I know we touched briefly on this several times, and there was Gary's popular thread where we all added our thoughts for which track would follow the previous posters.

In order to help those just starting out, along with giving each other idea's, then why not post your own sample playlist in this thread?.

I think that it is a good idea, since everybody's music programming varies and maybe we can get idea's for tracks that we may never have played otherwise or even heard of!.

Of course, no two functions are alike but we all have our "set" floorfilla's and at least some idea of the tracks we will be playing before we even arrive at the gig.

I also thought, that it would be a good idea to compile a samle playlist, either for on my website or to email to that client who wants an idea of what I can play.

So please make the effort, who never know when a playlist sheet will come in handy!.

This is based on an actual clients playlist and i've just added my other popular tracks to it. There is no set way in which I play these, although I usually group all the era's together - i.e all 60's, all 70's, all disco, all soul, all motown etc etc

Toploader - Dancing In The Moonlight
Sister Sledge(90's Remix) - We Are Family
M-People - One Night In Heaven
Dennis Edwards - Don't Look Any Further
Mantronix - Got To Have Your Love
Shakira - Whenever Whereever
S-Club 7 - Don't Stop Movin
- Reach
S-Club Juniors - One Step Closer
Kajagoogoo - Too Shy
Nigel & Marvin - Follow Da Leader
Liberty X - Just A Little
Queen - Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Bee Gees - Night Fever
- You Should Be Dancing
Tavares - More Than A Woman
Kylie - Love At First Sight
- Celebrate
- Better The Devil You Know
- Can't Get You Out Of My Head
Madonna - Holiday
- Vogue
Anastacisa - I'm Outta Love
Hot Chocolate - You Sexy Thing
Take That - Relight My Fire
- Could It Be Magic
Black Box - Ride On Time
Britney Spears - Baby One More Time
Sophie Ellis Bexter - Murder On The Dancefloor
Spice Girls - Who Do You Think You Are
- Stop
Steps - Tragedy
Shalamar - A Night To Remember
Los Del Rio - Macerena
Abba - Dancing Queen
Janet Jackson - All For You
Luther Vandross - Never Too Much
Shania Twain - Man I Feel Like A Woman
Westlife - A World Of Our Own
Cher - Believe
Robbie Williams - Rock D.J
Chaka Khan - Ain't Nobody
Destiny's Child - Bootylicious
Backstreet Boys - Everybody
Blue - Too Close
- Fly By II
Jennifer Lopez - Waiting For Tonight
Pink - Get The Party Started
Enrique Ingelsies - Baliamos
Gabrielle - Dreams
Kylie - Spinning Around
- In Your Eyes
Louise - Stuck In The Middle
Riva ft Danni Minogue - Who Do You Love Now
Nu Shooz - I Can't Wait (80's)
Five - Let's Dance
Diana Ross - Upside Down
Real Thing - You To Me Are Everything
Spiller - Groovejet
Gap Band - Ooops Upside Your Head
Nolans - In the mood for dancing
Kelly Marie - Feels Like I'm in Love
Chic - Le Freak
Rose Royce - Car Wash
Soft Cell - Tainted Love
Christina Aguilera - Dirrty
The Monkeys - I'm a believer
Jeff Beck - Hi ho Silver Lining
Brian Poole - Do You love me
The Beatles - Twist & shout
Cyndi Lauper - Girls just want to have fun
Katrina and the Waves - Walking on Sunshine
Tiffany - I think were alone now
Weather Girls - Raining Men
Wham Wake me up / I'm your man

Sophie Ellis Bextor - Murder on the Dancefloor
Alacazar - Crying at the discotheque
Robbie Williams - Rock DJ
Kylie/New Order - Can Get....
Shania - Man I feel like a woman
A Teens - Mamma Mia
Candi Staton - Young Hearts...
Billy Ocean - Love Really Hurts...
Frankie Valli/Four Seasons - December 1963
Rose Royce - Car wash
Earth, Wind and Fire - September
Trammps - Disco Inferno
Foundations - Build Me Up Buttercup
Weather Girls - It's raining men
Chesney Hawkes - The One and Only
Wham - Wake me up before....
Gloria Gaynor - I Will survive
Bucks Fizz - Making Your mind up
Barry White - Youre my first...
Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl
Stevie Wonder - Superstition
Morecombe and Wise - Bring me sunshine
Ken Dodd - Happiness
Frank - New York...
Steps/Diana Ross - Chain Reaction
S Club 7 - Reach
Ricky - Livin' la vida loco

These are a few for the more cheezy weddings, plus a few newer songs, but for cheese you can go wrong with these, makes me sound like I should be doing every Saturday in the Rovers Return

Again I wish Kazz was here, I'd be interested in her lists for different age range kids say one list for 4-7yrs and another for 7- 10 after that I realise its a bit of party and chart together but its by looking at other peoples ways of doing things we learn to improve our own shows.

