OK my CLASSIC COUNTRY FANS,I really need your HELP HERE...?

Question

Our band (Clarkston Country) has a very IMPORTANT GIG coming up and I'm looking to sing some FRESH songs! They must be CLASSIC of course, not too much of a TEAR JERKER though. For a while now I've been opening the shows with a MERLE HAGGARD DUET and close with a TAMMY WYNETTE TUNE! We also Have a new-great FIDDLE player, so we can sing a lot more songs that we've always wanted to.PLEASE SEND ME SOME IDEAS AND IF WE HAVEN'T DONE THOSE, WE WILL! THANKS IN ADVANCE EVERYBODY...AND REMEMBER "IF IT AIN'T COUNTRY,IT AIN'T WORTH IT"!

Answer 1

New fiddle player Alabama got to have a fiddle in the band ( maybe named if your gonna play in texas) what an introduction you introduce the new fiddle player then jump into song Just change the word Texas to the city you are playing in

Answer 2

OKIEFAN,

try these out, I'm going off my most played set lists for classic country when I do karaoke. Let me know what ya think.



He'll Have To Go

Welcome To My World

Make The World Go Away

Movin' On

Waterloo

It's Such A Pretty World Today

Crazy Arms

Squaws Along The Youkon

Six Days On The Road

Pick Me Up On Your Way Down

Running Bear

The Lord Knows I'm Drinking

Dropkick Me Jesus

Heartaches By The Number

Farewell Party

Oklahoma Hills

Take Me Back To Tulsa

Shame On You

Big Balls In Cow Town

Swinging Doors

I Think I'll Just Stay Here And Drink

Big Mamou(still learning)

Jambalaya

Young Love

Devil Woman

El Paso

Be My Angel

Bartenders Blues

Wine Colored Roses

King Of The Road

Walk On By

Hello Walls

Abilene

Waltz Across Texas

Country Bumpkin

The Auctioneer (still learning this one)

I've Been Everywhere (this one too)

Bj The Dj

Carroll County Accident

Good Hearted Woman

Send Me The Pillow That You Dream On

500 Miles Away From Home

Detroit City

Green Green Grass Of Home

I'll Be There Before The Next Teardrop Falls

Talk Back Tremblin' Lips

Rednecks, White sox, And Blue Ribbon Beer

Saginaw Michigan

Wild Side Of Life

Wolverton Mountain

Kiss An Angel Good Morning

Some Broken Hearts Never Mend

Oh Lonesome Me

Please Help Me I'm Falling

Walking The Floor Over You

Tennessee Stud

Cattle Call (still learning)

I Wouldn't Have Missed It For The World

There Aint No Getting Over Me

Fool Hearted Memory

Amarillo By Morning

Is Anybody Going To San Antone

Hey Good Looking

If You Got The Money I Got The Time

Silver Wings

Only Make Believe (still learning)

Hello Darling

Daydreams About Night Things

Slide Off Of Your Satin Sheets

Coca Cola Cowboy

Dont Call Him A Cowboy

Behind Closed Doors

Hello Mary Lou

Flowers On The Wall

My Sweet Iowa Rose (still learning)

Mama Tried

Just Good Ole Boys(moe bandy joe stamply one)

Ring Of Fire

Folsom Prison Blues

Sunday Morning Coming Down

Kaw-Liga

You're The Reason God Made Oklahoma

There's A Yellow Rose In Texas

Faster Horses(still learning)

Dang Me(still learning)

The Ballad Of Forty Dollars(still learning)

He's In The Jail House Now

I'm My Own Grandpa (still learning)

From A Boxcar Door (still learning)

Jackson

Okie From Muskogee

Big City

Good Ole Boys (the waylon jennings song)

Fighting Side Of Me

Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain

Lord I Hope This Day Is Good

Linda On My Mind

Blue Moon Of Kentucky (just starting to learn it)

Tombstone Every Mile (this one too)

Room Full Of Roses



Hope you can use a few of these. Let me know how it turned out. Good luck, take care, and may God Bless

Answer 3

Some of the ones I'm going to post have been suggested, and I'm seconding them as good choices.



