Songbook

Last updated: May 20, 2024

This is a list of suggestions and ideas. It is not intended to be the band’s show book.

Herb Alpert

Tequila

Average White Band

Pick Up the Pieces

The B-52’s

Love Shack

The Bangles

Walk Like An Egyptian

The Beatles

Ob La Di, Ob La Da
Taxman

Bee Gees

Stayin’ Alive

George Benson

On Broadway

Blues Brothers

Soul Man
Sweet Home Chicago
Messin’ With the Kid (Junior Wells)
Funky Nassau
Hey Bartender (Floyd Dixon)
I Ain’t Got You
Going Back to Miami

Booker T & The MGs

Green Onions

David Bowie

Let’s Dance
Suffragette City
Dancing in the Street

James Brown

I Feel Good
Papa’s Got A Brand New Bag
Sex Machine

Jimmy Buffett

Fins

The Bus Boys

Cleanin’ Up the Town

The Cars

Just What I Needed
You Might Think

Tracy Chapman

Give Me One Reason

Ray Charles

What’d I Say
I Got A Woman
Hit the Road, Jack
Georgia on my Mind
Unchain My Heart
Mess Around

Cherry Poppin’ Daddies

Zoot Suit Riot

Chic

Le Freak
Good Times
Dance, Dance, Dance

Chicago

25 or 6 to 4
Saturday in the Park

Eric Clapton (all versions)

After Midnight
Blues Power
Before You Accuse Me

The Clash

Should I Stay or Should I Go funk version

Classic IV

Spooky

Johnny Clegg (all versions

Cruel, Crazy, Beautiful World
Great Heart
I Call Your Name
Rolling Ocean
Dela

Joe Cocker

Feelin’ Alright

Nat King Cole

Straighten Up & Fly Right

Commodores

Brick House

Neil Diamond

Sweet Caroline

Dire Straits/Mark Knopfler

Walk of Life
The Bug

Thomas Dolby

Hot Sauce
I Scare Myself
May the Cube Be With You

Doobie Brothers

Takin’ It to the Streets
Listen to the Music

Elton John

Pinball Wizard
Crocodile Rock
The Bitch is Back
I’m Still Standing

Fleetwood Mac

Don’t Stop

Four Tops

Baby I Need Your Loving
I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honeybunch)

Frankie Goes To Hollywood

Relax

Aretha Franklin

Think
Respect
Chain of Fools
Rock Steady

Peter Gabriel

Big Time
Kiss That Frog
Steam
Sledgehammer

Marvin Gaye

Let’s Get It On
How Sweet It Is (to be Loved by You)
I Heard it Through the Grapevine
Can I Get A Witness

Gloria Gaynor

I Will Survive

Herbie Hancock

Chameleon
Watermelon Man
Cantaloupe Island (funked-up version

Donny Hathaway

I Believe To My Soul

Bobby Hebb

Sunny

David Holmes (Ocean’s Eleven OST)

$160 Million Chinese Man (intro = movie clip)
Rodney Yates
Ruben’s In

Michael Jackson

Thriller
Beat It
Don’t Stop ’til You Get Enough

Rick James

Superfreak

Tommy James & The Shondells

Mony Mony

Billy Joel

Only the Good Die Young
Tell Her About It

Quincy Jones

Candles on the Cake

Louis Jordan

Let the Good Times Roll

B.B. King

The Thrill Is Gone

Ben E. King

Stand By Me

The Kingsmen

Louie, Louie

The Kinks

You Really Got Me

The Knack

My Sharona

Kool & the Gang

Celebration
Jungle Boogie

Huey Lewis & the News

Power of Love
Hip to be Square
I Want A New Drug
Heart of Rock & Roll
While We’re Young

Lipps, Inc.

Funkytown

Little Richard

Tutti-Fruitti

Los Lobos

La Bamba

Madness

Our House

Henry Mancini

Peter Gunn theme
The Big Blow Out

Bob Marley

Get Up, Stand Up
No Woman, No Cry
I Shot the Sheriff
Lively Up Yourself
Is This Love

Richard O’Brien

The Time Warp

Ray Parker, Jr.

Ghostbusters

Jaco Pastorius

The Chicken

Wilson Pickett

Mustang Sally
634-5789
In the Midnight Hour

Elvis Presley

Hound Dog
Jailhouse Rock
Burning Love
See See Rider
That’s All Right
Viva Las Vegas
A Little Less Conversation

Pretenders

Back on the Chain Gang
My City Was Gone
Brass In Pocket
Middle of the Road

Prince

Kiss
Raspberry Beret

The Purple Herons

El Spooko

Bonnie Raitt

Something to Talk About

Otis Redding

I Can’t Turn You Loose

Smokey Robinson

Tears of a Clown
Shop Around
I Second That Emotion

The Rolling Stones

(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction
Honky Tonk Woman
Jumpin” Jack Flash

The Romantics

What I Like About You

Santana

Black Magic Woman
Soul Sacrifice
She’s Not There

Scary Pockets

Crazy
Good Thing
I Believe in a Thing Called Love
Big Yellow Taxi
Disco Pills
Back in Black
Purple Haze
Roxanne

Seat Belts

Shocking Blue

Venus

Sister Sledge

We Are Family

Sly & The Family Stone

Dance to the Music

Kandace Springs

Love Got in the Way

Sting

If You Love Somebody
Shadows in the Rain

Stray Cats

Stray Cat Strut

Sublime

What I Got
Bad Fish

Talking Heads

Burning Down the House
Once in a Lifetime
Take Me to the River

The Temptations

My Girl

Three Dog Night

Joy to the World

Tower of Power

Still Diggin’ on James Brown
This Type of Funk

Tina Turner

Proud Mary

TV Shows, etc.

Conjunction Junction
Fat Albert theme
The Carol Burnett Show
The Dating Game (comedy number?)

UB40

The Way You Do the Things You Do
Red, Red Wine

Uptown Horns

Van Morrison

Moondance
Domino
Dancing in the Moonlight

The Village People

YMCA
In the Navy
Macho Man

Wang Chung

Everybody Have Fun Tonight

War

Low Rider

Weather Report

Cucumber Slumber

Wild Cherry

Play That Funky Music

Pharell Williams

Happy

Amy Winehouse

Valerie
Cupid (reggae version)

Steve Winwood (all versions)

Gimme Some Lovin’
Higher Love

Bill Withers

Use Me

Stevie Wonder

Superstition
Sir Duke
Isn’t She Lovely

Warren Zevon

Werewolves of London

ZZ Top

Sharp Dressed Man
La Grange