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  Music for Dancing, Music for Listening

This is just a sampling of the many and diverse musical styles and songs we offer.

We pride ourselves on keeping the dance floor filled and on making beautiful music to set the mood for dinners, ceremonies, receptions, or simply for your listening pleasure.

Listen here to selections from the AK Orchestra.


  AKO Music Categories and Song Lists


Contemporary Upbeat
   2000 to 2008
   1970 to 2000

Contemporary Ballads
   2000 to 2008
   1970 to 2000

Rock and Roll, Motown
Swing
Country

Waltz
Jazz and Standards
Ethnic: Jewish
Ethnic: Italian
Ethnic: Irish
Ethnic: Polish

This is a mere sampling of the AK Orchestra repertoire. If you don't find your song here, just ask!
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 Contemporary Upbeat

 2000 to 2008
Ain't No Other Man - Christina Aguilera
Breathless - The Corrs
Crazy in Love - Beyoncé Knowles
Don't Cha - Pussycat Dolls
Forever Young - Rod Stewart
Game of Love - Santana, Michelle Branch
Get the Party Started - Pink
Hey Ya! - André 3000
It's My Life - No Doubt
Lady Marmalade - Christina Aguilera
Let's Get It Started - Black Eyed Peas
Makes Me Wonder - Maroon 5
Rehab - Amy Winehouse
Rock Your Body - Justin Timberlake
This Love - Maroon 5
Waiting for Tonight - Jennifer Lopez


 1970 to 2000
American Girl - Tom Petty
Bang the Drum All Day - Todd Rundgren
Best of My Love - Emotions
Billie Jean - Michael Jackson
Bitter Sweet Symphony - The Verve
Boogie Oogie - A Taste of Honey
Brickhouse (She’s a Brickhouse) - The Commodores
Can't Get Enough of Your Love - Barry White
Celebration - Kool & the Gang
Copacabana - Barry Manilow
Crocodile Rock - Elton John
Dancing Queen - ABBA
Disco Inferno - The Trammps
Domino - Van Morrison
Don’t Leave Me This Way - Thelma Houston
Don't Stop Believin' - Journey
Electric Slide - Marcia Griffiths
Evil Ways - Carlos Santana
Fire - The Pointer Sisters
Freeway of Love - Aretha Franklin
Gimme Some Lovin' - The Blues Brothers
Glory Days - Bruce Springsteen
Got to Be Real - Cheryl Lynn
Hold On, I'm Coming - Sam & Dave
Hot Hot Hot - Buster Poindexter
Hot Stuff - Donna Summer
How Sweet It Is to Be Loved by You - Marvin Gaye
I Can’t Go for That (No Can Do) - Daryl Hall & John Oates
I Melt With You - Modern English
I Need to Know - Marc Anthony
I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor
Isn't She Lovely - Stevie Wonder
Jumpin’ Jack Flash - The Rolling Stones
Just Like Heaven - The Cure
Kiss - Prince
Last Dance - Donna Summer
Le Freak - Chic
Let It Whip - The Dazz Band
Living on a Prayer - Bon Jovi
Love Shack - The B-52s
More Today Than Yesterday - Spiral Staircase
Oh, Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison
Oh What a Night (December 1963) - The Four Seasons
Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry
Proud Mary - Tina Turner
Rock Your Body - Justin Timberlake
September - Earth, Wind & Fire
Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground) - Michael Jackson
Shake Your Groove Thing - Peaches & Herb
Sing A Song - Earth Wind & Fire
Smooth - Carlos Santana
Soak Up the Sun - Sheryl Crow
Staying Alive - Bee Gees
Summer of ‘69 - Bryan Adams
Superstition - Stevie Wonder
Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond
Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Thank You for Let Me Be Myself - Sly & the Family Stone
These Are Days - 10,000 Maniacs
Walk This Way - Aerosmith
Walking on Sunshine - Katrina & the Waves
We Are Family - Sister Sledge
YMCA - Village People
You Shook Me All Night Long - AC/DC
You're the First, You're the Last, My Everything - Barry White


