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hey, i was jus wonderin if anyone had some good songs to add to this list of songs that i alwys play at house parties on acoustic. tnx

Wonderwall
Dont Look Back in Anger
Live Forever
Zombie
Cannonball
9 Crimes
Good Riddance(Time of Your Life)
Hotel California
Rockin in the Free World
Last Nite
Paranoid
Run
Chasing Cars
Time is Running Out
Another One Bites the Dust
Bob Dylan numbers
Ziggy Stardust
Space Oddity
Umbrella
Comfortably Numb
Wish You Were Here
Here Comes Your Man
Monkey Gone to Heaven
Layla
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
GALWAY GIRL
Lisdoonvarna
Ride On
Country House
Beetlebum
Deliicate
Volcano
Just
Street Spirit(Fade Out)
Karma Police
Suffragette City
Heart of Gold
Like a Hurricane
Guns n Roses numbers
Stairway to Heaven
Numb
Moly's Chambers
The Bucket
One
Nothing Else Matters
Don't Speak
Roxanne
Every Breath You Take
Losing My Religion
Thin Lizzy
Ramones
Nothing Compares 2 U
Fat Lip
Vertigo
Where the Streets Have No Name
Still Have'nt Found What I'm Lookin For
In the Name of Love
Caribou
Under the Bridge
Zephyr Song
Breakout
Monkey Wrench
Everlong
Times Like These
Country Roads
American Pie
Livin on a Prayer
Dead or Alive
Papa's Gotta Brand New Bag
Aerosmith
AC/DC


I know there's alot there but I'm really sick of the same ol' songs.

P.S. RORY GALLAGHER IS THE baby's pram Ireland's Finest, R.I.P.

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We apparantly have very different friends.  Here are some that will work at my house.

A Boy Named Sue
Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road
Take Me Home Country Roads
Rich Kid Doctor
Changes in Lattitudes, Changes in Attitudes
Amie
Fox on the Run
King of the Road
Peaceful Easy Feeling
Ring of Fire
My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
Amazing Grace
Amazing Love
Yellow Submarine
I'll Fly Away
How Great Thou Art (someone's got to play it on piano, 'cause I don't do it on guitar yet)
etc., so forth

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The most frequently requested songs or artists I encounter in my daily job as a working musician are as follows;
Dave Matthews-anything
Buffett-Mostly Marga-barfa-ville, It's 5 O'clock Somewhere
Brown Eyed Girl by Van Morrison- almost always requested by wide eyed female pointing to their brown eyes.
Freebird by Lynyrd Skynyrd-many times just 'that guy' trying to be mr. funny man.
Hotel California by The Eagles
Mustang Sally
Electric Slide

There are many, many others but these seem to be staples of the masses who are at the places I play.

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Was Perfect Day by Lou Reed in there? Love playing that song.

Is anything really made up of zeros and ones??

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Re: BEST SING-ALONG/SESSION SONGS

here is a list that I often do wit hmy wife on fiddle, Mate and myself on guitar and father in law on mandolin or banjo, or whatever he picks up and plays.

Las vegas in the hills of donegal
Sunshine on Leith
Ye jacobites by name
Hush Hush
leaving of liverpool
wild rover
caledonia
black velvet band
Dirty old town
willie stewart
green fields of france

and many many more


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We usually get the kitchen rockin with tunes like ;

People Get Ready-Sonny Terry
Deep Elm Blues-Jerry Garcia
Just Seventeen- The Beatles
Out On The Mira- John Allen Cameron
Lukey's Boat- Great Big Sea
Getting Dark Again-The Rankins
Jenny Jenny-Tommie Twotone
Ophiela-The Band
Pawnshop Blues-Brownie MaGhee
Johny B Good-Chuck Berry
Not Fattening Frogs For Snakes-Sonny Boy Williamson
Midnite Special-Leadbelly
California Dreaming-Mamas and Papas
City Of New Orleans-Woody Guthrie
East Coast Blues-Matt Minglewood
Down On The Corner-Creedence Clearwater Revival

and   maaaaany    mooore




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folsom prison blues all night long for me... with optional 3h  15min instrumental.

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Re: BEST SING-ALONG/SESSION SONGS

paddyk2008 wrote:

hey, i was jus wonderin if anyone had some good songs to add to this list of songs that i alwys play at house parties on acoustic. tnx

Wonderwall
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AC/DC


I know there's alot there but I'm really sick of the same ol' songs.

P.S. RORY GALLAGHER IS THE baby's pram Ireland's Finest, R.I.P.

I have a few of the same that I do regularly. Some others that go down well are:

These Streets - Paolo Nutini
Apologize - One Republic
D'Yer Wanna Be a Spaceman - Oasis
Hello - Oasis
Advertising Space - Robbie Williams
The Scientist - Coldplay
In my Place - Coldplay
The Weight - The Band
Why Does it Always Rain on Me - Travis

Hope this helps.

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the jazz maverick wrote:

folsom prison blues all night long for me... with optional 3h  15min instrumental.

THUMBS UP!!  That made me laugh right out loud.   What makes it funnier is that I have no idea whether you're joking.

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Adding few more some of my older classic rock friends will sing along with:
Blackbird
5 O'Clock World - by The Vogues gets lots of swaying and clapping.
Pride & Joy
Ole '55
Lucky Man
From the Beginning
Sweet Jane
Fire & Rain
Blowin' in the Wind
Tangled up in Blue (if someone is sober enough to remember the words)
Heart of Gold
Sugar Mountain
Teach your Children
Lay Down Sally ( they liek it and I;m not sure why)
Willin'
Midnight Rider
My wife sings
    Smackwater Jack (Carole King)
    Somebody to Love (Airplane,Grace Slick)
    Like I Do (Melissa)

Sometimes they like to sing along with Stairway.
I also do acoustic versions of Whipping Post and Stormy Monday (T Bone Walker style like Betts) that my friends like, but probably only because they're my friends; loyal but tone deaf.

The Joker - everyone likes to sing the toker part, gangster of love, pompitous of luv, they call me maurice and really luv your peaches wanna shake your tree.

I'm A Believer (Monkees) - good sing along and when I'm drunk I imitate Bob Dylan singing it.  It gets some laughs.
The ever popular Frampton favorite Baby Please Shave My Legs.
And one quick verse of acoustic Kiss after 5 or 6 beers and a couple of single malts; "I gotta get up and pee all night, and potty every day." 

I try to discourage yet another rendition of Sweet Home Alabama, or Freebird. you know, "Which song is it you wanna hear? Not this one again" sad

Isn't Jenny Jenny actually called 867-5309?

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Re: BEST SING-ALONG/SESSION SONGS

Wild Horses

Easy to learn, and sounds more complicated than it really is.....

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Jazz Mav, my friends hate Folsom Prison Blues because I bust it out EVERY TIME I pick up my guitar!  Back that up with Mercury Blues (not the Allen Jackson rendition, but some good bluesy rendition), and you'll be a star.

Don't think anyone's mentioned "Friends in Low Places"--you can play that one as poorly as you want because everyone singing will drown out your guitar anyway.

A few we've been doing  that go over big are:
Ain't no sunshine--Bill Withers
All my Lovin'--the Beatles
Happy Together--The Turtles
I will Survive
Iris--The GooGoo Dolls
Over the Rainbow
I Think We're Alone Now--Tommy James & the Shondells (what is a Shondell anyway?)

The old April Wine song "Just between you and me" is fun to do unplugged too.

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