jerry breiner | solo GUITAR / PIANO for your special event

Live entertainment featuring solo acoustic and electric guitar or piano, with many hours of material from 60s folk to 90s pop, don't ya know I'd love to work with you! Below is just a small sampling of the 1000s of songs in my repertoire either performed with instruments only or with any of my backing tracks (including all instruments played by yours truly).

Here is a link to a video demo of what I sound like live....

Restaurants, weddings, receptions, corporate events - please feel free to contact me for a quote. I've been performing in public since I was 9 years old, and those performances have taken me all the way from Florida to California and most places in between. I am located in Ventura, CA, a few miles from the Pacific...

Fully self-contained PA and sound system.

jerry.breiner1@gmail.com or 805.794.7323

SONGLIST - always getting updated...

This is an example of the music production list I pull from but its constantly being updated - as always, requests are encouraged as I know 1000s more !

Africa - Toto

After Midnight - J J Cale

Aint Too Proud to Beg - Temptations

All Day and All of the Night - Kinks

Alison - Elvis Costello

All I Gotta Do - BGeatles

All Right Now - Free

American Tune - Paul Simon

Amie - Pure Prairie League

And I Love Her - Beatles

And Your Bird Can Sing - Beatles

Anna - Beatles

Anytime - Arlo Guthrie

Baby Blue - Badfinger

Baby I Love Your Way - Frampton

Back in the High Life - Steve Winwood

Bang a Gong - T Rex

Beach Boys Medley

Beginnings - Chicago

Best of My Love - Eagles

Billie Jean - Michael Jackson

Black Friday - Steely Dan

Black Queen - Stephen Stills

Black Water - Doobie Brothers

Blue Sky - Allman Brothers

Bluebird - Paul McCartney

Blood and Roses - Smithereens

Bodhittsava - Steely Dan

Born Under a Bad Sign - Cream

Boxer - Simon & Garfunkel

Brandy - Looking Glass

Brown-eyed Girl - Van Morrison

Burn Down the MIssion - Elton John

Bus Stop - Hollies

California Dreamin - Mamas n Papas

Call me the Breeze - J J Cale

Callin Elvis - Dire Straits

Cant Find My Way Home - Blind Faith

Cathys Clown - Everly Brothers

Celebrate Me Home - Kenny Loggins

C'est La Vie - Chuck Berry

Cherry Cherry - Neil Diamond

City of New Orleands - Steve Goodman

Classical Gas - Mason Williams

Cold Shot - Stevie Ray Vaughan

Come and Get Your Love - Redbone

Comes and Goes - Dan Fogelberg

Cookie Jar - Michael Franks

Country Road - James Taylor

Country Roads - John Denver

Crash In To Me - Dave Matthews

Crazy Love - Poco

Crazy Train - Ozzy Osbourne

Creedence Clearwater medley

Cut the Cake - Average White Band

Dance with Me - Orleans

Dancin Dayz - Led Zeppelin

Dancin Shoes - Dan Fogelberg

Dancin in the Streets - Martha & the Vandellas

Dannys Song - Kenny Loggins

Daughters - John Mayer

Daydream - Lovin Spoonful

Daydream Believer - John Stewart

Dead Mans Party - Oingo Boingo

Dear Prudence - Beatles

Diamond Girl - Seals and Crofts

Diggin on James Brown - Tower of Power

Do It Again - Steely Dan

Do You Believe in Magic - Lovin Spoonful

Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding

Doctor My Eyes - Jackson Browne

Domino - Van Morrison

Don't Cross the River - America

Don't Dream It's Over - Crowded House

Don't Need No Doctor - Ray Charles

Don't Stop This Train - John Mayer

Don't Think Twice - Bob Dylan

Don't Worry Baby - Beach Boys

Driftaway - Dobie Gray

