Prepwork for the Ball

[sorcyress]

It occurs to me that if I'm going to host a ball, I need music. So, while I can pull all manner of interesting thing to go thumpy-thump ravedance to, I have a more pressing concern:

What are some songs that are good and interesting to dance to?

By songs, I mean stuff I'm likely to have. By good and interesting, I mean...um...good, and interesting. By dance, I mean one-steps, foxtrots, polkas, tangos, schottish, swing, and, of course, waltzes of multiple speeds.

I'm actually a bit less keen on waltzes right now (though I'm always looking for more songs to add into that playlist, even as it becomes more than three hours long --variety is good!) as I have loads of them --I'm looking more as to what songs I should toss into my playlist as non-waltz dances.

Thanks and all!

~Sor
MOOP!

Comments

[thorog.livejournal.com]

There may be some stuff here (http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/browse.php), although the sound quality will be poor and it'll be all scratchy and stuff.

Rose will know some swing stuff. Don't know anything else for you, sorry.

[thorog.livejournal.com]

OH HAI ALSO I have some salsa music so if you want salsa music I can give you some salsa music!

[thorog.livejournal.com]

OH HAI DOUBLEPLUSALSO http://www.mobaganda.com/ is a very awesome (I'm not sure about "useful", but "awesome" definitely) event planning site

[miriampenguin.livejournal.com]

... the only song that comes to mind is "Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps". It is the theme song for the British show Coupling, and I think I remember hearing it played in some sort of dance competition movie. I forget what the movie's name was, though.

Other resources to mine: So You Think You Can Dance. Probably that other dance show with celebrities, too.

[drama-angel3189.livejournal.com]

I do believe we have quite a few polka CD's or can at least get our hands on them. But you would have to ask the fam. They know where they are better.

[harena.livejournal.com]

You totally have RanTan Wa-oh, you said no more waltzes, darn... that's about all i care/know about in actual genres of dance music...

. o O (though, you also have Woozalia's Bouncy Pop Harpsichord Song (a title which W came up with under duress: "You must title it so i can put it on the Poingy CD!") which i dance to all the time when folding laundry (even though it's really technically a Work In Progress)! ^_^)

[meanfreepath.livejournal.com]

I have a number of very good recordings for Scottish country dancing, including waltzes in that context and a few ceilidh-type dances like Gay Gordons and Strip the Willow. I'd be happy to burn you a mix CD if you like.

[whimmydiddle.livejournal.com]

You need the vintage dance mix CDs that chickenhat and I put together a while ago. Also the collections of Evil Clone Central blue tapes which cchan8 put on CDs awhile ago. I'll see what I can do.

[leiacat.livejournal.com]

I can liberate my set of Blue Tapes from Larry for a while if you wish. (Those are the CDs of the tapes that Big House had on its wall for a while).

[madbodger.livejournal.com]

I could bring my copy of "Beethoven Wrote It, But It Swings", among others.