Re: She's Come Undone - The Guess Who

Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 22:02:04 GMT
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar.jazz
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I actually mentioned mostly songs I've played in bar band settings
that worked well, in some cases stunningly well.
Raveups that are descendants of gospel and blues work well too;
Turn On Your Lovelight" and Yield Not To Temptation by
Bobby Blue Bland, Everybody Needs Somebody to Love by
Wilson Pickett.
"L. Fiorillo" <email-address-deleted> wrote in message
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> I think this thread has wandered into a different place. The original
> poster was inquiring about a tune for a bar band. Someone gave a great
> piece of advice on criteria for picking songs. 1. Is it a good song. 2.
> Do people want to hear it?
>
> Most of the songs mentioned in this thread would not work in a bar
setting.
> Doesn't make them bad songs though.
>
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> "Don & Heidi" <email-address-deleted> wrote in message
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> > "Lumpy" <email-address-deleted> wrote in message
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> > > Bill Williams wrote:
> > > > Others that come to mind from the more pop
> > > > (and clichéd?) end of the
> > > > spectrum would be:
> > > >
> > > > Ticket to ride
> > > > Monday, Monday
> > > > Sunny
> > > > Up up and away
> > > > Our day will come
> > > > Goin' out of my head
> > >
> > > I like those. Up Up and Away is a difficult
> > > tune for unpracticed muso's to play, IMO. Some
> > > of those great chord changes aren't very intuitive.
> > > But I love the sound of it.
> > >
> > > How 'bout -
> > >
> > > Ding Dong the Witch is Dead - Wiz of Oz
> > > I Feel Fine - Beatles
> > > Man in the Mirror - Like Tuck
> > > Dancing in the Moonlight - King Harvest
> > > Harbor Lights - Boz Scaggs
> > > Have I Told You Lately That I Love You -
> > > (Moondance replacement?)
> > > If - Bread
> > > My Cherie Amour - Stevie Wonder
> > > Never My Love - Association
> > > (I sometimes call this one fast in 6/8)
> > >
> > > And then there's the TV theme songs. I love doing those.
> > > I Dream of Jeanie
> > > MASH
> > > Flintstones
> > > Route 66
> > Or the Bobby TroupNatCole song ain't too bad either. Flintstones,
> > oh man, Danny Gatton, yep it can be done. Joe Venuti did it too.
> > MASH "Suicide is painless, though it brings on many changes"
> > What a lyric.
> >
> >
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