vincegillstwin

How about a nice polka? Just what every wedding needs.

Find that one by looking into your Krystal ball?

Nuh-uh. Forum stud. It's that double standard thing.

Taylor Dayne did some great dance stuff in the late 80's early 90's.

You're in luck, I really don't want to clean the basement tonight. I wouldn't recommend downloading music, but if you do, preview each song fully. There are a lot of crappy or intentionally altered copies out there. Country Unless you have a two steppin crowd I would use the country sparingly. Pick the tunes with a heavy pop/dance beat (like Any Man Of Mine)It's too hard to do the stand around in a circle and beebop dance that most of us do. Brad Paisley - Ring on the finger I'm wrapped around Tracy Byrd - The truth about men Kentucky Headhunters - Oh Lonesome Me Mindy McReady - Guys Do It All The Time Garth Brooks - Ain't Goin' Down 'til The Sun Comes Up Alan Jackson - Chattahoochie Vince Gill - One More Last Chance George Strait - Love Without End Amen Garth Brooks - Longneck Bottle Travis Tritt - T.R.O.U.B.L.E. Hank Williams Jr. - Born To Boogie Randy Travis - Forever and Ever Amen Gretchen Wilson - Redneck Woman Gretchen Wilson - Here for the Party Irish Rovers - Wasn't that a party Tracy Byrd - Holdin' heaven Jamie O'Neal - When I think about angels Kenny Chesney - Fall in Love Big & Rich - Save a horse, Ride a cowboy David Allen Coe - You never even called me by my name (save for when everyone is too drunk to dance) Garth Brooks - Friends in low places (see above) Trick Pony - The Bride Kenny Chesney - She Thinks My Tractor's sexy Dixie Chicks - Goodbye Earl (lyrics aren't really wedding appropriate, but chix dig it anyway) Reba - You Keep me hangin' on Tracy Byd - Watermelon Crawl Terri Clark - Girls Lie too Confederate Railroad - Trashy Women Shania - Any Man Of Mine Dierks Bentley - What Was I Thinkin' 80's 2 in a room - Wiggle it AC/DC - Shook Me All Night Long Adam Ant - Goody Two Shoes A-ha - Take On Me Animotion - Obsession Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes - (I've Had) The Time of My Life; Dirty Dancing soundtrack good tune to play last if you have a large group still there and want a memorable closing song B-52's - Love Shack Bangles - Walk Like an Egyptian Billy Idol - Dancing with myself; White Wedding; Mony Mony. 1st one is actually a better dance song, beware of the 8 minute versions of the 2nd that are floating around. Bobby Brown - My Prerogative Bruce Springsteen - Dancing in the dark Buster Poindexter - Hot, Hot, Hot. I put out a stack of sombrero's and maraca's and play this paired with Miami Sound Machine's Conga. The Bridesmaids will usually start the conga line snaking through the banquet room. Cameo - Word Up Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Want To Have Fun Clarence Carter - Strokin' Clash -- Should I stay or should I go Dead or alive - You spin me 'round Dexy's Midnight Runner's - Come On Eileen Duran Duran - Hungry Like The Wolf, Rio Expose - Come go with me, Point of no return George Michael - Faith, I want your sex Georgia Satellites - Keep Your Hands To Yourself Go Go's - Our Lips Are Sealed, We Got The Beat, Vacation Human League - Don't you want me baby Janet Jackson - Nasty Jermaine Stewart - We Don't Have to take our clothes off Jets - Crush On You John Cafferty - On The Dark Side (slow start) Katrina and the Waves - Walkin on sunshine Kenny Loggins - Footloose Kiss - Lick It Up Knack - My Sharona Kool & The Gang - Celebration Locomotion - Kylie Minogue or Grand Funk Madonna - Holiday, Vogue, Get Into the groove, Lucky Star, Like A Virgin, Borderline, Papa don't Preach, Material Girl Michael Jackson - Beat it, You Want To Be Startin' Somethin, Billie Jean Modern English - Melt with you Morris Day - Jungle Love New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle Paul Lekakis - Boom, boom, boom let's go back to my room Pet Shop Boys - It's a sin Power Station - Some Like It Hot Prince - Let's go crazy (slo intro), 1999 Ramones - I wanna be sedated REM - It's The end of the world as we know it Rob Base - it Takes Two, Joy & Pain Salt n Pepa - Push It Shannon - Let the Music Play Sheena Easton - Strut Sheila E - The Glamorous Life Sly Fox - Let's Go all the way Starpoint - Object of my