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GWEN HUGHES & THE RETRO JAZZ KATS

SONGLIST 2009

CATEGORIZED BY ARTIST/ERA

Dance Music from all Eras!!

** (the most popular contemporary music listed first...scroll down for the golden oldies, including Big Band, Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald!)**

 

VAN MORRISON

Brown Eyed Girl

Have I Told You Lately

Into the Mystic

Crazy Love

Tupelo Honey

Domino

 

MOTOWN

Ain’t Too Proud to Beg (Temptations)

Brick House (Commodores)

Dancing in the Streets (Martha & Vandellas)

Heat Wave (Martha & Vandellas)

Stop In the Name of Love (Supremes)

Shop Around (Miracles)

All Night Long (Lionel Richie)

My Girl (Temptations)

The Way You Do the Things You Do

Papa Was A Rolling Stone

Just My Imagination

Ain’t No Mountain High Enough

 

BEATLES

Includes:  Can’t Buy Me Love

Hard Day’s Night

 Twist & Shout

   Back in the USSR

        In My Life

    And many more!

 

ROLLING STONES

Under My Thumb

Brown Sugar

Honky Tonk Woman

Jumpin Jack Flash

 

ARETHA FRANKLIN

Respect

Rock Steady

Natural Woman

Think

 

MARVIN GAYE

How Sweet It Is

I Heard it Through the Grapevine

What’s Goin On

Let’s Get It On

Ain’t That Peculiar

STEVIE WONDER

I Wish

Superstition

Isn’t She Lovely

My Cherie Amour

You Are the Sunshine of My Life

Signed Sealed Delivered

 

SAMPLE OF 1960s:

Dock of the Bay (Otis Redding)

Evil Ways (Santana)

Higher & Higher (Jackie Wilson)

Goin Out of My Head (Four Seasons)

Good Lovin’ (Rascals)

I Can See Clearly Now

I Say a Little Prayer (Dionne Warwick)

Joy to the World (Three Dog Night)

Let’s Stay Together (Al Green)

Proud Mary (Ike & Tina Turner)

Knock on Wood

Midnight Hour

Tequila

Wipe Out

More Today than Yesterday

Rescue Me (Fontella Bass)

Son of a Preacher Man (Dusty Springfield)

Spinning Wheel (Blood Sweat & Tears)

 

JAMES BROWN

Get Up (Sex Machine)

I Feel Good

Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag

 

KOOL & THE GANG

Celebration

Too Hot

 

ABBA

Dancing Queen

 

SADE

Sweetest Taboo

Smooth Operator

Your Love Is King

Paradise

 

GEORGE BENSON

Breezin

This Masquerade

On Broadway

 

BEACH MUSIC

Be Young Be Foolish Be Happy

Under the Boardwalk

Stand By Me

Hey Baby

634-5789

Mustang Sally

 

SAMPLE OF 1970s:

Sweet Home Alabama (Lnyrd Skynrd)

Old Time Rock n’ Roll (Bob Seger)

After Midnight (Eric Clapton)

I Feel the Earth Move (Carole King)

Love Train (The O’Jays)

Desperado (Eagles)

Littlewing (Jimi Hendrix)

It’s Your Thang

Just the Two of Us

Use Me (Bill Withers)

Lowdown (Boz Scaggs)

Margaritaville (Jimmy Buffet)

Me & Bobby McGee (Janis Joplin)

Roller Coaster (of Love)

Takin Care of Business (BTO)

Lady Marmalade (LaBelle)

Dance to the Music (Sly & The Family Stone)

Play That Funky Music (Wild Cherry)

Still the One (Orleans)

 

SAMPLE OF 1980s:

Kiss (Prince)

1999 (Prince)

Livin on a Prayer (Bon Jovi)

Love Shack (B-52s)

Mickey (Toni Basil)

We Are Family (Sister Sledge)

Electric Slide

Wonderful Tonight (Clapton)

Pink Cadillac (Springsteen/Natalie Cole)

Rhythm is Gonna Getcha (Miami Sound Machine)

I Feel Lucky (Mary Chapin Carpenter)

Every Breath You Take (Police)

