Song suggestions for the BSO?

ratpack wrote:

Anybody up for a straight blues album? Brian could do all his own versions of classic blues tunes or mix it up with some other players like Buddy Guy, B.B. King, etc.

Hey, and how about the BSO with strings?! A classy romantic album in the same vein as Sinatra or Charlie Parker's strings album (or any of the other greats).

AMEN BROTHER TO THE BLUES ALBUM!!! A dream album would be a kind of Love Sculpture's 'Blues Helping' with some b b king and Chuck Berry thrown in....with special guests Dave Edmunds and Little Richard!!! iS THAT ASKIN' TOO MUCH???!!

Radiation-i believetomysoul-abilly

drtiehead wrote:

I think I would have a lot of supporters here when I say that I have been dying to have the BSO do the next James Bond opening title song for the new movie.

I think a whole album of classic Bond songs would be amazing. Live and let die, Thunderball, Living Daylights, Goldfinger, A View to a Kill, Nobody Does it Better to name a few.

I'd settle for him to just do the Bond score. Bond themes tend to be hit or miss generally but that orchestral theme with the guitar is always a killer.

Yes, I totally think that Brian Setzer should make a blues album. It would be so awesome! Just imagine Brian doing his own twists to a Stevie Ray Vaughn song! It would be cool if he did an album with Robert Cray or Joe Bonamassa!

Brian - If you DO decide to do a blues album, I will gladly volunteer to play harp for you....for free!



PS: The BSO version of "House Is A-Rockin'" kicked @$$!!!! SRV's "Crossfire" would be a great cover, and I would like to hear Brian tackle "Change It", as it's my favorite SRV song.

cfunke wrote:

Also, I'd love for him to record Got to Get You Into My Life by the Beatles. He used to perform it live and it kicks all form of @$$.

I almost forgot about that song! I had recorded a radio broadcast of the BSO at the Roxy in Boston at the time of The Dirty Boogie release. That was the first time I heard that song and from that point on, when I hear the Beatles' version of it, I change the station. BSO's version was way better and much more cool(er).

All these wonderful suggestions

What about "Should I stay or should go"?

I still reckon that Brian is an excellent songwriter/composer/arranger and if he has to cover all these songs we may be deprived of hearing his (still developing) talent.

Keep Rockin'

I'd settle for him to just do the Bond score. Bond themes tend to be hit or miss generally but that orchestral theme with the guitar is always a killer.[/quote]

Great comment, but i think you just sent Brian into recluse with a guitar, parchment and pen!!!! Score should be ready by next Easter... lol

Mikey x

I think that some Sinatra`s old songs (like Lady is a Tramp,Road to Mandalay,I Get no Kick etc) can be crazy nice like rockin` versions by BSO

From Russia with love
Vladimir

Another cool song would be "If Swing Goes, I Go Too." written by Fred Astaire. Rosemary Clooney recodred it with the Count Basie Orchestra 10 years ago and it SWINGS! I'd love to hear BSO play it!

I just thought of another one: "Blues In the Night" by Quincy Jones - it was featured on the Ocean's 11 (remake) soundtrack. Brian, that would DEFINITELY be up your alley!

I'm very sorry and I do not want to offend anybody but I must say that I find most of these suggestions simply horrible. I don't know, maybe my musical taste is just different or at least I hear things different.

Anyway, sorry but I had to let this out.

donpepe wrote:

I'm very sorry and I do not want to offend anybody but I must say that I find most of these suggestions simply horrible. I don't know, maybe my musical taste is just different or at least I hear things different.

Anyway, sorry but I had to let this out.

I feel your pain, DonPepe! But the conversational nature of forums like these tend to drive threads in certain directions. For example, I wouldn't have offered up anything about Bond or Amy Winehouse had it not been previously mentioned. Someone mentioned Dave Brubeck (it's hard for me to imagine a Brubeck cover without piano) and so several like-minded responses followed. It's not that Dave Brubeck would have come to mind immediately for most people, but when you read it, it's hard not to get caught up in the "Oh yeah! Speaking of Brubeck..." Or if someone mentions a blues project, 10 people who might not have posted that chime in with their additions to the conversation.

There are a lot of pop ballads (Rosemary Clooney, Nat King Cole, Sinatra, anything with strings) and jazz numbers listed on this thread. But this kind of mellow/borderline easy-listening stuff only makes up a small part of the BSO catalog. Maybe people think that it would be the natural progression from a less rockin' album like Wolfgang. Certainly, there's room for at least one of these mellow standards on an album. I do love that first BSO album, which definitely has an older feel to it.

Hopefully, the next BSO album will return to a mixture of styles, free from any theme or concept. That way, there's something for everybody. This topic is about cover tunes, but I love those rockin' originals, like Switchblade 327, Ghost Radio, and Drive Like Lightning (Crash Like Thunder). Are there any Stray Cats tunes Brian hasn't re-vamped BSO style you would like to hear? Lucky Charm, perhaps?

Rock-bop-a-doo-wop-surf-a-twang-a-swing-a-lounge-a-jazz-a-billy

how about a whole album of surf music. the ventures, walk dont run, tequila,hawaii five-o,wipe out, the surfaris, surfer joe, dick dale,miser lou

rickabilly wrote:

....This topic is about cover tunes, but I love those rockin' originals, like Switchblade 327, Ghost Radio, and Drive Like Lightning (Crash Like Thunder). Are there any Stray Cats tunes Brian hasn't re-vamped BSO style you would like to hear? Lucky Charm, perhaps?

