Bull City Syndicate and BCS Express perform a wide variety of musical selections spanning many decades of great music. Jazz to rock; R&B to Country; and much more. This published list is but a SAMPLE of our ever-changing, and never fully up-to-date repertoire -- as we are perpetually adding current Top-40 hits and even more classic tunes to the playlist. MOST IMPORTANTLY, BCS will CUSTOMIZE a show for you and your event. Just let us know what you want to hear:
90's Hits; 2000's HITS; TODAY's TOP 40
**SPECIAL NOTE: Current Top-40 songs change frequently, and are not regularly updated on this list. Ask about your special current top 40 requests when you book the band!
A Song for My Daughter - Ray Allaire
Ain't it Fun - Paramore
Ain't No Other Man - Christina Aguilera
Bad Romance - Lady Gaga
Better Together - Jack Johnson
Butterfly Kisses - Bob Carlisle
Can't Stop The Feeling - Justin Timberlake
Close to You - Maxi Priest
Crazy In Love - Beyonce'
Daughter - Loudon Wainwright III
Don't Cha - Pussycat Dolls
Don’t Go Breaking My Heart – Elton John & Kiki Dee
F**k You (Forget You) - Cee Lo Green
Green Light – John Legend
Happy - Pharell Williams
Hash Pipe - Weezer/Toto
Here I Come - Fergie
Hey Ya! - OutKast
I Gotta Feeling - The Black Eyed Peas
Interstate Love Song - Stone Temple Pilots
Lazarus - David Bowie
Let's Get It Started - Black Eyed Peas
Livin' La Vida Loca - Ricky Martin
Locked Out of Heaven – Bruno Mars
Love of My Life - Santana
Man, I Feel Like a Woman - Shania Twain
Mercy - Duffy
Misirlou/Pump It - Dick Dale/Black Eyed Peas
Moves Like Jagger - Maroon 5
Rehab - Amy Winehouse
Rolling in the Deep - Adele
Shake it Off - Taylor Swift
Skyfall – Adele
Slow Burn - David Bowie
Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
Smooth - Carlos Santana & Rob Thomas
Steam - Peter Gabriel
Super Bass - Nicki Minaj
Sway - Pussycat Dolls/Sinatra
Tainted Love - Pussycat Dolls
The Look of Love - Fergie/Sergio Mendes
The Way You Move - OutKast & Sleepy Brown
This Love - Maroon 5
Treasure - Bruno Mars
True Companion - Marc Cohn
Uptown Funk - Mark Ranson, ft. Bruno Marz
You And I - Lady Gaga
You Are The Best Thing - Ray LaMontagne
You Know I'm No Good - Amy Winehouse
Zoot Suit Riot - Cherry Poppin' Daddies
80's HITS
1999 - Prince & The Revolution
Absolute Beginners - David Bowie
Addicted to Love - Robert Palmer
Africa - Toto
All Around the World - Lisa Stansfield
All Night Long - Lionel Ritchie
Am I The Same Girl - Swing Out Sister
Angel of Harlem - U2
As the World Falls Down - David Bowie
Babylon Sisters - Steely Dan
Billie Jean - Michael Jackson
Broken Wings – Mr. Mister
Burning Down the House - Talking Heads/ Tom Jones
Careless Whisper - Wham/George Michael
Cat People (Putting Out Fire) - David Bowie
China Girl - David Bowie
Crazy Little Thing Called Loved - Queen/Buble
Dancing in the Street - David Bowie/Mick Jagger
Don't Stop Believin' - Journey
Easy Lover - Phil Collins/Phillip Bailey
Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Tears For Fears
Express Yourself - Madonna
Give it to Me Baby - Rick James
Head Over Heels - Tears For Fears
Hip To Be Square - Huey Lewis & The News
Holiday - Madonna
Human Nature - Michael Jackson
I Can't Go For That - Hall & Oates
I Didn't Mean to Turn You On - Robert Palmer
I Keep Forgetting - Michael McDonald
I Wanna Dance with Somebody - Whitney Houston
I'm Still Standing - Elton John
Kiss on My List - Hall & Oates
Let's Dance - David Bowie
Let's Groove - Earth Wind & Fire
Love Shack - B-52's
Modern Love - David Bowie
Mysterious Ways - U2
New Sensation - INXS
Out of Touch - Hall and Oats
Physical - Olivia Newton John
Power of Love - Huey Lewis & The News
Rag Doll - Aerosmith
Ride Like the Wind – Christopher Cross
Rock This Town - The Brian Setzer Orchestra
Rock With You - Michael Jackson
Roll With It - Steve Winwood
Rosanna - Toto
Sailing – Christopher Cross
Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel
Smooth Operator - Sade
Something About You - Level 42
Steal Away – Robbie Dupree
Suddenly - Cliff Richard and Olivia Newton John
Stray Cat Strut - Stray Cats
Sweet Dreams - Eurythmics
Things Can Only Get Better - Howard Jones
Turn the Beat Around - Gloria Estefan
Turn Your Love Around - George Benson
Under Pressure - David Bowie
Waiting For A Girl Like You - Foreigner
Walking on Sunshine - Katrina & The Waves
Wake Me Up Before You Go Go - Wham!
