Black Country Dancing Tunes
A bunch of tunes to get your toes tapping, and maybe even a slight nodding of the head ...
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Release The Kraken
I'm a famous f*cking legend
Samples:
- Apache - Incredible Bongo Band
- Release The Kraken - Clash Of The Titans
- Destiny is All - The Last Kingdom
- Famous F*cking Legend - Gata Kamsky
Who Are Ya?
The perfect tune to get the dancing started at a wedding disco 🕺🎶💒
Samples:
- Cher - Believe
- Spice Girls - Who Do You Think You Are
- C+C Music Factory - Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)
If You're Old Enough, You're Good Enough
“Tell me where it says Benson and Hedges on that?”
Samples:
- I’m Coming Out - Diana Ross
- Mike Bassett, England Manager
Hold Someone
An important message for March 2022 🇺🇦 #HoldSomeone
Samples:
- Prisencolinensinainciusol - Adriano Celentano
- I See You Baby - Groove Armada
- Pale Saints - Thread of Light
Classy
A touch of class, baby
Samples:
- George Clooney - Up In The Air
- Lee Trevino - 1984 Open Championship at St. Andrews
In Bad Shape
A song to workout to if you’re not particularly fit 😀
Samples:
- Cocoon - I Feel Tremendous
- Get Carter - You’re a big man, but you’re in bad shape
- Village People - Macho Man
- Beastie Boys - Body Movin'
- Carry on Camping - Arms Flinging From Side To Side
You Better Not Feel The Groove
You should stay sitting down for this one. No dancing allowed.
Samples:
- 2 Unlimited - No Limits
- Sophie Ellis-Baxtor - Murder on the Dance Floor
- Strictly Ballroom - Paso Doble
Fresh, Exciting (Disco MegaMix)
Not sure it really is fresh or exciting, but there you go 🕺
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Samples:
- Daddy Cool - Boney M
- Fresh - Kool and the Gang
- Don’t Stop Til You Get Enough - Michael Jackson
- Alright - Matthew McConaughey
Nul Points
My entry for next year’s Eurovision Song Contest 🤞
Samples:
- Step On - Happy Mondays
- Pump Up The Jam - Technotronic
- Who wants to hear a Eurovision Song? - Rachel McAdams (Eurovision)
- Are You Not Entertained? - Russell Crowe (Gladiator)
- Oh Yeah - Vic and Bob
We Go Again
Not stopping because it's 2021 - we go again.
Samples:
- Start Me Up - The Rolling Stones
- Sight Of You - Sigrid
- Can You Dig It? - The Warriors
I Regret Nothing
Some Euro Disco (while we're still in the EU)
Samples:
- Diana Ross - I'm Coming Out
- Gillian Hills - Tut Tut Tut Tut
- Edith Piaf - Non, Je ne regrette rien
November (Boom)
I'll be gone til November, so I thought I'd leave you this 😀
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Samples:
- Boom - Snoop Dogg
- Here Comes The Boom - E-Force, Sub Zero Project
- Boom Boom Pow - Black Eyed Peas
- Firework - Katy Perry
- Baldrick - Blackadder
- Gone till November - Wycliff Jean
October (Never Too Old To Party)
I'm a fifty year old man. What're you gonna do about it? - Mark E Smith
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Samples:
- Get The Party Started - Pink
- You Know We Can't Go Back - High Flying Birds
- Last Friday Night - Katy Perry
- S Club Party - S Club 7
- 50 Year Old Man - The Fall
- Sheena Is a Punk Rocker - The Ramones
- 911 Is A Joke - Public Enemy
Black Country Hoedown
A toe-tapping Black Country and Western Midlands stomper
Samples:
- None! All me (well mostly Garageband)
Bigging Meself Up
Clearly I am the best, and now everyone knows it
Samples:
- Who’s da King - All Hail King Julian
- All about the Pentiums - Weird Al Jankovic
- Cue The Music - Lord Garmadon - Lego Ninjago
- I am the Greatest - Muhammed Ali
Old Time Dance Music
Dance Music for old people
Samples:
- Groove is in the Heart - Deee-Lite
- Unbelievable - EMF
- C'est la vie - B*witched
- Best of Jasper Beardy - The Simpsons
Love Train (Fantasy Goal Of The Month Remix)
The hardest part was coming up with a name for this track, but I think it sums it up pretty well. With no football on at the moment, we have to make our own entertainment I guess :)
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Samples:
- Love Train - The O'Jays
- Life Of Riley - The Lightning Seeds
- Crazy Train - Ozzy Osbourne
- A. Simeon Cobourne - Halesowen vs Barnet 2020
- B. Philip Albert - Newcastle vs Man. Utd. 1996
- C. Carlos Alberto - Brazil vs Italy 1970
- D. Geoff Hurst - England vs West Germany 1966
Open The Door, Richard
Inspired by a virtual pub night during lockdown. It makes sense if you were there.
Samples:
- Open The Door, Richard - Louis Jordan
Bored (The Ballad of Hexham Gaol)
Starts slow, gets slightly better as it goes along (so stick with it!)
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Samples:
- Iggy Pop - I’m Bored
- The Smiths - William, It Was Really Nothing
I'm Alive (50 Year Old Man Remix)
The Tom Jones and Mark E. Smith duet the world missed out on 😢
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Samples:
- I'm Alive - Tom Jones
- 50 Year Old Man - The Fall
- Touch Sensitive - The Fall