Johnny and June - Jackson

Alabama - If You're Gonna Play In Texas

John Anderson - Black Sheep

Charlie Daniels- The Devil Went Down to Georgia

Charlie Daniels - Uneasy Rider

David Allen Coe - If That Ain't Country

David Allen Coe - You Never Even Called Me By My Name

Hank Jr - Family Tradition

Johnny Cash - Cocaine Blues

Johnny Cash - Boy Named Sue

Johnny Cash - Rock Island LIne

Johnny Cash - Cry, Cry, Cry

Elvis Presley - Blue Moon of Kentucky (yeah, I know Bill Monroe did the original, but I love this version.)

Ernest Tubb and Loretta Lynn - Sweet Thang

Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty - You're The Reason Our Kids Are Ugly

George Strait - All My Exes Live In Texas

Gene Watson - Love On A Hot Afternoon

Jimmie Martin - Freeborn Man

Junior Brown - My Wife Thinks You're Dead (not a classic yet, but....)

Dwight Yoakum - Long White Cadillac

Waylon Jennings - Are You Ready For The Country

Waylon Jennings - Sally Was a Good Ole Girl

Roy Orbison - Sweet Dream Baby

Roy Orbison - Oh Pretty Woman

Dolly Parton - Joshua

Tammy Wynette - I'm Wearin' My Jeans A Little Bit Tighter

Tammy Wynette and George Jones - We're Not The Jet Set

George Jones - White Lightnin'

George Jones - The One I Loved Back Then

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Sorry if that list got long, but once I started really thinking, I had a lot of great songs to come to mind.



Hope you like them and hope this is a help.

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Edit to add: *doh* can't believe I didn't think of this til I hit submit!



Uncle Pen - Bill Monroe

Especially with a fiddle player!

Answer 4

Hey Miss Okie-Girl!

I wish I could hear ya sing!

My picks are:

It Only Hurts For A little While/ Margo Smith

Together Again/ Buck Owens (good duet song IMO)

Summer Wine/ Lee Hazelwood & Nancy Sinatra (GREAT DUET!)

Skip-A-Rope/ Henson Cargill (Girl, you KNOW how TRUE this song WAS and IS!)

Amigo's Guitar/ Kitty Wells

I'm Not Lisa/ Jesse Colter

Ribbon of Darkness/ Connie Smith did a durned good version of this one!

Color Of The Blues/ Skeeter could sing this one like nobody else!

Desperado/ Eagles or Johnny Rodriguez

It Was Almost Like A Song/ R. Milsap

If I Were A Carpenter/ yes, it CAN be country...June & Johnny proved it!

More and More/ Webb Pierce

Saginaw Michigan/ Lefty Frizzell

I Love/ Tom T. Hall

Detroit City/ You GOTTA sing this one Okie!!! LOL!!!!!!

Last Date/ Twitty

Cold Hard Truth/ George Jones



I hope these gave ya some ideas! :^)

lulu

Answer 5

Ode to Billie Joe or Harper Valley PTA! Love them both.

For The Good Times by Ray Price...Charlie Pride's Kiss An Angel Good Morning, Buck Owens Lookin Back, Statlers Flowers on the Wall...Yesterday, when I was young...

With a fiddle player, you HAVE to do orange blossom special, and some Johnny Cash!

Answer 6

Stand By Your Man

Sweet Dreams

There's A Tear In My Beer

Hello Darlin'

I Go On Walkin' After Midnight

Answer 7

How about Loretta Lynn "Country In My Genes" It's uplifting and great for an opening song.

"I Beg Your Pardon" by Lynn Anderson

"Me and Bobby McGee" I've opened with this one many times,depends on the crowd and the location!

"Happiest Girl In The Whole USA" by Donna Fargo

"Help Me Make It Through The Night" A female singing this song in a slow sultry voice will melt the hearts of men in the audience!

And one of my favorites although it isn't a classic yet is "Motorcycle Cowboy" by....you guessed it Mr. Haggard!