desire Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight Teena Marie - Lovergirl Timex Social Club - Rumours Tommy Tutone - 867-5309 (Jenny) Tone Loc - Wild Thing, Funky Cold Medina Toni Basil - Mickey Violent Femmes - Big Hands Wang Chung - Everybody Wang Chung Wham - Wake Me Up Before You Go-go Young MC - Bust A Move ZZ Top - Sharp Dressed man 90's 2 unlimited - get ready for this, twilight zone 69 Boyz - Tootsie Roll Aqua - barbie Girl Bel Biv Devoe - Poison, Do Me Black Box - Everybody, everybody; Strike it up Black Crowes - Hard to handle Bloodhound Gang - Bad Touch (Discovery Channel Song) Brian Setzer - Jump, Jive and wail Blues Traveller - Runaround C&C Music Factory - Gonna Make You Sweat Cher - Believe Corona - Rhythm of the night Dead Milkmen - Punk Rock Girl Dee-Lite - Groove is in the heart Digital Underground - Humpty Dance Divinyls - I Touch Myself EMF - Unbelievable EU - Da Butt Green Day - Basket Case Haddaway - What Is Love Ini Kamoze - Hotstepper Johnny Gill - Rub you the right way Kid Rock - Cowboy LaBouche - Sweet Dreams, Be My Lover, Falling in love LeClick - Don't go, Tonight is the night London Beat - i've Been thinkin' about you Lou Bega - mambo #5, Tricky tricky M.A.R.R.S. - Pump up the volume Marky Mark - Good Vibrations Naughty By Nature - OPP No Mercy - Please Don't go, Where do you go Paula Abdul - Straight up Quad City DJ's - C'mon Everybody ride it (The Train) Real McCoy - Another Night, Come and Get your love (Match.com tv commercial), Run Away Right Said Fred - I'm Too Sexy Santana - Smooth Snap - The Power Sophie B Hawkins - Damn, I wish I was your lover Tag Team - Whoomp! There it is Technotronic - Pump up the jam Prince - Kiss Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby Venga Boys - We Like To Party Will Smith - Gettin Jiggy, Wild Wild West, Miami Others Dionne warwick - i say a little prayer for you (best Friends Wedding) Tom Jones - She's a Lady, It's not unusual Foundations - Build Me Up Buttercup Four Tops - Baby I Need Your Lovin Marvin Gaye - Let's Get it On Spinners - Cupid Stevie Wonder - Superstition, I was Made to love her Supremes - You Can't Hurry Love, Stop in the name of love Wilson Pickett - Mustang Sally Abba - Dancin' Queen Aerosmith - Walk This Way Ashford & Simpson - Shake your groove thing Hooked on a feeling - Blue Swede or BJ Thomas Barry White - Can't Get Enough Of Your Love Baby Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive Billy Joel - Only The Good Die Young Bob Seger - Old Time Rock n Roll Cheap Trick - I Want You To Want Me Chic - Le Freak Donna Summer - Last Dance Earth Wind & Fire - Boogie Wonderland KC & The Sunshine Band - Get down tonight Kiss - Rock n Roll All Night Rick James - Super freak Three Dog Night - Joy to the world (Jeremiah was a bullfrog) Weather Girls - It's Raining men More Current Beyonce - Naughty Girl ATC - Around The world Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out Jennifer Lopez - Let's Get loud Mary J Blige - Family Affair Mel C - I Turn To You Nelly, Ride wit me, Country Grammar, Hot in herre, Shake ya tailfeather Sarah Connor - Bounce Scissor Sister - Take Your Mama Out Sean Paul - Get Busy Shakira - When ever, where ever Sublime - Wrong Way (Lyric warning) Sugar Ray - Mr Bartender 50 cent - In da club, Pimp, Magic stick Angie Martinez - if I could go Ashanti & Fat Joe - What's Love Beyonce - Baby Boy, Crazy In Love Black Eyed Peas - Let's Get it started, hey mama, shut up Chingy - Right Thurr DF Dub - Country Girl DMX - Party Up Fabolos - Holla Back Ginuwine - Hell Yeah Ja Rule - Between Me and You, Livin' It Up, Jagged edge & Nelly - Where the party at Jennifer Lopez - Play Joss Stone - You Had me Juvenile - Slow Motion, Back That thing Up Kevin Little - Turn Me On Ludacris - move Bitch, What's Your Fantasy Murphy Lee - What Da Hook Gon Be MVP & Stagga Lee - Rock Ya Body/Mic Check Nelly - EI, #1, Nina Sky - Move Ya Body Notorious BIG - Mo Money, Mo Problems Petey Pablo - Freak a Leek Snoop Dogg - Beautiful Terror Squad - Lean Back Usher - Yeah Ying Yang Twins - Salt Shaker

I haven't nailed down who did it. It's about 6 minutes long and samples a lot of pop tunes. It starts out with some guy saying "This is a journey into sound" and then the beat starts. There's a line dance associated with it here on the east coast as well.