What You Need - INXS
Wild Night – Van Morrison/John Cougar Mellencamp
Would I Lie to You? - Eurythmics
You're The Inspiration - Chicago
70's HITS
Afternoon Delight - Starland Vocal Band
Another Brick in the Wall – Pink Floyd
Baby Come Back - Players
Back in Love - LTD
Baker Street – Gerry Rafferty
Black Cow - Steely Dan
Best of My Love - The Emotions
Bodhisattva - Steely Dan
Boogie Man - KC & The Sunshine Band
Boogie Nights - Heatwave
Boogie On Reggae Woman - Stevie Wonder
Boogie Oogie Oogie - Taste of Honey
Brandy- Looking Glass
Brickhouse - Commodores
Call On Me - Chicago
Celebration - Kool & The Gang
Cheeseburger in Paradise - Jimmy Buffet
Come Monday - Jimmy Buffet
Copacabana - Barry Manilow
Colour My World - Chicago
Crocodile Rock - Elton John
Cut the Cake - Average White Band
Dancing Queen - ABBA
Does Anybody Know What Time It Is? - Chicago
Domino - Van Morrison
Easy - Commodores
Fame - David Bowie
Fantasy - Earth, Wind & Fire
Feels So Good – Chuck Mangione
Fly Like and Eagle - Steve Miller Band
FM - Steely Dan
For Once In My Life - Stevie Wonder
Frankenstein - Edgar Winter Group
Georgy Porgy - Toto
Get Down Tonight - KC & The Sunshine Band
Golden Years - David Bowie
Grease - Frankie Valli
Hawaii 5-0 - TV Theme
Heroes - David Bowie
Hold the Line - Toto
Hollywood Swinging - Kool & The Gang
Hooked on a Feeling - Blue Swede/BJ Thomas
Hot Stuff - Donna Summer
How Sweet It Is - James Taylor/Michael Buble'
I Just Wanna Stop - Gino Vannelli
I Wish - Stevie Wonder
I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor
I'd Really Love to See you Tonight – England Dan & John Ford Coley
I'll Take You There - The Staple Singers
If You Want Me to Stay - Sly & The Family Stone
If You Leave Me Now - Chicago
In the Stone - Earth Wind & Fire
Into the Mystic - Van Morrison
Isn't She Lovely - Stevie Wonder
JoJo - Boz Scaggs
Josie - Steely Dan
Jungle Boogie - Kool & The Gang
Just You 'N Me- Chicago
Ladies' Night - Kool & The Gang
Let's Get It On - Marvin Gaye
Let's Stay Together - Al Green
Lido Shuffle - Boz Scaggs
Lonely Boy – Andrew Gold
Long Train Running - Doobie Brothers
Love Rollercoaster - Ohio Players
Love Will Keep Us Together - Captain and Tensile
Low Rider - War
Lowdown - Boz Scaggs
Make Me Smile - Chicago
MacAurther Park - Donna Summer
Minute by Minute - Doobie Brothers
Old Days - Chicago
Peg - Steely Dan
Pick Up the Pieces - Average White Band
Play That Funky Music White Boy - Wild Cherry
Rebel Rebel - David Bowie
Reelin' In The Years - Steely Dan
Right Place, Wrong Time - Dr. John
Rise - Herb Alpert
Rock Steady - Aretha Franklin
Rock with You - Michael Jackson
Sara Smile - Hall & Oates
Saturday In The Park - Chicago
Shadow Dancing - Andy Gibb
September - Earth, Wind & Fire
Sex Machine - James Brown
Shake Your Body Down - The Jacksons
Shake Your Booty - KC & The Sunshine Band
Shining Star - Earth, Wind & Fire
Signed, Sealed, Delivered - Stevie Wonder
Sing A Song - Earth, Wind & Fire
So Into You – Atlanta Rhythm Section
So Very Hard To Go - Tower of Power
Starman - David Bowie
Staying Alive - Bee Gees
Suffrajette City - David Bowie
Superstition - Stevie Wonder
S.W.A.T - Rhythm Heritage
Tenth Avenue Freeze Out - Bruce Springsteen
That's the Way (I Like It) - KC & The Sunshine Band
Tupelo Honey - Van Morrison
The Jean Genie - David Bowie
