Top Requested Reception Repertoire

ROCK:
Start Me Up, Brown Sugar, Honky Tonk Woman, It's Only Rock & Roll, Emotional Rescue -(Rolling Stones)
Beautiful Day, Pride, With or Without You, I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, I Will Follow, Angel of Harlem -(U2)
I Saw Her Standing There, Drive My Car, Hard Days Night, Ticket To Ride Paperback Writer, 8 Days a Week - (The Beatles)
We Didn't Start the Fire, Only the Good Die Young, You May Be Right (Billy Joel)
Glory Days, Dancing in the Dark - (Bruce Springsteen)
Wrapped Around your Finger, Every Breath You Take, Every Little thing She does Is Magic - (Sting/Police)
Addicted to Love, Simply Irresitable - (Robert Palmer)
Sweet Home Alabama - (Lynard Skynard)
Love the One You're With - (Crosby, Stills, and Nash)
Brown Eyed Girl - (Van Morrison)

MOTOWN:
Dancing in the Street - (Martha Reeve & Vandellas)
Ain't Too Proud to Beg, Sugar Pie Honey Bun (Can't Help Myself),
My Girl, Get Ready - (Temptations)
I Heard it Through the Grapevine - (Marvin Gaye)
I'm Coming Out - (Diana Ross)
ABC, I Want You Back - (Jackson 5)
I Second That Emotion, Tears of a Clown - (Smoky Robinson)
I Wish, Sir Duke, Signed, Sealed, Delivered, Superstition -
(Stevie Wonder)
Reach Out/I'll Be There - (Four Tops)

POP:
Express Yourself, Holiday, Open Your Heart, Vogue - (Madonna)
I Never Can Say Goodbye - (Gloria Gaynor)
I Feel For You, I'm Every Woman - (Chaka Khan)
Joy to the World- (Three Dog Night)
Good Times/Rapper's Delight - (Sugarhill Gang)
This Old Heart of Mine - (Rod Stewart)
I Had the Time of My Life - (from Flashdance)
Jump/For My Love, We Are Family - (Pointer Sisters)
September, Let's Groove - (Earth, Wind, & Fire)
1963 (Oh What a Night)
It's Raining Men - (The Weather Girls)
Wanna Be Startin' Something, Billie Jean - (M. Jackson)
1999, Little Red Corvette, Let's go Crazy, I would die for you, Kiss - (Prince)
Love Shack - (B-52's)

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SHUFFLES:

Build Me Up Buttercup - (The Foundations)
Sweet Caroline - (Neil Diamond)
The Way You Do the Things You Do - (Temptations)
It's Still Rock and Roll to Me - (Billy Joel)
Some Kind of Wonderful - (Grand Funk Railroad)
Moon Dance - (Van Morrison)
Your Momma Don't Dance - (Loggins & Messina)

STANDARDS:
Unforgettable, Over the Rainbow, Teach Me Tonight, How High the Moon (Ornothology)
Body and Soul, God Bless the Child, Misty, Come Rain or Come Shine

ASSORTED HORAS AND ETHNIC DANCES

SOUL/FUNK MEDIUM TEMPO:
Ain't Nobody Loves Me Better - (Chaka Khan)
Back to Life/Back to Reality - (Soul II Soul)
Put a little love in Your heart
Mustang Sally, Midnight Hour - (Wilson Pickett)
Respect, Chain of Fools, - (Aretha Franklin)
Take Me to the River, Burning' Down the House - (Talking Heads)
Hold on I'm Comin', Soul Man - (Sam and Dave)
Louie Louie - (Paul Revere and the Raiders)
You Can Leave Your Hat On - (Tom Jones/Joe Cocker)
Papa's Got a Brand New Bag, I Feel Good/I Got You, Sex Machine - (James Brown)
Dance to the Music, Wanna take you higher - (Sly Stone)
Give it to Me Baby - (Rick James)

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SOUL/FUNK FAST TEMPO:
Land of 1,000 Dances - (Wilson Pickett)
Proud Mary - (Tina Turner)
Good Lovin' - (Rascals)
Devil in a Blue Dress - (Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels)
I'm Just a Love Machine - (The Miracles)

