The Songs
The Alessi Band offers a wide range of musical material, and will craft an evening to the interests and response of the guests. The band covers but is by no means limited to three broad areas: jazz standards, classic party and dance, and R&B/blues/funk. The list below is just a sampling of the tunes we do.
Classic Party & Dance
634-5789 (Wilson Pickett)
After Midnight (Eric Clapton)
Ain’t Too Proud to Beg (Temptations)
All Over Now (Rolling Stones)
All That Heaven will Allow (Springsteen)
Amie (Pure Prairie League)
And It Stoned Me (Van Morrison)
Be My Baby (The Ronettes)
Black Horse and A Cherry Tree (KT Tunstall)
Blue Light Boogie (Louise Jordan)
Blue Suede Shoes (Elvis Presley)
Brick House (Commodores)
Brown Eyed Girl (Van Morrison)
Buona Sera Signorina......Louis Prima
C'est La Vie (Chuck Berry/Blues Bros.)
Crazy Love (Van Morrison)
Crocodile Rock (Elton John)
Cruisin (Smokey Robinson)
Dancin In the Streets (Martha and the Vandellas)
Day Tripper (Beatles)
Dixie Chicken (Little Feat)
Do I Do (Stevie Wonder)
Domino (Van Morrison)
Don’t Be Cruel ( Elvis Presley)
Every Day (Buddy Holly)
Every Day is a Winding Road
Every Mornin (Keb Mo)
Feelin' Allright (Joe Cocker)
Fields of Gold (Sting)
Fire on the Mountain (Grateful Dead)
Forever (Ben Harper)
Friend of the Devil (Grateful Dead)
Get Down Tonight (KC and the Sunshine Band)
Get This Party Started (Pink)
Gimme Some Lovin (Stevie Winwood)
Good Lovin (Rascals)
Grapevine (Marvin Gaye)
Great Balls of Fire (Jerry Lee Lewis)
Hallelujah (Ray Charles)
Handy Man (James Taylor)
Harvest Moon (Neil Young)
Heat Wave (Martha and the Vandellas)
Heavy Clouds, No Rain (Sting)
Hey Hey Baby
Hit Me With Your Best Shot (Pat Benatar)
Hold On (I’m Comin) Sam and Dave
Honky Tonk Women (Rolling Stones)
How Far Is Heaven (Los Lonely Boys)
How Sweeti It Is (James Taylor)
I Feel Good (James Brown)
I Feel The Earth Move (Carole King)
I Wish (Stevie Wonder)
In the Midnight Hour (Wilson Pickett)
In the Still of the Night (5 Satins)
Is This Love (Bob Marley)
It’s Your Thing (Isley Bros.)
Jailhouse Rock (Elvis Presley)
Jump Jive and Wail (Brian Setzer/Louis Prima)
Late in the Evening (Paul Simon)
Lay Down Sally (Eric Clapton)
Let Me Love Ya Baby (Stevie Ray Vaughn)
Let’s Get It On (Marvin Gaye)
Let’s Stay Together (Al Green)
Little Sister (Elvis Presley)
Lola ( Kinks)
Long Tall Sally (Little Richard)
Me and Julio (Paul Simon)
Mercy Mercy Mercy (Buckinghams)
Miss You (Rolling Stones)
Moondance (Van Morrison)
Mustang Sally (Wilson Pickett)
My Girl (Temptations)
New Orleans (Blues Bros.)
One Way or Another (Blondie)
Peggy Sue (Buddy Holly)
Pick Up the Pieces (Average White Band)
Play That Funky Music White Boy
Pretty Woman (Roy Orbison)
Pride and Joy (Stevie Ray Vaughn)
Rhiannon (Fleetwood Mac)
Right Place Wrong Time (Dr. John)
Rock This Town (Brian Setzer)
Roll Over Beethoven (Chuck Berry)
Roll With It (Stevie Winwood)
Runaround (Blues Traveler)
Runaround Sue (Dion and the Belmonts)
Satisfaction (Rolling Stones)
Sea of Love (Phil Philips)
Second That Emotion (Smokey Robinson)
She’s No Lady, She’s My Wife (Lyle Lovett)
Shout (Isley Bros)
Signed Sealed Delivered (Stevie Wonder)
Sneakin Sally Down the Alley (Robert Palmer)
Some Kind of Wonderful
Something to Talk About (Bonnie Raitt)
Soul Man (Sam & Dave/Blues Bros)
Stand By Me (Ben E. King)
Steal My Kisses (Ben Harper)
Steamroller (James Taylor)
Stir It Up (Bob Marley)
Stray Cat Strut (Stray Cats)
Sugar Pie Honey Bunch (Four Tops)
Superstition (Stevie Wonder)
Sweet Caroline (Neil Diamond---at the right time, it’s a lot of fun)
Sweet Home Chicago (and lots of other upbeat blues dance tunes)
Take Me To the River (Talking Heads)
Tequila
That’s the Way I Like It (KC and the Sunshine Band)
That's Amore...................Dean Martin
The Letter (Joe Cocker)
The Wanderer (Dion and the Belmonts)
These Arms of Mine (Otis Redding)
Three Little Birds (Bob Marley)
Tide Is High (Blondie)
Tougher than the Rest (Springsteen)
Treat Her Right (The Commitments)
True Companion (Marc Cohn)
Try a Little Tenderness (Otis Redding)
Tupelo Honey (Van Morrison) [and a bunch more from Van]
Twist and Shout (Isley Bros./Beatles--we do it latino style!)
