Before the candle lighting:
You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby . Bobby Darin
More Than Words . Extreme
Hazy Shade of Winter . The Bangles
Moondance . Van Morrison
Simply Irresistable . Robert Palmer
The Way You Make Me Feel . Michael Jackson
Could’ve Been . Tiffany
A Groovy Kind Of Love . Phil Collins
Faith . George Michael
Girl You Know Its True . Mili Vanili
U Can’t Touch This . MC Hammer
Lost In Your Eyes . Debbie Gibson
Baby I Love Your Way (Acoustic) . Frampton, Peter
Don’t Worry Be Happy . Bobby McFerrin
Get Out of My Dreams, Get Into My Car . Billy Ocean
Little Red Corvette . Prince
Man in the Mirror . Michael Jackson
Ice Ice Baby . Vanilla Ice
Eternal Flame . The Bangles
Let’s Hear It For the Boys . Deniece Williams
Freedom 90 . George Michael
Rock Steady . The Whispers
Vogue . Madonna
You’ve Got the Best of My Love . Emotions
Celebration . Kool and The Gang
After the Candles:
Get Down Tonight . KC and the Sunshine Band
Feeling Hot Hot Hot . Buster Poindexter
Motown Disco Megamix . Various Artists
Mony Mony . Billy Idol
Funky Cold Medina . Tone Loc
Heaven Is A Place On Earth . Belinda Carlisle
My Prerogative . Bobby Brown
Macho Man . The Village People
Cold Hearted Snake . Paula Abdul
It Takes Two To Make A Thing Go Right . Rob Bass
Bust A Move . Young MC
That’s the Way I Like It . KC and the Sunshine Band
I’ve Got My Mind Set On You . George Harrison
Escapade . Janet Jackson
Don’t You Forget About Me . Simple Minds
Dont You Want Me Baby . Human League
Push It . Salt n Peppa
Baby Got Back . Sir Mix Alot
I Think We’re Alone Now . Tiffany
Everybody Have Fun Tonight . Wang Chung
everybody dance now . C & C Music Factory
I Get So Emotional . Whitney Houston
Groove Is In The Heart . Dee Lite
Time Warp . Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Chicken Dance . Lawrence Welk
Boogie Shoes . K.C. And The Sunshine band
She Drives Me Crazy . Fine Young Canibals
Pour Some Sugar On Me . Def Leopard
Wild, Wild, West . Escape Club
Walk Like an Egyptian . The Bangles
Express Yourself . Madonna
Dancin With Myself . Billy Idol
Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go . Wham
London Calling . The Clash
Roll With It . Stevie Winwood
Mack The Knife . Bobby Darin
I’ve Had The Time of My Life . Dirty Dancing
Love Shack . B-52’s
The Loco-Motion . Kylie Minogue
Electric Boogie . Marcia Griffiths
The Humpty Dance . Digital Underground
Miss You Much . Janet Jackson
I Want Your Sex . George Michael
Red Red Wine . UB 40
If I Could Turn Back Time . Cher
Brown Eyed Girl . Van Morrison
Come On Eileen . Dexy’s Midnight Runners
Wild Thing . Tone Loc
Roam . B52’s
Straight Up . Paula Abdul
It’s The End Of The World As We Know It(And I…) . R.E.M.
Oh What a Night . Doobie Brothers
Shout . Isley Brothers
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March 25, 2007 at 8:17 pm
[...] The other key tradition was the lighting of the candles on the cake. Customarily, the bar mitzvah boy invites up groups of friends and family members to light each candle. Jesse did this in snarky, rhyming verse, as he had 18 years earlier, and we had prepared musical cues to accompany each group: for his parents, We are Family, for his partying brethren, I Love the Nightlife, for his former coworkers, Get A Job, for his gay buddies, It’s Raining Men. Compiling the music for the event was my job, including a smashing playlist of bar mitzvah classics, circa 1990. For anyone interested, here was the playlist. [...]
April 15, 2009 at 5:51 pm
This playlist is spectacular!
November 1, 2009 at 1:12 pm
I think you did a superb job! I could never take a playlist and set it in stone, but with what you have here, loads of fun! Good job! I might want to tinker with it a little on the night of, but other than that, this could go all night in my opinion. Thanks!