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Music that Makes Me…Wanna Dance
Okay, Ricochet, this is your chance to shine. I only have a few offerings in this category, so it will be heavily dependent on you. Here’s what I’ve got. Start with something obvious:
One of my old favorites:
And another high-energy song:
What music gets your hands clapping, your feet tapping, and your derriere up out of the chair?
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I had a hard time choosing just one, so I figured I would pick a couple of very different songs.
John Redcorn is quite slow, but it’s got such a great beat that you can’t resist kind of swaying along. (Also, if you’re a King of the Hill fan, it’s a really interesting perspective on a character used mostly for comic relief).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmSORFI2XzU&list=PL17PwC0sqWgbgMLG2k2bh-bBUYbHJDibY&index=1
I can’t claim any deep knowledge of Robbie William’s oeuvre, such as it is, but I’m very fond of this tongue in cheek song. Easy to dance to, and very accurate to anyone who’s met a certain type of overseas Russian.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdYGQ7B0Vew
Actually a campaign song, but produced and preformed by a well known pop artist whose music is popular in Israeli clubs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvSSAuF9kMk&list=PL17PwC0sqWgZ2QVSPaSQkoCEaTif4Qmv2&index=4&t=0s
I have a huge soft spot for Dean Martin, for a variety of reasons, so I feel obligated to include one of his songs. A lot of them are good for dancing, but this one is very much so (and he was always wonderful live).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZWvi0MaIZs
Great song from a great movie, and very much the kind that young people would dance to around a campfire or late at night in an apartment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUAeX612WmM&list=PL17PwC0sqWgZfNZIaT71DFr1K6eV7yspm&index=2
This one always makes me happy…
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How could I forget these? (in ten+ years, the class of 1982 is going to blow the roof off the rest home)
Katrina and the Waves – Walking on Sunshine. Irresistible.
B-52s – Love Shack
I forget where I first saw this. If it was on Ricochet, please forgive me.
And as weird as it sounds, those three female nork soldiers early in the video are adorable.
What is it with fascists and goosestepping?
House of Bamboo
I love it!
We started taking dance lessons after we turned 60, and now we can’t stay off the dance floor.
+++ Nobody’s getting me in a rest home any century soon.
Off in a somewhat different direction…
Shake it up!https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K3SA5Z-cbC8
Disco PERFECTION
Donna Summer “Upside Down”
Nile Rodgers and that Chic baseline —awesome. How I would have loved to be old enough to go to Studio 54.
Nice try, but the Jeeves & Wooster theme never fails:
Although culturally ubiquitous, my first hearing of Ballroom Blitz was someone’s cover with piano and big band swing/rockabilly sound and I heard it played on a Bryan/College Station radio station. It blew me away. I’d so love to hear that version again.
Ooh boy, now you’re talkin’. Let’s crank it UP…
Always liked this one by Leo Sayer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhSjwU8gEsI
For pure party groove, hard to beat Prince
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8bAdallIRY
Some days, all I need is to get my boogie down with Al
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL8vHOAp9E8
Classic Bob Seger right here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoaAb5MnKtY
Mama don’t dance but I do when I hear this one from Kenny Loggins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y8IaLa9bgw
Don Henley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5p7v7XKxTw
Time to roll outta here with Steve Winwood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_vkKozA8OI
Gots to have the Funk.
You always have such interesting choices. Thanks.
Excellent choices.
“Born to be Wild” by Steppenwolf. It’s not really a dance song, but my heart gets pumping when I hear the opening riff followed by “Get your motor runnin’, head out on the highway.”
Makes me want to buy another motorcycle . . .
That’s a whole different dance.
Not Adam Ant… But these guys do a great cover: (they only have 46 subscribers – so if you enjoy it, let them have a sub)
They were awesome-some much good stuff like Sugarhill gang and Doug E Fresh-those early years, that old school stuff was so creative and good natured compared to today. A different generation. De La Soul was in the same spirt. And Young MC Bust a Move- I loved those long raps and memorizing them. It was like memorizing poetry for a new generation. Now it’s degraded.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bDkqz5C62SM
OK, you can’t not dance to this. A great song growing up. this is the Ed Sullivan Show Version
Not a dance song but…
I listened to this one this morning (prior to see this Ricochet post). This post tells me that life goes on. All that’s going on…this too shall pass. I too will pass.
“Does anyone want to take it anymore……the show must go on!”
(PS Can’t figure out how to embed the actual video)
Don’t have the short (youtu.be) URI/URL, but use the version that is youtube.com:
First song I can remember dancing to. I was about 3 or 4.
Good Golly Miss Molly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPKDjqDflBc
And one of my all-time favorites
I feel good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNdZpNUzFIg
For pure energy.
I can never think of James Brown without thinking “I’ve fallen and I can’t get down.”