Perfect for the mandolin

[mandolin breeze]

Just wondering what songs folks have said to themselves "that'd be perfect for mandolin". Or just a tune that particularly begs for a mando solo. As I post this, I think of Jim Richter, got to tip my hat to Jim . . . he's out there doin' it. How about ABB "Jessica" or RS "Wild Horses"? I say, I like it!

[Roger Moss]

The Church - Antenna
The Church - Under The Milky Way

Anything capoed up more than three frets, really.

[Bertram Henze]

Tiptoe through the Tulips

[Simon DS]

‘Don’t worry, be happy’ by Bobby McFerrin.
Lots of vibrato.

[OneChordTrick]

Mandolin Wind, perhaps by the OP's bigger brother?

[Roger Moss]

Mandolin Wind, perhaps by the OP's bigger brother?

https://youtu.be/PeT08B8iMDY

[Beanzy]

Guaglione;



Or the Perez Prado version from 1958 with a pint of Arthur’s on the way...

[Charlie Bernstein]

"Dancing In the Street" - Martha Reeves

[yankees1]

Let's Get Drunk and _____ ! by Jimmy Buffett !

[NursingDaBlues]

Johnny B. Goode (while changing a word in the lyrics appropriately)

[JeffD]

The Swan, by Camille Saint-Saens. Tremolo from here to forever.

[T.D.Nydn]

Theme to Star Trek....

[sblock]

The opening theme (prologue) to "West Side Story" (Leonard Bernstein)

[mandroid]

You sing songs with your voice, you play melodies , tunes with the mandolin..

as a singer, with a mandolin, it's just whats in your hands .. play chords


or do the BB King, sing, then play..

[DavidKOS]

Theme to Star Trek....

The original one by Alexander Courage, of course!

[Jerry LM]

ST. Annes Reel

[sblock]

ST. Annes Reel

But that one is already available as a mandolin solo! It might even have been the very first tune I ever learned on the mandolin, in fact.

[sblock]

The original one by Alexander Courage, of course!

I have heard Chris Thile play excerpts from the original Star Trek theme on stage. So that base has been covered.

[yankees1]

Off to California !

[bratsche]

Flight of the Bumblebee.

bratsche

[Matt Harris]

I personally never would have thought of it, but then I heard it. Sarah Jarosz does Prince's 'When Doves Cry' on mandolin and it's pretty great.