Top 10 Solo Acoustic Songs -Picked by YOU! (And ChatGPT?)

[@dvanolya]

Thanks!

[@FrankPersico]

I very much appreciate this thank you so much

[@pastorsharpie]

Dude!! I'm dying at the Rick Beato joke!! AMAZING!! Thanks for your videos!!

[@FrankPersico]

Hahaha glad you liked it!! I think it’s time to start riffing on some of these other people in my field just for the sake of comedy: ….. any suggestions for who next?!? Lol

[@JeffWicker-k3j]

Great video Frankie! Thank you! 😎👍🎸

[@FrankPersico]

Thank you too!

[@marting617]

Thanks for the insight on "crowd pleasers" I have only been playing Open Mic Nights so far to build up my skiills and have made a point of observing the crowd. Originals are cool, but people definitely perk up when a sing along cover is played. Your advice of "play the Beatles in an emergency" holds true! Your videos are a big help to me, thanks!

[@FrankPersico]

Thanks for commenting! Wish u the best at your gigs!

[@NDFlyFisher]

Great video. Really fun and I love the humor.

[@FrankPersico]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@kens2114]

Great stuff, really enjoy your fireside chats, hey even your jokes, cheers Frank

[@FrankPersico]

Thanks so much and cheers right back!

[@davidedie1518]

I have always had a great reaction doing Margarittavile and Country Roads at my performances. Thank you for your stuff.

[@FrankPersico]

Thanks, those are both classics. Cheers!

[@joebarker5719]

I get the impression that a lot of these are some people's "fav" songs... but I have to agree with Frank on his takes. Good stuff! Played the Honeybee Festival yesterday in Paradise Valley, AZ and after watching may other acts, I realize there will never be a top 10 we ALL agree upon. This is VERY good to think through... and 1/2 probably will change over the next 365 days.

[@FrankPersico]

You’re completely right. I wonder what the top ten would be today lol!!?

[@jasonjohnson49]

Great vid! And that guitar has great tone!

[@FrankPersico]

Thanks, I appreciate it!

[@TheFairway8]

Interesting video. You’re a fine player with a very affable character new subscriber. One song I would pick is Everything I Own by Bread what a beautiful acoustic song and definitely a Bowie song

[@FrankPersico]

Thanks for the comment! Great song pick and yeah love Bowie!! I love to cover Ziggy Stardust among others

[@brentmoyer6618]

Sister Hazel..All for you. Also Old Man by Neil Young. Heaven by The Cure..Scarborough Fair and Just breathe / Better Man.

[@FrankPersico]

Great picks!!! Thanks for sharing

[@dvanolya]

Thanks!

[@FrankPersico]

Appreciate it!

[@Kenneth-tm8ml]

Damn good guitar playing and you have a sense of humor too as old as we're getting it's hard to have one anymore nothing personal brother keep up the fine work bro

[@FrankPersico]

Appreciate that - thanks for watching!

[@RichlandCommunity]

How about a list of the top ten acoustic crowd pleasers that haven’t been done to death? 😜

[@FrankPersico]

That’s a great idea!! Wheels are now turning … cheers

[@PeteFolksinger]

Great video Frank! Sound of Silence was the first song I learned to finger pick (before KZbin and Internet). I think I was about 12 and figured out T-2-1-2 on an open D2 (5th fret) to C2 (3rd) before I even knew what a 2 chord was. Out of the Chat GPT ones my regulars include Blackbird, Sound of Silence, Hallelujah, The Boxer, Blowin' in the Wind (more like the Peter Paul and Mary style) Landslide Others in my list: Piano Man (yes I do the harmonica too) Here Comes the Sun Margaritaville (sorry) Brown-Eyed Girl Stand By Me (Ben E King...I loop the bass riff and play the interlude on harmonica) Take Me Home Country Roads Sweet Caroline (but not often, still a work in progress) Fire & Rain

[@FrankPersico]

Wow - that's a great list! Lots of classics there! Thanks for sharing with us all!! Cheers

[@Magnet54]

Frank, truly enjoy your station!