The Letter - Joe Crocker
Vehicle - Ides of March
What A Fool Believes – Doobie Brothers
What Is Hip? - Tower of Power
What You Won't Do for Love - Bobby Caldwell
Wild Night – Van Morrison/John Cougar Mellencamp
Will it Go Round in Circles? - Billy Preston
You Are So Beautiful - Joe Cocker
You Are the Sunshine of My Life - Stevie Wonder
You Make Lovin Fun - Fleetwood Mac
You May Be Right – Billy Joel
You Should Be Dancing - Bee Gees
You're Still a Young Man - Tower of Power
Young Americans - David Bowie
Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie
OLDIES, MOTOWN, BEACH, 60's
25 or 6 to 4 - Chicago
ABC - Jackson 5
Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Marvin Gaye
Ain't to Proud to Beg - The Temptations
All You Need is Love - The Beatles
Beginnings - Chicago
Brown-Eyed Girl - Van Morrison
Can't Take My Eyes Off You - Frankie Valli
Carolina on My Mind - James Taylor
Crazy - Patsy Cline
Dancing in the Street - Martha and the Vandellas
Domino - Van Morrison
Georgia On My Mind - Ray Charles
God Bless the Child - Blood, Sweat and Tears
Hawaii 5-0 - TV Theme
Hard To Handle - Otis Redding/Black Crowes
Higher and Higher - Jackie Wilson
I Want To Take You Higher - Sly & The Family Stone
Knock on Wood - Eddie Floyd
La Vie En Rose - Louis Armstrong
More Today Than Yesterday - Spiral Staircase
Mustang Sally - Wilson Pickett
My Girl - Temptations
Respect - Aretha Franklin
Shout - Animal House version
Sing A Simple Song - Sly & The Family Stone
Son of a Preacherman - Dusty Springfield
Soul Man - Blues Brothers
Space Oddity - David Bowie
Spinning Wheels - Blood, Sweat & Tears
Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond
The Look of Love - Fergie/Sergio Mendes
Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) - Sly & The Family
Touch Me – The Doors
You Made Me So Very Happy - Blood, Sweat & Tears
SWING; JAZZ; BIG BAND
A Go-Go - John Scofield
A Kiss To Build a Dream On - Louis Armstrong/Rod Stewart
All of Me - Frank Sinatra
At Last - Etta James
Autumn Leaves - Chet Baker
Chameleon - Herbie Hancock
Cheek to Cheek - Frank Sinatra
Crazy Life - Gino Vannelli
Feels So Good – Chuck Mangione
Fly Me To The Moon - Frank Sinatra
Footprints - Miles Davis
Georgia On My Mind - Ray Charles
Hawaii 5-0 - TV Theme
Hello Dolly - Louis Armstrong
Jump, Jive an' Wail - The Brian Setzer Orchestra
Love Is Here to Stay - Ella Fitzgerald/Frank Sinatra
Mercy, Mercy, Mercy - Cannonball Adderley
Mr. Magic - Amy Winehouse
My Funny Valentine - Frank Sinatra
Rise - Herb Alpert
Rock This Town - The Brian Setzer Orchestra
Smooth Operator - Sade
So What - Miles Davis
Song for My Father - Horace Silver
Sway - Pussy Cat Dolls/Sinatra
The Way You Look Tonight - Frank Sinatra
Tough Talk - Crusaders
What A Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong
What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life? - Chris Botti/Sting
When You're Smiling - Louis Armstrong
When the Saints Go Marching In - Louis Armstrong
Zoot Suit Riot - Cherry Poppin' Daddies
**Plus many other Jazz Standards
HORN BAND TRIBUTE
25 or 6 to 4 - Chicago
Beginnings - Chicago
Call On Me - Chicago
Does Anybody Know What Time It Is? - Chicago
Fantasy - Earth, Wind & Fire
God Bless the Child - Blood, Sweat and Tears
If You Leave Me Now - Chicago
