The Backtalk Band Song List (by decade)

Dance tunes:

50's:
Rock Around the Clock - Bill Haley & The Comets
Shake Rattle & Roll - Bill Haley & The Comets
Come Go With Me - The Del-Vikings
That’ll Be the Day - Buddy Holly
All Shook Up - Elvis Presley
That’s Allright Mama - Elvis Presley
Memphis Tennessee - Chuck Berry
La Bamba - Ritchie Valens
Louie Louie - The Kingsmen
Johnny B. Goode - Chuck Berry
Great Balls Of Fire - Jerry Lee Lewis

60's:
My Girl - The Temptations
I’m a Believer - The Monkees
Under the Boardwalk - The Drifters
Mustang Sally - Wilson Pickett
Surfin’ USA - The Beach Boys
Can't Take My Eyes Off of You - Frankie Valli
Twist & Shout - The Beatles
Can’t Buy Me Love - The Beatles
Roll Over Beethoven - The Beatles
Day Tripper- The Beatles
Back in the USSR- The Beatles
All My Loving - The Beatles
Rock n’ Roll Music - The Beatles
Eight Days a Week - The Beatles
I Saw Her Standing There - The Beatles
In the Midnight Hour - Wilson Pickett
Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison
How Sweet it Is - Marvin Gaye
You Can’t Hurry Love - The Supremes
Good Lovin’ - Young Rascals
Do Wah Ditty - Manfred Mann
Can’t Help Myself - The Four Tops
Runaround Sue - Dion
The Wanderer - Dion
Born to Be Wild - Steppenwolf
The Last Time - Rolling Stones
Devil with the Blue Dress On - Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels
I Heard it Thru The Grapevine - Marvin Gaye
I Can't Get No Satisfaction - Rolling Stones
I Can’t Explain - The Who
Soul Man - The Blues Brothers
Both Sides Now - Joni Mitchell
Mony Mony - Tommy James & The Shondells
Oh, Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison
Happy Together - The Turtles
You Can't Hurry Love - Diana Ross & The Supremes
Stand By Me - Ben E. King

70's:
Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry
Old Time Rock n’ Roll - Bob Seeger
Your Mama Don’t Dance - Loggins & Messina
I Can See Clearly Now - Johnny Nash

80's:
You Can Call Me Al - Pauyl Simon
Rock this Town - The Stray Cats
What I Like About You - The Romantics
Jenny’s Song (867-5309) - Tommy Tutone
Whip It - DEVO
The One I Love - R.E.M.
All I Want is You - U2
Runnin' Down a Dream - Tom Petty
Depending on You - Tom Petty

90's:
When You Say Nothing at All- Ronan Keating

2000's:
Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol

Ballads:

What a Wonderful World - Louie Armstrong
Wonderful Tonight - Eric Clapton
As Time Goes By  - Casablanca movie song
All I Have to Do is Dream - Everly Brothers
Can’t Help Falling in Love - Elvis Presley
In My Life - The Beatles
Georgia - Ray Charles
Since I Fell For You
Blue Moon - Frank Sinatra
God Bless the Child - Billie Holiday
Have I Told You Lately - Van Morrison
Our Love is Here to Stay - Nat King Cole
The Way You Look Tonight - Nat King Cole
Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding
It Had to Be You - Louis Armstrong
La Vie En Rose - Louie Armstrong
Love Me Tender - Elvis Presley
Edelweiss - waltz from "The Sound of Music"
That's Amore - Dean Martin
Hey Jude - The Beatles
If I Fell - The Beatles
Into the Mystic - Van Morrison
Get Together (C'mon People Now) - The Youngbloods
Mellow Yellow - Donovan

Ain’t Misbehavin’ - Ella Fitzgerald
All of Me - Billie Holiday
Cheek to Cheek - Fred Astaire
Satin Doll - Duke Ellington
Don’t Get Around Much Any More -  Duke Ellington
Honeysuckle Rose - Fats Waller
Blue Skies - Irving Berlin
Summertime - George Gershwin
L-O-V-E - Nat King Cole
Autumn Leaves - Johnny Mercer
Beyond the Sea - Bobby Darin
Just the Way You Look Tonight - Tony Bennett
Night & Day - Cole Porter
Girl From Ipanema - Antonio Carlos Jobim
On the Sunny Side of the Street - Count Basie
Moondance - Van Morrison
Opus One - Tommy Dorsey
Misty - Ella Fitzgerald
My Funny Valentine - Bing Crosby
Besame Mucho - Consuelo Velázquez
Stompin at the Savoy - Frankie Manning
All Blues - Miles Davis
My Romance - Rodgers & Hart
Cruella DeVille - Disney soundtrack
Lullaby of Birdland - Charlie Parker
Moonlight in Vermont - Ella Fitzgerald
In the Mood - Glenn Miller
Take the “A” Train - Duke Ellington
All the Things You Are - Jerome Kern
Fever - Peggy Lee
For Sentimental Reasons - Nat King Cole
Makin' Whoopee - Ella Fitzgerald
My One & Only - George Gershwin
Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps - Doris Day

and many more !!

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Last Updated on 8/14/08
By Jim Lawrence