My repertoire includes the following songs. Highlighted titles are links to demo tracks (but please note some of these are a few years old and none are professional tracks):
- Alfie (Cilla Black)
- All I Ask Of You (Duet from Phantom of the Opera)
- Amoureuse (Kiki Dee)
- A New England (Kirsty MacColl)
- A Thousand Years (Christina Perri)
- At Last (Etta James)
- Australia (Manic Street Preachers)
- Babooshka (Kate Bush)
- Big Yellow Taxi (Joni Mitchell)
- Brookside (Original – Liquorice Lounge)
- Bus Stop (The Hollies)
- Can’t Help Falling in Love (Elvia Presley)
- Constant Craving (k.d.lang)
- Crazy For You (Madonna)
- Dancing in the Street (Martha Reeves and the Vandellas)
- Days (Kirsty MacColl)
- Dear John (Kirsty MacColl)
- Do You Know The Way To San José (Dionne Warwick)
- Don’t Come The Cowboy With Me, Sonny Jim! (Kirsty MacColl)
- Dream a Little Dream of Me (Mama Cass)
- Evergreeen (Yebba)
- Eternal Flame (The Bangles)
- Fantastic Place (Original – Liquorice Lounge)
- The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (Roberta Flack)
- Get the Party Started (P!nk)
- Go Your Own Way (Fleetwood Mac)
- Fly Me To The Moon (Julie London)
- Going Down to Liverpool (Katrina & The Waves)
- Happy Together (The Turtles)
- Hold Back the River (James Bay)
- How (Regina Spektor)
- How Long Will I Love You (Ellie Goulding)
- I Can’t Make You Love Me (Bonnie Raitt)
- I Don’t Know How to Love Him (from Jesus Christ Superstar)
- I Don’t Wanna Talk About It (Everything But The Girl)
- I Dreamed a Dream (from Les Miserables)
- I Heard It Through The Grapevine (Marvin Gaye)
- I Love It When You Call (The Feeling)
- If (When You Go) (Julie Tzuke)
- It Must Be Love (Labi Siffre)
- It’s Too Late (Carole King)
- Jesus Was A Crossmaker (Judee Sill)
- Johnny B. Goode (Chuck Berry)
- Jolene (Dolly Parton)
- Just Be (Paloma Faith) – great alternative First Dance song!
- Killing Me Softly (Roberta Flack)
- Kiss Me (Sixpence None The Richer)
- Lean on Me (Bill Withers)
- Lilac Wine (Jeff Buckley)
- Love of my Life (Queen)
- Love Will Tear Us Apart (June Tabor & Oysterband)
- Make You Feel my Love (Adele)
- Martha’s Harbour (All About Eve)
- Message in a Bottle (The Police)
- Moon River (Audrey Hepburn)
- More Than a Feeling (Boston)
- My Girl (The Temptations)
- Nights in White Satin (Moody Blues)
- No One is to Blame (Howard Jones)
- Norwegian Wood (The Beatles)
- On Green Dolphin Street (Ella Fitzgerald/Sarah Vaughan)
- On My Own (from Les Miserables)
- Panis Angelico’s (César Franck)
- Patience of Angels (Eddi Reader)
- Perfect (Fairground Attraction)
- Perfect Day (Kirsty MacColl & Evan Dando)
- Please Help Me, I’m Falling (Kirsty MacColl)
- Promise Me (Beverley Craven)
- Puppet on a String (Sandie Shaw)
- Rainy Days And Mondays (The Carpenters)
- Real Love (The Beatles, covered by Tom Odell for John Lewis Xmas Ad)
- Rescue Me (Fontella Bass)
- Respect (Aretha Franklin)
- Ring of Fire (Johnny Cash)
- River (Joni Mitchell)
- Rolling in the Deep (Adele)
- Running Up That Hill (Kate Bush)
- Shallow (Bradley Cooper & Lady Gaga – from ‘A Star is Born’)
- Skinny Love (Birdy)
- Solitaire (The Carpenters)
- Son of a Preacher Man (Dusty Springfield)
- Songbird (Fleetwood Mac)
- Spooky (Dusty Springfield)
- Stairway to Heaven (Led Zeppelin)
- Stand By Me (John Lennon/others)
- Still Got The Blues (Gary Moore)
- Still Life (Kirsty MacColl)
- Sunny (Bobby Hebb)
- Sunny Afternoon (The Kinks)
- Take my Breath Away (Berlin)
- Terry (Kirsty MacColl)
- That Man (Caro Emerald)
- The Boat That I Row (Lulu)
- The Girl From Ipanema (Astrud Gilberto)
- The Look of Love (mashup – Dusty Springfield/ABC)
- This Masquerade (The Carpenters)
- Those Were The Days (Mary Hopkin)
- Time To Say Goodbye (Sarah Brightman)
- Valerie (The Zutons/Amy Winehouse)
- Walk On By (Dionne Warwick)
- Walkin’ Back to Happiness (Helen Shapiro)
- Weather With You (Crowded House)
- Wild World (Cat Stevens)
- Wuthering Heights (Kate Bush)
- You Kiss Me (Original – Liquorice Lounge)
- You’re So Vain (Carly Simon)
I know too many other songs to list them all here!
Christmas Songs
I performed at Paddock Wood WI’s Christmas meeting in 2016. The playlist was:
- When a Child is Born
- Little Donkey
- Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
- The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)
- Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!
- Merry Christmas Everybody
Other favourites are:
- A Winter’s Tale (David Essex)
- Fairytale Of New York (The Pogues & Kirsty MacColl)
Soundcloud
Please follow these links to my Soundcloud page:
How Long Will I Love You This is a cover of the Ellie Goulding song (which in itself was a Waterboys cover.) Lovely song which I played at my wedding – it’s “Our Tune!”
Songbird I love this song. Originally written and performed by Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac, I personally discovered it when my daughter performed it for her end-of-primary-school music production. I loved it so much I chose to learn it myself. I played it at my wedding but its lyrics make it equally suitable to be sung at a funeral.
Lilac Wine I recorded this, live in a practice room at college, as part of my music course assessment. Please forgive the quality of the recording. It is a Jeff Buckley cover, which I feel would be particularly suitable for a funeral service.
We Are The People is a cover of the Empire of the Sun song. I was asked to provide vocals for a K College Music Technology students’ project and this was the result!