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Favorite Piano Bar Song

spikera

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divetrash

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Oh, I like the Billy, the Elton and the Jimmy well enough. (I'm still looking for a piano guy who can do "Prelude/Angry Young Man")

 

But I have to admit, I like the unexpected songs. A song that you never in a million years would have thought to find in a piano bar setting. From the Valor this past July was "Blister in the Sun". I mean, really, the Violent Femmes in a piano lounge? But it worked and it made me laugh. I like to be surprised.

 

Mark, it sounds like you have quite a repetoire there. But forget the Bon Jovi (I grew up close enough to Sayreville, that everyone knew someone who played with the band, but quit because they thought they were going nowhere). What a Jersey girl really wants to hear is some Springsteen. Got any of his stuff on your list?

 

Oh and I like the dirty songs too... :p

 

 

Laura

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bartleby112

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nooooo!!! Not THAT again...lol

 

im veto-ing anything cliched, or anything piano bar 101...lol

 

heres mine:

 

HEY YA

CRAZY TRAIN

POUR SOME SUGAR ON ME

HERE I GO AGAIN

GIN & JUICE

BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY

 

 

there are others...

 

If you were on the glory in 3 weeks and sang gin and juice, my friend would go crazy and probably tip 100 freaking bucks. In vegas we were paying 20/30 bucks to get a tune we wanted played.

 

Anyone out there know who might be on the glory the 21st of October

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ASONGULOVE

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the Glory should be Joe, who is a piano bar legend. hes awesome.

 

and BLISTER IN THE SUN is a piano bar MUST! at least at Rons & my bars it is! lol...Ive done whole sets just based on rock n roll *****!

 

MY DINGALING

LONGVIEW

BLISTER IN THE SUN

SHE BOP

I TOUCH MYSELF

DARLIN NIKKI

PICTURES OF LILI...

 

you get the idea...lol

 

as for Springsteen, heres my list ---

 

BADLANDS

BECAUSE THE NIGHT

BORN IN THE USA

BORN TO RUN

DANCIN IN THE DARK

GLORY DAYS

HUNGRY HEART

JERSEY GIRL

MY HOMETOWN

ROSOALITA

STREETS OF PHILA.

10TH AVE. FREEZEOUT

THUNDER ROAD

 

enough Boss for ya? lol

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Kakidoll

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Ok Mark, you got me now. NO-ONE does Rosalita anymore except my Baltimore/DC musicians...........WOW!!! I am impressed....... ok, now impress me more........ how about Elton Johns 'Funeral for a friend/Love lies bleeding'????? I've only known one other keyboardist who did that solo and live.........

 

Lovin this thread!

 

Kaki in Sarasota

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divetrash

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Ive done whole sets just based on rock n roll *****!

 

MY DINGALING

LONGVIEW

BLISTER IN THE SUN

SHE BOP

I TOUCH MYSELF

DARLIN NIKKI

PICTURES OF LILI...

I love it! Theme nights! I remember first hearing "Pictures of Lili" and realizing what it was about. Scandalous! That and "Squeezebox". I might have even blushed. Oh to be that young and innocent again.

 

 

enough Boss for ya? lol

That'll do. Of course "Jersey Girl" isn't technically a Bruce song, since Tom Waits wrote it. But it's so heavily identified with Bruce's version. What makes me laugh is that if you listen to Bruce's version it sounds like a love song to the Jersey girl. Tom's version? Not so much... Which way do you do it?

 

You know that all the piano parts on "Bat out of Hell" were played by Roy Bittan from the E. Street band, right? And Max Weinberg played drums on that album as well.

 

I have a wealth of useless music and entertainment tidbits stored in my head. Just ask Ron. (Oh what a night!)

 

Laura

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mencik

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My favorites were always the "adult" themed songs that some of the players will do in the last hour before they quit for the night.....

 

Barnacle Bill the Sailor

Hey Ladi Ladi

Sweet Lupi

 

stuff like that.... very funny with a bunch of drunks singing dirty songs

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sotadragon

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...very funny with a bunch of drunks singing dirty songs

Exactly! :D It's really funny when you're not quite as drunk as most of the people, they make for great entertainment and not just in the piano bar! (ever watch people coming back to the ship in a port with a Carlos n Charlies or Senior Frogs? hee hee :p)

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Exactly! :D It's really funny when you're not quite as drunk as most of the people, they make for great entertainment and not just in the piano bar! (ever watch people coming back to the ship in a port with a Carlos n Charlies or Senior Frogs? hee hee :p)

 

Yes! One of the best entertainment shows we had on the Destiny was sitting on our balcony while docked in Aruba, and watching the drunks try to stagger back to the ship from Carlos -N- Charlies before sailing......

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billsrobb

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Sloop John B - strange request on a cruise ship I know.

Who says you can't go home

Leader of the Band

Me and Bobby McGee

 

 

Went on the sloop john B

my grandfather and me

around Nassau town we did roam

drinking all night

got into a fight yeh yeh

well I feel so broke up I want to go home

 

 

One of my all time favorite songs

 

Robb

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billsrobb

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Sloop John B - strange request on a cruise ship I know.

Who says you can't go home

Leader of the Band

Me and Bobby McGee

 

 

Went on the slopp John B

my grandfather and me

around Nasau town we did roam

drinking all night

got into a fight yeah yeah

well I fell so broke up

I want to go home

 

 

One of my all time favorite songs

 

Robb

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billsrobb

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Sloop John B - strange request on a cruise ship I know.

Who says you can't go home

Leader of the Band

Me and Bobby McGee

 

 

Went on the slopp John B

my grandfather and me

around Nasau town we did roam

drinking all night

got into a fight yeah yeah

well I fell so broke up

I want to go home

 

 

One of my all time favorite songs

 

Robb

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billsrobb

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Sloop John B - strange request on a cruise ship I know.

Who says you can't go home

Leader of the Band

Me and Bobby McGee

 

 

Went on the slopp John B

my grandfather and me

around Nasau town we did roam

drinking all night

got into a fight yeah yeah

well I fell so broke up

I want to go home

 

 

One of my all time favorite songs

 

Robb

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