This week we have a Free 'n' Easy / Open Mic
Anything goes - get up and do a spot
names so far for 1st half
Dora When Will the Good Apples Fall / Dreamer (Ozzy Os)
Tony B Chas and Dave / Old Time Medley
Kelvin 2 surprises
Geoff surprise
Laura 2 surprises
2nd half
Some we didn't do or need to play again from last week
Skiffle Medley No 1
Super Trouper
I Have a Dream
Beach Boys to try as requested for upcoming gig
Sloop John B
Roy Orbison to try as requested for upcoming gig
Peaceful easy Feelin'
Midnight Special
(I'll) Tell Me Ma
Fladbury
at: - Function Room - Cubbington Club
Playlist this week practicing for Thurlaston and Fladbury
Set 1
Set 2
Reserves
And a few other songs we will intersperse :
Only 3 chords but practice the quick
changes while playing along with
the YouTube video else you will be lost
Tony on bass this week
31st May 23
This week we have 2 New or new versions which we shall do first
Below is a too-long list of songs I would like to try for upcoming gigs
We may only play parts of some songs to sort wrinkles out or to see if we can do them really well. Starts and ends etc.
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Reserves / next week
Lord Its Hard To be Humble
Rock Around the Clock V3
Great Balls of Fire (Jerry Lee)
Brown Eyed Girl V3
Blue Bayou F V4
Oh What a Beauty
Everything Stops For Tea
Trail of the Lonesome Pine
Dance the Night Away V4
Crocodile Rock
I Recall a Gypsy Woman
King of the Road
Under the Boardwalk
Everything Stops For Tea
Sat 10th June gig Free Church Christian Aid
Reserves
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Reserves / next week
Lord Its Hard To be Humble
Rock Around the Clock V3
Great Balls of Fire (Jerry Lee)
Brown Eyed Girl V3
Blue Bayou F V4
Oh What a Beauty
Everything Stops For Tea
Trail of the Lonesome Pine
Dance the Night Away V4
Crocodile Rock
I Recall a Gypsy Woman
King of the Road
Under the Boardwalk
Everything Stops For Tea
Wed 5th July 7.30 for 7.45pm
at: - Function Room - Cubbington Club
Reserves
And a few other songs we will intersperse :
Only 3 chords but practice the quick
changes while playing along with
the YouTube video else you will be lost
Tony on bass this week
WED 26/07/2023
This week we are having an OPEN MIC most of the night.
Send in your names asap
We shall allow a short time at the start to look at songs for the upcoming
Bowling Green gig on Saturday which we kow well.
The only difference between this and the previous songbook is a different selection of songs shown (as yellow highlights on index page) to reflect the mix of players that we have in the gig
Open Mic
Dora Ruby Tuesday
Ian TBA
TBA
TBA
Eric TBA
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May be time at the end for one or 2 songs that have been played in the past but need another go
Wednesday 27th Sept
PLAYLIST
Theme for this week - songs with city / town in title
Reserves
Spare
Forever and Ever Amen
Gentle on My Mind
Streets of London
Those were the days
Sunny Afternoon
Dedicated Follower of Fashion
Simply the Best New V4
Me and Julio Down By the School Yard
Wild Rover
Build Me Up Buttercup
Wednesday 15th Nov 23
Dominique (Debbie Reynolds) - Something completely different featuring harmonica NEW
Reserve
Wednesday 8th November:
Playlist - Songs with animals / birds theme or in title
Reserves
We are having an an open mic session most of the night from 7.45pm (ish)
(Slight change to format as suggested last week)
In the break we are having complementary pizzas ( yum yum ! ).
Please send in your name asap, but not at last minute !!
You don't have to name your song. If its one from our repertoire then just send the title.
If its a new arrangement and you want people to play along then send that in ( PDF format if possible.)
If is a medley, shorten it so that it's a reasonable length !
This is our 12th Year, and we can't let the night go without a tribute to Kenn Dalley and Richard Turner, 2 Strummers who were a great infuence and who made a tremendous contribution to our group.
So, to start the night we will play I'll Be Your Baby Tonight for Kenn and we'll finish with Galway Girl for Richard.
Players
Laura -
Michelle +Karen/Kelvin/Keith/Dorothy/Tony
[ Michelle + Phil/Di/Jan
Amanda
Jan and Di
Dave
Pam
Tony Cart
Ukulele Blister (no arr't)
Ian / Tony C
Chris T
My Brother Sylveste (no arr't)
Cheryl - TBA
Karen
Geoff- TBA
Kelvin
Keith - TBA
Dora - TBA
Nigel
ATale of a Dog (no arr't)
Barbara & Sue
reserves
Reserves / future
Wednesday 22nd Nov 23
Theme this week - transport songs
donkey, roller skates, trains, boats, planes, feet......
