If you’re rolling up the rug to practice dancing, here are a few tunes to put on a playlist so that you don’t have to keep restarting “I Left My Heart in San Francisco” on the DVD from Complete Idiot’s Guide to Ballroom Dancing:
- 16th Avenue (nice clear beat, love her voice, but don’t listen to the words if you don’t want to get all teary-eyed)
- Lacy J. Dalton — Greatest Hits
- Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree (fast but not too fast, nice to hear little Brenda Lee rocking instead of being “Sorry”)
- Brenda Lee — Great Women Of Christmas
- How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You (sweet indeed, and also sweet to dance to)
- James Taylor — Greatest Hits
- Jingle Bell Rock (caution, the music makes you want to bounce up and down a little but that’s not how foxtrot is supposed to look)
- Brenda Lee, — Great Women Of Christmas
- To Know Him Is to Love Him (a bit slow, but who can resist this pretty old tune in this amazing rendition?)
- Dolly Parton, Linda Rondstadt & Emmylou Harris — Ultimate Dolly Parton
Yep, my iTunes library has some varied stuff!
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Update–revised list, and thanks to my little sister for the James Taylor suggestion! I’ve demoted a few from my danceable list, but they’re all such good songs, I’m keeping them in this blogpost, in case I turn into a whole lot better dancer, on a sub-list of “Foxtrots I love that aren’t quite idiot-danceable”:
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