I just have to reply to the person who said he pitched songs to cover band that wanted to do an album of originals, I always though the prejudice was the opposite. Don't know if it's still true today, but it probably is. A lot of clubs that hire bands for entertainment actually prefer they do covers of standards as opposed to original songs that most of the public isn't familiar with. Back in the 1980's I used to love to go hear a country singer by the name of Julie Carter(who knows where she is today) who had an amazing voice and did a lot of her own originals as well as country covers. But one night I walked in and when I heard her doing the song from the movie "Flashdance" I wondered if I was in the wrong place. I did get to talk to her between sets and she told me that they insisted on her expanding her repetoire in order to pull in a wider audience.