Drive My Car - Beatles

Early Mornin Rain - Gordon Lightfoot

Eight Miles High - Byrds

End of the Line - Traveling Wilburys

Every Breath You Take - Police

Every Night - Paul McCartney

Everybody Get Together - Youngbloods

Everybody's Talkin - Fred Neil

Everything I Own - Bread

Evil Way - Santana

Father and Son - Cat Stevens

Feel a Whole Lot Better - Byrds

Ferry Cross the Mersey - Gerry & the Pacemakers

Fields of Gold - Sting

Fire - Jimi Hendrix

Fire - Bruce Springsteen

Fire and Rain - James Taylor

For What its Worth - Buffalo Springfield

For Your Love - Yardbirds

Fortunate Son - John Fogerty

Found Out About You - Gin Blossoms

Free Fallin - Tom Petty

French Waltz - Adam Mitchell

Friday I'm in Love - Cure

Friend of the Devil - Grateful Dead

From Me to You - Beatles

From the Beginning - Chicago

Garden Party - Rick Nelson

Gentle on my Mind - John Hartford

Get Down Tonight - K C & the Sunshine Band

Give a LIttle Bit - Supertramp

Go and Say Goodbye - Richie Furay

God Only Knows - Beach Boys

Going Back to Memphis - Levon Helm

Good Time Charlie - Danny O'Keefe

Good Times/Get Lucky - Chic/Daft Punk

Grapevine (Heard it Thru the) - Marvin Gaye

Gravity - John Mayer

Grazin in the Grass - Hugh Masekela

Groovin - Young Rascals

Hang On Sloopy - The McCoys

Happy Together - Turtles

Harvest Moon - Neil Young

Heart Full of Soul - Yardbirds

Helpless - Neil Young

Helplessly Hoping - CSNY

Here Comes the Sun - Beatles

Hey 19 - Steely Dan

Holding Back the Years - Simply Red

Home - Karla Bonoff

Homeward Bound - Paul Simon

Hotel California - Eagles

House at Pooh Corner - Kenny Loggins

How Can You Mend a Broken Heart - BeeGees

How Long - Ace

Hungry Heart - Bruce Springsteen

I Cant Go For That - Funky Town

I Can't Tell You Why - Eagles

I Feel Good - James Brown

I Got a Line On You - Spirit

I Got A Woman - Ray Charles

I Just Want to Celebrate - Rare Earth

I Keep Holdin On - Ambrosia

I Should Have Known Better - Beatles

I Think We're Alone Now - Tiffany

I Wanna Thank You - Z Z Top

I Want You to Want Me - Cheap Trick

I Will - Beatles

I Will Follow - U2

I Wish - Stevie Wonder

Illinois - Dan Fogelberg

I'll Be Back Again - Beatles

I'm A Believer - Monkees

It's All Over Now - John Anderson

It's Alright - Curtis Mayfield

In My Room - Beach Boys

In To the Great Wide Open - Tom Petty

In Your Eyes - Peter Gabriel

It Won't Be Long - Beatles

It's My Life - Talk Talk

It's Only Love - Beatles

Jamaica Say You Will - Jackson Browne

Jambalaya - Hank Williams

Jive Talking - BeeGees

Josie - Steely Dan

Keep On Tryin - Poco

Key to the Highway - Big Bill Broonzy

Kicks - Paul Revere and the Raiders

Killing Floor - Howlin Wolf

Knock on Wood - Eddie Floyd

Knockin' on Heaven's Door - Bob Dylan

Last Time - Rolling Stones

Last Train to Clarksville - Monkees

Lay Down Sally - Eric Clapton

Lay Lady Lay - Bob Dylan

Let's Dance - David Bowie

Life in the Fast Lane - Eagles

Light in Your Eyes - Todd Rundgren

Little Sister - Dwight Yoakum

Little Wing - Jimi Hendrix

Livin It Up - Delbert McClinton

Lonely Too Long - Rascals

Long Cool Woman - Hollies

Losin My Religion - REM

Love Has No Pride - Linda Ronstadt

Love Me Do - Beatles

Love Me Two Times - Doors

Love the One You're With - Stephen Stills

Love Will Keep Us Alive - Eagles

Lovesong - Elton John

Low Spark of High Heeled Boys - Traffic

Lowdown - Boz Scaggs

Lucky Man - Emerson, Lake & Palmer

Luxury Liner - Albert Lee