SOUL SLOW TEMPO:
Up on the Roof, Under the Boardwalk - (The Drifters)
There is a Rose in Spanish Harlem, Stand By Me - (Ben E. King)
On Broadway - (George Benson)
Let's Get it On, What's Going On - (Marvin Gaye)

CARIBBEAN/LATIN FEELS:
Hot, Hot, Hot - (Buster Poindexter)
Late in the Evening, Call Me Al - (Paul Simon)
Bambaleo, Vamos A Bailar - (Gypsy Kings)
La Copa De la Vida/Do you really want it, Ale, Ale, Ale (Un, Dos, Tres) - (Ricky Martin)
I Need to Know - (Marc Anthony)
Smoothe, Oye Como Va - (Carlos Santana)
Let's Get Loud - (Jennifer Lopez)
The Way you Move - (Outkast)

HOUSE:
Good Vibrations
Everybody Everybody
Gonna Make You Sweat/Everybody Dance Now
Waiting for Tonight

NEW SWING- dance
Jump, Jive & Wail, Rock This Town - Brian Setzer

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40's SWING:
In the Mood, Take the A Train, Satin Doll, C Jam Blues, Cherokee, Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, Chattanooga Choo Choo

FRANK SINATRA:
All the Way, New York, New York, The Summer Wind, The Best is Yet to Come, I've Got You Under My Skin, I Get a Kick Out of You

50's FAST ROCK:
Johnny Be Goode, Peppermint Twist, Let's Do the Twist, Tequila,

Do you love me /Now that I can Dance Rockin' Robin, Runaround Sue

DISCO:
Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now - (McFadden & Whitehead)
Don't Leave Me This Way - (Thelma Houston)
You'll Never Find /Gonna Miss My Lovin'- (Lou Rawls)
Turn The Beat Around - (Vicki Sue Robinson)
Everlasting Love, YMCA - (Village People)
La Freak (Freak Out), Boogie Oogie Oogie - (Chic)
Together Again - (Janet Jackson)
Knock on Wood - (Sam & Dave)
Let's Stay Together - (Al Green)
You Get the Best of My Love - (Evelyn Champagne King)
I Can't Get Enough of Your Love Babe, My First, My Last, My Everything - (Barry White)
Bad Girls, She Works Hard for the Money Heaven Knows, Last Dance, Hot Stuff - (Donna Summer)
Stayin' Alive, You Should Be Dancin' - (Bee Gees)

ROCK BALLADS:
All I Want is You - (U2)
Wonderful Tonight, Change the World, Tears in Heaven -
(Eric Clapton)
Have I Told You Lately That I Love You - (Rod Stewart)
All You Need is Love, I Get by with a little Help From My Friends - (The Beatles/Joe Cocker)

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BROADWAY:
That's All I Ask of You, Memory, Music of the Night -
(Andrew Lloyd Webber)

SOUL BALLADS:
You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman - (Aretha Franklin)
Easy - (Comodores)
You are the Sunshine of My Life - (Stevie Wonder)
Whiter Shade of Pale - (Procol Harum)
I'll Be There - (Jackson 5)
You Send Me - (Sam Cooke)

POP BALLADS:
Something About the Way you Look Tonight - (Elton John)
What You Won't Do For Love - (Bobby Caldwell)
Just the Two of Us - (Grover Washington, Jr.)
We're in this Love Together - (Al Jarreau)
Just the Way You Are, Always a Woman, Piano Man - (Billy Joel)
Hey Jude - (The Beatles)
Something, Imagine - (Lennon/McCarthney)
You are so Beautiful - (Joe Cocker)
Truly, Endless Love - (Lionel Ritchie/Diana Ross)
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, Killing Me Softely with his Song - (Roberta Flack)
You've Got a Friend - (Carole King/James Taylor)
Someone Like You - (Van Morrison)
At Last - (Etta James)
When the Stars Go Blue - (The Corrs)
Time After Time - (Cyndi Lauper)
The Wind Beneath My Wings - (Bette Midler)
Unchained Melody - (The Righteous Brothers)
Con Te Partiro - (Sarah Brightman)
Through the Eyes of Love/Ice Castles - (Melissa Manchester)
I Believe in You and Me - (Whitney Houston)
Because You Loved Me - (Celine Dion)

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