[@FrankPersico]

Thanks so much!

[@DamonBates]

Boxer is great. Gotta add that. Tears in Heaven stumps me…and it keeps coming up…it’s an “open your veins in the bathtub” song can’t imagine it gets the crowd going. I’m from NYC too…probably why I love your style…:-)

[@FrankPersico]

Yeah, Tears in Heaven is a tough one for a dance party, lol.

[@pastorsharpie]

🤣🤣🤣 AGAIN!! Drive in your car and hold your harmonica out the window??? I'm dying!!! 🤣🤣🤣

[@FrankPersico]

lol I try

[@randallhaney7909]

My list !: Little Martha, Allman Bros. 2: Laid, James. 3: Harvest Moon, Neil Young. 4: Tin Man, América. or Dancing in the Moonlight, King Harvest. 5: Me & Mr. Hohner, Bobby Darin. 6: Walking in Memphis, Marc Cohn. 7: Late in the Evening, Paul Simon. 8: Down Under, Colin Hay/Men at Work. 9: Morning Sun, Jesse Colin Young. 10: Mellow Yellow, Donovan./ Rainy Day Women, Bob Dylan. All songs subject to change depending on Room Vibe LOL.

[@FrankPersico]

Great list!!! Thanks for sharing .. I do harvest moon

[@RickSandersMusic]

Your intro to this video was inspired. I love it 🤣

[@FrankPersico]

Thanks, glad you liked it!

[@Troy1g]

Frank, great channel and lessons. On average, how many solo gigs do you play in a week or so living in NY?

[@FrankPersico]

Hi and thanks! It really depends on the season. Generally 2-5. Summer is best

[@ghijkmnop]

Friday isn't complete without some Frank advice. :) I play a couple of these (although I do the Ryan Adams cover of the Oasis tune), but my gig is more about playing the songs you forgot you liked (because everybody plays the "hits" all the time around here), so those tunes stay in very deep reserve for paid requests. ;)

[@FrankPersico]

That’s a great idea. 💡 thanks for sharing and thanks for coming back to the channel! Cheers

[@jackbandel]

Hey Frank! Great video love your personality. But I have some comments. I personally take requests every night and have never been asked to play Carolina in my mind. Also, how could you leave out Free Fallin’? or Take it easy? I know it’s tough to come up with just 10.

[@FrankPersico]

I have made some vids with my own pics that do have some of the songs. But this video was about some of the songs that the audience picked. They were suggesting songs that I had not mentioned that’s why some of them seem a little off. Thanks for the comments …cheers!!

[@jackbandel]

@@FrankPersico I get it and I’m sure geography plays a role too. I play mostly requests every gig and the ones that get requested almost every night are: Brown Eyed Girl Hotel California Sweet Caroline Tennessee Whiskey Don’t Stop Believing Living on a prayer Wagon Wheel

[@rockinrr301]

love Love LOVE your vids!!! Move it on Over (slap strum) for upbeat, The Last Things on my Mind (finger style) by Tom Paxton for something different. :)

[@FrankPersico]

Great ideas, thanks for sharing!

[@MikeJones-rs1rv]

Love the topic of this video. But one of your picks naturally does something else you have touched on before. Which is mixing things up in a show. That is HERE COMES the SUN. Being a song with a much more treble overall tone ( almost like your guitar decided to do one falsetto ). And when you do it with all the ornamentation melody lines and transition notes it is busier and more entertaining for the performer to play. Which might make a good video subject. How to keep yourself excited without forcing yourself to project excitement because you are just being professional and delivering. ( Would needs a shorter video title ) I also think GIVE ME ONE REASON is a better choice for a set list than FAST CAR if you can use a looper, which you have shown you can. Just be sure to omit the 3 opening E notes before engaging the looper on that first F# chord. Then all the licks that do a call and return with the vocals make another nice change in the show. Just one more way to do something different much like what HERE COMES THE SUN and PIANO MAN does for a show. And as soon as those 3 E notes hit every female in the room looks is to see if you do it well. Lets face it this is much more of a favorite of the ladies. But it is such a loved song that doing it just good will be very appreciated and if done very good or great, will get more presidents in the tip jar.

