Our band (Clarkston Country) has a very IMPORTANT GIG coming up and I'm looking to sing some FRESH songs! They must be CLASSIC of course, not too much of a TEAR JERKER though. For a while now I've been opening the shows with a MERLE HAGGARD DUET and close with a TAMMY WYNETTE TUNE! We also Have a new-great FIDDLE player, so we can sing a lot more songs that we've always wanted to.PLEASE SEND ME SOME IDEAS AND IF WE HAVEN'T DONE THOSE, WE WILL! THANKS IN ADVANCE EVERYBODY...AND REMEMBER "IF IT AIN'T COUNTRY,IT AIN'T WORTH IT"!
2007-06-14 11:12:43 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music ➔ Country
New fiddle player Alabama got to have a fiddle in the band ( maybe named if your gonna play in texas) what an introduction you introduce the new fiddle player then jump into song Just change the word Texas to the city you are playing in
2007-06-14 11:23:00 · answer #1 · answered by Pengy 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
OKIEFAN,
try these out, I'm going off my most played set lists for classic country when I do karaoke. Let me know what ya think.
He'll Have To Go
Welcome To My World
Make The World Go Away
Movin' On
Waterloo
It's Such A Pretty World Today
Crazy Arms
Squaws Along The Youkon
Six Days On The Road
Pick Me Up On Your Way Down
Running Bear
The Lord Knows I'm Drinking
Dropkick Me Jesus
Heartaches By The Number
Farewell Party
Oklahoma Hills
Take Me Back To Tulsa
Shame On You
Big Balls In Cow Town
Swinging Doors
I Think I'll Just Stay Here And Drink
Big Mamou(still learning)
Jambalaya
Young Love
Devil Woman
El Paso
Be My Angel
Bartenders Blues
Wine Colored Roses
King Of The Road
Walk On By
Hello Walls
Abilene
Waltz Across Texas
Country Bumpkin
The Auctioneer (still learning this one)
I've Been Everywhere (this one too)
Bj The Dj
Carroll County Accident
Good Hearted Woman
Send Me The Pillow That You Dream On
500 Miles Away From Home
Detroit City
Green Green Grass Of Home
I'll Be There Before The Next Teardrop Falls
Talk Back Tremblin' Lips
Rednecks, White sox, And Blue Ribbon Beer
Saginaw Michigan
Wild Side Of Life
Wolverton Mountain
Kiss An Angel Good Morning
Some Broken Hearts Never Mend
Oh Lonesome Me
Please Help Me I'm Falling
Walking The Floor Over You
Tennessee Stud
Cattle Call (still learning)
I Wouldn't Have Missed It For The World
There Aint No Getting Over Me
Fool Hearted Memory
Amarillo By Morning
Is Anybody Going To San Antone
Hey Good Looking
If You Got The Money I Got The Time
Silver Wings
Only Make Believe (still learning)
Hello Darling
Daydreams About Night Things
Slide Off Of Your Satin Sheets
Coca Cola Cowboy
Dont Call Him A Cowboy
Behind Closed Doors
Hello Mary Lou
Flowers On The Wall
My Sweet Iowa Rose (still learning)
Mama Tried
Just Good Ole Boys(moe bandy joe stamply one)
Ring Of Fire
Folsom Prison Blues
Sunday Morning Coming Down
Kaw-Liga
You're The Reason God Made Oklahoma
There's A Yellow Rose In Texas
Faster Horses(still learning)
Dang Me(still learning)
The Ballad Of Forty Dollars(still learning)
He's In The Jail House Now
I'm My Own Grandpa (still learning)
From A Boxcar Door (still learning)
Jackson
Okie From Muskogee
Big City
Good Ole Boys (the waylon jennings song)
Fighting Side Of Me
Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain
Lord I Hope This Day Is Good
Linda On My Mind
Blue Moon Of Kentucky (just starting to learn it)
Tombstone Every Mile (this one too)
Room Full Of Roses
Hope you can use a few of these. Let me know how it turned out. Good luck, take care, and may God Bless
2007-06-14 19:33:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Some of the ones I'm going to post have been suggested, and I'm seconding them as good choices.
Johnny and June - Jackson
Alabama - If You're Gonna Play In Texas
John Anderson - Black Sheep
Charlie Daniels- The Devil Went Down to Georgia
Charlie Daniels - Uneasy Rider
David Allen Coe - If That Ain't Country
David Allen Coe - You Never Even Called Me By My Name
Hank Jr - Family Tradition
Johnny Cash - Cocaine Blues
Johnny Cash - Boy Named Sue
Johnny Cash - Rock Island LIne
Johnny Cash - Cry, Cry, Cry
Elvis Presley - Blue Moon of Kentucky (yeah, I know Bill Monroe did the original, but I love this version.)
Ernest Tubb and Loretta Lynn - Sweet Thang
Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty - You're The Reason Our Kids Are Ugly
George Strait - All My Exes Live In Texas
Gene Watson - Love On A Hot Afternoon
Jimmie Martin - Freeborn Man
Junior Brown - My Wife Thinks You're Dead (not a classic yet, but....)
Dwight Yoakum - Long White Cadillac
Waylon Jennings - Are You Ready For The Country
Waylon Jennings - Sally Was a Good Ole Girl
Roy Orbison - Sweet Dream Baby
Roy Orbison - Oh Pretty Woman
Dolly Parton - Joshua
Tammy Wynette - I'm Wearin' My Jeans A Little Bit Tighter
Tammy Wynette and George Jones - We're Not The Jet Set
George Jones - White Lightnin'
George Jones - The One I Loved Back Then
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Sorry if that list got long, but once I started really thinking, I had a lot of great songs to come to mind.
