Mike,

When you're performing background music for dinner and cocktail parties, it's just that--soft, instrumental background music--no vocals at all.

During a routine night of dancing, most are vocals, however, there are usually instrumental runs during each song as well. All vocals would make for a boring night without some good instrumental tunes mixed in as well. For example, Moonlight Serenade can be done with lyrics, but it sounds so great as an instrumental that it instantly packs any dancefloor. Tequila is a great one to get the youngsters ou there shaking things and enjoying the night's festivities. I usually begin Unchained Melody as an instrumental, which gives the crowd time to reach the dance floor, then kick into the vocal arrangement, put a great sax instrumental run in the middle of the song, then end with vocal. Ya' gotta' mix it up. A great performer who's initials are DNJ demonstrates this very well every day of the week.

Gary