 Contemporary Ballads

 2000 to 2008
Bleeding Love - Leona Lewis
Bless the Broken Road - Rascal Flatts
Breathe - Faith Hill
Come Away with Me - Norah Jones
Don't Know Why - Norah Jones
I Hope You Dance - Lee Ann Womack
If I Ain't Got You - Alicia Keys
Put Your Records On - Corinne Bailey Rae
Take My Breath Away - Jessica Simpson
There You'll Be - Faith Hill


 1970 to 2000
All I Ask of You (from “Phantom of the Opera”) - Barbra Streisand
Always and Forever - Heatwave
Beautiful in My Eyes - Joshua Kadison
Because You Loved Me - Celine Dion
Change the World - Eric Clapton
Cruisin’ - Huey Lewis and Gwyneth Paltrow
Days Like This - Van Morrison
Endless Love - Diana Ross and Lionel Richie
Faithfully - Journey
Feels Like Home - Chantal Kreviazuk
From This Moment - Shania Twain
Have I Told You Lately - Van Morrison
Here and Now - Luther Vandross
How Do I Live - Leann Rimes
I Can See Clearly Now - Jimmy Cliff
I Finally Found Someone - Bryan Adams and Barbra Streisand
I Wish - Stevie Wonder
Imagine - John Lennon
In My Life - The Beatles
Landslide - Fleetwood Mac
One in a Million You - Larry Graham
Purple Rain - Prince
Someone Like You - Van Morrison
That's What Friends Are For - Dionne Warwick
Through the Years - Kenny Rogers
True Companion - Marc Cohn
When I Fall in Love - Celine Dion
When You Say Nothing at All - Ronan Keating
Wind Beneath My Wings - Bette Midler
Wonderful Tonight - Eric Clapton
Your Song - Elton John


 Rock and Roll, Motown
ABC - Michael Jackson
Ain’t Too Proud to Beg - The Temptations
Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Marvin Gaye
Born to Be Wild - Steppenwolf
Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrisonv
Chain of Fools - Aretha Franklin
Dance to the Music - Sly & the Family Stone
Dancing in the Street - Martha Reeves and the Vandellas
Devil with a Blue Dress On - Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels
Do You Love Me? - The Contours
For Once in My Life - Stevie Wonder
Funky Broadway - Wilson Pickett
Get Down Tonight - KC and the Sunshine Band
Get Ready - The Temptations
I Can't Help Myself - The Four Tops
I Feel Good - James Brown
I Heard It through the Grapevine - Marvin Gaye
I Saw Her Standing There (She Was Just 17) - The Beatles
I Want You Back - Jackson 5
Jailhouse Rock - Elvis Presley
Johnny B Goode - Chuck Berry
Let's Get It On - Marvin Gaye
Let's Stay Together - Al Green
Louie Louie
Love Train - The O'Jays
Mustang Sally - Wilson Pickett
My Girl - The Temptations
Natural Woman - Aretha Franklin
Old Time Rock & Roll - Bob Seger
Respect - Aretha Franklin
Shout - The Isley Brothers
Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours - Stevie Wonder
Soul Man - The Blues Brothers


 Rock and Roll, Motown (cont'd.)
Stand by Me - Ben E. King
Sweet Home Chicago - Blues Brothers
That's the Way I Like It - KC and the Sunshine Band
Think - Aretha Franklin
Twist and Shout - The Beatles
Twist, The - Chubby Checker
Unchained Melody - The Righteous Brothers
You Send Me - Sam Cooke
You've Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’ - The Righteous Brothers


 Swing
Best Is Yet to Come, The - Frank Sinatra
Beyond the Sea - Bobby Darin
Chicago - Frank Sinatra
Come Fly with Me - Frank Sinatra
Don't Get Around Much Anymore - Duke Ellington
Fly Me to the Moon - Frank Sinatra
In the Mood - Glenn Miller
Jump, Jive an’ Wail - Louis Prima
Jump, Jive an’ Wail - Brian Setzer
Mack the Knife - Bobby Darin
My Kind of Town - Frank Sinatra
New York, New York - Sinatra
Night and Day - Frank Sinatra
Night Train - King Curtis
Opus One - Tommy Dorsey
Our Love Is Here to Stay - Natalie Cole
Route 66 - Natalie Cole
Satin Doll - Duke Ellington
Sentimental Journey - Tommy Dorsey
Shiny Stockings - Count Basie
Sing Sing Sing - Benny Goodman
String of Pearls - Glenn Miller
Summer Wind - Frank Sinatra
Take the “A” Train - Duke Ellington
Way You Look Tonight, The - Frank Sinatra
Woodchopper’s Ball - Woody Herman
Zoot Suit Riot - Cherry Poppin’ Daddies


