma (Norah Jones) Mala Femmena The Power of Love/ Because You Loved Me Non Dimenticar Crazy Love Torna a Surriento That’s What Friends Are For Beauty and the Beast JEWISH: Wind Beneath My Wings Hava Nagila And I Love Her Other horas and frailachs Fields of Gold (Sting) Fiddler on the Roof Medley All My Life/Don’t Know Much Hevenu Sholom Alechem Save the Best for Last Yossel Yossel Always Ose Shalom Somewhere Out There Shein Vi Di L’vone I Love to See You Smile Klezmer music All I Ask of You Just the Way You Are POLISH: Still the One (Shania Twain) Beerbarrel Polka Valentine (Martina McBride/Jim Brickman) Clarinet Polka Memory Pennsylvania Polka The Way We Were / Evergreen Liechtensteiner Polka Sweet Love / Caught Up in the Rapture Other polkas by Little Wally, Happy Louie, etc. Just You and I Pytala Sie Pani Nobody Loves Me Like You Do Obereks, mazurkas, czardas Saving All My Love for You / The Greatest Love Vision of Love IRISH: Just the Two of Us When Irish Eyes Are Smiling Endless Love / Truly Danny Boy I Just Called to Say I Love You MacNamara’s Band I Just Fall in Love Again Irish Washerwoman Jig Could I Have This Dance? Harrigan Through the Eyes of Love (Ice Castles) I’ll Take You Home Again Kathleen One in a Million You Other Irish jigs, reels, and waltzes Can’t Help Falling in Love Blue Bayou / Desperado / Ooh Baby Baby. GREEK: I’ll Always Love You Miserlou Through the Years Zorba the Greek Times of Your Life Traditional Greek music True Companion Your Song ARMENIAN: Wonderful Tonight Erevan Erepooni
MISCELLANEOUS AFRICAN: Wanamelameta (Swahili) Line Dances: Macarena, Electric Slide, Achy You Are Home (African jazz waltz) Breaky, Alley Cat, Chicken Dance, Hokey Pokey Limbo CHINESE: The Twist, The Shout, Locomotion, etc. Jasmine (Jiang-su Province folk song) Anniversary Waltz / Strauss Waltzes Melody from the Tea Garden (Zhejiang Province folk song) Charleston / Peabody Colorful Cloud Chasing Moon (Cantonese folk song) Yale Songs The Moon Speaking for My Heart (1980s pop song) Sesame Street Songs Games for children & adults. CLASSICAL Bach, Mozart, Handel, Haydn, Brahms, Scarlatti, Pachelbel, (We’ve played so many unusual things over the Grieg, Schubert, Gounod, Poulenc, Faure, Debussy, Satie, years! Ask us about whatever you’re looking for.) (must request in advance so that we can bring sheet music.)