GREAT MUSIC PRODUCTIONS GINO’S SAMPLE
LIBRARY LIST
The following song list is
compiled according to ballroom dance styles.
Please check the selections you would like performed. If your favorite selections are not listed,
please write the title and artist in the space provided at the end of
this list. We will learn your
selected music especially for you, at no extra cost.
Gino plays the
GREAT Music you want to hear. We are music
for Dreaming & Dancing, the music with a
touch of class! _ Standard tunes of the earlier 20th
Century
S
L O W D A N C E
Ain’t misbehavin’ / Fatts Waller ‘29 Body and Soul / Cole Porter ’32 I left my heart in My funny Valentine / Rodgers & Hart ‘37 Over the Rainbow / Judy Garland ’38 Someone to watch over me / George Gershwin ’26 Star Dust / Hogey Carmichael ‘26 Unforgetable / Nat King Cole (late 1940s) When I fall in Love/South Pacific‘43 When you wish upon a star / Walt Disney ‘40 When Sunny gets blue / ca. ‘49
FOXTROT
SPECIALTY MUSIC
After the Lovin’ / Englebert Humerdinck ’74 PATRIOTIC All the Way / Frank Sinatra ’57 SING A LONGS (word sheets available) Cheek to cheek / Irving Berlin ’32 BROADWAY
MUSICALS Don’t get around much anymore / Duke Ellington ’41 THE HORA / TZENA TZENA I only have eyes for you (copyright info unavailable) DIXIELAND
One (f/ Choris Line)/ Marvin Hamlisch ’74 “My Wild Irish Rose”/“Speak Softly” On the street where you live / My Fair Lady ca.’54 “The party’s over” SHUFFLE
NOVELTY Getting sentimental over you ’38 The Alley Cat / Frank Bjorn ‘62 Leroy Brown / Jim Croce ’72 The Chicken Dance / line dance ‘90s Isn’t she loving / S. Wonder ’76 The Electric Slide / line dance ’80s Night Train / Jimmy Forrest ’32
The Macarena / Los Sam’s Boogie/ SammyNestico ’61 Yakety Sax / Boots Randolph ‘62 Gino’s SAMPLE LIBRARY LIST: THE BIG BAND ERA
1935-1950
THE GLENN MILLER ORCHESTRA 1938
American Patrol / Glenn Miller ’42 Almost like being in love / Lerner & Lowe ‘47 C Jam Blues / Duke Ellington ’42 High High the Moon / Movie:Two f/ Show ’40 In the Mood / Glenn Miller ‘39 Opus One / Tommy Dorsey ’43
Perdido / Duke Ellington ’42 Sentimental Journey / Les Brown ‘44 Sing, Sing, Sing / Benny Goodman ’35 String of Pearls / Glenn Miller ‘42 Take the A Train / Duke Ellington ’41 Tuxedo Junction / Glenn Miller ‘40
ALEXANDER’ S RAGTIME BAND ALL THE THINGS YOU ARE ALL OF ME AIN’T SHE SWEET BABY BILL BAILEY BYE BYE BLACKBIRD CABARATE DARKTOWN STRUTTER’S BALL THE ENTERTAINER FIVE FOOT TWO HELLO DOLLY I GOT RHYTHM IT HAD TO BE YOU JUST A CLOSER WALK W/ THEE MAME MACK THE KNIFE OH, YOU BEAUTIFUL DOLL OUR LOVE IS HERE TO STAY ONE from “Chorus Line” ONCE IN A WHILE PENNIES FROM HEAVEN SATIN DOLL STOMPIN’ AT THE TIE A YELLOW RIBBON WHEN THE SAINTS COME MARCHING IN MORE BALLROOM DANCE STEPS
BEGUINE: the days of wine & roses
/ begin the beguine / tonight /
Spanish eyes BOSSA NOVA: girl from ipanema/ meditation
/ watch what happens / wave /quiet nights CHA CHA: tea for two / never on Sunday / cherry pink
and apple blossom white POLKA: beer barrel polka / the clarinet / Liechtensteiner / MAMBO: tequila /mambo jambo RUMBA: more/ copacabana/ tico tico SAMBA: samba de orfeu / Gino’s SAMPLE LIBRARY LIST_______________LATER
IN THE 20TH CENTURY
THE
ROCK ERA
Celebration / Kool & the Gang ’79 E
Ease on down the road / “The Wiz” ’74 L
Funky Music / The Average White Band ’75 VHot Hot Hot / Peindexter ca. ’90 ILast Dance / Donna Summers ’83 SLeroy Brown /Jim Croce ’71
Rock around the clock / Bill Hailey ‘55Proad Mary /Credence
Twist & Shout (Beatle’s edition)
‘62
SOFT
ROCK – LIGHT ROCK
Feel like making love /Robert Flack ’72 Fool on the hill /
The Beatles ’67 Hey Jude / The Beatles ‘ 68 Just the way you are
/ Billy Joel ‘ 75 Ode to Billy Joel /Billy Gentry ‘ 73 / You are the Sunshine of my life / Stevie Wonder
‘74
BALLAD
ROCK – SLOW DANCE
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And I lover her /The Beatles ’64