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Someone To Watch Over Me - Top 10 Dueling Pianos Songs to Stalk By

  • mweiser
  • Jun 23, 2014
  • 2 min read

Now that we've officially kicked off the summer season, thoughts turn to young love, and warm nights outdoors, and driving your car with the top down...and parking outside the home of that special someone while obsessively wondering where they are on a Tuesday night without you...

So, what is the perfect Dueling Pianos playlist for the lonely nights spent pining over that unattainable hottie who just doesn't understand you?

Here's our list ---

#10 - POSSESSION by Sarah McLachlan

You have to love a song whose lyrics came directly from the love letters sent to the artist by a fan, who wound up suing her for the use, and then committed suicide before the trial could begin.

#9 - YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL by James Blunt

For the urban dweller, spying that special someone on the subway train, we've got you covered. And if you're also "flying" high...bonus.

#8 - INTO THE NIGHT by Benny Mardones

This song was quite the hit in 1980, released when Benny was 34 years old. Now consider the opening lines of the song -- "She's just 16 years old...Leave her alone, they say..." Wonder why...

#7 - ONE WAY OR ANOTHER by Blondie

The gold standard of rock n roll stalk-em-til-you-get-em songs. Ignore the stunning blonde at the microphone and just listen to the words. No really. Ignore the stunning...ok, nevermind.

#6 - ALL FOR LEYNA by Billy Joel

Can't have a Dueling Pianos top 10 without representation from the Big Kahuna himself.

This musicalization of the one night stand that just can't take the hint, but hey, at least he got her name.

#5 - COME TO MY WINDOW by Melissa Etheridge

If we could list every felony this song advocates, our protagonist would be a lifer.

For starters - breaking & entering, criminal trespass, larceny by false promise, and the list goes on...How do we know all this? Don't ask.

#4 - EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE by The Police

Is there a creepier song than this one? Even Sting himself describes this sinister song as embracing control, surveillance, and evil.

#3 - 867-5309 by Tommy Tutone

The creepiest 80s one-hit wonder this side of SOMEBODY'S WATCHING ME by Rockwell. And now, every area code in the country has to remove this number. Decades before robo-calling came along, the unfortunate owners of these digits were besieged by prankers from coast to coast.

#2 - ALONE by Heart

The go-to singalong power ballad for every waitress in every Dueling Piano Bar in the country. If any of them were to stop and listen to the words on their way to belting the high notes, they might think twice about their 3am song choices...

And the #1 Dueling Pianos stalker song ---

JESSE'S GIRL by Rick Springfield

Is there any doubt? One of the most popular songs at any SHAKE RATTLE & ROLL Dueling Pianos show (don't believe us? check our homepage video) is about a guy scheming to steal his best friend's girl. And he seems to know an awful lot about their intimate details. And now, so do we.

Have a song we left out? Let us know!

 
 
 

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