"Walking After Midnight",Sweet Dreams, Last Cheaters Waltz,I love the fiddle section in this song! The Rose,

"Sleeping Single in a Double Bed" by Barbra Mandrell

"Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue" by Crystal Gale

"Mississippi Woman,Louisianna Man" by Loretta and Conway

"Singing Sweet Country Music":

[CHORUS]

Singing sweet country music

Breathing clean mountain air

Singing sweet country music

Makes me wish that I was there



It's been more than a year now

Since my daddy had passed away

But I keep his memory with me

In the songs we used to play



[repeat CHORUS]



Well, he'd lean back in his rocker

With a Bible in his hand

And he'd talk about religion

And just how to work the land

Will the circle be unbroken

By and by, Lord, by and by (by and by)

There's a better home a waiting

In the sky, Lord, in the sky



[repeat CHORUS]



Makes me wish that I was there



Makes me wish that I was there



(Wish that I was there)

Sweet country music

(Wish that I was there)

Among that sweet country music



(Oh, I wish that I was there)

Singing sweet country music

Sweet country music



Hoped this helped Sis!

Answer 8

We can go further back in minute and I'll edit my posting, but If you have a fiddle player and you want to open with a great toe tapper and a fiddle, then:



Im sure this ones already on your mind!



John Denvers - "Thank God I'm a Country boy"

Alabama - "Fiddle in the band"



You can do Charlie Daniels in the set later



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had to look at my collection for a minute....

Here are a few other good songs to consider, they may not be big on fiddle, but they are big on our kinda twang!!!!





Eddie Rabbit - Driving my life away

TG Sheppard - Party time

Jerry Reed - Im just a red neck in a Rock N Roll bar

Jerry Reed - She got the gold mine, I got the Shaft



All sound great live!

Answer 9

How about an old Kitty Wells song "Whose Shoulder Will You Cry On:?



Or:



Lefty Frizzels "If You've Got the Money Honey I've Got the Time"?



"Oklahoma Hills" by Hank Thompson



Good Luck....now get REALLY Classic.

Answer 10

"You never even call me by my name" and "all my rowdy friend " are true country classics and great sing along songs. Merle, Charlie & Waylon, does it get any better than that? Johnny Cash is a safe bet too. "One peice at a time" is a personal favorite. Honsetly anything old school should do well, Willie, Johnny, Waylon, George Jones, Kristofferson, either Hank, Merle, stuff that make em get up and sing out loud. Good luck.

Answer 11

These are some of my personal favorites:



"Mama Tried"

"The Devil Went Down to Georgia"

"Satin Sheets"

"My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys"

"Cotton Eyed Joe"

"Your Good Girls Gonna Go Bad"

Answer 12

Merle Haggard "In My Next Life"

"Dont Close Your Eyes"

"When I Close My Eyes" Dont know these artists

Answer 13

When Your Eyes are on Me, You're Looking at Country....Loretta



Please Help Me I'm Fallin...Hank Locklin



Please Release Me...Ray Price



Cincinatti Ohio....Connie Smith



There Stands the Glass...Webb Pierce



If You've Got the Money, I've Got the Time...Hank Sr.

Answer 14

If you got a great fiddle player than you should do some Charlie Daniels Band.

Answer 15

...well, I'm not a fan of country music



but few come to mind



I don't know if these can be considered classic but...



Brand New Man by Brooks & Dunn



Friends In Low Places by Garth Brooks



Ring of Fire by Johnny Cash also comes to mind.



Jackson by Johnny & June Cash (for a duet)



Eddie Rabbit - I Love a Rainy Night

Answer 16

"Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man) " by Merle Haggard.

Answer 17

You're The Reason God Made Oklahoma

Answer 18

loretta lynn and ernest tubb has some diamonds.. like has any one here seen sweetthing, turn in cheek

buck ownes a tiger by the tail

Answer 19

Kitty Wells It wasn't God who made honky tonk angels

Dolly Carroll county accident

Answer 20

"I was country when country wasn't cool"

"John Deere Green"

"fancy"

Answer 21

You can't beat FADED LOVE, if you have a good fiddler...

Answer 22

HEY GOOD LOOKIN'!