Who is Murphy James?

Murphy knows over 2000+ covers. Here is sample list of a few songs but there

are many more that aren't on this list so please feel free to request anything

else. If Murphy knows it, he will be sure to play it for you.

Sample Song list

20th Century Boy – T-Rex

500 miles – The Proclaimers

74-75 – The Connells

A hard day’s night – The Beatles

A little respect – Erasure/Wheatus

A sky full of stars - Coldplay

A thousand years – Christina Peri

Africa – Toto

Against all odds – Phil Collins

Ain't no sunshine – Bill Withers

Ain’t nobody – Chaka Khan

Alcoholic – Starsailor

All about you – McFly

All cried out – Alison Moyet

All I have to do is dream – The Everly Brothers

All I want is you – U2

All night long – Lionel Richie

All of me – John Legend

All or nothing – Small Faces

All the small things – Blink 182

All these things that I have done – The Killers

All time low – The Wanted

All you need is love – The Beatles

Alone - Heart

Always – Bon Jovi

Always on my mind – Elvis Presley

Am I wrong – Nico & Vinz

America – Razorlight

America – Neil Diamond

American Pie – Don McClean

Angel of Harlem – U2

Angels – Robbie Williams

Another brick in the wall – Pink Floyd

Another day in Paradise – Phil Collins

Apologize – One Republic

Ashes – Embrace

Baby can I hold you – Tracy Chapman

Baby I love your way – Peter Frampton

Baby one more time – Britney Spears

Babylon – David Gray

Back for good – Take That

Back in the USSR – The Beatles

Back to black – Amy Winehouse

Bad moon rising – Credence Clearwater Revival

Be mine – David Gray

Be my baby – The Ronettes

Beautiful war – Kings of Leon

Before you go – Lewis Capaldi

Best of you – Foo Fighters

Better – Tom Baxter

Better be home soon – Crowded House

Big love – Fleetwood Mac

Big yellow taxi – Joni Mitchell

Bittersweet Symphony – The Verve

Black and gold – Sam Sparrow

Black is the colour – Christie Moore

Blame it on me – George Ezra

Blue suede shoes – Elvis Presley

Blurry – Puddle of mud

Boulevard of broken dreams – Green Day

Boys don’t cry – The Cure

Brass in pocket - Pretenders

Breakeven – The Script

Breakfast at tiffany’s – Deep Blue Something

Broken stones – Paul Weller

Brown eyed girl – Van Morrison

Brown Sugar – The Rolling Stones

Budapest – George Ezra

Burning Love – Elvis Presley

Bye bye love – The Everly Brothers

California Dreamin’ – Mama’s and Papa’s

Call me Al – Paul Simon

Can’t help falling in love with you – Elvis Presley

Can’t stop the feeling – Justin Timberlake

Can’t take my eyes off of you – Frankie Valli

Candle in the wind – Elton John

Cannonball – Damien Rice

Caravan of love – The Housemartins

Careless whisper – George Michael

Cassy-o – George Ezra

Cast no shadow – Oasis

Castle on the hill – Ed Sheeran

Cats in the cradle – Harry Cochin

Champagne supernova – Oasis

Chandelier - Sia

Chasing cars – Snow Patrol

Chasing rainbows - Shed Seven

Cheap thrills – Sia

Chelsea Dagger – The Fratelli’s

