Your actual set list

This is the list from the last gig my old band played:

All Shook Up
Break-Up Song
Bad Case of Loving' You
Gimme 3 Steps
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Dancing With Myself
Hush
It's Not Unusual
Jenny
Super Freak
Get Ready
Hurts So Good
Follow You Down
Burning Love
Hold On Loosely
Mony, Mony
Accidentally In Love
I'm a Believer
All For You
Can't Help Falling In Love
She's a Lady
Rock and Roll All Night
Vehicle
Little Sister
Wrap It Up
3 A.M.
Better Now
R.O.C.K. in the USA
Bright Lights
Runaway
This Love
What I Like About You
Jailhouse Rock
Secret Agent Man

We lost our singer so we are out of commission until we find a new one. The old singer sounded like Elvis, so the list was tailored for his vocal range. I am actually starting in another band with a singer with a different vocal range so I don't think we will use any of these songs. It really hinges on what the singer can sing well.

 

Gina’s Soul Party Halloween 10/31/14!

Set One!

1.Tighten Up!

2.Booty City!

3.Ain’t Too Proud Too Beg!

4.Vehicle!

5.Heatwave!

6.When I Come Home!

7.I’ve Got To Use My Imagination!

8.I Wish!

9.Use Me!

10.Blow Your Mind!

11.Cut The Cake!

12.How Do I Let A Good Man Down!

13.Fire!

14.People Pleaser!

15.Tighten Up (Short Version)

!

GSP Halloween 10/31/14 Set Two!

1.Tighten Up (Short Version)!

2.Heard It Through The Grapevine!

3.Soul Man!

4.Signed, Sealed, Delivered!

5.Chain Of Fools!

6.Feel It In Your Soul!

7.In The Midnight Hour!

8.Superstition!

9.Cissy Strut!

10.Standing On Shakey Ground!

11.Stone Me!

12.Son Of A Preacher Man!

13.Diggin On James Brown!

14.I Got You!

15.Brick House!

16.Nobody’s Baby!

17.What Is Hip!

18.Tighten Up (Short Version)

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Gina’s Soul Party Halloween 10/31/14!

Set Three!

1.Tighten Up (Long Version)!

2.Knock On Wood!

3.Love Has Something Else To Say!

4.People People!

5.Long Black Road!

6.Down To The Nightclub!

7.I Can’t Stand The Rain!

8.Proud Mary!

9.Mr. Big Stuff!

10.Right Time Wrong Place!

11.This Corrosion!

12.Dancing In The Street

 

Don't ask me why there are exclamation points. I copy and pasted from a PDF.

 

You can check out songlists for a lot of event bands working the mid-Atlantic coast at booking agencies. (For example, EastCoast, Sam Hill, and Elan Artists.) IME, it's generally DJ Top 200 stuff: event band standards plus the biggest dance hits from the last decade or so. Being able to also offer jazz sets really pads the paycheck. And it looks like you'd be on the Carolinas wedding circuit, so some shag/beach music is worth having ready.

BTW, if you could play some keys in addition to sax and guitar, I'd expect your market value would be highest as a utility player.

 

On bass, you'll be the guy who keeps the pretty ladies dancing all night. Nothing wrong with that.

 

Our set for New Year's is for a benefit, and we've only got about a half hour there. There's a few other bands playing, all of us have a song or two that we were requested to play. There's a few breaks in the action to bring up silent auction items, etc. Should be a lot of folks our age, and around our parents age, so we tried to tailor it to songs that both age groups would know fairly well. We're playing the break between another band's first and second set, and basically just covering the time the silent acution winds down and gets tallied up. And we get fed.

Song 2

Next Girl

Are You Gonna be my Girl

Crazy Little Thing Called Love

Sweet Home Alabama (Hard stop after ~10 sec for guitarist/lead singer to "Oops! forgot how to play one." Gives us a chance to talk about benefit while he noodles and hopefully gets a laugh)

Everlong (At request of the family that the benefit is for)

Rambling Man

About a Girl (only if there is time)

Stairway intro into Little Black Submarines

 

This is from my acoustic trio. We play easy listening pop, mostly for private parties and a few pubs and coffee shops. We have about 30 more songs we can draw from.

SET 1
I Am a Child
Knockin' On Heaven's Door
You Ain’t Going Nowhere
A Pirate Looks At Forty
Don't Say Goodbye
Mystic Highway
Teach Your Children
A Walk in the Irish Rain
There Goes My Heart
The Fireman
Upside Down
Up On Cripple Creek
Sister Golden Hair
Breakeven
You’re Still the One
Nowhere Man

SET 2
Take it Easy
Who'll Stop the Rain
The Walk
Volcano
Groovin’ Medley
The Weight
Sail Away
Tin Man
Tequila Sunrise
Hero
Have You Ever Seen the Rain
Doctor My Eyes
South City Midnight Lady
Home
Just Remember I Love You

SET 3
Margaritaville
Stand by Me
Third Rate Romance
You and Tequila
Sleep
The Sky Is Falling
Harvest Moon
All My Loving
Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues
Slip Slidin' Away
Peaceful Easy Feeling
Sunny Afternoon
What a Crying Shame
Danny’s Song

This is from a country band I was in for a brief period before it dissolved. I was invited back when it re-formed but declined.

