Does anyone have suggestions for holiday/xmas themed danceable songs? I need a bunch of songs for a xmas party. Any help is mucho appreciated! So far I've got: "Baby its cold outside" - foxtrot "Rocking around the xmas tree" - ecs
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Jingle bell rock is a pretty good ECS, though I'm rather sick of it already (we're dancing to it this week, sick of hearing it. )
Here are some from my collection. -IJ Artist - Title Album Genre Year Tempo Celine Dion - Feliz Navidad These Are Special Times Holiday Cha-Cha 1998 34 MPM Harry Connick, Jr. - Santa Claus Is Coming to Town Harry for the Holidays Holiday Cha-Cha 2003 31 MPM Jacque Harenberg - Winter Wonderland Silent Night Holiday Cha-Cha 2003 31 MPM Lalo Davila & Orkesta Cubana - Feliz Navidad Feliz Navidad Holiday Cha-cha 2006 32 MPM Lalo Davila & Orkesta Cubana - I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus Feliz Navidad Holiday Cha-cha 2006 33 MPM Tony Evans & His Orchestra - Last Christmas I Love Christmas Holiday Cha-Cha 2007 30 MPM Tony Evans & His Orchestra - Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer I Love Christmas Holiday Cha-Cha 2007 30 MPM Bing Crosby - White Christmas Holiday Foxtrot 29 MPM Denver & The Mile High Orchestra - Let It Snow Timeless Christmas Holiday Foxtrot 2004 31 MPM Ella Fitzgerald - Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer Verve Presents: The Very Best Of Christmas Jazz Holiday Foxtrot 1960 30 MPM Joe Williams - Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Verve Presents: The Very Best Of Christmas Jazz Holiday Foxtrot 1990 32 MPM Louis Armstrong - 'Zat You, Santa Claus? Verve Presents: The Very Best Of Christmas Jazz Holiday Foxtrot 1953 30 MPM Madonna - Santa Baby A Very Special Christmas Holiday Foxtrot 1989 Monday Off - (Everybody's Waiting For) The Man With The Bag Christmas Time Is Here Holiday Foxtrot The Manhattan Transfer - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town/ The Christmas Album Holiday Foxtrot 1992 32 MPM Tony Evans & His Orchestra - I'll be Home For Christmas I Love Christmas Holiday Foxtrot 2007 28 MPM Tony Evans & His Orchestra - Santa Baby I Love Christmas Holiday Foxtrot 2007 28 MPM Tony Evans & His Orchestra - White Christmas I Love Christmas Holiday Foxtrot 2007 29 MPM Tony Evans & His Orchestra - Winter Wonderland I Love Christmas Holiday Foxtrot 2007 28 MPM Denver & The Mile High Orchestra - Little Drummer Boy Timeless Christmas Holiday Hustle 2004 28 MPM Harry Connick, Jr. - Frosty The Snowman Harry For The Holidays Holiday Mambo 2003 48 MPM Lalo Davila & Orkesta Cubana - Here Comes Santa Claus Feliz Navidad Holiday Mambo 2006 47 MPM Lalo Davila & Orkesta Cubana - Jingle Bells Feliz Navidad Holiday Mambo 2006 48 MPM Lalo Davila & Orkesta Cubana - Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow Feliz Navidad Holiday Mambo 2006 43 MPM Lalo Davila & Orkesta Cubana - Little Drummer Boy Feliz Navidad Holiday Mambo 2006 50 MPM Lalo Davila & Orkesta Cubana - We Wish You a Merry Christmas Feliz Navidad Holiday Mambo 2006 44 MPM Lalo Davila & Orkesta Cubana - What Child Is This Feliz Navidad Holiday Mambo 2006 41 MPM Lalo Davila & Orkesta Cubana - What Child Is This (edited) Feliz Navidad Holiday Mambo 2006 41 MPM Ramsey Lewis Trio - Here Comes Santa Claus Verve Presents: The Very Best Of Christmas Jazz Holiday Mambo 1961 40 MPM Vince Vance & The Valiants - All I Want for Christmas Is You All I Want for Christmas Is You Holiday Nightclub Two-Step 1993 18 MPM Tony Evans & His Orchestra - Driving Home For Christmas I Love Christmas Holiday Quickstep 2007 48 MPM Tony Evans & His Orchestra - Santa Claus is Coming to Town I Love Christmas Holiday Quickstep 2007 Tony Evans & His Orchestra - Sleigh Ride I Love Christmas Holiday Quickstep 2007 48 MPM Tony Evans & His Orchestra - Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas I Love Christmas Holiday Rumba 2007 26 MPM Tony Evans & His Orchestra - Merry Christmas Darling I Love Christmas Holiday Rumba 2007 26 MPM Tony Evans & His Orchestra - The Christmas Song I Love Christmas Holiday Rumba 2007 26 MPM Vanessa Williams - Baby, It's Cold Outside Star Bright Holiday Rumba 1996 27 MPM Lalo Davila & Orkesta Cubana - Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Feliz Navidad Holiday Samba 2006 66 MPM Lalo Davila & Orkesta Cubana - Santa Claus Is Coming to Town Feliz Navidad Holiday Samba 2006 53 MPM Tony Evans & His Orchestra - This Christmas I Love Christmas Holiday Samba 2007 50 MPM Denver & The Mile High Orchestra - Jingle Bells Timeless Christmas Holiday Single Swing 2004 50 MPM Mariah Carey - All I want for Christmas is You (edited) Merry Christmas Holiday Single Swing 1994 38 MPM Tony Evans & His Orchestra - All I Want For Christmas is You I Love Christmas Holiday Single Swing 2007 40 MPM Tony Evans & His Orchestra - Merry Christmas Everybody I Love Christmas Holiday Single Swing 2007 40 MPM Tony Evans & His Orchestra - Rocking Around the Christmas Tree I Love Christmas Holiday Single Swing 2007 41 MPM Bob Curtis Trio +2 - Christmas Tango Christmas Straight Up Holiday Tango 1997 30 MPM Bobby Helms - Jingle Bell Rock Holiday Triple Swing 30 MPM Brenda Lee - Rocking Around the Christmas Tree Holiday Triple Swing Burl Ives - A Holly Jolly Christmas Season's Greetings-Disc 1-20th Century Masters The Millennium Collection Holiday Triple Swing 2001 35 MPM Celine Dion - Christmas Eve These Are Special Times Holiday Triple Swing 1998 32 MPM The Platters - Blue Christmas Season's Greetings-Disc 2-20th Holiday Triple Swing 35 MPM Harry Connick, Jr. - The Christmas Waltz Harry For The Holidays Holiday Waltz 2003 39 MPM Jacqui Naylor - Celebrate Early And Often Smashed For The Holidays Holiday Waltz 2007 31 MPM Kenny Loggins - Celebrate Me Home Holiday Waltz 2004 33-35 MPM Rick Springfield - Christmas With You Christmas With You Holiday Waltz 2007 36 MPM Tony Evans & His Orchestra - Mistletoe and Wine I Love Christmas Holiday Waltz 2007 31 MPM Tony Evans & His Orchestra - Pretty Paper I Love Christmas Holiday Waltz 2007 29 MPM Tony Evans & His Orchestra - Silent Night I Love Christmas Holiday Waltz 2007 29 MPM Tony Evans & His Orchestra - When a Child is Born I Love Christmas Holiday Waltz 2007 29 MPM Vince Guaraldi Trio - Christmastime Is Here A Charlie Brown Christmas (Rem Holiday Waltz 2006 29 MPM Denver & The Mile High Orchestra - Frosty The Blues Man Timeless Christmas Holiday West Coast Swing 2004 23 MPM
A Coventry Carol -- Waltz It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas -- FT Santa Claus Is Back In Town -- (Elvis) -- WCS Dancing With Santa -- R&R, EC(Single) I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus -- (Orig Jimmy Boyd version) FT
All I Want For Christmas is You - Leanne Rimes (and no, this is not the same song Mariah Carey did...TOTALLY different!) *works as a REALLY slow foxtrot (maybe :?), a bolero, or a nightclub two-step Holiday Celebrate - Toni Braxton *works as an int'l rumba (or a slow American rumba), bolero, or nightclub two-step I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus - John Mellencamp (fellow Hoosier! ) *a fun jive
Well, I'm not exactly sure what kind of information you're looking for. I think just about any of the popular computer media players (Windows Media Player, iTunes, Winamp, etc.) will allow you to organize your music as I do (in fact, I've used all three over the past couple of years). The trick is using the media software to edit the ID3 tag of each MP3 file. Field use is pretty self explanatory (e.g. the Album name goes in the Album Name field). I do a couple of things, however the deviate slightly from what might be typical. ID3 tags have a tempo field that's labeled BPM (beats per minute). Tempi for ballroom dances, however, are usually expressed in measures per minute (MPM). Rather than put an MPM value in the BPM field, I use the Comment field to store the MPM value, followed by the letters "MPM." Also, most MP3 software provides a drop-down list for the Genre field. With the exception of some choices like tango and swing, most dance styles don't appear in this drop-down list. Most software, however, will allow you to type in a value that's not in the drop-down and that's how I store the dance style that goes with that song. So, for example, the Genre field in the ID3 tags of my cha-cha songs reads, "cha-cha," even though that's not an "offical" genre from the drop-down list. And since I don't want to play Feliz Navidad for a cha-cha outside of the holiday season, I set put the word "holiday" in front of "cha-cha" in the genre field for such songs. This allows me to easiliy create a playlist that includes either non-holiday or holiday cha-chas, etc. List output can be a little tricky. Standard implementations of Winamp and Windows Media Player don't output text information to my satisfaction (although plug-ins might be available that would meet our needs -- I have not explored that possiblity). iTunes, however, will export to a tab-delimited text file every field in every ID3 tag of every song in a playlist. I can then open that file with a spreadsheet program (e.g. Excel) sort and modify it to my heart's content, and then share the results (as I have in this thread). If there's anything else you'd like to know, just ask! Note to moderators: As this post if pretty far off-topic, feel free to move it to another thread as might be appropriate. -IJ
