You Get One Shot...

[Kingy 0]

Ok, we all use Dancing Queen, Oh What a night, etc etc, but how about the one track suitable to play in a general disco, soul, funk type set at an average function that you think several people will A) Dance to and B) think that most DJs have forgotten about.

 

You get one track. Choose it and say why you have made that choice.

 

Go: smile icon

Edited January 8, 2009 by Robster

[Dukesy 0]

Ask 'arris!

[Kingy 0]

Ask 'arris!

 

There were only a handful of Wurzel tracks to choose from.... tongue out icon

[Robster 0]

i can think of a few that meet the criteria of question A)but it would be a presumption on my part that i thought DJ's had forgotten about them for part B) of the question.

a lot of guys probably use the tracks i have thought of .

 

I like "The whisperers -And the Beat Goes On" most age groups recognise this track as it was sampled by Will Smith for going to Miami and for the game playing generation it was a track in grand theft auto vice city and was on the games soundtrack too. I have noted that older tracks featured on games often get a good reaction from both younger and the older audience members.

Edited January 8, 2009 by Robster

[YourBigEvent 0]

Billy Ocean - Red Light Spells Danger

 

Have started to play this again, same area as Superstition, AWB, etc, gets a good response.

[Dukesy 0]

Cor blimey Andy! Catch Up! All those posts have s l o w e d you down!!! :djuhi:

Me, thinking about the question really, really hard...I'd go with James Brown Get Up Offa That Thing.

Its got the lot and then some. Rarely hear it mentioned in threads and Ithink it's one of those tracks which are over looked. Classic.

 

 

Edited January 8, 2009 by Dukesy

[YourBigEvent 0]

i t 's c a l l e d o l d a g e I t h i n k !

[C.S 0]

Commodores - Brickhouse

 

 

[supersound dj 0]

Zoom - Fat Larry's Band

[Kingy 0]

Mine is Arthur Conley - "Sweet Soul Music". Rarely played but well received.

[Slimboy Fat 0]

Dave Lee Roth - Just A Gigolo

[Robster 0]

Mine is Arthur Conley - "Sweet Soul Music". Rarely played but well received.

 

 

This is what i meant with section B) I not only play this track when doing a disco gig but i also sing it on karaoke nights too... This track always goes down well. its a great good feeling tune i usually play it followed by something like higher and higher by Jackie Wilson

[Dukesy 0]

I used to sing higher and higher. Ads can apparently do a minty version on the moors at 2am... :shaun:

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[Thats entertainment 0]

Soul Man---Sam and Dave

[spinner 0]

Land Of 1,000 Dances - Wilson Pickett.

 

I do play this, according to the audience and it works.

 

 

 

 

If a second choice was allowed it woul be You Gave Me Love - Crown Heights Affair

Edited January 8, 2009 by spinner

[centrestagediscos 0]

rappers delight sugar hill gang or crusaders street life seem to work, when i saw the thread title i thought it was going to be one bullet who you going to use it on which would of been a very hard choice.

[supersound dj 0]

rappers delight sugar hill gang or crusaders street life seem to work, when i saw the thread title i thought it was going to be one bullet who you going to use it on which would of been a very hard choice.

 

 

 

I think we all know who Kingy would use his bullet on.

[YourBigEvent 0]

I already own a bullet with my name on it thanks. That way I shouldn't get another. Anyway Kingys eye sight is so poor these days he'd have trouble hitting a barn door with a shovel.

[brokentoenail 0]

up to now i think they are all well played standards that not many people have forgotten.

especially in a soul / funk type set.

 

i would play

 

walking in rythym - donald bird and the blackbyrds.

 

loads of people have approached me when i played this and said what a tune havent heard it in ages.

[funkymook 0]

Blow Your Head - Fred Wesley and the J.B.s

 

I love it when I find out I have some funk lovers in the audience!

 

just re-read original question - maybe Fred Wesley wouldn't be OK in 'normal' type function...so reload and second shot, and maybe a bit more general crowd friendly,

 

Rocksteady - Aretha Franklin

[brokentoenail 0]

2 brilliant tunes there funkymook.

play them loads at home.

 

love funk.

[Bouncy Dancefloor 0]

James and Bobby Purify - Shake a Tailfeather

[dh140770 0]

Oceanic - Insanity

Outhere Brothers - Boom Boom Boom

SL2 - On a Ragga Tip

..... finding the 90s Dance tunes are working well at the moment, so dragged a few out recently.

[deejaymitch 0]

Heatwave - Martha Reeves & The Vandellas

 

One of the most infectious intros of all time.

[Paul Forsyth 0]

Ok I know you said one, but either

 

Curtis Mayfield - Move on up

 

or

 

Pasadenas - Tribute (Right On)