Hope you like them and hope this is a help.
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Edit to add: *doh* can't believe I didn't think of this til I hit submit!
Uncle Pen - Bill Monroe
Especially with a fiddle player!
2007-06-14 21:44:08 · answer #3 · answered by Tennessee_whiskey6969 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hey Miss Okie-Girl!
I wish I could hear ya sing!
My picks are:
It Only Hurts For A little While/ Margo Smith
Together Again/ Buck Owens (good duet song IMO)
Summer Wine/ Lee Hazelwood & Nancy Sinatra (GREAT DUET!)
Skip-A-Rope/ Henson Cargill (Girl, you KNOW how TRUE this song WAS and IS!)
Amigo's Guitar/ Kitty Wells
I'm Not Lisa/ Jesse Colter
Ribbon of Darkness/ Connie Smith did a durned good version of this one!
Color Of The Blues/ Skeeter could sing this one like nobody else!
Desperado/ Eagles or Johnny Rodriguez
It Was Almost Like A Song/ R. Milsap
If I Were A Carpenter/ yes, it CAN be country...June & Johnny proved it!
More and More/ Webb Pierce
Saginaw Michigan/ Lefty Frizzell
I Love/ Tom T. Hall
Detroit City/ You GOTTA sing this one Okie!!! LOL!!!!!!
Last Date/ Twitty
Cold Hard Truth/ George Jones
I hope these gave ya some ideas! :^)
lulu
2007-06-15 18:12:57 · answer #4 · answered by La Lulu 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ode to Billie Joe or Harper Valley PTA! Love them both.
For The Good Times by Ray Price...Charlie Pride's Kiss An Angel Good Morning, Buck Owens Lookin Back, Statlers Flowers on the Wall...Yesterday, when I was young...
With a fiddle player, you HAVE to do orange blossom special, and some Johnny Cash!
2007-06-14 18:28:53 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Stand By Your Man
Sweet Dreams
There's A Tear In My Beer
Hello Darlin'
I Go On Walkin' After Midnight
2007-06-14 18:19:30 · answer #6 · answered by the snail 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
How about Loretta Lynn "Country In My Genes" It's uplifting and great for an opening song.
"I Beg Your Pardon" by Lynn Anderson
"Me and Bobby McGee" I've opened with this one many times,depends on the crowd and the location!
"Happiest Girl In The Whole USA" by Donna Fargo
"Help Me Make It Through The Night" A female singing this song in a slow sultry voice will melt the hearts of men in the audience!
And one of my favorites although it isn't a classic yet is "Motorcycle Cowboy" by....you guessed it Mr. Haggard!
"Walking After Midnight",Sweet Dreams, Last Cheaters Waltz,I love the fiddle section in this song! The Rose,
"Sleeping Single in a Double Bed" by Barbra Mandrell
"Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue" by Crystal Gale
"Mississippi Woman,Louisianna Man" by Loretta and Conway
"Singing Sweet Country Music":
[CHORUS]
Singing sweet country music
Breathing clean mountain air
Singing sweet country music
Makes me wish that I was there
It's been more than a year now
Since my daddy had passed away
But I keep his memory with me
In the songs we used to play
[repeat CHORUS]
Well, he'd lean back in his rocker
With a Bible in his hand
And he'd talk about religion
And just how to work the land
Will the circle be unbroken
By and by, Lord, by and by (by and by)
There's a better home a waiting
In the sky, Lord, in the sky
[repeat CHORUS]
Makes me wish that I was there
Makes me wish that I was there
(Wish that I was there)
Sweet country music
(Wish that I was there)
Among that sweet country music
(Oh, I wish that I was there)
Singing sweet country music
Sweet country music
Hoped this helped Sis!
2007-06-14 19:13:59 · answer #7 · answered by Jo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We can go further back in minute and I'll edit my posting, but If you have a fiddle player and you want to open with a great toe tapper and a fiddle, then:
Im sure this ones already on your mind!
John Denvers - "Thank God I'm a Country boy"
Alabama - "Fiddle in the band"
You can do Charlie Daniels in the set later
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had to look at my collection for a minute....
Here are a few other good songs to consider, they may not be big on fiddle, but they are big on our kinda twang!!!!
Eddie Rabbit - Driving my life away
TG Sheppard - Party time
Jerry Reed - Im just a red neck in a Rock N Roll bar
Jerry Reed - She got the gold mine, I got the Shaft
All sound great live!
2007-06-14 18:38:36 · answer #8 · answered by Slappy 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
How about an old Kitty Wells song "Whose Shoulder Will You Cry On:?
Or:
Lefty Frizzels "If You've Got the Money Honey I've Got the Time"?
"Oklahoma Hills" by Hank Thompson
Good Luck....now get REALLY Classic.
2007-06-14 18:50:39 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"You never even call me by my name" and "all my rowdy friend " are true country classics and great sing along songs. Merle, Charlie & Waylon, does it get any better than that? Johnny Cash is a safe bet too. "One peice at a time" is a personal favorite. Honsetly anything old school should do well, Willie, Johnny, Waylon, George Jones, Kristofferson, either Hank, Merle, stuff that make em get up and sing out loud. Good luck.
2007-06-14 18:28:09 · answer #10 · answered by allybill2 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