Okay everyone a very very good friend of mine is getting married at Gretna Green in August. And having a blessing and party in Sept and the theme for the party is 70's 80's music, so any ideas appreciated I have been given the job of music so I need suggestions to for them to decide from and then pass them to the DJ

What songs did you dance around your handbags too? ;) Looking for songs that get people up on the dancefloor or really smoochy songs to be played towards the end of the evening.

Karen

Well you just have to have 'The Last Waltz' with Engelbert Humperdinck ;) (cough)

Daisy

'Hold Me Close' - David Essex *swoons pathetically*

'Lady in Red' of course :)

Daisy

"Vienna" Ultravox, first slow dance I ever had with my, now, husband :)

70's "under the moon of love" shawaddy waddy :D  80's "the power of love"  Jennifer Rush and "true" spandau Ballet :D

'Vienna' - when that came out my sis-in-law kept talking about hearing the song, however, she thought the words were 'old piano' !!.

woohoo david essex :) :) weak at the knees lol
sweet, mud, duran duran, abba, rick astley, t rex lol
Iam stuck in the 70's 80's lol.
got loads of those tapes, will check them out tomorrow and get back with more.
Jane

Thanks all keep them coming.

Brian Adams... Everything i do

The Air That I Breathe - Hollies

Daisy

Anything by Culture Club :)

Leo Sayer :-)

Commodores

here's a few that we always like :-)
final countdown - europe ,  come on eileen - dexys midnight runners,   gold - spandau ballet,
the only way is up - yazz,     chain reaction - diana ross,   take on me - aha, suburbia - pet shop boys,   power of love - frankie goes to hollywood,   girls on film, hungry like the wolf, the reflex - duran duran,   sometimes - erasure, dancing queen, waterloo - abba, spirit in the sky - dr and the medics, born to be alive - ?, you to me (are everything) - ? and timewarp always got us up on the dance floor :-)

Adam & the Ants, Depeche Mode, Toyah, Soft Cell, Bananarama, Fun Boy Three, A-ha...

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Hope they help - some track listings of 70's and 80's cds from HMV

try this web site 80s nostalgia.com its got everthing 80s on it

I was married in 1978, and 'our song' is the Bee Gees, How Deep is your Love.

That would be a good one for the newlyweds to have the first dance to.

Dawn R.

Hi thought of another one, may get there clothes dirty though lol. oops upside your head, i think its called the rowing song, not sure.
I was married in 1979, wow 26 years this year.
I like all the jiggy songs so i can shake my bum lol

Forgot to ask can i please come to the party???????????? LOl

Have fun
Jane

A selection from the disco section of my own wedding DJ List as these are all guaranteed floor fillers!

Chic - Le Freak
Jackson 5 - Can You Feel it
Jackson 5 - Don't Stop Till You Get Enough
Michael Jackson - Billy Jean
Boys Town Gang - Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You
Chaka Khan - Aint Nobody
Kool And The Gang - Get Down On It
Foundations - Baby Now That I Found You
Foundations - Build Me Up Buttercup
Barry White - My First, My Last, My Everything

And some that aren't on my list (but may get added) that I'm listing from my disco cd:

Chic - Good Times
Chic - Everybody Dance
Earth, Wind and Fire - Boogie Wonderland
Hot Chocolate - You Sexy Thing
Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive
Jackson Five - Blame It On The Boogie
KC & The Sunshine Band - That's The Way I Like It
Kool And The Gang - Celebration
Anita Ward - Ring My Bell
Sister Sledge - Lost In Music
Sister Sledge - We Are Family
The Nolans - I'm In The Mood For Dancing
Tina Charles - I Love To Love
Trammps - Disco Inferno
Fatback Band - I Found Lovin'

ooh i have to go and update my list right now!  I don't know they weren't on there in the first place!

I really want to have Brotherhood of Man - Save All Your Kisses for Me  and John Paul Young - Love Is In The Air as I love these two songs but I haven't got the guts in case they clear the dancefloor and everyone blames me!

My son was born in 1979 and songs I particularly remember from that time are Video Killed the Radio Star by the Buggles, Tusk by Fleetwood Mac and Message in a Bottle by Police.  Not very romantic though!

Thanks everyone. More welcomed.

Karen

wow jessthepest you really took me back there been sitting here going through all those songs singing to myself getting some funny looks from my other half.

A few that that you SHOULDNT play :D :D D.I.V.O.R.C.E. - by Billy Connolly - not unless everyone has a pretty good sense of humour :D If You Leave Me Now - Chicago

And another couple that you might - You're The One That I Want - Travolta/Newton-John, When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman - Dr Hook

Daisy

Anything by the BeeGee's or the Carpenter's.  I just love that era.  Wish I'd been born about 15 years earlier.

Nights in White Satin - Hmmmm  maybe they should keep that for the wedding night, after everyones left ;) ;) :)

Follow you follow me - by Genesis (so romantic)

Love and Affection - Joan Armatrading

Baby I'm a Want you - Bread - in fact anything by Bread :)

LOL I spent most of that period jumping around to 'never mind', god save the queen, I dont like Mondays etc. Must have been to the wrong sort of 'disco'!

Alway & Forever by Heatwave