Love Shack (B-52s)

All Night Long (Lionel Richie)

Walkin’ On Sunshine (Katrina/Waves)

I Love Rock n Roll (Joan Jett)

 

1990s AND NEW MILLENIA MUSIC

Crazy (Gnarls Barkley)

Hey Ya (OutKast)

Sledgehammer (Peter Gabriel)

Get the Party Started (Pink)

Don’t Know Why (Norah Jones)

Come Away with Me (Norah Jones)

I’m Just a Girl (No Doubt)

This Love (Maroon 5)

Smooth (Santana)

What I Like About You (Romantics)

Daughters (John Mayer)

 

DISCO/PARTY MUSIC

Brick House

I Will Survive

Get Down Tonight

Shake Your Booty

Play That Funky Music

 

RONOSTALGIA, SWING & JAZZ 

DIANA KRALL

Frim Fram Sauce

Peel Me a Grape

East of the Sun

 

LOUIS PRIMA

I Wanna Be Like You

Just a Gigolo

Jump Jive and Wail

 

DEAN MARTIN

Ain’t That a Kick in the Head

That’s Amore

 

LOUIS JORDAN

Ain’t Nobody Here But Us Chickens

Saturday Night Fish Fry

Caldonia

Choo Choo Ch’Boogie

 

GLENN MILLER/BIG BAND

Opus One

In the Mood

Chattanooga Choo Choo

String of Pearls

Sing Sing Sing

Little Brown Jug

Woodchopper’s Ball

Sweet Georgia Brown

Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy

 

BOBBY DARIN

Beyond the Sea

Mack the Knife

Dream Lover

Splish Splash

 

FRANK SINATRA

Come Fly With Me

New York New York

Nice Work I You Can Get It

On the Sunnyside of the Street

Girl From Ipanema

That Old Black Magic

The Song Is You

The Way You Look Tonight

Fly Me to the Moon

 

BRIAN SETZER/MODERN SWING

Rock This Town

This Cat’s on a Hot Tin Roof

Zoot Suit Riot

 

DUKE ELLINGTON

Take the “A” Train

Satin Doll

In a Mellow Tone

Mood Indigo

 

ELLA FITZGERALD

Don’t Get Around Much Anymore

It Don’t Mean a Thing

Our Love is Here to Stay

Paper Moon

Sentimental Journey

Takin’ a Chance on Love

They Can’t Take That Away from Me

 

SARAH VAUGHN

Summertime

I’ve Got the World on a String

Tenderly

Misty

That’s All

My Funny Valentine

 

COUNT BASIE

Everyday I Have the Blues

Kansas City

Jumpin at the Woodside

Satin Doll

April in Paris

Sit Right Down, Write Myself a Letter

 

PEGGY LEE

Fever

Fly Me to the Moon

I Love Being Here With You

 

FATS WALLER

Is You Is of Is You Ain’t My Baby

Makin Whoopee

Ain’t Misbehavin’

 

BESSIE SMITH

Mean Old Bedbug Blues

Empty Bed Blues

 

1950s ROCK AND ROLL

Rock Around the Clock (B Haley)

That’ll Be the Day (B Holly)

Rave On (B Holly)

The Wanderer (Fabian)

Blue Moon

I Only Have Eyes for You

Only You (Platters)

Ain’t That a Shame (F Domino)

Shake Rattle n’ Roll

The Tennesee Waltz (P Page)

Back in the USA (C Berry)

Rockin’ Pneumonia (C Berry)

You Send Me (Sam Cooke)

 

RAY CHARLES

Hit the Road Jack

I Can’t Stop Loving You

Smack Dab in the Middle

Georgia

 

STEVIE RAY VAUGHN

Pride and Joy

Stormy Monday

 

NAT KING COLE

Route 66

S’Wonderful

There is No Greater Love

Mona Lisa

Unforgettable

 

GWEN HUGHES (swing originals)

So& So

Soft Touch

Stranger’s Kiss

 

TONY BENNETT

Steppin Out

I Left My Heart in San Francisco

 

PATSY CLINE

Crazy

Walkin After Midnight

I Fall to Pieces

 


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