I see this thread stagnated so posted to bring it back up again!

Spin

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Enrique Ingelsies - Baliamos

I love this song,

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I see this thread stagnated so posted to bring it back up again!

So will I lol

Can I have 3 gbytes of space for my play list

I use a playlist of about 300 shortlisted from the 1,000s I carry and occasionally amended as required. I have grouped these 300 into A, B, C & D with A being the most popular. So if my paste works, here's the 'A list' in no particular order:

WHAM WAKE ME UP BEFORE YOU GO GO
STEPS TRADEGY
SHOWADDYWADDY UNDER THE MOON OF LOVE
MONKEES I'M A BELIEVER
SEARCHERS SWEETS FOR MY SWEET
N TRANCE STAYIN' ALIVE
MARK MCCABE MANIAC 2000
NOLANS I'M IN THE MOOD FOR DANCING
DJ OTZI HEY BABY (IF YOU BE MY GIRL)
LOVE INC YOU'RE A SUPERSTAR
MADHOUSE LIKE A PRAYER
BEATLES CAN'T BUY ME LOVE
JACKIE WILSON REET PETITE
MUD TIGER FEET
ATOMIC KITTEN THE TIDE IS HIGH
PHIL COLLINS YOU CAN'T HURRY LOVE
ELVIS BURNING LOVE
HERMES HOUSE BAND COUNTRY ROADS
TOM JONES & MOUSSE T SEX BOMB
MAVERICKS DANCE THE NIGHT AWAY
VAN MORRISON BROWN EYED GIRL
ROBBIE WILLIAMS ROCK DJ
WESTLIFE WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING LIKE THAT
CULTURE CLUB KARMA KAMELION
YAZZ THE ONLY WAY IS UP
ROY ORBISON OH, PRETTY WOMAN
WHITNEY HOUSTON I WANNA DANCE WITH SOMEBODY
GERI HALLIWELL IT'S RAINING MEN
WHIGFIELD SATURDAY NIGHT
JOHN TRAVOLTA & OLIVIA NEWTON JOHN GREASE MEGAMIX
CHER BELIEVE
FRANK SINATRA NEW YORK NEW YORK
DJ SAMMY HEAVEN
BEATLES HARD DAYS NIGHT
TINA CHARLES I LOVE TO LOVE
BEATLES BEATLES MIX
HERMES HOUSE BAND MEGAMIX
GIDEA PARK BEACH BOYS MIX
ABBA ABBA MIX
SHANIA TWAIN THAT DON'T IMPRESS ME MUCH
DOLLY PARTON 9 TO 5
S CLUB 7 REACH
RONAN KEATING IF TOMORROW NEVER COMES
TINA TURNER THE BEST
VILLAGE PEOPLE YMCA
WESTLIFE QUEEN OF MY HEART
FOUNDATIONS BUILD ME UP BUTTERCUP
KOOL & THE GANG CELEBRATION
ENRIQUE HERO
SHANIA TWAIN MAN, I FEEL LIKE A WOMAN
ANDREW STRONG MUSTANG SALLY
S CLUB 7 DON'T STOP MOVIN'
SAW DOCTORS N17
STEPS CHAIN REACTION
CYNDI LAUPER (HEY NOW) GIRLS JUST WANNA HAVE FUN
LAS KETCHUP THE KETCHUP SONG
ROBBIE WILLIAMS ANGELS
S CLUB DON'T STOP MOVIN'
WESTLIFE UNBREAKABLE
BEATLES TWIST & SHOUT
STEELERS WHEEL STUCK IN THE MIDDLE
BLACK LACE MUSIC MAN
BEATLES LOVE ME DO
MICHAEL JACKSON BILLIE JEAN
ABBA WATERLOO
KYLIE MINOGUE CAN'T GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD

It worked (apart from the gaps)
PaulS

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Can I have 3 gbytes of space for my play list

Go On Dan...just a shortened versions of "must plays"! you know you want to!

