David Perkoff's Little Big Band  

A successful party will be remembered for a long time and music is a key to making your event really shine. Whether you want your guests listening to elegant dinner music, or doing the "alligator" across a parquet dance floor - you can't beat the David Perkoff Little Big Band.

The David Perkoff Little Big Band is one of Texas' great party bands. Whether playing for Fortune 500 companies, conventions or weddings, the band brings professionalism, a rare expertise in many styles of music and BIG FUN to every event.

David's band is a four to seven piece group with horns with the option of adding up to three top female singers, costumed and choreographed. The band plays a full night of rock 'n roll, big band, swing, jazz ,R & B, and C & W. The band fits right in with theme parties. Recently they played world-beat music at a Safari Party, New Orleans Jazz at a Mardi-Gras party and even two-steppin' music for an 1,800 strong, women only, fun convention group who wanted to kick up their heels and "line dance."

In Austin, David's group has backed national acts such as The Fifth Dimension, Roger Williams, The Platters, The Shirelles and The Spinners. Our distinguished client list includes: the Ballet Austin Nutcracker Ball, the University of Texas Chancellor's Office, the Zoo Ball and St. Luke's Hospital Benefit in San Antonio, Hyatt Hotels, Texas Land Title Association, Texas Mental Health Association, Gov. Ann Richard's and George Bush’s Inaugural Balls and hundreds of other clients, who have in common great taste and fun....that's the David Perkoff Little Big Band

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The Little Big Band • Here's the Littlest Big Band

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Little Big Band Song List

Here’s a list of tunes from a pile that reached 6 inches high on Dave’s desk. All of these songs were either selected by clients for their parties or Dave pulled them together thinking they would work well. No mention of whether they were used or not, but they’re ready!

After All (from movie Chances R) All I ask of You Phantom All My Life Bonoff All the Things you Are Les Amants de Paris Edith Piaff And I Love Her Beatles Arthur’s Theme Bacharach Beauty and the Beast Walt Disney Begin the Beguine Cole Porter But Beautiful Cabaret Can’t Help Falling in Love Elvis Celebration Kool Charade Mancini Chariots of Fire Vangelis Charleston Cheek to Cheek Irving Berlin Close to You Carpenters (Bert) Cotton Eyed Joe Clarinet Polka Don’t Know Much Bette Midler Early Autumn Burns Edelweiss Rogers Evergreen Streisand Georgia on My Mind Gettin’ Sentimental Over You-Dorsey Theme Groovin’ High Dizzy Gillespe Have I Told You Lately I Dreamed a Dream Les Miserables Into the Mystic Van Morrisson I’ve Got You Under My Skin Cole Porter I Had the Craziest Dream

Ice Castles Theme Hamlisch I’ve had the Time of My Life Dirty DancingIt Had to Be You Just the Way you Are Billy Joel Killing Me Softly with His Song Lean on Me Withers Let it Be Me Neville Bros. Let’s Face the Music and Dance Irving Berlin Long Ago and Far Away Gershwin and Kern Longer Fogleberg Love is Forever Billy Ocean Luckenbach Texas Waylon Mack the Knife WeillMe and My Girl Memories Andrew Lloyd Webber La Mer Merry Widow Waltz Morning Dance Spyro Gyra My Old Flame Johnson Koslow Night and Day Cole Porter One Chorus line Only You Platters Our Day will Come La Paloma People Funny Girl Return to Sender Elvis San Antonio Rose Bob Wills Silhouette Kenny G Smoke Gets in Your Eyes Softer than a Whisper Somewhere in Time John Barry Songbird Kenny G

South of the Border Kennedy and Carr Spanish Eyes Spanish Harlem String of Pearls Suspicious Minds Elvis Teddy Bear Elvis Tenderly Harry James Thank Heaven for Little Girls That’s What Friends areFor Burt and Carole Three quarter Blues Gershwin Through the Years Kenny Rogers Tico Tico Tie a Yellow Ribbon Till there was You Music Man Treat Me Nice Elvis Twilight Time Platters Unforgettable Nat or Nat Unchained Melody Righteous Bros. La Vie en Rose The Way you Look Tonight Kern The Way we Were Hamlisch Wien du Stadtr Waltz Wonderful World Louis Arnstrong Where’ve You Been Kathy Mattea Wind Beneath My Wings Bette Midler You are So Beautiful Billy Preston You’d be nice to Come Home To Cole Porter You are the Sunshine of My Life Stevie Wonder You Decorated My Life Kenny Rogers Your Song Elton John

the Little Big Band travels in time

 

