Counting Skeletons
Make no bones about it! Counting Skeletons provides a fantastic, entertaining show!
What’s in your closet? Based in Cincinnati and Dayton, Counting Skeletons is a group of local veteran musicians who entertain like your favorite Pandora station! They play upbeat, danceable Rock from the 70’s through Today. Come out for a night of fun, dance and songs!
(Visit our Tales from the Closet series for unique videos of songs we may not play live.)
Video Demos:
Summer Concert Series: Springboro
Live: Blue Collar Man by Styx
Live Show Samples
Show Schedule
Sample Set List
Our set list is dynamic; songs come and go frequently. Here’s a sample of what we do and have done.
1999 – Prince
Absolutely (Story of a Girl) – Nine Days
American Girl – Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
And She Was – Talking Heads
Bad Case of Lovin’ You – Robert Palmer
Bad Romance – (Lady Gaga) Jay Smith
Bloody Well Right – Supertramp
Breakup Song – Greg Kihn Band
Broken Like Me – lovelytheband
Blue Collar Man – Styx
Cake By the Ocean – DNCE
Centerfold – J. Geils Band
Check It Out – John Mellencamp
China Grove – Doobie Brothers
Closing Time – Semisonic
Counting Skeletons Medley – Various Artists (Wild Cherry; Commodores; Justin Timberlake; Michael Jackson; Cameo; Katy Perry; KC & Sunshine Band; Pseudo Echo)
Crazy – Seal
Devil Inside – INXS
Don’t Do Me Like That – Tom Petty
Don’t You Forget About Me – Simple Minds
Drift Away – Dobie Gray/Uncle Kracker
Everybody Talks – Neon Trees
Fall Down – Toad the Wet Sprocket
Family Man – Hall & Oates
Footloose – Kenny Loggins
Flag Pole Sitta – Harvey Danger
Hanging Around – Counting Crows
Hella Good – No Doubt
Hey Jealousy – Gin Blossoms
Hungry Like the Wolf – Duran Duran
I’ll Melt with You – Modern English
I’m a Believer – Monkees/Smashmouth
I Need a Lover – John Cougar Mellencamp
In the Dark – Billy Squire
I’ve Done Everything for You – Rick Springfield
I Wanna Be Sedated – Ramones
I Wish – Stevie Wonder
Jenny (867-5309) – Tommy Tutone
Just Like Heaven – The Cure
Let’s Dance – David Bowie
Let’s Go – The Cars
Let’s Go Crazy – Prince
Little Runaway – Bon Jovi
Love Shack – The B52s
Mr. Blue Sky – ELO
My Own Worst Enemy – Lit
One Week – Bare Naked Ladies
Our House – Madness
Power of Love – Huey Lewis
Pump It Up – Elvis Costello
Raise Your Glass – Pink
Rebel Yell – Billy Idiol
Rio – Duran Duran
Roller Coaster – Red Hot Chili Peppers/Ohio Players
Shattered – O.A.R.
She’s a Beauty – The Tubes
She’s So High – Tal Bachman
She’s So Mean – Matchbox 20
Short Skirt, Long Jacket – Cake
Shut Up and Dance – Walk the Moon
Song 2 – Blur
Surrender – Cheap Trick
Take the Money and Run – Steve Miller
Talk to You Later – The Tubes
The Breakup Song – Greg Kihn
The Distance – Cake
The Middle – Jimmy Eat World
Too Much Time on My Hands – Styx
Two Tickets to Paradise – Eddie Money
Uptown Funk – Mick Ronson/Bruno Mars
Walking on the Sun – Smashmouth
Working for the Weekend – Loverboy
You May Be Right – Billy Joel
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