[@FrankPersico]

I think you're spot on with your observations about HERE COMES THE SUN. Great points and ideas for a future video!

[@Bixll09]

Dust in the wind, Wonderful tonight.... etc... I wish I was in Sherbrooke now.... Old Man, Harvest Moon. Take me home country road??? I guess being Canadian, not a big crowd fav here.

[@FrankPersico]

Thanks for the song picks!

[@michaelmcinerney1290]

Any crowded house stuff gets alot of people wanting to hear there stuff also.Better be home soon or don't dream it's over are popular choices.

[@FrankPersico]

Thanks for sharing!! Great suggestions

[@nickworley1000]

Nice one Frank

[@FrankPersico]

Thanks!!🙏

[@mognonsYT]

Minchia! 😂😂😂 You do excellent videos, amico mio!

[@FrankPersico]

Hahahah ;) ciao

[@jstones9872]

how does Harvest Moon not make this list?

[@FrankPersico]

Love that tune! Yea surprised it hasn’t come up 🤔

[@BadMofoMusicCritic]

I agree with most of this. I don’t really feel playing haleluah, wish you were here, tears in heaven etc. cliche snooze fest. Although sound of silence caught my attention. Your voice is great too man! Edit: house of the rising sun at a drunk campfire. Then you’ll understand!

[@FrankPersico]

Thanks so much and I I think you're onto something with House of the Rising Sun…. I gotta start embracing this one!

[@tonywalker6210]

Two more to challenge as late contenders for the top 10: 1. Weather With You, Crowded House as a much better alternative to Wonderwall and very similar chords. I winder where Liam Gallagher got the idea from? 2. Losing My religion - one where the looper pays for itself. Cheers Tony

[@FrankPersico]

Nice picks!! Thanks for sharing

[@tonywalker6210]

@@FrankPersico Weather With You is one for the looper as well - I should have said originally. Cheers Tony.

[@tonywalker6210]

@@FrankPersico Another great room-waker and singalong starter is (if it isn't too corny) is Wagon wheel.

[@lucasmello12_]

Great! Sometimes we have to play songs we don't appreciate... I would add Have you ever seen the rain

[@FrankPersico]

Great choice!

[@Bixll09]

We call that Bermuda these days.. FYI. You have to go and check out horseshoe beach.

[@FrankPersico]

Will do

[@peternuss8682]

DUDE DAH...RING OF FIRE...HARVEST MOON...HORSE WITH NO NAME...ON THE ROAD AGAIN...YES VERY COUN TREE. I PLAY ALOT IN THE POCONOS. Oh I threw in some Colton Wall and Claptons nobody knows you when your down and out. My tip jars fav.

[@FrankPersico]

Thanks for sharing!

[@Steven_Lee_Music]

Dancing songs? Brown Eyed Girl, I shot the sheriff/Red Red Wine, Wild nights, Tom Petty stuff, What's up by non-blondes, others...? I think Acoustic players short change dancing stuff...

[@FrankPersico]

Great idea!! 💡

[@maryannmay7105]

Small town by John Mellencamp is such a good song to sing.I don’t care what other people think about Wonderwall it’s a brilliant song.

[@FrankPersico]

That’s a great one! ☝️

[@4gcole]

Fire and Rain is a good opener!