Chocolate – Snow Patrol

Cigarettes and alcohol - Oasis

Clocks – Coldplay

Closing time - Semisonic

Collide – Howie Day

Come together – The Beatles

Common People - Pulp

Confide in me – Kylie

Could you be loved – Bob Marley

Counting stars – One Republic

Cracklin’ Rosie – Neil Diamond

Craving – James Bay

Crazy – Gnarls Barkley

Crazy – Seal

Crazy for you - Madonna

Crazy little thing called love - Queen

Creep – Radiohead

Crocodile rock – Elton John

Cry me a river – Justin Timberlake

Cum on feel the noise - Slade

Dakota – Stereophonics

Dance the night away – The Mavericks

Dancing in the dark – Bruce Springstein

Dancing in the moonlight – Toploader

Dancing on my own – Callum Scott

Daniel - Elton John

Danny Boy – Trad. Irish

Day we caught the train – Ocean Colour Scene

Daydream Believer – The Monkees

Dear Darling – Olly Murs

Delilah – Tom Jones

Demons – Imagine Dragons

Devil in disguise – Elvis Presley

Dignity – Deacon Blue

Dirty Old Town – The Pogues

Disco 2000 - Pulp

Distant sun – Crowded House

Don’t fear the reaper – Blue Oyster Cult

Don’t leave me this way – Harold Melvyn & The Bluenotes

Don’t let go – En Vogue

Don’t let me down – The Beatles

Don’t let the sun go down on me – Elton John

Don’t look back in anger – Oasis

Don’t stop believing - Journey

Don’t you forget about me – Simple Minds

Don’t you worry child – Swedish House Mafia

Dreadlock holiday – 10cc

Dream a little dream – Mama’s and Papa’s

Dream catch me – Newton Faulkner

Dreaming of you – The Coral

Dreams - Fleetwood Mac

Dreams – Gabrielle

Driftwood - Travis

Drive – Incubus

Drops of Jupiter - Train

Easy – Lionel Ritchie

Englishman in New York - Sting

Eton Rifles – The Jam

Ever fallen in love – The Buzzcocks

Everlong – Foo Fighters

Every breath you take – The Police

Everybody hurts – R.E.M

Everybody wants to rule the world – Tears for fears

Everybody’s changing - Keane

Everybody’s free - Rozalla

Everybody's talkin' – Nilson

Every day – Buddy Holly

Every day is a winding road – Sheryl Crow

Everything – Lifehouse

Everything I own – Bread

Everywhere – Fleetwood Mac

Faith – George Michael

Fake plastic trees - Radiohead

Fall at your feet – Crowded House

Falling slowly – Glen Hansard

Fast car – Tracy Chapman

Fat bottomed girls – Queen

Father & Son – Cat Stevens

Father Figure – George Michael

Feel like making love – Bad Company

Feeling good – Nina Simone

Fields of Athenry - Traditional

Fields of gold - Sting

Fill my little world – The Feeling

First cut is the deepest – Rod Stewart

Fix you – Coldplay

Flower of Scotland – Trad. Scottish

Flowers in the window – Travis

Fly away – Lenny Kravitz

Fly me to the moon – Frank Sinatra

Flying without wings - Westlife

Folsom prison blues – Johnny Cash

Footloose – Kenny Loggins

Forever in blue jeans – Neil Diamond

Friday I’m in love – The Cure

Galway girl – Steve Earle

Get Back – The Beatles

Get it on – T-rex

Get lucky – Daft Punk

Giant - Calvin Harris (feat. Rag’n’Bone Man)