Magic Carpet Ride - Steppenwolf

Make It With You - Bread

Margarittaville - Jimmy Buffett

Marrakesh Express - Graham Nash

Me and Julio - Paul Simon

Me and My Arrow - Harry Nilsson

Mellow Yellow - Donovan

Melt With You - Modern English

Memphis - Johnny Rivers

Mexico - James Taylor

Michelle - Beatles

Midnight Hour - Wilson Pickett

Midnight Rider - Allman Brothers

Mirror in the Bathroom - The Beat

Missing You - John Waite

Money - Pink Floyd

Money - Beatles

Mother Nature's Son - Beatles

Mr Soul - Buffalo Springfield

Mr Tambourine Man - Bob Dylan

My Old School - Steely Dan

Nature's Way - Spirit

Need You Tonight - INXS

New Frontier - Steely Dan

Nothing At All - Alison Krause

Now That I Found You - Alison Krause

Nowhere Man - Beatles

Oh Atlanta - Bad Company

Oh Well - Fleetwood Mac

Ohio - Neil Young

One Thing Leads to Another - The Fixx

One Toke Over the Line - Brewer and Shipley

Only You Know and I Know - Dave Mason

Operator - Jim Croce

Ophelia - The Band

Paradise - John Prine

Part of the Plan - Dan Fogelberg

Papa's Got a Brand New Bag - James Brown

Peaceful Easy Feeling - Eagles

Penny Lane - Beatles

Physical - Olivia Newton-John

Place in the World for a Gambler - Dan Fogelberg

Pleasant Valley Sunday - Monkees

Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry

Please Come to Boston - Dave Loggins

Pony on my Boat - Lyle Lovett

Pretzel Logic - Steely Dan

Pride and Joy - Stevie Ray Vaughan

Pump It Up - Elvis Costello

Ramble On - Led Zeppelin

Reelin in the Years - Steely Dan

Ride Captain Ride - Blues Image

Rikki Don't Lose That NUmber - Steely Dan

Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash

Roadhouse Blues - Doors

Rock Me on the Water - Jackson Browne

Rock n Roll Woman - Buffalo Springfield

Rock Steady - Bad Company

Rocky Top - Boudleaux Brothers

Roll With It - Steve Winwood

Rollin and Tumblin - Muddy Waters

Ruby Baby _ Dion

Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town - 1st Edition

Run to Me - BeeGees

Sail on Sailor - Beach Boys

Sails - Orleans

Sailing - Christopher Cross

Satisfaction - Stones

Save it for Later - The Beat

Scarborough Fair - Simon and Garfunkel

Secret Agent Man - Johnny Rivers

Sentimental Lady - Bob Welch

September - Earth Wind and Fire

Seven Bridges Road - Steve Young

Shakin Shakin Shakes - Los Lobos

Shanty - Jonathan Edwards

She's Leaving Home - Beatles

She's Not There - Zombies

Shotgun - Junior Walker

Show Me the Way - Peter Frampton

Shower the People - James Taylor

Signed Sealed Delivered - Stevie Wonder

Sister Golden Hair - America

Six Days on the Road - Byrds

Slip Slidin Away - Paul Simon

Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel

Something in the Air - Thunderclap Newman

Something so Strong - Crowded House

Sounds of Silence - Simon and Garfunkel

Southbound Train - Crosby/Nash

Southern Cross - Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young

Stayin Alive - Bee Gees

Still the One - Orleans

Stir It Up - Bob Marley

Stone Free/Samba Pa Ti - Hendrix/Santana

Story In Your Eyes - Moody Blues

Strange Brew - Cream

Stuck in the Middle - Gerry Rafferty

Sugar Mountain - Neil Young

Suite Judy Blue Eyes - CSNY

Summer Breeze - Seals & Crofts

Summer in the City - Lovin Spoonful

Sunshine Go Away Today - Jonathan Edwards

Sunshine of Your Love - Cream

Sunshine Superman - Donovan

Suzy Q - CCR

Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond

Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd

Sweet Melissa - Allman Brothers

Take It Easy - Eagles

Take Me to the River - Al Green

Talk to Your Daughter - Robben Ford

Taxman - Beatles

Teach Your Children - Graham Nash

Tell the Truth - Eric Clapton

Tempted - Squeeze

Tenth Avenue Freezeout - Springsteen

Tequila Sunrise - Eagles

The Reason Why - Vince Gill

The Things We Do For Love - 10CC

The Way You Make Me Feel - Michael Jackson

The Word - Beatles

Them Changes - Buddy Miles

This Boy - Beatles

Tired of Waiting - Kinks

Tore Down - Eric Clapton

Tupelo Honey - Van Morrison

Turn Turn Turn - Byrds

Tush - Z Z Top

Two of Us - Beatles

Uncle John's Band - Grateful Dead

Undun - Guess Who

Up on Cripple Creek - The Band

Ventura Highway - America

Walk Away - Joe Walsh

Walk of Life - Dire Straits

Walkin After Midnight - Patsy Cline

Watching the River Run - Loggins & Messina

Water is Wide - Karla Bonoff

Way You Make Me Feel - Michael Jackson

We Can Work It Out - Beatles

What Am I Doing Hangin Round

What Is Hip - Tower of Power

What's Going On - Marvin Gaye

Where do the Children Play - Cat Stevens

White Wedding - Billy Idol

Who'll Stop the Rain - Creedence Clearwater

Who's That Lady - Isley Brothers

Wichita Lineman - Glen Campbell

Wicked Game - Chris Isaak

Wildfire - Michael Murphy

Wild Horses - Rolling Stones

Wild World - Cat Stevens

Willy and the Poorboys - Creedence Clearwater

Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd

Wysteria/Stars - Dan Fogelberg

You Aint Goin Nowhere - Dylan

You Better Think Twice - Bob Dylan

You Don't have to Cry - Crosby Stills Nash and Young

You Were On My Mind - We Five

You're the Only Woman - Ambrosia

You've Got a Friend - Carole King

Your Mama Don't Dance - Loggins & Messina

MY ORIGINAL SONGS (1966 - present)

I picked up the ukulele and guitar at age 5 and started performing in public around the age of 11 - and I've been asked for years how long I have been writing songs and how many have I ever recorded, etc. So, please find below the songs I have written (usually by myself), the year I wrote them and who I collaborated with if anyone. I was quite prolific in my 20s and 30s especially in the years '72-'76 - And yes, there's a WHOLE lot of them with "love" in the name. I couldn't really GET it so I wrote about it...There are a lot of these that are actually really good in my opinion. On the left here is a pic of the first record I made, with my good friend Bernie Fields, at Mr Bixler's basement studio. Our voices, my first guitar - and about 30 minutes of work. We sound like the Lollipop Kids from Wizard of Oz.... :)

In some cases I recorded some of the earlier songs but the bulk of the recordings were done beginning in 1976 and running thru 1990. I used one or two 4-track TEAC reel-to-reel or 4-track cassette recorders to play everything but drums: all of the early songs were recorded with Steve Singer on drums/percussion and Morey Gers engineering, and most of these were recorded in the annex at United Hebrew Temple in StLouis. Those times were valuable to all of us, learning composition, recording techniques and having FUN at making music.

I was teaching myself music theory and composition long before I attended Webster University, and I was orchestrating from the age of 14. The songs are all neatly chronicled in plastic cases I bought back then, all neatly put away in my garage. Weird when you look back on it...

