Christmas bands, Berkeley

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ACTION JACKSON

Christmas entertainers, Albany


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Got to Give It Up
Shake Your Body
I Wanna Be Your Lover
Lady Marmalade
Let's Get It On
I Will Survive
Raspberry Beret

 



If you're looking for the perfect groove, you've just found it!

ACTION JACKSON
is the premiere San Francisco Bay Area funk-rock outfit, performing the best dance music for events of all types.The three vocalists in ACTION JACKSON -- Albert Salerno, Rita Lackey, and Kelvin Dixon -- are wonderfully matched, and can handle all popular genres with style, conviction and soul. All of the musicians in ACTION JACKSON have solid credentials in R&B, funk, and rock, but are also versatile enough to perform classical and folk selections for wedding ceremonies and other traditional events.

Typically a 7-piece (male and female vocals, drums, bass, guitar, keyboards and sax) ACTION JACKSON can scale down to 4 or 5-pieces, or expand to a 10-piece to perfectly suit your needs. No need to hire extra musicians for your cocktail hour, wedding ceremony, or background dinner music -- ACTION JACKSON members will provide incidental music for the various portions of your event, then return with the full band to keep your guests dancing and make your party a singular and memorable occasion.

SONGLIST includes:

R&B AND ROCK

Addicted to Love - Robert Palmer
Ain't That Peculiar - Marvin Gaye
Ain't Too Proud to Beg - Tempations
All Right Now - Free
Always and Forever - Heatwave
Ascension - Maxwell

At Last - Etta James
Back in Love Again - LTD
Back in the U.S.S.R. - The Beatles
(She's a) Bad Mamma Jamma - Carl Carlton
Boogie Oogie Oogie - Taste of Honey
Brick House - Commodores
Bring it on Home to Me - Sam Cooke
Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison
Brown Sugar - Rolling Stones
But It's Allright - J. J. Jackson
Caldonia - Louis Jordan
Can I Change My Mind - Tyrone Davis
Can't Get Next to You - Al Green
Can't Help Falling in Love - Elvis Presley
Can't Help Myself - Four Tops
Can't Turn You Loose - Otis Redding
Celebtration - Kool & the Gang
Choo Choo Ch'Boogie - Louis Jordan
Cloud Nine - Temptations
Cold Sweat - James Brown
Come See About Me - Supremes
Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Queen
Crazy Love - Van Morrison
Cruisin' - Smokey Robinson
Dark End of the Street - James Carr
Day Tripper - Beatles
Disco Inferno - Trammps
Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding
Domino - Van Morrison
Don't Know Why - Nora Jones

Drift Away - Dobie Gray
Drownin' in the Sea of Love - Joe Simon
Everyday People - Sly & the Family Stone
Evil Ways - Santana
Fallin' - Alicia Keys

Father and Daughter - Paul Simon
Fire - Ohio Players
(I Just Wanna) Fly Sugar Ray

For What it's Worth - Buffalo Springfield
Funky Broadway - Wilson Pickett
Georgia on My Mind - Ray Charles
Get Down Tonight - K.C. & the Sunshine Band
Gimme Some Lovin'- Spencer Davis Group
Give Me One Reason to Stay Here - Tracy Chapman

Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off) - Parliament
Gloria - Them, Shadows of Knight, Doors
God Bless the Child - Billie Holiday
Good Lovin' - The Young Rascals
Got to Give it Up - Marvin Gaye
Great Balls of Fire - Jerry Lee Lewis
Groove Me - King Floyd
Groovin' - The Young Rascals
Hard to Handle - Otis Redding, Black Crowes
Have I Told You Lately - Rod Stewart, Van Morrison
Here I Am Baby - Al Green
Hey Ya - Outkast

High Heel Sneakers - Stevie Wonder, Tommy Tucker
Higher and Higher - Jackie Wilson
Hitchike - Marvin Gaye, Rolling Stones
Hold On, I'm Comin' - Sam and Dave
Honky Tonk Women - Rolling Stones
How Sweet it Is - Marvin Gaye, James Taylor
Hurts So Good - John Cougar Mellencamp
I Can't Go for That - Hall and Oates
I Can't Stand the Rain - Ann Peebles
I Feel Good (I Got You) - James Brown
I Heard it Through the Grapevine - Marvin Gaye
I Saw Her Standing There - Beatles
I Second That Emotion - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
I Thank You - Sam and Dave
I Wanna Be Your Lover - Prince
I Want You Back - Jackson Five
I Was Made to Love Her - Stevie Wonder
I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor
I Wish - Stevie Wonder
I Wish it Would Rain - Temptations
I'll Be Around - Spinners
I'll Be There - Jackson Five
I'm Your Boogie Man - K.C. and the Sunshine Band
If I Ain't Got You - Alicia Keys

