The Party Monsters is a soulful good-time Party Dance Band based in the San Francisco Bay Area.  Playing a varied mixture of Motown, R&B, Classic Rock & Soul, the Monsters also play soft Jazz, Swing and Latin styles upon request. The basic band consists of Lead Vocals, Guitar/Vocals, Keyboards/Vocals, Bass & Drums, but can be expanded to add a tight horn section.

Veteran musicians with more than 100 years of combined experience entertaining crowds of all sizes, The Party Monsters will have your guests on the dance floor in no time. In addition to parties and dances, they can provide beautiful guitar & flute or piano & flute music for ceremonies, receptions, cocktails and dinner. Promotional CD’s and videos are available upon request. The Party Monsters will be happy to learn your first dance or special song!

 

Videos:

Get Ready

 

Pink Cadillac

 

I Shot The Sheriff

 

Kiss

 

Please enjoy these audio clips:

Get Ready

 

 Pink Cadillac

 

Kiss

 

 I Shot The Sheriff

 

Sample Song List

Dance Music

Birthday (Beatles)

Baby I Love You  (Aretha Franklin)

Boogie On Reggae Woman (Stevie Wonder)

Boogie Oogie Oogie  (Taste of Honey)

Brown Eyed Girl  (Van Morrison)

Celebration (Cool & the Gang)

Chain Of Fools (Aretha Franklin)

Clean Up Woman (Betty Wright)

Dancing in the Street (Martha & the Vandellas)

Dock of the Bay  (Otis Redding)

Get Ready (Rare Earth)

Gimme Some Lovin’ (Spencer Davis Group)

Got my Mojo Workin’ (Muddy Waters)

Hard to Handle (Black Crowes)

Help the Poor (BB King)

Have Mercy (Duffy)

Honky Tonk Women (Rolling Stones)

The House is Rockin’ (Stevie Ray Vaughan)

I Heard it Through the Grapevine (Marvin Gaye)

I Shot the Sheriff (Bob Marley)

Johnny B. Goode (Chuck Berry)

Kiss (Prince)

La Bamba (Ritchie Valens)

Let the Good Times Roll (New Orleans Standard)

Let’s Stay Together (Al Greene)

Little By Little (Rolling Stones)

Livin’ in the USA (Steve Miller)

Midnight Hour (Wilson Pickett)

Money (Beatles)

Moondance (Van Morrison)

Mustang Sally (Wilson Pickett)

Oh Darling! (Beatles)

Ooh Baby Baby (Smokey Robinson & The Miracles)

Pink Cadillac (Natalie Cole)

Pride & Joy  (Stevie Ray Vaughan)

Proud Mary (Tina Turner)

Rock Steady (Aretha Franklin)

Respect (Aretha Franklin)

Roll With It (Stevie Winwood)

Satisfaction (Rolling Stones)

Shake Rattle & Roll (Big Joe Turner)

Shake Your Body Down to the Ground (Michael Jackson)

Shaky Ground (Temptations)

Shotgun (Junior Walker)

Signed, Sealed, Delivered (Stevie Wonder)

Some Kind of Wonderful (The Drifters)

Something to Talk About (Bonnie Raitt)

Soulshine (Allman Brothers)

T-bone Shuffle (T-Bone Walker)

Take Me to the River (Sly Johnson/Talking Heads)

Think About It (Lyn Collins)

Twist & Shout (Beatles)

Use Me (Bill Withers)

Walkin’ Blues (Robert Johnson)

When Love Comes to Town (Joss Stone)

Swing

Aint’ Misbehavin’

All of Me

All the Things You Are

At Last

Bye Bye Blackbird

Don’t Get Around Much Anymore

Fly Me to the Moon

In the Mood

It’s Only a Paper Moon

Our Love is Here to Stay

Satin Doll

Summertime

Sweet Georgia Brown

Take the “A” Train

Slow

Georgia on My Mind

Misty

My Funny Valentine

My One & Only Love

Stormy Monday

(and more…)

Latin

Besame Mucho

Black Orpheus

Blue Bossa

Girl From Ipanema

Wuiet Nights

Saint Thomas

Song for My Father

Tequila

(and more…)

 

Waltzes

Moon River

My Favorite Things

Someday my Prince Will Come

(and more…)

 

What clients have to say

Having live music is exponentially better than a DJ. How lucky are we in the Bay Area that the Party Monsters are available to us?       ~   Birthday Party Hostess

They are all very accomplished musicians, but you made it look like just plain fun and we enjoyed ourselves immensely. ~ Party Attendee, Waterfront Restaurant, San Francisco