Give a little bit - Supertramp

Give me love – Ed Sheeran

Go your own way – Fleetwood Mac

God put a smile - Coldplay

Gold – Glen Hansard

Gold – Spandau ballet

Golden Touch - Razorlight

Good riddance – Green Day

Good souls – Starsailor

Goodbye yellow brick road – Elton John

Goodnight girl – Wet wet wet

Got my mind set on you – George Harrison

Gotta get through this – Daniel Beddingfield

Gotta get you into my life – The Beatles

Gravity - Embrace

Green eyes – Coldplay

Half the world away – Oasis

Hallelujah – Leonard Cohen

Handbags & Gladrags – Rod Stewart/Stereophonics

Happy – Pharrell Williams

Happy hour – The Housemartins

Have a nice day - Stereophonics

Have I told you lately – Van Morrison

Hazard – Richard Marx

He ain’t heavy – The Hollies

Heaven - Emile Sandé

Hello – Adele

Hello Again – Neil Diamond

Hello Marylou – Ricky Nelson

Here comes the rain again - Eurythmics

Here comes the sun – George Harrison

Hey brother – Avicii

Hey ho – The Lumineers

Hey jealousy – Gin blossoms

Hey Jude – The Beatles

Hey there Delilah – Plain white T’s

Hi ho silver lining – Jeff Beck

High & Dry - Radiohead

High hopes – Kodaline

High hopes – Glen Hansard

Higher Love - Steve Winwood

Hold back the river – James Bay

Hold my girl - George Ezra

Hold on – Wilson Phillips

Hometown glory – Adele

Homeward bound – Simon & Garfunkel

Hotel California – The Eagles

Hound Dog – Elvis Presley

House of the rising sun – The Animals

How sweet it is – James Taylor

How to save a life – The Fray

How you remind me – Nickleback

Human – The Killers

Human – Rag ‘n’ Bone Man

Human nature – MJ

I am, I said – Neil Diamond

I don’t want to dance – Eddie Grant

I can see clearly – Johnny Nash

I heard it through the grapevine – Marvin Gaye

I just died in your arms tonight – Cutting Crew

I knew you were trouble – Taylor Swift

I say a little prayer – Burt Bacharach

I still haven’t found what I’m looking for – U2

I try – Macy Gray

I used to love her – Saw Doctors

I want it that way - Backstreet Boys

I want to break free - Queen

I want to hold your hand – The Beatles

I will wait – Mumford & Sons

I wish it would rain down – Phil Collins

I won’t give up – Jason Mraz

I’d do anything for love - Meatloaf

I’ll be your baby tonight – Bob Dylan

I’m still standing – Elton John

I’ll tell me ma - Dubliners

I’m a believer – Neil Diamond/The Monkees

I’m still standing - Elton John

I’m yours – Jason Mraz

If I could turn back time - Cher

Imagine - John Lennon

Importance of being idle – Oasis

In the air tonight – Phil Collins

Iris – Goo Goo Dolls

Is she really going out with him? – Joe Jackson

Is this the way to Amarillo – Tony Christie

Isn’t she lovely – Stevie Wonder

It must be love – Madness

Itchycoo park – Small Faces

It’s not unusual – Tom Jones

It’s only natural – Crowded House

JCB – Nizlopi

Jealous guy – John Lennon

Johnny B Goode – Chuck Berry

Jolene – Dolly Parton

Just looking – Stereophonics

Just you and I – Tom Walker

Keep your head up – Ben Howard

Kingston Town – UB40

Kiss – Prince

Kiss from a rose - Seal

Kiss me – Sixpence none the richer

Kiss the rain – Billie Myers

Laid – James

Land down under – Men at work

Last request – Paolo Nutini

Last train to Clarksville – The Monkees

Lately – Stevie Wonder

Lay down Sally – Eric Clapton

Leave a light on - Tom Walker

Leaving on a jet plane – John Denver

Lego House – Ed Sheeran

Let her go – Passenger