This is for kids - works for all the age groups I do - 6-11 and remember that with kids parties, you do a lot of chat and mucking about/games etc so I reckon in two hours you play very few tracks:

Follow the leader - Nigel Lewis version NOT the one that was
out last year
Ketchup song
Fast food song
Reach
cha cha slide (for the older kids)
music man
spirit in the sky
macarena
who let the dogs out (change "dogs" to different animal and
get kids to react ie., pigs = oink)
sometimes 5678
some of the most popular chart stuff if kids are bit older

In the main I generally do action songs as I am always out front showing the dance steps

Now for adults... thats a different matter altogether but just a few I tend to play at say for a wedding would be

Cant help myself
tears of a clown
this old heart of mine
aint to proud to beg
your love keeps lifting me higher

Never can say goodbye
love really hurts
right back where we started from
dancing queen (yawn)
Im in the mood
December 64
chain reaction (diana ross)


.... mostly I reckon we all play the say.... looking at everyones lists I think we are a collective juke box!!

Thanks Kazz, there was me hoping for some interesting titbits to amuse the kiddies, and what did you come up with?.........
...................... 'My' playlist almost exactly!!!!

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December 64

Was this the remix then Kazz probably done by the same guy who did the 'When I'm 63' remix

LIST REMOVED - SORRY, GOT WRONG END OF STICK AND THOUGHT "WHAT AM i DOING?".
SO, HAVE REMOVED THE 'REQUEST LIST'.

I will put a list together when I have time, but I have just re discovered, The Blues Brothers Sweet Home Chicago, straight after Mustang Sally.

Also, Ska appears to be making a come back - Prince Buster - Al Capone etc.

HEY MIKEEE - OUR POSTS WERE SENT AT THE SAME TIME - IN THE SAME TOPIC AREA..........SPOOKY!

Will try and remember to make a note this Saturday of everything I played and post it on Monday

63 63 63 63! Yes I am at that age when I get things wong! Spin, I still say its not what you play but what you do whilst it is playing - I'd love to see what you would come up with for alternative steps to the fast food song.... you should see my "mcdonalds"!!!

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you should see my "mcdonalds"!!!

Do you have seasame seed buns or baps?

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HEY MIKEEE - OUR POSTS WERE SENT AT THE SAME TIME - IN THE SAME TOPIC AREA..........SPOOKY

Da Da Daa Da, Da Da Daa Da,

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63 63 63 63! Yes I am at that age

Wow, you look good for your age Kazz

Even her real age

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Even her real age

It's all that working out that she does...

Boxing
Karate
Arm Wrestling
Bare Knuckle Fighting
Mud Wrestling
Plate Throwing

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Mud Wrestling

Any videos ?

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I'd love to see what you would come up with for alternative steps to the fast food song.... you should see my "mcdonalds"!!!

LOL I can't imagine any alternative steps.................... but then again...

Spin

Hi folks

Ok here's my list, I've only included stuff that hasn't already been mentioned, so I won't be listing dancing queen, wake me up etc.

Edwin Star, Contact
Dead or Alive, you spin me round
brothers johnson, stomp
Earth Wind and Fire, September 1999 remix
Rolling Stones, Satisfaction
human League, don't you want me
B52's Love shack
Steven Tin Tin Duffy, Kiss me
Yabro & People's, Don't stop the music
Blondie, heart of glass/Atomic
Tamperer, Feel it
Frankie, Relax
Boyzone, go and get stuffed, oops when the going gets tough

And so many more!

Darren

Great thread! I try not to make play lists, i turn up look at the crowd and start with something suitable and just move on from there. I used to plan more but tended to get stuck in a rut Anyway it works for me!

I must admit that I'm the same, I look at the crowd, play a tune, then pick another and play that and so on.

works for me

I never used to have a playlist but then I'd be driving home from a gig and suddenly think 'I wish I'd have played such & such, it would have gone down well'. So rather than turn the car around & set up the gear again, I started to make a list of songs that work most of the time. More as an aide memoire than a set formulae.

If someone requests a song and it goes down well not only at that gig but the next few then I'll add that, again just as a reminder to me so that if I feel it'll work I can find it easily.

I started with a blank sheet and, when I look at other suggestions, I don't think it's coincidence that people all over the country seem to like similar music at wedding receptions apart from the odd local variations.