In My Life - Beatles
In the Midnight Hour - Wilson Pickett
Into the Mystic - Van Morrison
Is this Love - Bob Marley & the Wailers
It's Your Thing - The Isley Brothers
I've Never Found a Girl - Eddie Floyd
Johnny B. Goode - Chuck Berry
Jump, Jive, and Wail - Louis Prima, Brian Setzer
Just My Imagination - Temptations
Kiss - Prince

Knock on Wood - Eddie Floyd
Lady Marmalade - LaBelle
Land of 1000 Dances - Wilson Pickett
Late in the Evening - Paul Simon
Let it Be
- Beatles
Let it Whip - Dazz Band
Let's Get it On - Marvin Gaye
Let's Stay Together - Al Green
Light My Fire - The Doors
Little Wing - Jimi Hendrix
Livin' in America - James Brown
Living for the Love of You - The Iseley Brothers
Love and Happiness - Al Green
Love is All Around - Troggs, Wet Wet Wet
Love the One You're With - Stephen Stills, Isley Brothers
Love TKO - Teddy Pendergrass

Love Train - O'Jays
Mack the Knife - Louis Armstrong, Bobby Darin
Mambo No. 5
- Lou Vega
Many Rivers to Cross - Jimmy Cliff
Miss You - Rolling Stones
Money (That's What I Want) - Beatles
The Monkey Time - Major Lance
More Than I Could Stand - Bobby Womack
Moondance - Van Morrison
Mustang Sally - Wilson Pickett
My Girl - The Temptations
My Perogative - Bobby Brown
1999 - Prince
Ooh Baby Baby - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
Papa's Got a Brand New Bag - James Brown
Papa Was a Rollin' Stone - Temptations
People Get Ready - Curtis Mayfield and The Impressions
Play that Funky Music White Boy - Wild Cherry
Proud Mary - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Raspberry Beret - Prince
(It's the) Same Old Song- Four Tops
Satisfaction - Rolling Stones
Sea of Love - Honey Drippers
Sex Machine - James Brown
Sexual Healing - Marvin Gaye
Shake Your Body - Jackson Five
She Drives Me Crazy - Fine Young Cannibals
Shotgun - Jr. Walker and the All-Stars
Signed, Sealed, Delivered - Stevie Wonder
Slip Away - Clarence Carter
So Very Hard to Go - Tower of Power
Someone Like You - Van Morrison
Soul Man - Sam and Dave
Stand By Me - Ben E. King
Stir it Up - Bob Marley & the Wailers
Stormy Monday - Bobby "Blue" Bland
Superfreak - Rick James
Superstition - Stevie Wonder
Sweet Inspiration - The Sweet Inspirations
Take Me In Your Arms (Rock Me) - Doobie Brothers, Isleys
Take Me to the River - Al Green, Talking Heads
Tell It Like It Is - Aaron Neville, Heart
That's The Way I Like It - K.C. and the Sunshine Band
The Harder They Come - Jimmy Cliff
The Tears of a Clown - Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
Three Time Loser - Wilson Pickett
Tired of Being Alone - Al Green
The Thrill is Gone - B.B. King
Try a Little Tenderness - Otis Redding
Tupelo Honey - Van Morrison
Turn Back the Hands of Time - Tyrone Davis
Twistin' the Night Away - Sam Cooke, Rod Stewart
Unchain My Heart - Ray Charles
Unchained Melody - Righteous Brothers
Under the Boardwalk - The Drifters
Unforgettable - Nat King Cole
Walkin' the Dog - Rufus Thomas, Rolling Stones
The Way You Do the Things You Do - Temptations
The Way You Love Me - Jill Scott
The Wedding Song (There is Love) - Paul Stookey
We Are Family - Sister Sledge
What a Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong
What'd I Say - Ray Charles
What I Like About You - Romantics
What's Goin' On - Marvin Gaye
What You Won't Do for Love - Bobby Caldwell
When a Man Loves a Woman - Percy Sledge
When I Fall in Love - Natalie Cole
Who's Makin' Love - Johnnie Taylor
Who's that Lady - Isley Brothers
Wild Night - Van Morrison
Wonderful Tonight - Eric Clapton
YMCA - The Village People
You Are the Sunshine of My Life - Stevie Wonder
Your Precious Love - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
You Really Got a Hold On Me - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
You Send Me- Sam Cooke


STANDARDS
All of Me
Almost Like Being In Love
Besame Mucho
Cheek to Cheek
Don't Get Around Much Anymore
Fly Me To the Moon
Hava Nagila
How High the Moon
I Can't Give You Anything But Love
I'm Beginning to See the Light
It Had to Be You
Kansas City
L.O.V.E
New York, New York
Our Love is Here to Stay
Satin Doll
Summertime
Sunrise, Sunset
Teach Me Tonight
That's Amore
There Will Never Be Another You
They Can't Take That Away From Me
The Way You Look Tonight
and many others...