Let it go – James Bay

Let me entertain you – Robbie Williams

Let your love flow – The Bellamy Brothers

Let’s dance – David Bowie

Let’s stay together – Al Green

Light my fire – The Doors

Lightning bolt – Jake Bugg

Linger - The Cranberries

Listen to the music – Doobie Brothers

Little by little - Oasis

Little lion man – Mumford & Sons

Live forever – Oasis

Local boy in the photograph – Stereophonics

Locked out of heaven – Bruno Mars

Lola – The Kinks

Looking as you are – Embrace

Losing my religion – R.E.M

Love is the law - Seahorses

Love me again – John Newman

Lovely Day – Bill Withers

Love yourself – Justin Bieber

Lover will never tear us apart – INXS

Luka – Suzanne Vega

Lullaby – Starsailor

Maggie May – Rod Stewart

Magic – Coldplay

Make me smile (come up and see me) – Steve Harley

Make you feel my love – Bob Dylan/Adele

Man in the mirror – Michael Jackson

Man who can't be moved – The Script

Maneater – Hall & Oates

Mardy bum – Arctic Monkey’s

Marie’s the name (of his latest flame) – Elvis Presley

Married with children - Oasis

Mary’s Prayer - Danny Wilson

Master blaster – Stevie Wonder

Maybe tomorrow – Stereophonics

Midnight train to Georgia – Gladys Knight

Missing you – John Waite

Molly Malone - Dubliners

Moondance – Van Morrison

More than words – Extreme

Morning glory - Oasis

Moving to New York – The Wombats

Mr. Brightside – The Killers

Mr. Writer – Stereophonics

Mrs. Robinson – Simon & Garfunkel

Mustang sally – Wilson Pickett

My girl – The Temptations

My hero – Foo Fighters

My little runaway – Del Shannon

Mysterious girl – Peter Andre

Naive – The Kooks

Never gonna give you up - Rick Astley

Never tear us apart – INXS

New shoes – Paolo Nutini

Next to me – Emelie Sandé

Nights in white satin – Moody Blues

Nine crimes – Damien Rice

No time to die – Billie Eilish

No woman, no cry – Bob Marley

Norwegian wood – The Beatles

Nothing else matters - Metallica

Nothing ever happens – Del Amitri

Of the night – Bastille

Oh boy – Buddy Holly

Oh carol – Neil Sedaka

Old red eyes Is back – The Beautiful South

One – U2

One day like this - Elbow

Only you – Yazoo

Open your eyes – Snow Patrol

Ordinary World – Duran Duran

Over my shoulder – Mike & the Mechanics

Painkiller – Turin Brakes

Paint in black – The Rolling Stones

Paradise – George Ezra

Part-time lover – Stevie Wonder

Peaceful, easy feeling – The Eagles

People help the people – Cherry Ghost

Perfect – Ed Sheeran

Photograph – Ed Sheeran

Piano man – Billy Joel

Piece of my heart – Janis Joplin

Pillowtalk – Zayn

Place your hands – Reef

Plush – Stone temple pilots

Pompeii – Bastille

Pretty woman – Roy Orbison

Price tag – Jessie J

Pumped up kicks – Foster the people

Purple rain – Prince

Push – Matchbox Twenty

Read all about it – Emile Sande

Red – Daniel Merriweather

Red light spells danger – Billy Ocean

Red, red wine – Neil Diamond

Reet petite - Jackie Wilson

Rehab – Amy Winehouse

Revolution – Tracy Chapman

Rewind – Paolo Nutini

Re-write the stars - Greatest Showman

Rhinestone Cowboy – Glen Campbell

Ride on – Christie Moore

Right here waiting – Richard Marx

Ring of fire – Johnny Cash

Riptide – Vance Joy

Roar – Katy Perry

Rocket man - Elton John

Roll with it – Oasis

Rolling in the deep – Adele

Rotterdam – Beautiful South

Round our way – Oasis

Route ’66 – The Rolling Stones

Roxanne – Sting & The Police

Royals – Lorde

Rude – Magic!