Rock-bop-a-doo-wop-surf-a-twang-a-swing-a-lounge-a-jazz-a-billy

I'm with you, Rick. Guitar Slinger, I think, has to be my favorite album - in fact I had made a compilation CD for my car that had as many "driving", bad-ass songs from Brian Setzer as I could possibly put on a CD-R. Most of the tracks came from "Guitar Slinger". On a side note, before I have to go on stage, I sit in my car and I skip to "The Legend of Johnny Kool" (part 1) and crank up the volume and that's enough to get my pumped-up and ready to go on stage. To answer your question, I think I'd like to hear Brian cover some Stray Cats' tunes such as "Let's Go Faster", "Lucky Charm", "Baby Blue Eyes", "Cruisin'", and "Lonely Summer Nights".



PS: Rick, just HOW do you remember which "signature" you HAVEN'T used I like your style, man. I wish I thought of it, haha

Don't know if this has been previously stated, but Brian has proved that he can handle anything from Rockabilly to classical. So, whatever the next album(s) is/are, they will be impressed with his signature style, and that's why we're all here, isn't it? Whatever the creative flame is that burns within him, it sure does yield some of the best music in the UNIVERSE!

This a tougher topic than it seems. I try to think of tunes that have horns already for Brian to cover, but then I realize some of his best stuff comes from tunes that were nowhere near a horn section before the BSO got ahold of 'em.

BluesSinger212 wrote:

I had made a compilation CD for my car that had as many "driving", bad-ass songs from Brian Setzer as I could possibly put on a CD-R.

And how many speeding tickets do you have?

BluesSinger212 wrote:

PS: Rick, just HOW do you remember which "signature" you HAVEN'T used I like your style, man. I wish I thought of it, haha

Thanks, Ken! I'm sure my style annoys as many people as it entertains. As far as the signature goes, I don't remember what I've used before. I just count on the fact that many Setzer fans like myself are quite a bit older than you, and they're starting to forget things more easily.

Now where the heck did I put my keys?



Too young to quit, too old to change-a-billy

rickabilly wrote:

I just count on the fact that many Setzer fans like myself are quite a bit older than you, and they're starting to forget things more easily.

Now where the heck did I put my keys?



Too young to quit, too old to change-a-billy

You can count me in the category. Heck, I'm older than Setzer! Spose he would mind if I called him, "little bro"?

How about "Is You Is Or Is You Ain't (My Baby)" by Louis Jordan? You know, the one Tom from the "Tom & Jerry" cartoon used to croon.

rickabilly wrote:

BluesSinger212 wrote:

I had made a compilation CD for my car that had as many "driving", bad-ass songs from Brian Setzer as I could possibly put on a CD-R.

And how many speeding tickets do you have?

None....yet

rickabilly wrote:

BluesSinger212 wrote:

PS: Rick, just HOW do you remember which "signature" you HAVEN'T used I like your style, man. I wish I thought of it, haha

Thanks, Ken! I'm sure my style annoys as many people as it entertains. As far as the signature goes, I don't remember what I've used before. I just count on the fact that many Setzer fans like myself are quite a bit older than you, and they're starting to forget things more easily.

Now where the heck did I put my keys?



Too young to quit, too old to change-a-billy

I actually skim through to threads to see what you come up with next, lol. I maybe 24, but sometimes MY memory slips in and out. My body maybe 24, but I'm REALLY 58.



PS: How about "Viva, Las Vegas" by Elvis?

rickabilly wrote:

Thanks, Ken! I'm sure my style annoys as many people as it entertains. As far as the signature goes, I don't remember what I've used before. I just count on the fact that many Setzer fans like myself are quite a bit older than you, and they're starting to forget things more easily.

Who you calling old, mister?

I'm 39 but my favorite song is still Sexy & 17... which helps keeps me 17 in my head forever

ratpack wrote:

How about "Is You Is Or Is You Ain't (My Baby)" by Louis Jordan? You know, the one Tom from the "Tom & Jerry" cartoon used to croon.

That would be awesome... you just can't go wrong with a little Louis Jordan... I mean come on... "Aint nobody here but us chickens" or... OH... "Caldonia" would be kick.ass!lol

sorry, i get excited easilly about music, which come to think of it is pretty much why we're all here, so on second thought i don't apologize...

The reason i like threads like this, and why i bet brian might like reading them as well, is that it might give him ideas or remind me of a song that i've forgotten about.


C

Can I suggest ''That'll gonna be the day'' by Buddy Holly, ''Hello Mary Lou'', ''You're so square'', ''Jailhouse Rock'', ''Bama Lama Loo''?

Queen did play these songs in the 70s in a rock n' roll medley...I think the BSO could do an amazing job!

I can't quite picture some of those tunes with horns, especially Hello, Mary Lou and That'll Be the Day. But if Ray Charles can re-invent Country and Western songs, why not? Bama Lama Bama Lou would absolutely scream with horns, though. As long as Brian didn't have to do the Little Richard "Wooooo's", it would rock! Brian did do Hello, Mary Lou in a trio set during the 2004 BSO Japan tour.

Speaking of Little Richard, The Girl Can't Help It would be a great choice, in my opinion. There's no unreachable "Woooo's" in that one. Someone needs to show Fergie how to properly work that song.

There's nothing that says the entire BSO has to be involved in an arrangement. And who's to say that a Brian Setzer album has to be all BSO? What about a mixture of settings? Ray Charles had an album where one side was ballads with strings and the other side had swingin' classics like Let the Good Times Roll.

Viva variety-billy

An orchestra version of "Rockabilly world" would be nice.The main guitar lick in this song would sound great for horns and the breaks, too!
Lust`n`Love of course, too!!!
Don´t forget about the great "Jade Idol"!! a great instrumental!
"Let yourself go" from Elvis in a straight special Gretsch/Orchestra sound....could be sound great. (I like minor tunes... )
A rockin´ orchestra version from " A big hunk o´love ...

too many to list...

Greetz, Tommi