SET 1
Stay Here and Drink
Party Crowd
Getting You Home
Margaritaville
Smoke Rings In the Dark
Here’s A Quarter
Troubadour
Out Last Night
Fireman
Am I the Only One
I Like It I Love It
Workin’ Man Blues
Wonderful Tonight
She's So California
Sweet Home Alabama
Bar Light
Guitars, Cadillacs, etc.
Born to Boogie
Georgia on a Fast Train
Country Girl Shake It
Drinking Dark Whiskey
Watermelon Crawl
Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off
Liza Jane
It Ain’t the Whiskey

SET 2
That’s Alright Mama
Bubba Hyde
Neon Moon
Little Less Talk
Fast As You
Tulsa Time
Cadillac Ranch
Little Sister
Blame the Vain
Till My Last Day
Pink Cadillac
Right Where I Need To Be
Mustang Sally
Pride and Joy
Keep Your Hands to Yourself
Five Dollar Fine
Amarillo By Morning
Walk Softly
Past The Point of Rescue
Reggae Cowboy
Honky Tonk Women
Call Me the Breeze
Alabama
Copperhead Road
Cocaine

SET 3
Brown Eyed Girl
Fishing In the Dark
Let Me Down Easy
Lot of Leaving Left to Do
Just Call Me Lonesome
Hicktown
Killing Time
Folsum Prison
Bad Things to You
Playing the Part
High Cost Of Living
One More Goodbye
Fat Bottom Girls
Boys from Oklahoma
Oklahoma Breakdown
Gimme Three Steps
Toes
Dumas Walker
Boy Named Sue
Alright Guy
Bonnie and Clyde
Got A Quarter In My Pocket
Take A Little Ride
Man To Man
Big Green Tractor

This is from a classic rock band I left last year:

SET 1
Summer Of '69
Good Thing
Blues Is My Business
Listen to the Music
You May Be Right
At Last
Dancing in the Dark
Little By Little
Black Magic Woman
Slow Down
Stronger
I’d Walk 500 Miles

SET 2
Hit Me with Your Best Shot
Great Balls Of Fire
Something's Got a Hold on Me
Wake Me Up
Lovesong
Mercy
R.O.C.K. in the USA
Long Train Running
Bring It Home To Me
Right as Rain
Jump, Jive & Wail
Tearing Us Apart

SET 3
Middle of the Road
You Wreck Me
Wild Night
No Woman No Cry
Hold On
To Love Somebody
It’s My Life
Wild Wild Life
Because the Night
Can’t Buy Me Love
I Saw Her Standing There
September

Here's a set list from a New Orleans band I play in once a year:

SET 1
Take Me in Your Arms
You Wreck Me
Smoking Gun
La Grange
Cold Shot
Some Kind Of Wonderful
I’m Tore Down
Born on the Bayou
Cissy Strut
Lowdown
Lodi
Satisfaction
Tighten Up

SET 2
634-5789
Can’t You Hear Me Knockin'
Knock on Wood
Sunshine of Your Love
Crossroads
You Don’t Love Me
Walking to New Orleans
I’m So Glad
Seventh Son
Slip Away
Cold, Cold, Cold
I Been Hoodood
I Thank You

SET 3
Ballad of John and Yoko
Dark Eyed Cajun Woman
All Right Now
Blue Money
Running Down A Dream
If I Don’t Be There By Morning
Mama Roux
Mess Up A Good Thing
All She Wants To Do Is Dance
Solar Sex Panel
Chest Fever
Blue Jean Blues

Here's a list from the Mormon band I play in for a couple shows every year. This is a vocal group with back-up band that plays at church social events. (I'm not Mormon - don't ask.)

SET 1
Old Time Rock & Roll
Johnny B. Goode
Everybody Get Together
I Get Around
In My Room
California Girls
Fun Fun Fun
Yakkety Yak
Wipeout

SET 2
Heartbreak Hotel
Can’t Help Falling In Love
Hound Dog
Born To Be Wild
Sleepwalk
Love Shack

SET 3
Footloose
Your Mama Don’t Dance
At Last
Yellow Submarine
She Loves You
I Want To Hold Your Hand
If I Fell
Come Together
Let it Be
Juke Box Hero
Hey Jude

Here's a list from a blues band I play in occasionally. There are several originals in this one.

SET 1
Walkin' Shoes
Born In Chicago
Tore Down
Hoochi Coochi Man
Cold Shot
Messin' With The Kid
Feelin' Alright
Key To The Highway
Little Red Rooster
Whippin' Post
Cross Cut Saw

SET 2
Tell Me Why
Use Me (Funky!!)
Gotta Find My Baby
All Along The Watchtower
The Thrill Is Gone
After Midnight
Spill The Wine
Bring It On Home To Me
Got My Mojo Workin'
One Way Out

SET3
One More Last Chance
Live The Life I Love
Ain't No Sunshine (Funky!!)
Last Will & Testament
You Are So Beautiful
Cat Walkin’
Didn't Mean To Hurt You
Hit Me Like A Lead Brick
Thank God I'm Not A Woman
Trash Talkin' Woman

I have more lists from previous bands if you want them.