Reserves / alternatives
Wed 10th April 2024 country
at Cubbington Sports and Social Club
Function room 7.30 for 7.45pm
This week we wll have a Country and Western theme
wear a hat or something western
playlist
Reserves
10th Jan 2024
3 Songs that Burt loved
Reserves / Next week
That'll Be the Day (Buddy Holly) -WIP
American pie - shortened version WIP
Playlist 31st Jan 24
irst 6 songs in memory of Burt, and were played at his wake last Friday)
Reserves
21st Feb 24
One theme for this week - TRAINS (as requested)
(Plenty of harmonica and whistles)
Other theme for this week - the WEATHER
Others / Reserves
One Day Like This (Elbow) Bass Part
Wed April 10th 24
A few songs this week that Tony Bath liked and played. It'll be nice to do them and we'll play some at his wake, as requested by his family. He was a big Joe Brown fan and liked fun songs.
Reserves for wake - we may not need to practice these 2
Others
(a song that I got wrong last week)
And to finish off
While looking through Strummers pics and vids for Tony's family, I came across a video of us playing at Hearsall Golf Club some years ago. It was a really enjoyable gig, mainly acoustic. I have put some of these good ole' singalongs in that we played.
Wednesday 17th April theme days
Wed April 24th old stuff
I have mixed in a few singalong songs from one of our early sets at Hearsall Golf Club.
Reserves
Wednesday 1st May 24
Dominique (Debbie Reynolds) - Something completely different featuring harmonica
Reserves
Green Green Grass of Home (Tom Jones)
Annie's Song (John Denver)
It Ain't Me Babe
Wednesday 8th November:
Playlist - Songs with animals / birds theme or in title
Reserves
We are having an an open mic session most of the night from 7.45pm (ish)
(Slight change to format as suggested last week)
In the break we are having complementary pizzas ( yum yum ! ).
Please send in your name asap, but not at last minute !!
You don't have to name your song. If its one from our repertoire then just send the title.
If its a new arrangement and you want people to play along then send that in ( PDF format if possible.)
If is a medley, shorten it so that it's a reasonable length !
This is our 12th Year, and we can't let the night go without a tribute to Kenn Dalley and Richard Turner, 2 Strummers who were a great infuence and who made a tremendous contribution to our group.
So, to start the night we will play I'll Be Your Baby Tonight for Kenn and we'll finish with Galway Girl for Richard.
Players
Laura -
Michelle +Karen/Kelvin/Keith/Dorothy/Tony
[ Michelle + Phil/Di/Jan
Amanda
Jan and Di
Dave
Pam
Tony Cart
Ukulele Blister (no arr't)
Ian / Tony C
Chris T
My Brother Sylveste (no arr't)
Cheryl - TBA
Karen
Geoff- TBA
Kelvin
Keith - TBA
Dora - TBA
Nigel
ATale of a Dog (no arr't)
Barbara & Sue
reserves
Reserves / future
Wednesday 22nd May
Reserves
Gig details 16th May
PLAYLIST - amended 16/05/24
This is the set for the 1 hour gig of 6 players for the Alzheimer's awareness day at a care home. This gig has very limited space. Players are already notified.
Venue is Leycester House care home Edgehill Drive, Warwick, CV34 6XQ.
We start at 3pm for 1 hour. Please be there for 2.45pm. Wear bright colours, Strummers T shirt if poss, hats etc. Bring your music stand / tablet holder as we won't have tables.
Good Luck Charm (removed)
Spares
Wednesday 29th May
These next 2 songs were written by Richard Newman, who died this week.
He wrote most of the songs featured in famous Disney Films.
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And with thanks to Adderbury Uke Group for sharing one of their songbooks. We will play the songs highlighted in their index page - all songs are in the one book.
Although we already have some of these songs in our repetoire - let's just play their versions for the craic ! It should be interesting...
song page
no.
1 Black Velvet Band 1/2
5 Dream Lover 6
6 Fields of Gold Sting 7
7 I Can See Clearly Now 8
8 I Just Called to Say I Love You 9
10 Island of Dreams - Morning Town Ride 11
17 Runaway 21
18 Sailor 22
21 Stand By Me 26
23 Winchester Cathedral (I have a megaphone) 28
24 Y.M.C.A. 29
25 You Are the Sunshine of My Life 30
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Playlist Wed 12th June
Start with a few fun songs
Others
Songs wth ladies names
Finish with
Reserves
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Rest of songs - either from spares below or take requests
2nd Oct 24
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Wednesday 30th October
A few Halloween songs to start us off
Monster mash (Bobby (Boris) Pickett and the Crypt-kicker five)
Others
Wednesday 13th November (places)
Theme - Cities / towns / places
Reserves
and - possibles for another week
Galveston
A town called Malice
Abilene
Woodstock
Montego bay
Baker street
London calling
Wednesday December 18th
7.45pm Christmas party
Bring your partners, and we are having pizzas and mince pies at around 9 pm.
Put on your Christmas clobber, hats etc. A prize for the best turned out !!
We have Myton Hospice as our charity this Christmas, and the Strummers will donate £100.
In addition please donate your £2 subs to Myton in the charity bucket on display. If you can manage a bit more then that would be great. We'll have a count up during the night.
If you can donate a prize to supplement the ones on offer then please do.
First - A couple of amended versions to try for Friday
A few Christmas songs - If it looks like there may be time - (depending on how many open mic songs)
Open mic names
Keith - The Holly and the Ivy
Geoff - TBA
- TBA
Dave - Queen of 1964
- TBA -
Kelvin - Andante Andante
- TBA