[@FrankPersico]

Love that tune!🎵

[@tommythomas7944]

Guitar sounds great

[@FrankPersico]

Thanks so much

[@professorwhoopee]

Loving the Ricki B joke

[@FrankPersico]

😜

[@allenmorris85]

Hey Frank, when you said minchia, I nearly fell off my chair. I heard you say you were half Jewish, the other half must be Sicilian or Calabrese. God bless you Frank. Viva Italia! By the way, I am a Calabrese living in Adelaide South Australia. The Little New York! ❤

[@FrankPersico]

lol I’m glad you got a kick out of it. Lol it’s an Italian thing!!! Thanks for commenting. Yes i am half Italian hence the last name:)

[@rzambory2938]

Nice job.

[@FrankPersico]

Appreciate it!

[@4gcole]

Here There and Everywhere 😊

[@FrankPersico]

Loooove that song!

[@blueeyephil]

Wagon Wheel goes with Country Road

[@FrankPersico]

For sure!!

[@michaelmpeterson]

"Gear-loving psychopaths" was very funny.😂

[@FrankPersico]

😂😂

[@Ronboify]

Your list is good. But keep in mind that some folks like music for the beat, or lyrics, or emotion. Give me a list of songs that you play that evoke emotion in the listeners. Some that I play that seem to work are Desperado, Hallelujah, She's Got A Way, Please Come to Boston, etc.

[@FrankPersico]

This is a great idea for a video. Thanks!!

[@59jdubya]

Is Mr. Bojangles on anyone’s list anymore?

[@FrankPersico]

Good question. I have been asked to play this once or twice

[@59jdubya]

A lot of melancholy on the Chat GTP list and just a little brighter on the viewer list. So does the algorithm associate solo acoustic with slow and reflective?

[@FrankPersico]

Interesting observation. I'll have to dig deeper into ChatGPT's “thinking”

[@John-s8s8q]

Tuesday Afternoon Moody Blues

[@FrankPersico]

Another great one!

[@ianholt7284]

Got a larf from London with the Dylan harmonica crack 🙃

[@FrankPersico]

Hahaah thanks

[@John-s8s8q]

Both Sides Now Joni Mitchell

[@FrankPersico]

👍

[@WildBill1120]

Piano man sounds really great on a 12-string. Gets closer to a piano sounds.

[@FrankPersico]

I bet it does! Would love to hear it.

[@LordBoondock]

Harvest Moon!!!!!!!!!

[@FrankPersico]

Yesssss!

[@doctorr2]

I hate to say it, but you need to get "Brown Eyed Girl" in that list.

[@FrankPersico]

Very true! Lol

[@DerekHart-g3t]

There are so many songs that don't make the top lists simply because they didn't make it to world wide distribution. In fact I would say that the best songs probably never made it to simply because the artist wasn't popular. At the risk of repeating myself "Say it ain't so Joe" by Murray Head is one of my favorites even though I have only recently found it. Other singer/song writers produce some great stuff that maybe don't make it commercially. There are also those where the artists simply didn't perform that well in general but maybe had a moment of inspiration on a single song that should have been a hit. AI will be the death of all of us.

[@FrankPersico]

Great points made all around. Thanks for sharing

[@John-s8s8q]

Light My Fire Jose Feliciano

[@FrankPersico]

👍

[@callanturner4749]

If you get asked to play Wonderwall swap it for dont look back in anger. You’re welcome. Also Wagon Wheel is popular

[@FrankPersico]

Thanks for the suggestion!!

[@rickgrebenikpuggles56]

Keaggy blows all these songs away

[@FrankPersico]

👍

[@martindavidson2071]

Laughed out loud at the harmonica out the car window comment

[@FrankPersico]

Ahhaha I wish I could take full credit for that

[@shawnmkramer]

Something with sponge cake …. Yeah!

[@FrankPersico]

Rotfl!!! Yes!!!

[@michaelmcinerney1290]

Blue suede shoes elvis version gets of alot of requests and wont back down tom petty is popular also

[@FrankPersico]

Thanks for sharing… also great tunes cheers!🍻

[@jc-mel]

I didn't know people hated on Wonder Wall so much until I started watching videos about playing acoustic guitar. Why is it so polarizing?