Here are some Show or Classically oriented tunes they have played at one time or another. And we know all the wedding music from Ave Maria and Canon in D to Handel’s Water Music and the big one, THE BRIDAL MARCH

Think of Me - Angel of Music- Music of the Night, Masquerade all from Phantom Barcarolle - Tales of Hoffman/Offenbach Habanera - Carmen/Bizet One Fine Day - Madam Butterfly/Puccini Home to Our Mountains - Il Trovatore/Verdi The Flower Song - Carmen/Bizet Woman is Fickle - Rigoletto/Verdi Musetta's Song - La Boheme/Puccini Toreador's Song - Carmen/Bizet

The Laughing Song Die Fledermaus/Strauss Waltz - Faust/GounodSend in the Clowns - A Little Night Music/Sondheim. Intermezzo Sinfonico - Cavalleria Rusticana/Mascagni Intermezzo - Carmen/Bizet La Donna e Mobile - Rigoletto/Verdi Don't Cry for me Argentina – Evita Memory - Cats/Andrew Lloyd Webber I Don't Know How to Love Him, Jesus Super/Andrew

By the way, in one week, the band learned ‘Friends in Low Places’ by Garth Brooks, ‘Freebird’ by Leonard Skynard and’ Michelle’ by the Beatles. This week its two R and B tunes by Robert Cray, Time and Tide by Basia, and a Jerome Kern song.

Standards

Do Nothin’ till you hear from Me Don’t get around Much Anymore Do you know what it Means o Miss New Orleans Fly me to the Moon Edelweiss Foggy Day Fools Rush In For Once in my Life Addios Muchachos All of Me All the Things you are As time goes by Bei Mer Bist Du Schon Basin St. Blues Bernies Tune Bill Bailey Blackbird Blue Skies Bob Wills Medley Caldonia Compadre San Juan Crazy

Chahootie Brazil Days of Wine and Roses Desafinado Do Nothin’ till you hear from Me Don’t get around Much Anymore Do you know what it Means o Miss New Orleans Fly me to the Moon Edelweiss Foggy Day Fools Rush In For Once in my Life For the Good Times Hello Dolly Hey BabaRebop How high the moonFor the Good Times Hello Dolly Hey BabaRebop How high the moon If Dreams come true In the Mood

Italian Dance Music Is you Is It Don’t Mean a thingIs you Is It Don’t Mean a thing Jersey Bounce Jugo De Pina Just the Way you are Kansas City Moonlight in Vermont Killer Joe Lambotomy Lady be Good Lady is a Tramp Let the Good Times Roll Make the World Go Away Midnight in Moscow Misty Moon River My Funny valentine New York, New York Night Train On Green Dolphin street Opus One Pennies from Heaven Perdido

Shadow of Your Smile The Preacher Satan takes a Holiday San Francisco Satin DollSatan takes a Holiday San Francisco Satin DollSentimental Journey Slow Hot Wind Somethimes I'm Happy Stompin’ at the Savoy String of Pearls Struttin’ with some Barbecue Switchin in the Kitchen Take the A Train Tenderly Tennessee Waltz Time after Time There will never be another ewe Things ain’t what they used to be Till there was you Tuxedo Junction Who Can I Turn To Woodside Yardbird suite Your Nobody til Somebody Love You

John’s list and these are just a few, he even knows ‘By the Time I get to Phoenix’

99 1/2 Addicted To Love Bad Moon Risin Black is Black Black Magic Woman Boney Maroney Boogooloo Down Broadway Brown Eyed Girl Cocaine Crossroads Do It Anyway you Want Down On the Corner Down the Mississippi to NewOrleans Eleanor Rigby Evil Ways Faith Feelin Allright Get Back Day Tripper Get Ready

Give Me Some Lovin' Goin' Down Grapevine Green River Hand Jive Have You Ever Had the Blues Hold On I'm Comin' Honky Tonk WomenHound Dog House Of Rising Sun I Feel Good I Shot the Sheriff I'll Go Crazy Johnny Be Goode Joy to the World Kansas City Knock on Wood La Bamba Land of 1000 Dances Linda Lou Lord, Lordy Mis Clawdy

Louie, Louie Love Potion #9 Love the One you're With Lucille Midnite Hour Momma Told Me Not to Come Mustang Sally Obla Di, Obla Da Poppa's Got a Brand New Bag Pretty Woman Pretty Woman Proud Mary Red and Ramblin’ RoseRespect Runaway Satisfaction Single Bed(Marley Six Days on the Road Slow Down Smokin' Gun Spinnin Wheel