Through the bathroom window, if I recall.

You know for a fact that I had to go back and re-read my post to make sure I didn't make a freudian slip!

Just as long as you don't <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 me, I'm cool with that. And I've been doing the one without the other thing (sex w/o love) for as long as I can remember. (Just hopin' none of the ex's read this.)

Thanks for the welcome. I'm a regular on another UBB type community with about 4500 posts. Yeah, I need a life.

That's half the fun of these forums. ::

*note* Not West Virginia.

Because nothing goes better with 15 year old, primered out Camaros and mullets and bad tattoos.

Always #1 in my book!

Sweet Georgia Brown is it's working title.

I do about 20 weddings a years and the songs that I use to get people on the floor are listed. There are a few tricks to this, though. Remember that a lot of the folks will leave after the dinner and obligatory moments (cake cutting, bouquet toss, garter toss), so don't be alarmed if you see a mass exodus. The ones remaining are there for the party. Or to get so drunk their spouse starts to look good again. Try to do the older stuff (60's, disco) first, this allows you to get all of the family up and having fun. Most of your older relatives aren't gonna respond to Nelly, 50 cent, Ja Rule or Lil Jon. Save that for when the fogies go home and you and the bridesmaids and groomsmen are ready to tear it up. Listen to each song you choose to make sure it has a danceable beat. A song may pop into mind as being cool, but when you play it you may find that, while it makes your toe tap, it doesn't quite have the get up and dance rhythm. For the equipment: You may want to rent what's called a head (amp and mixer in one) with a few speakers, speaker stands, wires to connect them and appropriate power cords. Home speakers just don't create enough low end (bass sound) to dance. This will allow you to feed the cd player in along with a microphone (if you wanna rent one) to do the announcements. For the dinner I would suggest upbeat motown, upbeat contemporary country and upbeat adult contemporary. Can't go wrong with mixing in Frank Sinatra or upbeat Big Band Music as well. You want songs that folks are familiar with and will get them in a happy mood. I would avoid those slow and soulfull songs unless you're using them as slow dance songs or you're gonna save 'em for the honeymoon. . You want to keep the mood as festive as possible. Before anyone blasts me for being trite or predictable, remember that this is a gathering of many generations and ages, so the trick is to keep everyone as happy as possible. No, I don't listen to alot of this stuff at home, but it works for diverse crowds. So, here are some of the tunes I play on a regular basis at weddings: YMCA - Village People You're the One that I want - Olivia Newton-John & John Travolta (from Grease soundtrack) Respect - Aretha Franklin I will Survive - Gloria Gaynor Some Kind Of Wonderful - Grand Funk Version Twist and Shout - Beatles Version Shout - Otis Day and the Knights version from Animal House Sweet Home Alabama - Skynyrd Sam And Dave - Soul Man Bitch - Meredith Brooks (if your Bridesmaids are into it, otherwise the song falls flat) Electric Boogie (Electric Slide) - Marcia Griffiths Booty Call - not sure off the top of my head Cha Cha Slide - Casper Da Butt - EU Baby Got Back - Sir Mix-a-lot Yeah - Usher Get Low - Lil Jon Shake Ya Tailfeather - Nelly Strokin' - Clarence Carter In Da Club - 50 Cent Commodores - Brick House Wild Cherry - Play that Funky Music Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison Nelly - Hot In Herre Marvin Gaye - Let's get it on Al Green - Let's Stay Together Lil Kim - Magic Stick Sarah Conner - Bounce (some versions have a long intro) Juvenile - Back tha thing up Sean Paul - Get busy DMX - Party Up Black Eyed Peas - Let's get it started Outkast - I Like the way you move, Hey Ya! Terror Squad - Lean back Frankie Valli & The Four Season - Oh What A Night (December '63) Sister Sledge - We are Family Gap Band - You Dropped the Bomb On me *I could go on with this list for quite a while, but you get the idea. If you want, I can give you more ideas on danceable country, 80's and 90's or classic party rock.* Good Luck!