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  • santropez pete
    Member
    • Mar 2001
    • 15

    busking songs

    I`m putting together a list of busking
    songs and I would like to know what songs
    are played on the streets today.
    Can any body help.
    (Including songs in spanish)

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    dingopj
  • the pretty good
    Senior Member
    • Dec 2000
    • 204

    #2
    when the saints go marching in...
    And almost any Beatles song.

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    • GlassHarper
      Senior Member
      • May 2001
      • 174

      #3
      Hey Santropez --

      The quickest way to find out what people want to hear is ask them! When I first started busking the biggest single request I would get was for "Stairway to Heaven."
      Now, I've got to tell you, when I was studying classical music some forty odd years ago (some of them very odd years indeed!) I didn't know who or what Led Zepelin was. So I went to my then 17-year-old son and asked him. "GIVE ME A BREAK" he exclaimed, "that was YOUR generation!"
      "Give ME a break," I said...so it was my kid that taught me "Stairway." This has, since, been one of my biggest hits, although I seldom do it unless it's requested.
      Beyond that anything that an audience might recognize is fodder. "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" is recognized by people from the world over (it got a rise, and a nice tip, out of a non-English speaking cultural attache from mainland China a few years ago).
      Gospel hymns such as "Amazing Grace" work well for me.
      Just DO it! Your audience will tell you whether or not you've hit the mark!

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      Peter (the New Orleans GlassHarper) Bennett
      glassharper@hotmail.com

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