Start Me Up Sticks and Stones Suzy Q Sweet Home Alabama Teddy Bear The Dog The Letter The Way you Do Tighten' UP Time Won't Let Me Treat Her Right Treat Her Right Treat Me Nice Twist Walking the Dog Wooly Booly You Can't do That Your Momma Don't Dance

Some Ballads

All Alone am I All My Lovin' Blue Moon Bridge Over Troubled Water Bring It on Home Can't Help Fallin in Love Cherry Pie Color my World Dock of the Bay Dream Dream Dream Ferry Cross the Mercy Fever Forever My Darling Georgia Hard Days Nite He Don't love You Hey Joe Hey Jude

House of the Rising Sun How Sweet it Is I'll Still be Lovin' You Imagine Let It be Me Let it be Light My Fire Love is Forever Love Letters Lucky ole Sun My Girl Only You Raindrops Keep Fallin on my Head Scotch and Soda Since I Fell For You Sixteen candles So Far Away

Something St. James Infirmary Stand by Me Tell it Like it is There is Love There is Something on your Mind To Love Somebody Try me We belong Together When A Man Loves a Woman When I need You When Something's Wrong with my Baby Whiter Shade of Pale Will You still Love Me Tomorrow Yesterday You Are So Beautiful You Send Me

Country

Amarillo by Morning Blue Eyes Cryin' in the Rain Cheatin' Heart Coca Cola Cowboy Could I have this Dance Crying Time Danny's Song Everything's A Waltz Fool #1 For the Good Times Four and Twenty Four Walls/He'll have to go Fraulein

Friends In Low Places Gardinia WaltzGreen Grass of Home Hell Bound, Whiskey Bent HelpMe Make it Through the Night I Can't Stop Loving You I'm Leavin' it up to You Jack Daniels--If you Please Jaded Lover Jambalaya Love in the First Degree Love's Gonna Live Here Luchenback

Making Believe Margaritaville. Mathilda Never Ending Love Oh Lonesome Me Okie From Muskogee Old Flame Phoenix Release Me Rose Colored Glasses San Antonio Rose Silverlake Blues

Silver Wings Take These Chains The Dance Together Again Wasted Days Welcome to My World Welcome to My World Wichita Lineman Women I Never Had You Don't Know Me You Pickd a Fine Time to Leave me Lucille You Win Again

Current songs

Addicted to Love Apple Peaches Pie rap Back in the High Life Bonnie Rait tune Faith

Hanky Panky Hey Bartender Hip to be Square Love is Mony Mony

Something is wrong with my baby Song bird Pink Caddy Pretty Woman

Start me up Wailers Proud Mary Shaker Song

Dixie songs:

Alexander’s Ragtime band Appletree Armed Forces Songs Basin St. Blues Bill Bailey Byrnes Hornpipe Charlston Darktown Strutters Ball Do You know what it means Down by the Riverside Give My Regards to Broadway

Go tell it on the Mountain’ Hello Dolly Hey look me over I’ve found a new baby Indiana Java Jazz Band Ball Jazz Me Blues Johnny Come’s marching home Joshua fit the battle of Jerico Limehouse Blues

LochLomand Mame Midnight in Moscow Muscratt Ramble Over there Petite Fleur Red River Valley Royal Garden Blues St. James Infirmary St. Louis Blues Struttn’ for some Bar B Que

Swanee Sweet Georgia Brown Swingin Shepard Blues That’s a plenty The Entertainer Tin Roof Blues Wabash Cannonball Watermelon Man What a Wonderful World When the saints Yellow Rose of Tx.

First Dance Suggestions

It had to be you Unforgettable Satin Doll Tenderly How sweet it is to be loved by you Misty Somewhere Over the Rainbow Makin Whoopie I will always love you - Whitney You Are So Beautiful Cocker Our Love Is Here To Stay Till There Was You When I Fall In Love As Time Goes By There Is No Greater Love

You Are The Sunshine Of My Life I Don’t Know Much Neville/Ronstadt You Decorate My Life Sunrise Sunset Wind Beneath My Wings Up Where We Belong Cocker Anniversary Waltz La Bamba Hawaiian Wedding Song Love Is Forever Billy Ocean Let It Be Me Everly Brothers The First Time Ever I Say Your Face You Light Up My Live You Made Me Love You Hello Ritchie

Truely You Mean More To Me Peaceful Easy Feeling Eagles Somewhere In Time John Barry Somewhere My Love Dr. Zhivago Could I Have This Dance Anne Murray Amarillo By Morning Strait The Dance Brooks What Are You Doing For The Rest Of Your Life Evergreen Streisand The Vow Go Unbrokemn Rogers My Funny Valentine Goin Out Of My Head

 

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