Run Run Rudolf - Jive/Swing - Chuck Berry and many others have covered it Santa Claus is Back in Town - WCS - Dwight Yoakam
That's cool, so that list was from the text output? I am trying to come up with a way to keep track of my music collection, since I have a lot of non-danceable music, too. I'm thinking about buying a portable hard drive for it, it's beginning to take up too much space.
Indirectly, yes -- after some massaging in Excel and Word. An external hard drive should work just as well with your media player software as does your internal hard drive. For now, all of my music is on my internal hard drive.
tanya: If you have a large collection, and technical expertise, then the best way to keep the music trackable, surprisingly, is not to organize it at all, but leave the task to a database management system. You have to fill the song information database first. It will take 3-20 minutes to collect and fill in the information for one song or musical piece. After that, you can ask the database management system, for example, to pull up all songs that have MPM between 31 and 32, are foxtrots, are orchestra-only, are composed by composers whose names end with "stein", have TR 3 or better (TR = Tanya's Rating), and have appeared between 1920 and 1989. You will get a list of files, a list of CDs with track numbers, or perhaps other sources as you have entered them into the database. There are free database management systems available. But this miracle requires lots of work. You can perhaps go along with Excel spreadsheet, or simply by keeping files in specific folders. About an additional hard drive. If you use mostly a laptop, then you need two hard drives. A small one (they call it 2.5"), without power supply unit, that you will connect to the laptop and use. And a small or large (3.5") one, only to keep a backup copy, which will be rarely connected. Both hard drives could be 250-500 GB large. Keeping your collection on the laptop itself only is risky. If you use mostly a desktop, then you need two hard drives. One, with capacity 500 GB or more, in most cases can be installed within the desktop PC. The other one shall be an external hard drive for backup ony. The external hard drive can be either 2.5" or 3.5". The 3.5" ones are several times larger that 2.5" ones, but they are cheaper, more reliable and about twice quicker. If you use both laptop and desktop, then you need two hard drives: an internal hard drive inside the desktop, and an 2.5" external hard drive for use with laptop. The internal one will also serve as the backup hard drive. A third hard drive, dedicated for backup only, is optional. Don't use CDs, memory sticks, internet backup services for backup. If you can, keep the backup hard drive separate from computers, so that the thief cannot find it easily and it cannot be damaged by the same disaster that will destroy the computer. Update (synchronize) the backup hard drive no more than once or twice a year.
I agree completely and have made a conscious decision not to do this, even though I have the skills and software (recent copy of MS Access) required. While using the ID3 tags to hold the data on my collection is far less powerful, it does what I need and is less work than setting up a DBMS.
Away in a Manger is a waltz, obviously speed varies with the version you use. Brian Setzer also does Baby It's Cold Outside and Winter Wonderland (foxtrots), as I'm sure may other artists do. Also, The Tractors do a Christmas version of Boogie Woogie Choo Choo Train (jive). The Carol of the Bells (Bohemian Bell Carol?) is a nice Viennese Waltz. The Wiggles do A Christmas Polka. Jim Reeves does The Merry Christmas Polka. You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch makes a nice slow foxtrot. I have an Enya version of Silent Night in Gaelic that is a nice waltz. Not Christmas, but Glenn Miller did a nice foxtrotty Auld Lang Syne.
