I started making this list over 20 years ago. I love the phrase "irresistibly danceable." I read those words in a TIME magazine article about music and dancing from India. I used to organize swing dances, ballroom dances, line dances and square dances for ages 12 to 112. I love to see the generations mix. Dancing changes the atmosphere in the room. Even the cartoon character Snoopy says: "to live is to dance and to dance is to live."
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Titanium by David Guetta (this has been my favorite song for about a year now. Irresistibly danceable!)
Titanium by David Guetta (this has been my favorite song for about a year now. Irresistibly danceable!)
Older
Gloria
Gloria
Rock Around the Clock
A-B-C
A-B-C
Stray Cat Strut
RESPECT
Dancing in the Street
Browned Eyed Girl (Van
Morrison)
Rock and Roll High School (the Ramones)
Rock and Roll High School (the Ramones)
Billy Jean, Thriller, Bad, Beat It (Michael Jackson)
Eat it (by
Weird Al)
LaBamba
Shout (Isley Brothers)
Shout (Isley Brothers)
Twist and Shout
(Chuck Berry, the Beatles)
Celebration
YMCA (One of my friends jokes that she doesn't think a couple are really married unless the DJ plays YMCA at the reception.)
I’m walking on Sunshine by Katrina on the Waves
Maria (by Blonde or Santana)
Barbara Ann (and
any other Beach Boys songs)
The Hand Jive (from
“Grease”)
Walk Like an Egyptian
(The Bangles)
Johnny Be Good (Chuck
Berry)
Believe (by Cher)
Back in the USSR (The Beatles)
Carry on My Wayward Son by
Kansas
Cotton Eyed Joe
Wipe out by the
Surfers (1963)
Group and Line Dances
The Chicken Dance
The Macarena
The Electric Slide
a Conga Line song (like Gloria Estafan’s “The Rhythm is going to get
you" and
“Turn the Beat Around”)
a song that causes the dance floor to form a Soul Train
Slow and sweet
Always on my mind
You are my special angel
Blueberry Hill Fats
Domino
Teen Angel
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