Do you have a song or two that your customers have come to always expect from you? Is it an opener or a closer, or what?

I close with "Happy Trails" and my regulars always smile and sing along when they hear it. It's always proceeded by "God Bless America" but I don't consider that a signature song as much I consider it almost mandatory for senior events.The other'must do' song of mine is "Put Your Head On My Shoulders" because the ladies and most of the men love it, but I don't considerate a signature song.

I no longer use an opener, but for a closer I use Show Me The Way To Go Home--the crowds all love it and most of the time they sing along with me.

Gary

Key Largo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru2tsT32pHA

always last.

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I'm not back gigging in Pubs fully yet, but any Restaurants I play as an instrumentalist they always ask me to play my own composition.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oV4hPTFkSZA

The local radio station have been playing it for a few years so it's kind of gotten a little popular.

Regards
James

Luis song"What a Wonderfol World"

Always first and last...

It might depend on the venue and clientele, but I generally will end with "What a Wonderful World" ... at one of my regular gigs there is at least one couple that ALWAYS wants to hear Billy Joel's "Just the Way You Are" ... my person favorite to sing - especially if I'm out at a club/restaurant and I know the musicians playing there and they ask me to sing a song or two - is "Summer Wind" ...
t.

My stuff is all instrumental, so my main signature tune is "Last Date" by Floyd Cramer.

Another tune I play a lot is "As Time Goes By"...I usually end the evening with that song, or "A Whiter Shade of Pale."

Ian

JAMES/IRISHACTS....
Thank you so very much for posting your beautiful/awesome audio/visual performance of your own composition!

Tears flow when my heart hears and feels the beauty in your work....

Tell me how to obtain a copy of this marvelous work...Please

Elizabeth


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As Long As I'm Singin'

Scott Yee Entertainment

Hi Elizabeth.

Thank you very much for the kind words. I'm glad to hear you enjoyed the music/AV.



You can download the entire CD for free off my website. Every track is an original.
http://www.irishacts.com/leanbh-mo-chroi/

Kind Regards
James.

Hi James,
that's absolutely beautiful.

I'm a bit of an Enya fan, plus I luv some of the new age music.

Thoroughly enjoyed it.

best wishes
Rikki

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I do different ones, depending on the venue/crowd...

I also play "Show me the way to go home", in others, I also use "My Way" I thing I have a nice arrangement(Very high production), and sometimes if is a playful crowd I do the "Loony tunes"... Tha-that-t's all folks....


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mdorantes

Depending on the audience and "feel" at the end of the night...or performance at a NH...I have several closing songs I pick from including those mentioned above plus "Goodnight Sweetheart" (Big Band and Rock versions), "I'll Be Seeing You", "Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone", "The Party's Over" (Willie Nelson version..and occassionally the Peggy Lee version.

However, I found that if I do "For The Good Times" later in the evening, some in the audience think that that is the final song of the night. So, if I do it, I try to work it into the first set.

God Bless America and O Canada are also staples at the end of the night at some of the homeowner associations I work.

Eddie

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Yep, Goodnight Sweetheart Goodnight (McGuire Sisters) is our usual closer on the NH gigs. We also use The Casinos' Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye fairly often. There was one occasion at a Glasgow Rangers Supporters Club when we were about to leave the stage when the manager rushed up and said we had to play God Save The Queen before we left. Luckily, I've got a decent ear. Didn't want to start a sectarian war.

My theme song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0plbEFWWPA

There is an inside joke with my folks that they can tell how bad the job is by when I play "Theme From Mash"-Suicide Is Painless".


If I start off with it, every one knows it's NOT A GOOD NIGHT!


R.

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Russ ... thnx for the reminder ... a number of years ago I used to mix that in with "Arthur's Theme" played with a bossa style ... would play the MASH theme using a flute voice ... You could just see that some people recognized the tune, but couldn't think of what it was ... ... gonna have to 'resurrect' that ...
thnx,
t.