Demo Songs

Here are some tracks of the band, so you can hear how great we sound!  Just click on each of the titles below.  We've added some interesting facts and background on each song, in case you're interested!

Note: These tracks were produced from the actual backing tracks we use, with added guitars and vocals; so this is exactly what we sound like live. 

Have I Told You Lately  (click title to play)

One of the best pop ballads ever written, and a major hit for composer Van Morrison, it's also been covered by many others including Rod Stewart.  Van's original version is No. 6 on a list of most popular first dance wedding songs in the UK!  Our version is a showcase for Emma's sweet but sultry voice, and also features a stunning guitar solo from John (says John...) in the middle.

Valerie (click title to play)

The breakthrough hit for the Zutons and a hit a second time for Mark Ronson featuring Amy Winehouse, this one shows the band's  versatility and variety of material and Emma's ability to deliver in any style.

The Zutons' drummer Sean Payne revealed that the song was written about a US girl friend of their lead singer Dave McCabe who got caught drink-driving.  The Zutons bass guitarist Russell Pritchard was asked if the band expected Ronson's cover to be a hit. He replied: "I wouldn't say we're fans, but we don't hate it. It's not a bad thing - he's just stuck the beat from The Jam's' 'Town Called Malice' behind it. I quite like it. It proves how catchy the song is that it can be played in two very different ways and still be a hit. It shows that we're good at songwriting, or at least that we can be."

Get Ready (click title to play)

This fast tempo Tamla Motown soul classic written by Smokey Robinson was originally a hit for the Temptations.  It was also made famous by Motown's 'rock band' Rare Earth, whose showcase twenty minute live version was edited down to a three minute single and became a bigger hit than the original.  It was also covered by The Supremes, The Miracles and, unlikely as it might seem, The Proclaimers!

Superstition (click title to play)

Always a crowd-pleaser and one of our firm favourites, Stevie Wonder wrote the song for Jeff Beck as a thank you for Jeff playing on Stevie's album 'Talking Book'.  By using Jeff, Stevie was trying to introduce rock elements to the album in order to widen appeal to both black and white audiences, and this worked.  However, Tamla Motown's boss, Berry Gordy, figured it would be a big hit for Stevie, so they rushed it out as a single before Jeff Beck could get around to it, and it was.  Jeff Beck did release it, both as a single and an album track, but his version was a massive, thunderous, heavy rock version in the style of the band he was heading up at the time, Beck Bogert & Appice.