1966

Nobody To Love (with Bernie Fields), age 12

Girl, Why Do You Love Me (with Bernie Fields)

1968

Andrea (my first orchestration with strings), age 14

1969

Barb's Song

1971

Love Me Now

Filthy Wine

Requiem

St Louis 7:00

Odyssey

Player Piano

She's Mine

Goin' Down the Missouri

Felicitas

Yesterday Can Never Return

Unders

1972

I Wanna Be Your Deviate (written with members of the Psychedelic Fishbag Conspiracy or PFC)

Tell Your Maw Tell Your Paw Our Love's Gonna Grow (oowaw oowaw) (written with members of the PFC)

Lost Songs/Music Man (with Earl Brigham)

Return Ye Backsliding Children

The Discovery

Plea (with Amy Markowitz)

The Beggar Song (with Amy Markowitz)

The Things I Have to Give (with Barb Goldberg)

Friend of Darkness (with Earl Brigham)

Days Gone By (with Amy Markowitz)

The Yadada Variations

Eulogy to an Old Friend (with Amy Markowitz)

Demarche

Ballad of Osceola

A Day In My Uncle's Meadow T

he Window (with Amy Markowitz)

You Need

Wandering the Empyrean (with Earl Brigham)

Night (with Earl Brigham)

For the Love of One

Siglurjordar Forever

Open the Door of Love

White Castle Blues

Run Little David, Run

Here I Am

Surely Mae

Thine Silvered Wings, My Love (with Earl Brigham)

My Brother Heard Me Lie (with Earl Brigham)

Mean Ol Marvin

Ode On A Winter Day

1973

Just Want To Say (with Earl Brigham)

Antigone (with Earl Brigham)

Goin' Back Home

Sinthiamide XI

Cantata for Woodwinds in A minor

Empty Minds, Empty Souls

Troubles' A-Brewing

Song for My Little lady

Bless My Eye (with Earl Brigham)

The No-Shit Hippie-Shit Poverty-Stricken Blues

Touch the Dawn (with Earl Brigham)

Life Has Love to Sell (with Earl Brigham)

Truckin Along

Suite Creme

If Ya Know What I Mean

From A Mountain

Allright

Opi Suite

Sometime Love

Freedom Suite

Sweet Contemplation

Open Doors, Empty Rooms

Love Aint So Great

Semplice/Canticle

Travelogue

Devil Woman

Sonnet for Snowmass

Resident Friend

And You

Prelude to 78

Dont You Know That It's Wrong

On the Way to Durango

Peace Offering

The Ends

Hemmed-In

Me And You

Someday You'll Know

Les' Boogie

Octet: Carl's Letter

Don't Ask Me Why

Hurnann

Handful of Years

Fifth Avenue (with John Woll)

Tiny Rachel

Plastic Cowboy

Afternoons In June (for Pepe, my dog)

It's Lonely Out Here

Cruisin' With You

By the Dawn's Early Light (with Earl Brigham)

Of You, Of Me (with Amy Markowitz)

Back Home With You

On Sandy Beaches (with Earl Brigham)

1974

Please Come Back

The Way You Smile

Gonna See My Baby Tonight

Snowbound

Just One More Time

Madeleine

Teacher

Some Several Times

I'll Be Yours Tonight

Don't Run Away

Family Reunion

Caribbea

I Love You All

Montezuma's Revenge

1975

Tinkerbelles

Be Kind to Yourself

Madonna

You Just Need Someone to Tell You No

Lover's Knot

Colors

For the Refugee

Got to Try

Nights Like This

Growin Into Love

Now You're Come Back

1976

Tell Me

Emerald Green

Without Me

Epilogue

Desolation

Goin' That Way Again

Bluejeans West Theme song

Abilene

Another Time

Shanghaied

Keeping You In Line

Jubilee

City Lights

Jaime

Wait for Me

Time You Told Yourself

Lullaby

Looking for You

You Know I Love You

It's All Come Back on You

Find Your Way Home

Change of Heart

Bad Dream

Lost In Your Eyes Again

Oh, Love

I Get Burned Much Too Often By Love

What Do You Mean?

