Dear Friends,
I just landed a new job at a very nice Italian restaurant. I'm to play there every Thursday evening from 6 to 10 pm. There is no dance floor so this is dinner music (vocal & instrumental). The management wants about 1/3 Italian oriented music (including American hits by Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra). I’ve got the other 2/3s covered but I need help finding Italian songs. I have and already play the typical Tarantellas, Bouna Sera, That’s Amore, Volare, O Sole Mio, Santa Lucia, Ciribiribin, Eh Cumpari, Finiculi Funicula, Anema E. Core, Come Back To Sorrento and so fourth (I do not use midi files).
While all these are good and useful, they will not come close to filling my needs 4 hours a gig week after week at the same place. I don’t have time to transcribe songs from recordings so I guess I’m needing the songs to be in printed notation form. For my purposes “fake book” (lead sheet) format would be ideal. Do any of you know where I might obtain such a collection(s) of Italian songs?
Thanks,
Deaton