[@FrankPersico]

I have often wondered why people feel the need to be so opinionated in a negative way about a particular song. I get a kick out of seeing them get triggered by a song recommendation. I think I may do a video discussing why Wonderwall is the best song ever written just to see what happens Lolol

[@John-s8s8q]

Time in a Bottle Jim Croce

[@FrankPersico]

Great pick!!

[@chezy57chesham76]

I would have thrown in Fire and rain.

[@FrankPersico]

Love that song!! 🎵

[@throughthefog-go]

good stuff, now answer my call !!

[@FrankPersico]

👍

[@Ronboify]

That's not "Landslide"

[@FrankPersico]

👍

[@frankthetank2076]

My wife said, don't ya play wonderwall again...And I said maybeeeeeeee....;-)

[@FrankPersico]

Rotfl!!!

[@John-s8s8q]

Sunny Bobby Hebb

[@FrankPersico]

👍🎶

[@jamhansen]

One by U2

[@FrankPersico]

Nice! Love that song

[@donnacolwell3988]

Good songs. However, I have no interest in playing Wonder Wall, and you're not changing my mind.

[@rickgrebenikpuggles56]

I agree, gag me song

[@FrankPersico]

Hahaah cool..

[@tomf9292]

Some of these maybe cliche but you are there to entertain. I saw a solo guy the other night and he was clearly there to entertain himself not the crowd 😮

[@rickgrebenikpuggles56]

@@tomf9292 wondereall is not a song that captures peoples attention, I sing journey (demonstration in my channel), Even that is not enough to capture people attention

[@FrankPersico]

@@tomf9292 ouch.. yeah that can make for a not very fun night lolol

[@AnthoBalto-pj9vl]

Hi Frank I am at an age where playing sad moaning songs especially in a minor just don’t do it for me.Give me Dylan Joel songs with attitude and from the alternative musical universe in Australia we have Easybeats the Masters Apprentices and The Loved ones with acoustic numbers that rock grazie Franco

[@FrankPersico]

I totally get it. Cheers

[@John-s8s8q]

Nora Jones Don't know Why

[@FrankPersico]

👍

[@richardfranklinmorse]

Face it guys and gals, if you’re playing a physical guitar you’re a dinosaur. I play oldies from the 50s and the 60s, nowadays 80s and 90s are oldies.

[@FrankPersico]

Oh so true

[@John-s8s8q]

Teach Your Children C,S,&N

[@FrankPersico]

👍👍✌🏻

[@johngalvin7992]

Obviously for the parents not the 21 year old

[@FrankPersico]

You would be surprised at what some the the 21 year olds know. I have been shocked sometimes by their tastes …

[@chrisgoodenough1374]

Don Henley🤣🤣🤣

[@FrankPersico]

Hahaah

[@SteveAuger2021]

Rick Beato farted, Why that song is great

[@FrankPersico]

lol yeah I love when people tell me why a song is great… lol

[@randallhaney7909]

Wow, ChatGPT picks? the only song on the list that is ever remotely happy/upbeat is "Here Comes the Sun" Good songs no doubt (trendy no surprises and not very up lifting) Yikes I don't think those 10 song played as a set would fly. The audience would need to be treated for deep depression after the show. Yeah I think my brain is wired strange, This time my list is way different.

[@FrankPersico]

Hahaha lol I agree. A real downer of a set list lol

[@randallhaney7909]

@@FrankPersico Right? Like I said, All top notch loved hits. But a bit more than a little thematic in flavor and mood .. LOL P.S. Thanks for the replies, Many don't. You're appreciated.

[@rickgrebenikpuggles56]

I didn't have any songs I like, that's why I quit gigging, boring same crap songs over and over,

[@FrankPersico]

Cool. Whatever floats your boat

[@rickgrebenikpuggles56]

@@FrankPersico lol, that's all you have to say? 😂

[@FrankPersico]

@@rickgrebenikpuggles56 lol.. yeah im tired today. too many comments hahah