Someone Else's Sweetheart

Let Your Love Flow

The Face in the Crowd

I Didn't Know I'd Do Something Crazy (with Toni Wallace)

Turning Your Words (with Toni Wallace)

Who the Hell Do You Think You Are?

Space Ranger

You Want Your Wings

One More Tearful Night

Make It Up To You Someday

You're The Child

Sweet Rosita

Over You (with Steve Levitt)

Without You Near

Takin Me Back Down

Stole You Away

So Fine (with Steve Singer)

Lost In Your Eyes Again

Home Again

You Wont Find Me

On The Line

More and More

Time and Again

Run Away With My Heart

Not Just Tonight

Into My Life

Tracing Angels In the Snow

Cryin All Night and Cheatin' All Day

1978

Alone Again Tonight

Give Me A Chance

Over the Edge

Fallin'

How Can You Be So Blind?

A Simple Kiss

I Don't Love You Anyway

Am I?

Keep the Candle Burning Tonight

Round and Round

You Make Me Crazy

Dancer

I'm Comin' Home

Certainly You

Those Eyes

The Only Real Heart I've Ever Known

There You Are

The Morning Light

Good Dog, Bad Dog

1979

There You Are

On The Wire

Thank You Baby

Wastin' Away

Could It Be (with Sam Hankins)

Give Me Something to Hold On To

Let Me Be the Light

The Lady for Me

Hero

Far Away Again

Whatever's Left Tonight

I'd Be Lyin'

Afterglow

You Won't Let Me Say I Love You

1980

To See the Light

You Can Kiss My Ass

Don't Open Up Your Heart Too Easily

You Know Its A Lie

I Can't See Her

Find Your Way Home

Growin In To Love

Taken for the Fool

Rosalea's Gettin It Tonite

Long Lonely Lies

Soft and White

Why Aren't You Here With Me Now?

Tear the Heart Out of Me

Please, Please, Please

Celebrate

Don't Let Me Be a Fool Again

Stop Hurting the Loner

Precious Little One

Hold On Fast

1981

I'm A Real Live Human Being

Get In Line

God Knows I Tried

Ilena

Can't Let Go

Tell Me

Change of Heart

Set Me Free

Don't Do It To Me

Ensenada

How To Say Goodbye

Deep in the Night

Best Things Come in Twos

Rags

Every Time I'm Near You

More and More

The Love Slipped Away

The Collector

You Really Wanna Be in Love

Home is Just A State of Mind

C'est La Vie, C'est La Guerre, C'est L'amour

Only There

1982

Turn it Around Again

Am I Gettin Thru

The Night's Too Long

Pain and Pleasure

New in Town, Sailor? (with Thom Sharpe)

Give Another Man a Try

A Million Miles an Hour

1983

Feel Your Touch

Follow You Home

No Justice

Mysterious

In Your Dreams

Slowly

Moth to a Flame

Holding Back

1984

They Walk By

You Dont Need To

The One You've Been Looking For

Talk, Talk, Talk

You Never Even Knew

She Dont Look Like You

I Can't See You

Tell Me You're Fallin

1985

If You Feel Alone

The Nerve

Dreamin'

Reason to Doubt

Holdin' Me Back

Now and Then

Dianna

Fade to Black

Paradise

Shouldn't Have to Work So Hard

Can't Let Go

Serious

I Could Love You

Love or Money

Near Ya

Every Word

Less for Losing

The Way You Are

Time Away

1986

The Waiting Game

In Your Eyes

When One Becomes the Other

Hold Me Too Tight

The Last Time

Ground Zero

Out of Control

1987

I Cant Help But Stare

Simple As Letting Go

The Name of Love

That What Is

Dirty Lies

I Feel For You

1988

Turn My Heart

1990

2010

Won't Be Back

Yes You Will

I'm Not That Guy

2011

2012

2013

Love Say You

2021

2022

2023