INTERESTED IN BIG RAY & THE KOOL KATS?
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With recent performances in Las Vegas, New York City, Cabo San Lucas, and repeat shows at the Kennedy Center Galas in Washington, Big Ray and the Kool Kats deliver the talent, professionalism, and excitement your event demands, that will get rave reviews from your guests!
Named one of Modern Bride Magazines "Best Wedding Bands in America", Big Ray and the Kool Kats has the capability to perform literally thousands of songs, and most importantly, perform them with style and authenticity. From early evening dinner jazz & swing performed at a PERFECT VOLUME, so guests can talk, to the best in cross generational dance music when the party switches gears, Big Ray and the Kool Kats truly has a little something for everybody.
A crisp 4 piece rhythm section, 4 sizzling horn players, multiple lead male and female vocalists, all combine to bring a truly unique entertainment perspective to your event. And now, Big Ray and the Kool Kats offers costumed musical tributes to many of the greatest performers in the history of popular music to visually, as well as musically, enhance the theme and atmosphere of your event.
These costumed tributes include:
- The Andrews Sisters
- The Supremes
- En Vogue
- Frank Sinatra
- Dean Martin
- Tom Jones
- Stevie Wonder
- Sammy Davis, Jr.
- James Brown
- Marilyn Monroe
- Donna Summer
- Madonna, Shania
- Tina Turner
- Gladys Knight
Led by trumpeter Ray Caddell whose live and recording credits include appearances with Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra, Natalie Cole, and dozens of other national acts and Broadway shows, Big Ray and the Kool Kats can bring the same level of excellence to your event.
Big Ray leaves nothing to chance in order to insure the smooth success of your event. From the early arrival of his uniformed set up crew, through the performance of that special song to make the day uniquely yours, BRKK deliver a performance so dynamic, so professional, and so responsive to your entertainment needs that you'll certainly join their roster of satisfied clients who book them again and again, year after year.
Big Ray and the Kool Kats. When only the best will do.
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SONG LIST
PARTY SONGS
A Sky Full of Stars
All About That Bass
Bang Bang
Best Day Of My Life
Blank Space
Blurred Lines
Born this Way
Break Free
Bringing Sexy Back
Call Me Maybe
Celebrate
Crazy in Love
Doing It
Don't Stop the Music
Dynamite
Edge of Glory
Fireworks
Forget You
Get Lucky
Get This Party Started
Give me Everything
Happy
Higher
Ho Hey
I Really Like You
I Won't Let You Down
I've Got a Feeling
Jealous
Lips Are Movin'
Lips Are Moving
Live Your Life
Locked Out of Heaven
Love Me Harder
Love Never Felt So Good
Marry You
Moves Like Jagger
Nobody Love
Raise Your Glass
Rude
Set Fire to the Rain
Shake it Off
Shake It Off
Shake Your Body
Shut Up and Dance
Single Ladies
Sugar
Suit and Tie
Timber
Treasure
Uptown Funk
Wagon Wheel
We Found Love
MOTOWN ETC.
Ain't No Mountain
Ain't Too Proud to Beg
Baby I Need Your Lovin'
Bad Luck
Band of Gold
Be Young Be Foolish
Under the Boardwalk
Carolina Girls
Chain of Fools
Early in the Morning
Freeway
I Heard it Through the Grapevine
Hey Bartender
How Sweet it Is
I Feel Good
I'll Be Around
I Love Beach Music Medley
I Got To Use My Imagination
Just Fine
Knock on Wood
Let's get it On
Let's Stay Together
Little Red Book
Love Man
Same Old Song
Nowhere to Run
Get Ready
Dancing in the Street
My Girl
Mustang Sally
Midnight Hour
Ocean Boulevard
Summertime's Calling Me
Rescue me
Respect
Bill Deal & Rhondells Medley
Rock Steady
Shout
Sing a Song
Signed sealed delivered
Sir Duke
Soul Man
Sugar Pie Honey Bunch
This Will Be
This Old heart of Mine
Tracks of my tears
With This Ring
Pop/Rock/Disco
Ain't No Other Man
Ain't No Stopping Us Now
Barry White Medley
Back in Love Again
Bad Girls
Beginnings
Boogie Oogie Oogie
Brown Eyed Girl
By Your Side
Call Me
Car Wash
Cheeseburger in Paridise
Margaritaville
Chic Medley
Club Can't Handle Me
Crusin'
Dancing Queen
DJ Got Us Falling In Love
Don't Stop Believing
Do You Love Me
Get Down on It
Firework
Givin' it up for your Love
Get into The Groove
Glory Days
Heart of Rock and Roll
Hit Me with your best Shot
Holiday
I Gotta Feeling
I'm Every Woman
It's Raining Men
I Wanna Dance
I Will Survive
Lady marmalade
Let's Get Loud
Last Dance
Let's Hear it for the Boy
Let's Groove
Living on a Prayer
Love On Top
Love Train
Man I Feel Like a Woman
Moves Like Jagger
Open Arms
Play That Funky Music
Power of Love
Proud Mary
Redneck Woman
Rolling in the Deep
September
She Works hard for the Money
Shout
Simply Irresistible
Some Kind of Wonderful
Uptown Girl
Valerie
We Are Family
What I Like about You
You Shook Me All Night Long
YMCA
SWING/SINATRA
Ain't That a Kick
Beyond the sea
Cheek to Cheek
Fly Me to the Moon
Have You Met Miss Jones
I Get a Kick
Orange Colored Sky
Almost Like Being in Love
I Only Have Eyes for You
I've Got the World on a String
I've Got You Under my Skin
Mack the Knife
Glenn Miller Medley
Mr. Pinstripe
NY NY
Please be Kind
Route 66
Sinatra medley
Summer Wind
Sweet Caroline
Come Fly With Me
It Was a Very Good Year
Sway
The way You Look Tonight
Where or When
You Make Me Feel So Young
BALLADS
All The way
At Last
At This Moment
Because You Loved Me
Come Away with Me
Come Rain or Come Shine
Crazy
From this moment
Georgia
The Best Thing That ever Happened
Neither One of Us
Midnight train to Georgia
God Bless the USA
Have I Told You Lately
I Can't Make You Love me
I'll Be There
I Loved Her First
I'm Every Woman
Inseparable
It Feels Like Home to Me
I Will Always Love You
Just The Way You Are
Love Won't Let Me Wait
Misty
My Way
One in a Million
Somewhere Out There
So Very Hard to Go
Unforgettable
When I Fall in Love
What You Won't Do For Love
You'll Never Find
Songs for Jewish Events
Hava Nagila
Siman Tov
Tzena, Tzena
Klezmer
Mezinke Tanz (when the parents have married off their last child)
Sunrise, Sunset
To Life
Originals
Plus literally hundreds of cocktail jazz dinner music selections, patriotic music and ethnic selections as well as virtually any requests communicated to BRKK ahead of time.