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Baby, Baby - Amy Grant

I'll bet his wife is cross that he is a cross dresser.

One good Monk deserves another. We used to play this a lot when I was in a Sunday Afternoon Jazz Band in Vero Beach FL.

Well You Needn't - Thelonious Monk

No Woman, No Cry - Bob Marley & The Wailers

Who Let The Dogs Out - Baha Men

Anything by Kanye West

(of course Rap isn't technically music, as music needs rhythm, harmony and melody)

Desperado - Antonio Banderas - Cancion del Mariachi

Straight, No Chaser - Thelonious Monk

I like the way Monk plays with dissonances.

Dancing In The Dark - Bruce Springsteen

Or if you prefer, same title, different song by Fred Astaire

We do the Springsteen song, and I enjoy singing it. I've never played the Astaire song but it sounds like it could be fun as well.

Achy Breaky Heart - Billy Ray Cyrus

Pérez Prado: Mambo Potpourri / Radio Radio • Antonio Delgado • New Brunswick Youth Orchestra

My "Song Assassination Game" submission showed this in the sidebar, and I'm enjoying it.

Mambo No. 5 - Lou Bega

(I can't argue with success, but I hate what he did to the Perez Prado song, it's not even a Mambo anymore)

As an antidote:

We used to play the Perez version when we were hired by the Arthur Murray franchise to play for member dances. We tried to avoid the Lou Bega version, but we're good hos and we played it when requested.

Mustang Sally - Sir Mack Rice (the original)

Mustang Sally - The Young Rascals (my favorite version)

It just needs a sax solo (I volunteer)

Macarena - Los Del Rio

When Doves Cry - Prince

Live Wire - Motley Crue

Surfin' Bird - The Trashmen

Wolverton Mountain - Claude King

Early on in our duo, we had a few requests for this one. We never learned it.

I suppose it's a good song for those who like that kind of music, but it doesn't suit my tastes at all, nor do I think it would work for the majority of our typical audience. If it did, I'd learn it anyway.

Love Is The Drug - Roxy Music

All this reminds me.

I miss the days when we had full-service mom & pop music stores in any mid-sized town and up.

I remember going to Ace Music in Miami and trying out 3 Selmer Mark VI saxophones in a 'practice room' with a strobe tuner and picking the one that had the best intonation.

I remember local music stores with Gibson, Epiphone, Fender, Gretsch, and other major brands hanging on the wall.

Unfortunately, those days are gone. The last two saxophones and the last two guitars I bought, I didn't get to try out first. Plus, I had to wait for delivery.

Some things are definitely better than they used to be, others are not.

Insights, incites and a minor rant by Notes

PS I hope your bass arrives in perfect shape and in the end you decide it was worth the wait.