Just You 'N Me - Chicago
Let's Groove - Earth Wind & Fire
Lucretia Macevil - Blood, Sweat & Tears
Make Me Smile - Chicago
Old Days – Chicago
Pick Up the Pieces - Average White Band
Saturday In The Park - Chicago
September - Earth, Wind & Fire
Shining Star - Earth, Wind & Fire
Sing A Song - Earth, Wind & Fire
So Very Hard To Go - Tower of Power
Spinning Wheels - Blood, Sweat & Tears
S.W.A.T - Rhythm Heritage
This Time It's Real - Tower of Power
Vehicle - Ides of March
What Is Hip? - Tower of Power
You Made Me So Very Happy - Blood, Sweat & Tears
You're Still a Young Man - Tower of Power
You're The Inspiration - Chicago
CLASSIC ROCK
25 or 6 to 4 - Chicago
All You Need is Love - The Beatles
Another Brick in the Wall – Pink Floyd
Babylon Sisters - Steely Dan
Baker Street – Gerry Rafferty
Beginnings - Chicago
Black Cow - Steely Dan
Bodhisattva - Steely Dan
Brandy - Looking Glass
Call On Me - Chicago
Crocodile Rock - Elton John
Don't Stop Believin' - Journey
Fame - David Bowie
Fly Like an Eagle - Steve Miller Band
FM - Steely Dan
Frankenstein - Edgar Winter Group
God Bless the Child - Blood, Sweat and Tears
Hold the Line - Toto
Interstate Love Song - Stone Temple Pilots
Josie - Steely Dan
Just You 'N Me - Chicago
Lido Shuffle - Boz Scaggs
Lonely Boy – Andrew Gold
Long Train Running - Doobie Brothers
Low Rider - War
Make Me Smile - Chicago
Minute by Minute - Doobie Brothers
Peg - Steely Dan
Rag Doll - Aerosmith
Reelin' In The Years - Steely Dan
Right Place, Wrong Time - Dr. John
Rosanna - Toto
Saturday In The Park – Chicago
Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
So Into You – Atlanta Rhythm Section
Spinning Wheels - Blood, Sweat & Tears
Tenth Avenue Freeze Out - Bruce Springsteen
The Letter - Joe Crocker
Touch Me – The Doors
Vehicle - Ides of March
Waiting For A Girl Like You – Foreigner
What A Fool Believes – Doobie Brothers
Wild Night – Van Morrison/John Cougar Mellencamp
You May Be Right – Billy Joel
COUNTRY
Boot Scootin' Boogie - Brooks & Dunn
Crazy - Patsy Cline
Get Drunk and Be Somebody - Toby Keith
I Loved Her First - Heartland
If You’re Not in it For Love - Shania Twain
Man, I Feel Like a Woman - Shania Twain
Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy - Big & Rich
Voodoo Woman - Koko Taylor/Susan Tedeschi
HOLIDAY; SPECIALTY; TRADITIONAL; RELIGIOUS
Auld Lang Syne - Traditional
Christmas Song - Chicago
Beatles Birthday - The Beatles
Bridal March - Traditional
Feliz Navidad - Jose Feliciano
Hawaii 5-0 - TV Theme
Hava Nagilah - Traditional
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas - Chicago
James Bond Theme Song
Jingle Bells - The Brian Setzer Orchestra
Santa Baby - Madonna
S.W.A.T - Rhythm Heritage
Trumpet Voluntary - Clarke and Purcell
White Christmas - Chicago
**Any Traditional Wedding Ceremony song, and special requests, too!
BULL CITY SYNDICATE's OWN!
(I Wanna) Testify - Bull City Syndicate
Brother Man - Bull City Syndicate
Carolina - Bull City Syndicate
My Baby Loves You - Bull City Syndicate
You Make Me Feel - Bull City Syndicate
As one of the most versatile bands in the region, BCS can also be hired in three other formats:
BCS Express (smaller 6-piece version of Bull City Syndicate)
Captain & The Keels (Yacht Rock Top-40 Hits)
American Bowie Experience (A Tribute to David Bowie)