 Country
Always on My Mind - Willie Nelson
Amazed - Lonestar
Boot Scootin’ Boogie - Brooks & Dunn
Can't Help Falling in Love - Elvis Presley
Could I Have This Dance - Anne Murray
Crazy - Patsy Cline
Forever and Ever, Amen - Randy Travis
Friends in Low Places - Garth Brooks
Lost in This Moment - Big & Rich
Love Me Tender - Elvis Presley
Margaritaville - Jimmy Buffett
Me and You - Kenny Chesney
My Wish - Rascal Flatts
Stand by Your Man - Tammy Wynette
Valentine - Martina McBride
You're Still the One - Shania Twain


 Waltz
Always
Anniversary Song
Daddy's Little Girl
Edelweiss (from “The Sound of Music”)
Emily
Let Me Call You Sweetheart
Moon River - Andy Williams
Tennessee Waltz


 Jazz and Standards
A Kiss to Build a Dream On - Louis Armstrong
Affirmation - George Benson
All the Way - Frank Sinatra
As Time Goes By (from “Casablanca”)
At Last - Etta James
Besame Mucho - Nat King Cole
Blue Moon
Breezin’ - George Benson
Embraceable You - George Gershwin
Europa - Gato Barbieri
Feel Like Making Love - Roberta Flack
Forever in Love - Kenny G
Georgia on My Mind - Ray Charles
Girl from Ipanema, The - Antonio Carlos Jobim (bossa nova)
I Left My Heart in San Francisco - Tony Bennett
(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons - Nat King Cole
I’ve Got You Under My Skin - Frank Sinatra
Isn't It Romantic - Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart
It Had to Be You - Harry Connick, Jr.
It's You - David Sanborn
Just in Time
Just Me and You - Richard Elliot
Just the Way You Are - Billy Joel
Let There Be Love - Natalie Cole
Love - Natalie Cole
Love Will Conquer All - Lionel Richie
Memory (from “Cats”) - Barbra Streisand
Misty - Johnny Mathis
Moondance - Van Morrison
Moonlight Serenade - Glenn Miller
More (rhumba)
My Romance - Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart
Nearness of You, The - Norah Jones
Never on Sunday (cha-cha)
Shadow of Your Smile, The (bossa nova)
Sleepwalk - Santo & Johnny
Smile - Natalie Cole
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Someone to Watch Over Me - George Gershwin
Spanish Eyes (rhumba)
Tenderly
That's All
Unforgettable - Nat King Cole
Very Thought of You, The
What a Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong
When Sunny Gets Blue - Johnny Mathis


 Ethnic: Jewish
Asher Bara
Bashana Haba’ah
Dodi Li
Hava Nagila
Havenu Shalom Alechem
Hu Klal
Kaitzad
Misirlou
Moshiach
Nigun Neshama
Od Yeshima
Sameach
Siman Tov Umazel Tov
Simcha Dance
Sunrise, Sunset (from “Fiddler on the Roof”)
To Life! (from “Fiddler on the Roof”)
Tzena, Tzena
Yeden
Yerushalayim
Yo-Ya


 Ethnic: Italian
Al Di Là
Angelina
Arrivederci Roma
Mala Femmena
Oh Marie
Speak Softly, Love (theme from “The Godfather”)
Tarantella
That's Amore - Dean Martin
Theme from “The Godfather” (Speak Softly, Love)
Volare - Dean Martin


 Ethnic: Irish
A Walk in the Irish Rain
Danny Boy
Give Ireland Back to the Irish
Haste to the Wedding
I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen
Irish Heartbeat
Irish Washerwoman, The
Mother Machree
My Wild Irish Rose
When Irish Eyes Are Smiling


 Ethnic: Polish
Barbara Polka
Clarinet Polka
Dance All Night Polka
Helena Polka
In Heaven There Is No Beer
Liechtensteiner Polka
My Melody of Love
Pennsylvania Polka
Too Fat Polka (I Don't Want Her, You Can Have Her, She's Too Fat For Me)
Village Tavern Polka



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