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"The best entertainment we have ever had!" . . . Venice Graff Entertainment Director, Pacific Pointe Retirement Community
Larry Wilder has over thirty years of experience entertaining seniors! Ballads, yodeling, cowboy tunes, solid guitar work. Amazing banjo! His shows are unforgettable!! He loves to get folks involved in remembering and singing along on the great Americana tunes of their younger days—and earlier. Larry says, "It's a real pleasure to work with seniors. Their appreciation and knowledge of music Americana is wonderful!" Gospel, cowboy, and Americana CD's available. Contact Larry at: 503-407-8676. Reasonable rates. Tunes that Seniors Have Enjoyed Over the Years: Americana Favorites:I’ve Been Everywhere (featuring OR & WA places) This Land Is Your Land Country Roads Goodnight Irene Walk the Line Gentle On My Mind Chime Bells (yodeling tour-de-force) I’m My Own Granpaw Jambalaya Waiting for a Train (blue yodel)Wabash Cannonball Midnight Special The Auctioneer Pistol Packin’ Mama Cattle Call (cowboy yodel) Roll On, Columbia Freight Train Bobby McGee Tennessee Waltz Red River Valley El Paso Ghost Riders in the Sky Oh Susanna Don’t Fence Me In Down in the Valley Comin’ Round the Mountain Rock Around the Clock I’ve Been Workin’ On the Railroad Y’all Come! Rocky Top Have I Told You Lately That I Love You? He'll Have to Go Johnny Cash Folsom Prison Blues Hey Porter Ring of Fire Orange Blossom Special I Walk the Line I Still Miss Someone Big River Daddy Sang Bass Flesh and Blood Forty Shades of Green Gospel and Spiritual Songs Life’s Railway to Heaven Turn the Radio On Daddy Sang Bass Old Gospel Ship Cryin’ Holy Unto the Lord Amazing Grace In the Garden Oh Mary, Don't You Weep Great Gettin’ Up Time (original) No Hiding Place I'll Fly Away Wicked Path of Sin Swing Low, Sweet Chariot Healing Waters (original) Bound for Glory Saints Go Marching In Master’s Bouquet [recorded with Rose Maddox] What a Friend We Have in Jesus Will the Circle Be Unbroken? Jesus Cowboy (fancy yodel) Rivers of Babylon Bill Monroe Blue Moon of Kentucky In the Pines Muleskinner Blues (blue yodel) Kentucky Waltz Uncle Pen When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Footprints in the Snow. . . more Carter Family Keep On the Sunny Side No Hiding Place Foggy Mountain Top Wildwood Flower Old Gospel Ship Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes Cryin’ Holy Unto the Lord You Got to Walk That Lonesome Valley Jimmy Brown the Newsboy Will the Circle Be Unbroken? Kingston Trio MTA Tom Dooley Sloop John B Worried Man Scotch & Soda Greenback Dollar Hard Ain’t It Hard Where Have All the Flowers Gone?. . . more Hank Williams Jambalaya Hey Good Lookin’ Lovesick Blues Your Cheatin’ Heart So Lonesome I Could Cry Mansion on the Hill Sons of the Pioneers Way Out There (harmony yodel) Tumblin’ Tumbleweed Cool Water Bloom is on the Sage Hold That Critter Down (yodel) Timber Trail Don’t Fence Me In Happy Rovin’ Cowboy (yodel) Texas Plains (yodel). . . more Merle Haggard Lonesome Fugitive Mama Tried Silver Wings Okie From Muskogee Bob Wills San Antonio Rose Faded Love Silver Bell Take Me Back to Tulsa Makes No Difference Now Time Changes Everything Gene Autry Back in the Saddle Again Silver Haired Daddy Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer Oklahoma Hills Ages & Ages Ago More Folk Tunes Fair and Tender Ladies 500 Miles Banks of the Ohio Midnight Special Careless Love Puff the Magic Dragon Gotta Travel On Don't Think Twice Jamaica Farewell Hey Li-lee . . . more More Bluegrass Tunes New River Train Mountain Dew Rocky Top Bluebirds Are Singin’ for Me Blue Ridge Mountain Blues Rueben’s Train . . . more More Country Tunes Golden Rocket Four Walls Abilene Blue Eyes Cryin’ in the Rain Truck Drivin’ Man He’ll Have to Go On the Road Again Jealous Heart Release Me Born to Lose Kansas City Waiting for a Train King of the Road Have I Told You Lately That I Love You? Walkin’ the Floor Over You Waltz Across Texas Wild Side of Life Fraulein Green Grass of Home “Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?” Man of Constant Sorrow You Are My Sunshine Goin’ Down to the River to Pray Keep On the Sunny Side Lonesome Valley
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Senior Shows 
