Classic rock, pop, and soul songs from the '60s, '70s, and '80s
Classic rock, pop, and soul songs from the '60s, '70s, and '80s
Today’s classic dance song of the day is “Save the Last Dance for Me” by the Drifters. Released in August of 1960, it spent three weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was written by the legendary songwriting…
Today’s classic dance song of the day is “I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)” by Whitney Houston. This track, released in 1987, was a huge hit, reaching the #1 position on charts in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Finland, Italy,…
Today’s classic dance song of the day is “Land of 1000 Dances.” This song mentions a ton of then-current dance favs, but not quite a thousand—the Pony, the Chicken, the Mashed Potato, the Alligator, the Watusi, the Twist, the Fly,…
Today’s classic dance song of the day is “Tighten Up” by Archie Bell & the Drells, a group that can dance just as good as they walk. It hit #1 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and Hot Rhythm and…
Today’s classic dancing song of the day is a big one: “Dancing Queen” by ABBA. The group recorded it in August of 1975 and released it as a single internationally a year later, in August of 1976. The song hit…
Put on your dancing shoes because we’re starting a week of dancing songs at the Classic Song of the Day blog. First up is Mary Chapin Carpenter’s feisty “Down at the Twist and Shout,” a Cajun-flavored number that was a…