[wjp01908]

The band I`m in are thinking about putting on a Christmas dance as a bit of a fund raiser for the local school and I`m working on a set list that we could start working on.

We want to do about an hour and a half and the music will need to appeal to a wide age range.

Any "musical integrity" will be right out of the window for this so suggestions however cheesy will be welcomed.

Songs will need to be simple as the band has a range of ablities.

So what floats your boat? Which songs make you just want leap up and make a fool of yourself?

So far I`ve got:

Twist and Shout
Rock around the Clock
Spirit in the Sky*
Crazy little thing called Love*
Nutbush city Limits
2468 Motorway
Wonderful World (Ramones)
Let`s Twist Again
Hound Dog
Jailhouse Rock
500 miles
Caroline

[737blues]

That's a great list, I reckon.

[allthumbs]

Six of the 12 tunes are pre pop so you are going to have to add some more modern stuff to balance it out as well as ballads that appeal to most age groups. Consider that most parents are probably baby boomers, that means songs from the sixties would work for them. An hour and a half is a lot of tunes, Good luck. Neil young stuff can be pretty easy to learn and appeals to most people. Keep posting your set list as it evolves. I would like to see how it shakes out.

[Matty22]

I dunno about your mob over there, but here, one list that i nearly always go through when djing ( i know im not playing) but always gets them going (unless its one of those, young groups, techno, R&B, pretend music)

Elvis - almost anything.
Abba - about the same, any of the popular stuff
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Surprised me, but ive never played something by creedence without getting most people up, bad moon rising, down on the corner, the stuff most people will know
AC/DC - for something heavier...

Things like the nutbush (as you listed), the bus stop,steps (5 6 7 8) not sure how you'd go playing that never really tried...

Cold chisel (over here anyway), khe sahn, working class man, flame trees

Meat loaf - bat out of hell, paradise by the dash board light, took the words right out of my mouth, i would do anythign for love....

Blondie, call me, etc

One thing ive found to get people up is to play that "im a bloke, im a yobbo" song, and which gets most guys singing it to their missus, and then play "im a bitch" song which gets the women singing it to their blokes, generally late-ish in the night, when everybody's well and truely intoxicated... maybe thats just an aussie thing, im not sure.

Survivor - Eye of the tiger
Deep purple - smoke on the water, if you can play them without getting someone to raise their eyebrows then the crowd isnt worth setting up for......

Billy joel - most people i know think that im crazy..

The hardest part is to play general stuff that the majority of people, young and old will recognise...

Thats about all i can think of, im sure theres thousands more.... perhaps a few (useless?) ideas for ya

Matty

[cshude]

Takin' Care of Business
Locomotion
THE CHICKEN DANCE!!!!!

[John Burr]

Down this way you gotta have some Lynyrd Skynyrd! Start em cranking with Curtis Lowe, (it's a ballad sort of), Call me the Breeze, Three Steps, and finish each set with Free Bird, (maybe tease them with Simple Man first).

http://www.chordie.com/song.php/song...yrd/index.html

BSR