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On this page I’ve listed a few songs that feature heavily in the Porky Playlist.

These are not songs that I personally love, not current favourites just a few tunes that seem to crop up again and again and fill the dancefloor. PLEASE don’t judge me on these - I know some of them are dreadful - I know they all come straight out of the cheese box but you know, after a cocktail and a sausage roll, they often do the trick!

The listing gives you a rough idea about a Porky’s party, sprinkle these in with a few requests and quite often the result is as silly as it is mystifying, but that’s music for you, it’s always the irritating tunes that sit in your mind all day long and you find yourself singing in the bath.

Artist	Song	Why?
The Mavericks	Dance the Night Away	No Idea - There’s just something about this great party tune that drags mums and dads up to dance. Instantly recognisable, easy to dance to, singalong to and nice and short. Been a classic since the day it hit the charts.
Candi Staton	Young Hearts Run Free	A must for weddings, a floorfiller telling people not to get married! What a fantastic bit of 70’s disco.
Bryan Adams	Summer of 69	In 1983 this was a track on the Reckless album for the Canadian rocker - 23 years later it’s become one of the party standards. Incidentally, Adams was born in 1958 and was 10 1/2 on 1969
Bon Jovi	Living on a prayer	Another rip roarin’ rock singalong, drags everyone kicking and screaming to the floor in a way that YMCA never did!
Abba	Waterloo & Dancing Queen	The only eurovision winner anyone can ever remember let alone dance to! Sure, Congratulations was a monster party hit for a while but when was the last time YOU heard it?
Los Del Rio	Macarena	How old is this?? Yet curiously this one, unlike Agadoo, Superman, the Birdie Song, The Ketchup Song, The Rowing Boat song, YMCA and many of the other hideous party dances, just keeps cropping up.
Barry White	You’re the first, the last, My everything	Another classic 70’s disco soul hit this time from the walrus of love, Pumping basslines, mismatched lyrics - fantastic!
Diana Ross	Chain Reaction	A great song for Motown and 80’s fans alike, easy to sing along with, easy to dance to and easy to follow.
S Club 7	Reach	Pumping Motown beat (think of You Can’t hurry love) simple actions that even an elderly relative can muster, pure pop not pretending to be anything else.
Jackie Wilson	I get the sweetest feeling	Fantastic simple lyrics, cheesy 1950’s sentiments and a real feel good song for all ages.
Van Morrison	Brown Eyed Girl	Do you remember when we used to sing, la la la la la la la la la sha li la? Almost impossible not to tap your feet to this golden oldie, a favourite with the Soul boys right through to the biker chicks.
Shania Twain	Man, I feel like a woman.	It’s country, it’s almost salsa, it’s nearly rock, nearly 80’s disco, it’s a girlie anthem that guys like to sing along to in fact it’s just awful BUT.. you know there’s just something about it.
The Proclaimers	500 Miles	Late at night, after the smoochies one last blast and everyone plays Amarillo, yet this is surely the far superior stompalong track, I remember the first time this hit the charts and I thought GOD this is awful, yet here we are decades later and the thing has a cult following for no apparent reason. If Peter Kay does this for children in need it’ll be number one for months!
The Cure	The Love Cats	A bit like the B52’s Love Shack in as much as it was never intended to be a party track and is despised by the bands faithful following, the stunningly crisp bassline on this holds the key to it’s party success.
DJ Otzi	Hey Baby	The really awful reworking of Bruce Chanel’s classic fills the floor wedding after wedding.
Wham	I’m your man	Punchier than go-go dancier than tropicana or freedom, a real bite of 80’s decadence, rapidly becoming a classic and due for a club remix surely.
Beyonce	Crazy in love	A great wriggly hips classic already, despite the really awful rapping bit in the middle it’s punchy and dancy, you can singalong or tap your feet to it.
Flo Rida	Low	My goodness - a recent chart hit in my list! a great one for wiggling and strutting to oo-er
Killers	Mr Brightside	Fits in nicely with the rock and the quirky Fratelli’s, everyone knows all the words until you ask them what they are.. but a really popular track for 2008, about 3 years since it hit the charts
Cascada	Most of them	Cascada of course are the Westlife of Dance and nearly every one is a monster track on the wedding dancefloor at midnight, as I type this, Truly Madly Deeply and Because the Night are the ones.
Black Eyed Peas	Pump It	Pump It LOUDER - this had been out of the charts for 2 years when suddenly I started getting requests for it - wow - what a monster tune instant floor filler. Cheesy, Dreadful and a real guilty pleasure.

Amazingly, I can hear you screaming at the computer even now, What about............?

As I said this list is just a guide of the music I play to a busy dancefloor, it’ll change every gig and of course I’ll play your requests, but come on, be honest, leave the attitude at the door, 2 bottles of Bud, 2 ham cobs and a lump of wedding cake and if you cant dance to The Mavericks, you can’t dance to anything!

And for the record.................... I can’t dance either!


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