Unchain My Heart (Joe Cocker)
Unchained Melody (Righteous Brothers)
Uncle John’s Band (Grateful Dead)
Underneath It All (No Doubt)
Volcano (Jimmy Buffett but our own version)
Walk and Don’t Look Back (Peter Tosh)
Walk on the Wild Side (Lou Reed)
What I Like About You (Romantics)
What Would You Say (Dave Matthews)
When a Man Love’s a Woman (Percy Sledge)
When Something’s Wrong With My Baby (Sam and Dave)
Wild Horses (Rolling Stones)
Wild Nights (Van Morrison)
Will It Go Round in Circles (Billy Preston)
Wonderful Tonight (Eric Clapton)
Wooly Bully (Sam the Sham)
Yellow Moon (Neville Bros.)
You and Me and the Bottle Make Three (Big Voodoo Daddies)
You Can Leave Your Hat On (Tom Jones)
You Really Got a Hold On Me (Smokey Robinson)
You Send Me (Sam Cooke)
You're Still the One (Shania Twain)
Jazz Standards
The Way You Look Tonight
I'm Old Fashioned
Summer Wind
The Very Thought of You
I've Got You Under My Skin
It Had to Be You
The More I See You
Since I Fell For You
What a Wonderful World
I See Your Face Before Me
What a Difference a Day Makes
Autumn Leaves
Time After Time
When Your Lover Has Gone
I Thought About You
As Time Goes By
Nightingale Sang in Berkely Sq.
Witchcraft
Don't Get Around Much Any More
Satin Doll
Just In Time
I Can't Give You Anything But Love
My One and Only Love
The Glory of Love
Love Is Here to Stay
All of Me
Moonlight in Vermont
Unforgettable
Fly Me to the Moon
I Could Write a Book
More
Walkin My Baby Back Home
Makin Whoopee
When I Fall In Love
They Can’t Take That Away From Me
There Will Never Be Another You
Girl from Ipanema
I Should Care
and many dozens more of Frank Sinatra, Louie Prima, Bobby Darin, Nat King Cole, Louis Armstrong, Louie Jordan and Tony Bennett hits, as well as an almost unlimited list of jazz instrumentals (Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, etc.)
Miscellaneous
Wonderful Tonight (Eric Clapton)
Moondance (Van Morrison)
And It Stoned Me (Van Morrison)
Crazy Love (Van Morrison)
Tupelo Honey (Van Morrison) [and a bunch more from Van]
Friend of the Devil (Grateful Dead)
Uncle John’s Band (Grateful Dead)
After Midnight (Eric Clapton)
Lola ( Kinks)
Tougher than the Rest (Springsteen)
All That Heaven will Allow (Springsteen)
Amie (Pure Prairie League)
Me and Julio (Paul Simon)
Crocodile Rock (Elton John)
Lay Down Sally (Eric Clapton)
Stray Cat Strut (Stray Cats)
Walk on the Wild Side (Lou Reed)
Handy Man (James Taylor)
Steamroller (James Taylor)
Harvest Moon (Neil Young)
Heavy Clouds, No Rain (Sting)
Fields of Gold (Sting)
Runaround Sue (Dion and the Belmonts)
The Wanderer (Dion and the Belmonts)
Good Lovin (Rascals)
All Over Now (Rolling Stones)
Wooly Bully (Sam the Sham)
Tequila
Unchained Melod (Righteous Brothers)
Wild Horses (Rolling Stones)
Stand By Me (Ben E. King)
Sea of Love (Phil Philips)
Don’t Be Cruel ( Elvis Presley)
Jailhouse Rock (Elvis Presley)
Blue Suede Shoes (Elvis Presley)
Little Sister (Elvis Presley)
In the Still of the Night (5 Satins)
Peggy Sue (Buddy Holly)
Every Day (Buddy Holly)
You Send Me (Sam Cooke)
Long Tall Sally (Little Richard)
She’s No Lady, She’s My Wife (Lyle Lovett)
Sweet Caroline (Neil Diamond---at the right time, it’s a lot of fun)
Just For Weddings
By request and special arrangement, the Band has performed hundreds of different and difficult to categorize songs, including:
That's Amore...................Dean Martin
Buona Sera Signorina......Louis Prima
True Companion ..........Marc Cohn
Here and Now.........Luther van Dross
Because of You..........Celine Dion
Jewish wedding songs
Boston College fight song (it was a BC wedding!)
Daddy's Little Girl
Country tunes
etc. etc.--in other words, material we don't do but add especially for the occasion.
And we're always willing to learn some new tunes!