Which songs really get you dancing!

Divawithttitude Love Hi Ho Silver Lining. I often play it on You tube to cheer me up. 1967 I think.

Dancing Queen for me too. In my early teens a friend of my parents decided to do New York New York down our staircase. Unfortunately it was New Years Eve and she had obviously been celebrating a little so came down the stairs on her rear end! I was horrified and embarrassed - didn’t think grown ups behaved like that. But I have loved the song ever since.

Tiger feet

Flashdance.
Must look like a real idiot trying to look graceful dancing along to that at 80.

Funkin' for Jamaica - Tom Brown
Boogie Nights - Heatwave
Sex Machine - James Brown
Can't Stop the Feeling - Justin Timberlake
Higher Ground - Stevie Wonder
You Want it, You Got it - Detroit Emeralds
Signed, Sealed, Delivered - Stevie Wonder
Love Hangover - Diana Ross
Uptown Funk - Bruno Mars
Higher Ground - Stevie Wonder
Stranger in Moscow - Michael Jackson

It’s raining men by the Weather Girls

Another Dancing Queen, Come on Eileen and Barry White Your my first my last my everything

The proclaimers... and I would walk 500 miles

Give me give me a man after midnight by ABBA.
Most Beatles records. And a jive to Elvis blue suede shoes.
Anything on the radio I like (radio 2) I will dance to or try too.

'Gypsy' by Fleetwood Mac!

YMCA

Most ABBA and Billy Jean.

I heard it through the grapevine sung by credence Clearwater revival.

I have to add:

The Israelites - Desmond Dekker and the Aces
Tears of a Clown - Smokey Robinson
Happy - Pharrell Williams

Forgot Proud Mary Creedance Clearwater Revival ? Just heard the AA advert?

Any Bob Marley song
Human by the Killers
Almost any Tamla Motown record
First ,Last and,Everything by Barry White
Dancing Queen ( my DJ friend describes this song as a floor filler) which looking at these lists is true
Sway by the Pussycat Dolls
My guilty pleasure is I'm in the mood for dancing by the Nolans.
The very first "disco" I went to used to have a progressive barn dance and the song that sticks in my mind is Rythym of the rain by the Cascades.
In writing this list I realised I will dance to almost any song !

Good golly Miss Molly by Little Richard.

I am with you NannyTee with all the Stevie Wonder classics. I’ve been to see him 3 times, just wonderful but he rarely tours in the UK now.

There is a fab Swiss pianist called Sylvan Zing try Googling on YouTube. music him. He often plays for youngsters doing the jive really worth watching.

Sylvan Zingg correct spelling.

Mental as anything. You with the sad face. I want to break free. Queen. And too many to mention. ???

Dancing in the Dark - Bruce Springsteen (I think it contains what I call the teenager's lament - 'wanna change my clothes, my hair, my face').
Rock DJ - Robbie Williams.

Happy by Pharrell Williams..just cannot sit this one out on my feet like a teenager

Anything northern soul or reggae always gets me up and moving

Lots of these - this thread makes me want to go out dancing right now!

I’d add:
Long after tonight is all over
The snake
Nutbush City limits
The night (Franki Valli)
Take on me
Tainted love

Missy Elliott / Get ya freak on etc

Jalima, snap! That was instantly in my mind when I read the OP! Impossible not to dance to that marvelous song. First time Mum heard it she said 'I hope Bill Clinton doesn't accept royalties for writing those lyrics, he's rich enough as it is!'

Anniebach, I've reached an age where I sort of substitute shoulders for other parts of the body in 'NY, NY.' Still good fun & no stairs required!

I used to fling myself about idiotically to the Jimmy Young music. And still do to

'What's New, Pussycat' Tom Jones

'You're Just Too Good to be True' Frankie Valli

'Goody Two-Shoes' Adam Ant (him again, now there's a surprise)

'Paper Chase' Richard Harris

'For Once in My Life' Stevie Wonder

'Walking on Sunshine' Katrina & the Waves

'I Heard it Through the Grapevine' Marvin Gaye

'All That Jazz' Kander & Ebb

'Sha La La' Al Green

Herb Alpert, Sergio Mendes, Ray Charles - almost anything

'70's disco ('Full Monty' & 'Priscilla Queen of the Desert' soundtracks are great selections), Northern Soul, & yes, 'The Stripper.'

This wonderful clip (music is Beatles' 'Twist & Shout,' film is 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off') pretty much sums up my view of life!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=81ZtmBAA_NE