Run – Snow Patrol

Run to you – Bryan Adams

Runaway train – Soul Asylum

Sail away – David Gray

Save me - Embrace

Saw her standing there – The Beatles

Say something – Justin Timberlake

Say you won’t let go – James Arthur

Scars – James Bay

Secret smile – Semisonic

Semi charmed life – Third eye blind

Set fire to the rain - Adele

Sex on fire – Kings of Leon

Sexual Healing – Marvin Gaye

Shackles (Praise you) – Mary, Mary

Shallow - Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper

Shape of you – Ed Sheeran

She is love – Oasis

She loves you – The Beatles

She moves in her own way – The Kooks

She’s electric – Oasis

Shiver - Coldplay

Shotgun - George Ezra

Silence is easy – Starsailor

Simply the best – Tina Turner

Sit down – James

Sitting on the dock of the bay – Otis Reading

Skin – Rag ‘n’ Bone Man

Skyfall - Adele

Slide away – Oasis

Smells like teen spirit – Nirvana

Somebody that I used to know – Gotye

Somebody to love - Queen

Somebody told me – The Killers

Someone you loved – Lewis Capaldi

Something inside so strong – Labi Siffre

Somewhere in my heart – Aztec Camera

Somewhere only we know – Keane

Son of a preacher man – Dusty Springfield

Songbird – Oasis

Song for whoever – The Beautiful South

Sound of silence – Simon & Garfunkel

Space Oddity – David Bowie

Space man – Sam Ryder

Spirit in the sky - Greenbaum

Stand by me – Ben E King

Stand by me – Oasis

Starlight - Muse

Star man - David Bowie

Stay with me – Sam Smith

Step on my old size 9’s – Stereophonics

Stop & stare – One Republic

Stop crying your heart out – Oasis

Straight up – Paula Abdul

Stuck in the middle with you – Stealer’s Wheel

Sunday, Bloody Sunday – U2

Sunday Morning – Maroon 5

Sunday morning call - Oasis

Superstition – Stevie Wonder

Sweet Caroline – Neil Diamond

Sweet child of mine – Guns ‘n’ Roses

Sweet dreams - Eurythmics

Sweet home Alabama – Lynnard Skynnard

Sylvia’s mother – Dr. Hook

Take a look at my girlfriend - Supertramp

Take it easy – The Eagles

Take me to church - Hozier

Take on me - Aha

Take your mama – Scissor Sisters

Talk Tonight – Oasis

Teenage kicks – The Undertones

That’ll be the day – Buddy Holly

That’s alright mama – Elvis Presley

That’s amoré – Dean Martin

That’s life – Frank Sinatra

That's entertainment – The Jam

The A-team - Ed Sheeran

The Blower’s Daughter – Damien Rice

The Boxer – Simon & Garfunkel

The Cave – Mumford & Sons

The City – The 1975

The Fear – Ben Howard

The Gambler – Kenny Rogers

The importance of being idle – Oasis

The Joker – Steve Miller Band

The King of wishful thinking – Go west

The Living Years – Mike & the Mechanics

The Masterplan – Oasis

The one and only – Chesney Hawkes

The Power of love – Huey Lewis

The Scientist – Coldplay

The shoop shoop song – Cher

The Underdog – Turin Brakes

The way you make me feel – MJ

The winner takes it all - Abba

These boots are made for walking – Nancy Sinatra

Things we lost in the fire – Bastille

Things can only get better – D:ream

Thinking out loud – Ed Sheeran

This City – Sam Fischer

This Gift – Glen Hansard

This is the last time – Keane

This love – Maroon 5

This year’s love - David Gray

Three little birds – Bob Marley

Ticket to ride – The Beatles

Time after time – Cyndi Lauper

Times like these – Foo Fighters

Tiny dancer – Elton John

To be with you – Mr. Big

To love somebody – The Bee Gees

Together in electric dreams – Human League

Too close – Alex Clare

Torn – Natalie Imbruglia

Town called Malice – The Jam

Tracks of my tears – Smokey Robinson

Trouble – Ray Lamontagne

True colours – Cyndi Lauper

Turn – Travis

Two princes – Spin doctors

Under the bridge – Red Hot Chilli Peppers

Unwell – Matchbox Twenty

Up and up – Coldplay

Up on the roof – The Drifters

Use somebody – Kings of Leon

Valerie – The Zootons

Video killed the radio star – Buggles

Vincent – Don McClean

Viva la vida - Coldplay

Volcano – Damien Rice

Waiting in Vain – Bob Marley

Wake me up – Avicii

Walk – Foo fighters

Walkaway - Cast

Walking in Memphis – Mark Cohen

Walk of life – Dire Straits

Walk on the wild side – Lou Reed

Waterloo Sunset – The Kinks

Watermelon sugar high – Harry Styles

We are young – F.U.N

Weather with you – Crowded House

Whatever - Oasis

What a wonderful world – Sam Cooke

What's up – 4 non-blondes

When doves cry - Prince

When you say nothing at all – Ronan Keating

When your minds made up – Glen Hansard

When you’re gone – Bryan Adams/Mel C.

Where the streets have no name – U2

Wherever you will go – The Calling

While my guitar gently weeps – George Harrison

Whistle for the choir – The Fratelli’s

White Hare – Seth Lakeman

Why do fools fall in love? – Four Seasons

Why does it always rain on me? – Travis

Why Georgia – John Mayer

Wicked game – Chris Isaac

Wild wood – Paul Weller

Wild World – Cat Stevens

Wings – Birdy

Wind of change – Scorpions

Wish you were here – Pink Floyd

Wisemen – James Blunt

With a little help from my friends – Joe Cocker

With or without you – U2

Without you – David Guetta

Wonder of you – Elvis Presley

Wonderful tonight – Eric Clapton

Wonderful world – Louis Armstrong

Wonderful World – James Morrison

Wonderwall – Oasis

Worried about ray – The Hoosiers

Would I lie to you? – Charles & Eddie

XO – Beyoncé/John Mayer

Yellow – Coldplay

You and me song – The Wannadies

You can’t hurry love – Phil Collins

You do something to me – Paul Weller

You give me something – James Morrison

You win again – The Bee Gees

You’re beautiful – James Blunt

You’re gorgeous - Babybird

You’re more than a number in my little red book – Drifters

You’re the voice – John Farnham

You’ve got the love – Florence & the machine

You’ve got to hide your love away – The Beatles

Your song - Elton John

Zephyr song – Red Hot Chilli Peppers

Zombie – The Cranberries

Plus, many, many more………………………… 

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